Get hired, teach, or collaborate and let the work come to you.
Some weeks you want to teach. Some weeks you’d rather be handed the work and just do it. Some weeks you want to build something with someone. Switch on whichever you want, and that’s the only kind of work Sophyix brings you.
Three modes, one profile
You decide which work you take
Nobody can approach you on terms you haven’t set.
Get hired
Take the work end to end, on a fixed scope and an agreed budget.
Teach
Run sessions at the level and cadence you set, in the subjects you pick.
Collaborate
Build alongside someone — funded, bartered, equity-based, or purely voluntary.
Two ways work reaches you
And you’re never chasing it. The hard part of independent work is not the work. It’s the hours spent looking for the next piece of it.
A feed of real opportunities, filtered to what you do
Browse briefs that people wrote themselves, not scraped listings. Open one, read the person behind it, and send a proposal with your rate, your availability and a cover letter you write yourself or draft with AI.
- Filter by mode, or see every open post
- See who posted it before you spend a proposal
- Save the ones you’re still thinking about
Invitations and offers you answer yourself
You’re invited directly, or by someone’s Express search. Every invitation says when to answer by, and “I’m interested” opens your proposal. You can also be sent an offer directly, with the exact terms, and you decide whether to accept it.
- An answer-by time on every invitation
- Offers sent to you directly, no proposal needed
- Rules that mark which invitations and offers fit you
From switching on to getting paid
Five steps. The last one is the one other platforms leave vague, so here it is up front: the money is committed before you begin.
Say what you’re open to
Switch on teach, collaborate or get hired, or all three, and set the rate, format and terms for each. Nothing goes live until a mode is fully set up, so nobody approaches you on terms you never agreed to.
Build a profile that answers for you
Your background, expertise and availability — drafted with AI from rough notes, then edited by you. It is what others read before deciding whether to invite you.
Show it with a skill exam, if you want the edge
Sit a skill exam in your subject on a laptop or desktop computer, with your camera on. A face check compares you with your face photo before you start and about once a minute after that. Pass, and the badge shows on your profile with a link anyone can check.
Apply, or be invited
Send proposals to opportunities that fit, and answer the invitations and offers that come to you. Message the people you work with in real time once an offer is accepted and, for paid work, the first payment is made.
Deliver and get paid
Paid work is paid before work starts and held until the work is approved, so the money is committed before you are. The money is released to you when the work is approved, or automatically 7 days after delivery if there’s no reply. Payouts reach your bank through Stripe once you set up payouts.
The tools between your expertise and paid work
Finding the work, proving you can do it, agreeing terms and being paid for it are one workflow here, not four things you hold together yourself.
AI that drafts the proposal
A first pass at the cover letter, written against the opportunity in front of you, which you edit before it goes. The same drafting keeps your profile current.
Skill exams with face checks
Add a face photo and start the exam on a computer with the camera on. Pass at 70% and the badge, with its bronze, silver or blue-gold medal, shows on your profile with a public check link and a renewal date. Not a self-declared badge.
Auto mode, on your rules
When an invitation fits your rules, Auto mode says “I’m interested” for you. You still accept or decline every offer yourself. It never answers for part-time, full-time or internship jobs, or for anyone under 18. You can turn it on once you’ve been hired twice through Express Hire.
See who’s asking, before you apply
Open the profile of the person who posted before you spend a proposal on them, so you’re choosing the work as deliberately as they are choosing you.
Reviews you can answer
Ratings from finished engagements, your rating on every criterion, and a public reply on any review, so a one-sided account is never the last word.
Real-time messaging
Talk to the people you work with, with delivery and read receipts, and one conversation with each person that keeps its whole history.
Whatever you’re good at, there’s work here for it
A tax accountant and a drummer. A Kubernetes specialist and a Spanish tutor. A cabinetmaker and a colorist. Sophyix was never built around one industry, so a specialist is not stuck explaining why their trade belongs here.
- Software & Programming
- Data, AI & Cloud
- Business, Finance & Investing
- Academics & Exams
- Languages & Communication
- Creative Arts & Design
- Music & Performing Arts
- Health, Nutrition & Wellness
- Marketing, Sales & Brand
- Home, DIY, Repair & Handiwork
- and more
The money is committed before you are
Most experienced freelancers have been burned at least once. On Sophyix, paid work is paid before work starts and held until the work is approved, so the question is never whether the money exists, only whether the work is done.
Paid before you start
Paid work is paid before work starts and held until the work is approved. You’re not chasing an invoice for work you’ve already done.
Released when the work is approved
Deliver the work. Once it is approved, the money is released to you — or automatically 7 days after delivery if there’s no reply.
Paid out through Stripe, less 10%
Payouts reach your bank through Stripe once you set up payouts, and the platform tells you exactly what Stripe is still waiting for. Sophyix’s 10% platform fee comes off each payment when it is released to you — $1,000 of work pays out $900 — and nothing is charged before it.
Nothing to join. 10% when you’re paid.
Sophyix takes a 10% platform fee from what you’re paid through the platform, when the money is released to you. That’s the one charge tied to your earnings, and it pays for card processing, holding the payment while you work, and running the platform. Applying, being invited and being hired all cost nothing. The optional plans are separate and buy capacity, never a better rate.
What people ask before they join
What does it cost to join?
Nothing. The Free plan carries a real monthly allowance of proposals, AI drafts, skill exam sittings and Auto mode answers. Every figure is on the pricing page.
How do I actually get paid?
Through the engagement, not through invoices you chase. Paid work is paid before work starts and held until the work is approved. The money is released to you when the work is approved, or automatically 7 days after delivery if there’s no reply. Payouts reach your bank through Stripe once you set up payouts.
Do I have to be a teacher?
No. Teaching is one of three modes, and you choose which you switch on. Plenty of people here only take delivered work, or only collaborate. Each mode has its own rate and terms, and you can turn any of them off whenever you want.
What are skill exams actually for?
They’re a result someone else can check. You add a face photo, start the exam on a computer with the camera on, and pass at 70%. The badge then sits on your profile with its medal, a public check link and a renewal date. Skill exams are optional, but they’re the difference between saying you know a skill and having sat something that says so.
How is ranking decided?
You’re shown opportunities matched to what you’re open to, and you decide which ones are worth a proposal; you can open the profile of the person who posted one before you send anything. Ranking is built from fit, credentials, reliability and how you’re reviewed. There’s no paid placement: no plan buys a higher position on anyone’s shortlist.
Put your expertise where the work is
Creating an account takes a minute and costs nothing. Switch on what you’re open to, and see what comes in.
Something more specific in mind? Talk to the team.