FrankWork Streamlines Management Of Freelance Staff And Projects

Leena Rao

Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More

Thursday, April 7th, 2011


Managing freelancers and projects can be a challenge and a new startup is launching today to help managers sort through the chaos of the freelance hiring. FrankWorks, is opening up as an enterprise site that allows producers to manage freelance staff and projects.

Frank’s recruiting module allows you to import your contacts into the platform so that you can assemble all of your freelance contacts in a single place, see their current availability, and reserve them for project needs. FRANK’s intuitive interface lets you organize your freelance contacts by specialty, location, and rate.

You can then book freelancers for upcoming jobs, through the platform (FrankWork will send freelancers emails to join the platform). It’s important to note that FrankWork is purely focused on hiring and managing projects vs. paying freelancers.

FrankWork was founded by Lance Sanders, who got the idea for the platform having been a freelancer and having managed freelance resources for the entertainment sector in LA. He said that the freelance hiring process can be very disjointed when it comes to production work, and built FrankWork to suit these needs. While Freelancer.com helps you source Freelancers, Sanders says that the web is lacking an actual management platform for sorting through hiring your contacts for various projects. FrankWork is based on a subscription model which ranges from $19 to $99 per month.

Company: Frankwork
Website: frankwork.com

FRANK brings employers and freelancers together by streamlining the booking process that accompanies every short-term job. FRANK makes it easy for employers to hire freelancers, and for freelancers to find new work. FRANK is also a powerful communication tool that organizes your conversations with your employer into one place, eliminating the need for long email chains.

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