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How Contracts Work

Finding contracts and customers for your business is challenging. You can spend weeks browsing job boards, sending cold emails, and pitching to clients who were never a good fit to begin with. Contracts tries to make it simpler by connecting you directly with people who need exactly what your organization does — using semantic matching rather than keyword search.

Creating a Contract (as a Client)

If you need work done, start by creating a contract:

  1. Run the create-contract command.
  2. Describe what you need.
  3. Add your contact information and an end date.
  4. Hit Enter — your contract is now live.

To review all your active contracts and who applied at any time, use: my-contracts

Applying to Contracts (as a Service Provider)

1. Set Up Your Organization

Before searching for contracts, you need an organization profile. Create one with command: create-org. Enter a name and a short description of what your organization does.

2. How Matching Works

Each contract and organization is converted into a vector — an array of numbers that captures its semantic meaning. This allows the system to surface contracts that are genuinely relevant to what your organization does, rather than relying on simple keyword matching.

3. Find Relevant Contracts

Run the find-contracts command to see contracts matched to your organization:

You’ll see a match score (e.g. 70%) alongside each result. This is a relevance indicator — useful as a signal, but not something to over-optimize for.

4. Apply to a Contract

  1. Copy the contract ID from the results. It looks similar to this: 6a7129ae-cfa5-4718-ab04-25156741d890
  2. Run the apply command: apply-to <paste id here>
  3. Complete the checkout form to finalize your application.

Pricing note: The cost per qualified lead varies by industry and market. In this app, it’s a flat fee — check the current rate inside the app or contact support if you have questions.

After Payment

Once your payment is processed, retrieve your customer’s contact details with the applications command.

From here you’ll have everything you need — email or phone — to reach out and move the deal forward. That’s where the platform’s role ends, and yours begins.