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Qualifies Clients While You Sleep

Stop losing clients who reach out when you're unavailable. Your Distills profile answers "What do you do?", "What's your rate?", and "Have you worked in my industry?" — 24/7, without you.

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The problem

The gap between first contact and first call is where you lose clients

Published March 18, 2026 · by Mike Jones, Distills

Freelancers and consultants win business through conversations. The problem is that your most valuable conversations can't always happen on a prospect's schedule — and when you're unavailable, interest fades fast.

A prospect finds you through a referral, a LinkedIn post, or your portfolio. They're interested. They have four questions: What exactly do you do? Have you worked with companies like mine? What does working with you look like? What do you charge? If you're on a client project — or asleep, or in a different time zone — those questions go unanswered. The prospect either waits, moves on, or books a call with less context than they needed to take the next step seriously.

Distills closes that gap. Your AI profile is a hosted page at distills.app/c/your-name where any prospect can chat with your AI — trained on your actual documents, interview answers, and experience — and get specific answers in real time, in first person as you: "I've worked with B2B SaaS companies in the $5M–$50M range...", "My typical engagement starts with a two-week discovery phase...", "I usually work on a retainer basis, starting at..."

The prospect qualifies themselves. By the time you respond, they've already decided whether they want to work with you — and those who book a call arrive informed, aligned, and ready to move forward.

What it costs you

The patterns that kill freelance pipelines

Four common scenarios where slow qualification loses the deal.

🚨 The midnight inquiry

A prospect in another time zone reaches out at 2am your time. By the time you see it and respond, eight hours have passed — and they've already booked a call with someone else.

🚨 The in-project blind spot

You're heads-down delivering for one client. New inbound inquiries sit in your inbox for days. Prospects assume you're unresponsive or not taking new work.

🚨 The vague discovery call

You take a call with a prospect who has basic questions about your services — questions you could have answered in writing. It runs long, produces nothing, and crowds out time for serious prospects.

🚨 The rate wall

A prospect would be a perfect fit but doesn't know if your rates are in their range. Rather than ask, they move on — and you never know you lost them.

How it works

Distills as a client qualification tool

Distills is not a chatbot you build from scratch. It's an AI profile you build from your existing documents and a structured interview — then share as a link. The AI speaks in first person as you, drawing specifically from what you've provided. It does not hallucinate experience you don't have, and it does not give generic answers.

For freelancers and consultants, the key is what you put into it. Prospects typically arrive with one of three questions: fit ("have you done this kind of work before?"), process ("what does working with you look like?"), and cost ("what do you charge?"). A Distills profile that's been built with those questions in mind becomes a qualification engine that runs without you — capturing and pre-converting inbound interest at any hour.

Pro and Career users also get analytics: you can see which questions visitors asked most often, when they visited, and which topics came up repeatedly. If a pattern emerges — say, everyone asks about a specific industry or service type — that's a signal to make that content more prominent in your profile, or to build it into a service offering.

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Setup guide

What to include in your profile for freelance and consulting context

The quality of your Distills profile depends on the quality of what you put into it. For freelancers and consultants, this means going beyond a standard resume. Prospects aren't asking where you worked — they're asking whether you can solve their specific problem. Here's what to include.

Documents to upload

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Portfolio or case studies — Specific project outcomes, client types, and deliverables. Named examples ("a fintech startup building their first compliance program") help the AI answer "have you worked in my industry?" accurately.
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Service overview or capability deck — How you package your work, what's in scope, what's not, and how you structure engagements. If you have a PDF you'd send to a new prospect, upload it.
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Resume or CV — Useful for grounding the AI in your background and progression. Even if it's not the primary document, it adds context for career history questions.
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Testimonials or client quotes — Social proof that your AI can surface when prospects ask about results or working style.

Topics to cover in the AI interview

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Your niche and ideal client — Be specific. "I work best with early-stage B2B SaaS companies that have just hired their first sales team" is more useful than "I do sales consulting."
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Your process and engagement structure — What does the first week look like? Do you work on retainer, fixed-scope, or hourly? What's the typical timeline for results?
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Your rates and pricing approach — You don't need to publish a public rate card, but telling the AI your day rate, project minimums, or ballpark ranges means prospects can self-qualify on budget before ever reaching you.
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What you don't do — Projects you decline, client types that aren't a fit, engagement structures that don't work for you. This filters out wrong-fit prospects before they reach your inbox.
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How to work with you next — What should a prospect do after exploring your profile? Book a call, fill out a form, send an email? Give the AI a clear answer to "what's the next step?"
Getting started

How to set up Distills in four steps

Most freelancers complete setup in 45–60 minutes. The interview is the longest part — use voice-to-text to cut it in half.

