Job post

Clients build a post in a guided flow: a title and category, the required skills, the scope, the budget, the experience level and a description of the work. Optional steps add screening questions, choose who can see the post, and offer a paid upgrade to a featured job. With a standard post the client pays nothing unless they hire.

Budget comes in two shapes. An hourly post gives a rate range. A fixed-price post gives a project budget, which Upwork tells clients is a rough estimate they can change before making an offer. Some posts publish no budget at all.

Scope is a size, not a date. Upwork asks clients to choose Large for ongoing work or a project lasting over a year, Medium for multi-month projects, and Small for short tasks usually done in a few weeks or less. The post then shows an estimated duration; see project length.

What the freelancer sees beyond the brief. Under the description sits the activity on the job, with the proposals range, the interviewing count, invites sent, unanswered invites and when the client last viewed the post, and an About the client panel with payment verification, spend, hire rate and location. Those two panels often say more about the chance of winning than the brief does.

Visibility. A public post appears in freelancers' searches and feeds; a private one is seen only by those the client invites.

How Upsight uses it. Upsight's bidder pulls new public posts from Upwork every few minutes, around the clock, matches them against each campaign's keywords and filters, and scores every match against the agency's knowledge profile before anything is drafted. A budget Upwork leaves empty is treated as missing, not as zero.