One place for the whole job, from the first inquiry to the paid invoice.
Win the work, run it, and get paid for it, all on one thread. The inquiry, the profile you sent, the hours you logged and the invoice stay in one place, not in five tools that have never met.
30 days full features · No credit card
Your business is scattered across five tabs.
Most freelancers track gigs in a sheet, keep their CV in Word, and run follow-ups out of their inbox and their head. It works fine, right up until a gig slips or a client asks which version of your profile you sent.
Spreadsheet
Gigs you half-remember to update
Word & PDF
A new CV for every client
Inbox
Follow-ups you meant to send
Your memory
Which inquiry, which client
Calendar
Calls with no context attached
The work is fine. Running it from five places is the problem.
One job, five steps, nothing retyped.
This is the part no other tool does. From the first inquiry on, everything about a job stays attached to what follows, instead of scattered across a CRM, a Word CV, a timesheet, an expense form and a billing tool that have never met.
An inquiry comes in
Straight from the client or through a recruiter, Steerd captures everyone involved from the start and keeps track of who you are really selling to.
You send the right profile
You tailor a CV to the job and send it. Steerd remembers you sent version three, so the follow-up call is never a guess.
You log the hours
Billable time lands against the project, ready to bill, with nothing double counted.
The trip lands on the project
A day on site becomes a sealed expense report with the per diems worked out and the receipts attached, then goes onto the invoice with the hours.
The invoice is already filled in
Hours, expenses and the client details become the invoice, with a live preview that is the exact PDF you send. Nothing is retyped into a second tool.
Invoices hold up where you file them. Germany is covered today, e-invoicing included. How that works in Germany
An invoicing tool can bill, but it has no overview of the work coming in. A sales CRM tracks the deal, but it cannot cut that invoice. Steerd keeps the whole thread in one place.
The four parts you run a business on.
Winning the work, presenting yourself, running the job, and growing past yourself. Each one built for someone who sells their own time, not adapted from a sales team.
Win the work
A pipeline built for how freelancers actually win work: the inquiries coming in, the people you reached out to, and the ones worth chasing again. Every opportunity, every conversation, and the next step in one view, so nothing slips between the cracks.
- Track gigs from first lead to signed
- See every open opportunity at a glance
- Never lose a follow-up again
Present yourself like a pro
A real profile engine, not a one-off résumé. Tailor a pitch-ready CV to each gig in minutes, in any of eleven designer themes, and import your old one so you start from your last version, not a blank page. Every CV stays versioned, so you always know exactly what you sent.
- Tailor a CV per gig in minutes
- Eleven designer themes, one source of truth
- Import your old CV, export to PDF or JSON
Run the work, and know whose turn it is
Projects, contacts, activities, and status in one home base. Steerd even tells you whose turn it is: it flags the gigs waiting on you, the follow-ups gone overdue, and the ones that have gone quiet, so nothing slips while you are heads-down on billable work.
- Contacts and projects, connected
- Whose turn is it: waiting, overdue, gone quiet
- Nothing slips while you are heads-down
It grows as you do
Start solo today. The day you bring on your first people, Steerd is the same tool, now with team profiles, who's on what, and your day rates beside your cost rates. You don't switch products to grow into a team.
- Team profiles when you hire
- Resourcing: who is on which gig
- Day rates beside cost rates on every seat
“I'm a developer in Berlin, and for years I ran my own freelance work from a spreadsheet, a folder of Word CVs, and a memory full of clients and half-finished follow-ups. Steerd is the tool I wanted the whole time: it wins me the work, keeps every client and gig on one thread, and now sends the invoice at the end of it. The name says it: this is where you steer it all from. It works the same whether you write code, shoot film, design, make music, or run any independent business. I built it for how we actually win and run work, not for how software thinks we should.”
Manuel Bieh, Founder, building Steerd in Berlin
And it runs the rest of the job too.
The thread is the argument. This is everything else that runs on it, so you are not stitching five subscriptions together. Every card opens the detail.
Time tracking
Log billable hours by project in a week grid, see exactly what is still unbilled, then turn it straight into an invoice.
Travel expenses
An itinerary becomes a sealed expense report with the per diems and the receipts worked out, ready to push onto an invoice.
Encrypted files
A private vault for contracts and everything else a job produces, encrypted per team, with rich in browser previews for calendar invites and contact cards.