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Upload your client-facing documents

Upload your portfolio, case studies, service overview, testimonials, and resume. The more client-facing context you include — industry experience, project types, deliverables — the better your AI will answer prospect questions. PDF and plain text work best.

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Complete the AI interview

Answer 20–30 structured questions about your work, your ideal clients, your process, your rates, and your niche. This is where you capture context that your documents alone cannot express — including how you handle discovery calls, what your typical engagement looks like, and what kinds of projects you decline.

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Review and publish your AI profile

Distills extracts a knowledge base of 100–150 structured entries from your documents and interview. Review the output, then publish your hosted profile at distills.app/c/your-name. Pro and Career users can set a custom slug — so your link stays the same even if you regenerate the profile later.

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Share your Distills link everywhere

Add your Distills link to your email signature, Calendly description, LinkedIn About section, portfolio site, and any inbound inquiry form you use. When a prospect reaches out, they can explore your profile while they wait for you to respond — arriving at the call already informed.

Distribution

How to share and embed your Distills link

A Distills profile is only as valuable as the prospects who find it. The goal is to put your link at every point where an interested prospect might want to learn more — so that curiosity never has to wait for a reply from you. Here are the highest-impact places to share it.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Straight answers to the questions freelancers and consultants ask most.

Yes. Rates, pricing tiers, and engagement structures are great content for your Distills profile. Include them in your uploaded documents or mention them during the AI interview — for example, "My day rate is X", "I offer fixed-scope projects starting at Y", or "I don't typically work on projects under Z." Your AI will answer prospect rate questions directly from what you've shared, so you're not making pricing a mystery and you're filtering out prospects who aren't the right fit before you even get on a call.
If a visitor asks something outside your knowledge base, your AI will say it doesn't have that information rather than guessing or making something up. That's by design — Distills only speaks from what you've explicitly provided. Think of any gap as a cue to add more content to your profile. Pro and Career users can see which questions triggered a gap in the analytics dashboard, so you can identify and fill the most common ones over time.
Distills and a portfolio site serve different jobs. Your portfolio shows the work. Distills answers the questions prospects have after seeing the work — "Have you done this for a company in my industry?", "What does working with you look like?", "How long does a typical engagement take?" A portfolio is passive; a visitor reads what you've published and moves on. A Distills profile is active; a prospect asks their specific questions and gets specific answers, in real time, without waiting for you to reply to an email.
Share your Distills link at the top of any intake or inquiry process — in your "thanks for reaching out" auto-reply, in your Calendly description, or on a "Before we talk" page you link from your contact form. Ask prospects to chat with your AI profile before the discovery call. By the time you meet, they've already gotten answers to "what do you do?", "have you worked in my industry?", and "what's your process?" — and they're arriving with better, more specific questions. Discovery calls that start from a Distills conversation are shorter and convert at a higher rate because the basic qualification has already happened.
That's exactly what it's designed for. When you're heads-down on a client project and a new prospect reaches out, the usual pattern is a slow reply, a missed opportunity, or a distracted back-and-forth that pulls you out of flow. With Distills, the prospect immediately gets access to your AI profile. They can explore your background, read your process, ask questions about fit — and by the time you respond, they're already qualified or self-disqualified. You spend your limited time on prospects who've already decided they want to work with you.
Yes. The free tier includes a downloadable chatbot widget (chatbot-widget.js) you can add to any website with a single script tag. Pro and Career users get a hosted profile page at distills.app/c/your-name that you can link to from anywhere. Most freelancers use the hosted profile as their primary shareable link and optionally embed the widget on their portfolio site as an additional contact entry point.
Distills is used by independent professionals across disciplines — strategy consultants, UX designers, software engineers, brand consultants, copywriters, executive coaches, financial advisors, and marketing freelancers, among others. The common thread is that their work comes through conversations — inbound inquiries, referrals, networking — rather than through a job board or ATS. If prospects need to understand your expertise before deciding to hire you, Distills automates that understanding step.

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