For clients
Hire someone you have never met, safely
The hardest part of hiring a freelancer is the first payment. Talent Bridge holds it, so neither of you has to trust the other on faith.
You never pay a stranger up front
Your money goes into escrow, not into the freelancer's account. It is released when you approve the work — and if you never approve it, it does not go anywhere.
Bids are sealed
Freelancers cannot see each other's numbers, so what you get is what each of them thinks the job is worth, not a race to undercut whoever bid first.
Verified identities
Freelancers can show us a government-issued ID. The lime badge on a profile means we have checked that the name matches the person.
Everything in one place
Brief, bids, messages, files, deliveries and payment all live on the contract. When you come back in six months to ask what was agreed, it is still there.
A real dispute process
If the work is not what was agreed, raise a dispute. The money freezes, both sides put their case, and we decide — refund, release, or split.
Reviews you can trust
Neither side sees the other's review until both are written. Nobody can hold a good review hostage against getting one back.
What it costs you
Nothing
Posting is free, however many jobs you post. There is no subscription, no featuring fee and no service charge added at checkout. You fund the contract for exactly the amount you agreed — agree R12 000, pay R12 000.
Talent Bridge takes 10% from the freelancer's side when the payment is released, and only then.
See the full pricingWriting a brief that gets good bids
- Say what done looks like. “A logo” gets you guesses. “A logo, in colour and mono, as SVG and PNG, for a Cape Town coffee roastery” gets you quotes.
- Give a real budget range. Freelancers filter on it. A blank or unrealistic range is filtered out by the people you most want to hear from.
- Say what you already have. Existing brand, copy, hosting, a half-finished site — all of it changes the price, and finding out afterwards changes it again.