Contacts, synced to your phone
Several numbers, emails and addresses per person, and two way CardDAV sync, so clients live in the address book you already carry.
Inbox to pipeline
Connect Gmail or any IMAP inbox and turn a project inquiry into a client, contact, and project with one click.
API, and an MCP server
A REST and GraphQL API with keys, plus an MCP server, so you can drive your whole business from your own scripts or an AI assistant.
Seats when you grow
Full seats and cheaper time tracking seats, who is on which job, and your bill rates beside what each person costs.
Every inquiry, whichever channel it came through.
Most of your work you win yourself: a referral, a client who comes back, someone you reached out to last month. Some of it arrives through a recruiter or an agency. Steerd tracks all of it the same way, with where it came from, what you did last and what is due next, so you can push the ones worth winning instead of digging for them.
Every inquiry, where it came from and what is due next. In one view, not in three spreadsheets.
Four things Steerd does for you, and two it does not.
We checked twelve other tools the same way, from sevDesk and Lexware Office to MOCO, Bonsai, HubSpot and folk, and every claim we make about one of them links to the page we read it on.
A pipeline for winning work
A board with stages your team configures, plus flags for the deals waiting on you, overdue, or gone quiet.
Pitch-ready CVs and profiles
Eleven themes, versioned, anonymized on request, exported as PDF or as an editable Word file.
Time straight into an invoice
A week grid per project, an unbilled view, and one step from tracked hours to a finished invoice.
Encrypted file vault
A per-team vault with envelope encryption, filename search and in-browser previews.
Bookkeeping and tax filing
No. We do no bookkeeping and file no tax returns. That job stays with your tax advisor and the tool they already use.
Bank connection and reconciliation
No. There is no bank connection and no automatic payment matching. You mark an invoice paid yourself.
Priced for a freelancer, not an enterprise.
Priced per person, with a tier for the day you grow into a team. Free to start, no credit card.
Straight talk about what Steerd is, and what it isn't.
Steerd wins the work, runs it, and invoices it. It is not an accounting suite, and it never pretends to be. Here is exactly where the line sits today.
What Steerd does today
What it leaves to others (for now)
Questions, answered straight.
What happens when the 30 days are up?
Your account becomes a real free account, not a locked one. Every new account starts with 30 days of full Team features and no credit card. When they run out, nothing is deleted and nothing is held back from you: everything you built stays exactly where it is, and the free plan limits start to apply. You upgrade when it has paid for itself, not when a countdown tells you to.
How much work is it to move over?
An afternoon, not a migration project. Add the opportunities and clients you have open right now, or let Steerd pull them out of your inbox, and import the CV you already wrote instead of starting from a blank page. You do not have to move ten years of history before the next inquiry is worth putting in here.
Is Steerd a fit for my kind of work?
If you sell your own services, yes. Developers, designers, filmmakers, musicians, consultants, product people, and small studios alike. If you win work, present yourself, and run projects for clients, Steerd fits, whatever your craft.
Are the invoices proper invoices?
Yes, and that part you do not have to think about. Sequential numbering, the mandatory fields, per line VAT, reverse charge where it applies, and corrections issued as real corrections rather than a quiet second invoice. A finalized invoice is locked and retained, and the live preview is the exact PDF you send. Invoicing rules are national, so the specifics of the market we support today have a page of their own.
E-invoicing in GermanyWhat if I grow into a team?
Then it stays the same tool. Start solo, and when you bring on your first people Steerd adds team profiles, resourcing, and your bill rates beside your cost rates. You don't switch products to grow into a team.
Whose data is it, and can I get it out?
Yours, and yes, on every plan including the free one. We collect only what the product needs to work, we never sell your data, and you can export or delete it whenever you want. Sensitive documents are encrypted per team, and your CV fonts are self-hosted, so the people you send a CV to are never tracked.
What does it cost?
Free to start, no credit card. Solo and Team are priced per person, and every number, including the limits each plan actually enforces, is published on the pricing page rather than quoted on request. If Steerd wins you one extra billable day a year, it has more than paid for itself.
See the full pricingRun the whole job on one thread.
Bring your inquiries, your clients, your hours and your invoices onto one thread, and stop running your business from five tabs.
30 days full features · No credit card