{"version":"1.1.0","schema":"https://oneagentaday.com/api/schema.json","agent":{"title":"Freelance Rate Card","slug":"freelance-rate-card","date":"2026-10-05","issue":31,"category":"finance","categoryLabel":"Personal Finance","tags":["freelance","pricing","money"],"difficulty":"medium","runtimes":["ChatGPT","Claude","Gemini"],"excerpt":"Enter your costs, hours, and the income you need. Get a day rate, a project quote, and the sentence you send when asked.","problem":"Someone asks your rate and you answer with a number you cannot connect to rent, time, or the days you can actually bill.","videoUrl":null,"url":"https://oneagentaday.com/agents/freelance-rate-card","apiUrl":"https://oneagentaday.com/api/agents/freelance-rate-card.json","promptUrl":"https://oneagentaday.com/agents/freelance-rate-card/prompt.txt","configUrl":null,"configFilename":null,"license":"CC-BY-4.0","howItWorks":"The rate card is your floor divided by the days you will bill. You provide both numbers and the size of this project. The agent shows the division, multiplies by the days you estimated, and writes the sentence you can send.\n\nIt does not look up tax rates, and it does not tell you to charge less. If you want a discount, you have to type it. Expenses stay extra unless you folded them into the days.\n\nIf the sentence and the arithmetic disagree, send neither. Change an input. The point is that you can point at the division when someone asks where the number came from.","steps":[{"name":"Write the floor and the days","text":"The monthly amount the work needs to cover, and the number of days you will bill. Use a number you have lived with, not a fantasy of 22 billed days."},{"name":"Describe this project in days","text":"Your estimate, not the client's. Say if expenses are extra. Say if tax is in or out, and do not ask the agent to know your local tax rules."},{"name":"Paste the prompt","text":"You get the day rate from your floor divided by your days, the project quote, and one sentence. The sentence does not apologize and does not invent a discount."},{"name":"Send it or change an input","text":"If the number is wrong, change the floor or the days and run it again. Do not edit the quote down in the sentence while keeping the math."}],"demo":[{"second":0,"label":"The inputs","detail":"3000 EUR a month, 12 billable days, a 2-day project, tax not included and not calculated."},{"second":8,"label":"The day rate","detail":"3000 / 12 = 250 EUR per billable day. The division is shown."},{"second":16,"label":"The quote","detail":"2 days is 500 EUR, expenses extra, tax not calculated. No discount was requested, so none appears."},{"second":24,"label":"The sentence","detail":"'A two-day build is 500 EUR. Expenses are extra. I can start when you confirm.' No apology, no VAT guess."}],"sampleInput":"Currency: EUR.\nMonthly costs I need the freelance work to cover: 3000. This is not my employer's salary. It is the floor I wrote down.\nBillable days I will really work: 12 per month. I will not pretend I bill 22.\nThis project: a small agent prompt plus a README, which I believe is 2 days. I have done one like it.\nI do not charge tax on top in this quote; I am not asking you to compute VAT.\nI want one day rate and one project quote, and a sentence that does not apologize.","prompt":"You compute a freelance rate from numbers the human typed. You do not give tax or legal advice.\n\nINPUTS\n- Currency.\n- Monthly amount the work must cover.\n- Billable days per month they claim they will work.\n- This project's size in days.\n- Whether expenses are included.\n- Any discount they explicitly requested. If none, do not invent one.\n- Whether they want tax discussed. If they do not, do not estimate a tax.\n\nRULES\n- Day rate = monthly amount / billable days. Show the division. If billable days are 0, stop.\n- Project quote = day rate times project days, plus expenses only if they gave a number.\n- Round to the nearest whole currency unit unless they used decimals.\n- The sentence states the quote, what is extra, and a next step. It does not apologize, plead, or add a discount.\n- Do not suggest they lower the rate.\n- Do not invent a market rate, a competitor's price, or a tax percentage.\n- If the project days seem copied from the client and they said they have not estimated, ask them for their own number and stop.\n\nOUTPUT\n## Day rate\nThe division.\n\n## This project\nThe multiplication.\n\n## Sentence\nOne or two sentences they can send.\n\n## Not included\nTax, discounts, or expenses you left out, and why.","config":null}}