From handshake to funded, in a day.
You’ve already found each other. Here is exactly what happens next — five explicit steps, each one recorded, none of them requiring a lawyer, a template hunt, or a leap of faith.
Invite your counterparty
PRO is not a marketplace. You bring the relationship — a client from a referral, a specialist you met in a community, a former colleague, an ex-employer. Send one link; they see who you are and what you’re proposing.
- Either side can initiate — the client or the professional
- No bidding, no strangers, no algorithmic matching
- Your counterparty joins free, in minutes
Agree in plain language
Answer a few plain questions — who, what, when, how much, what happens to the IP. PRO assembles a clear, jurisdiction-aware agreement from lawyer-approved terms, with a per-clause explanation of what each part means.
Your counterparty reviews it, proposes changes if they want, and click-accepts. Every version is kept. Identity verification and tax documents are deferred until money actually moves — so agreeing takes minutes, not days.
Fund before work starts
The client secures the first milestone with our regulated payment partner — named on the engagement, licensed for the corridor. The professional sees “funded” before day one. The client keeps release control until they accept the work.
This dissolves the oldest standoff in independent work: nobody wires a deposit to someone they’ve never paid, and nobody works weeks at risk. Both sides get what they want at the same time.
- Funds are held by licensed, regulated payment partners — never by PRO
- Identity verification happens here, before money moves
- Work starts the moment funding shows on the engagement
Work, with everything explicit
Submit milestones, request revisions, extend scope, change dates. Every meaningful action is explicit and mutual — click-accepted by both sides, versioned, and appended to the engagement’s record. Chat stays chat; legal actions are unmistakably legal actions.
So the agreement always matches reality — not the PDF from a month ago — and neither side can quietly rewrite history.
Release, and the paperwork writes itself
The client accepts the work, and the milestone releases — payment arrives in days, not net-60. If a client goes silent after a submission, a pre-agreed timer both parties accepted at the start prevents the engagement from hanging in limbo.
On release, the boring-but-critical documents generate themselves: compliant invoices for the corridor, tax forms, and the certified engagement record — every term, funding event, deliverable, and approval, exportable and usable anywhere.
- Payment in 1–3 days of acceptance, on the rails both parties chose
- Invoices, W-8/W-9 & 1099s, export documentation — generated, not chased
- Both profiles gain a verified engagement — facts, not star ratings
If something goes wrong
Disagreements happen over held funds, not empty promises.
Most disputes on independent work aren’t really disputes — they’re one side holding all the leverage. On PRO, the money for the milestone already exists and neither side can move it unilaterally. Structured, symmetric resolution runs in-product over the held funds, with the engagement’s own record as the evidence. For unusually large engagements, formal arbitration remains available — but with funded milestones and an explicit agreement, most issues never get that far.
“Every step is explicit. Every action is mutual. Every fact is recorded. That’s the whole trick — there is no fine print, because there is no print.”
How PRO works, in one sentence