Customers · A peer-reviewed record
This page isn't a marketing gallery. It's the documented record of how designers, developers, consultants, and fractional specialists use Fromlu as their operating system — what they replaced, what they kept, and what changed in their week.
Featured in Forbes "Tools That Actually Save Solopreneurs Time" (June 2024), The Verge "Best Software for One-Person Businesses" (March 2024), and Wirecutter "Top Work Apps" (September 2024). Rated #1 Freelance Management Software in IndependentStack's 2024 Independent Tools Report.
By profession
Four trades, four documented workflows. Each snippet names the patchwork the freelancer replaced, the Fromlu modules now running the work, and a measurable result tracked inside the platform.
Replaced: Notion for project briefs, a Google Sheet for billable hours, Wave for invoicing, and a paper notebook for tax.
On Fromlu: Retainer projects run on recurring invoices; scope creep is logged against the original estimate; the Cash Flow Forecast Engine surfaces quarterly VAT before it surprises her.
11.4 daysaverage invoice payment, down from 31 days on her previous stack
Replaced: FreshBooks for invoicing, a manual CSV for multi-currency reconciliation, and Trello for sprint handoff notes.
On Fromlu: Native multi-currency invoicing through Wise and Stripe; milestone-based billing tied to deploy tags; a single ledger view reconciling payouts against open invoices.
$42,800invoices cleared in the first quarter, with zero FX leakage
Replaced: Asana for engagement tracking, QuickBooks for invoicing, and a Friday-afternoon ritual of stitching the two together by hand.
On Fromlu: Each engagement is a project with its own retainer schedule, deliverable log, and invoice cadence; weekly reviews replaced by a single "this week" rollup; tax set-aside calculated from actual deposits.
47 minweekly admin time, down from 6.2 hours within 30 days of migration
Replaced: Bonsai for proposals, a shared Google Drive for status docs, and a personal spreadsheet tracking which client paid which month.
On Fromlu: Proposals generate into projects on signature; monthly retainers auto-issue on the first; the forecast view tells him, in advance, which quarter's revenue will be heaviest so he caps new scopes.
94%tax-obligation forecast accuracy across 3.4M historical invoices
184,000+ freelancers · 92 countries · one workspace.
Adjacent trades
Solo independents are the headline. The bookkeepers serving them, the founders hiring them, and the small agencies contracting them are the second layer of the community. Their stories, told briefly.
Featured case
Her clients each ran their own patchwork. She consolidated onboarding onto Fromlu using the free migration concierge (HoneyBook, Bonsai, FreshBooks, and Wave imports completed in under 24 hours). Month-end now reads from a single ledger view per client, and quarterly tax filings pull from a forecast the platform maintains.
"My clients stopped sending me screenshots. Fromlu is the screenshot."
— Nadia Osei, fractional bookkeeper, Accra, GH
Remote-first founder
Each fractional engagement is a Fromlu project with a monthly retainer, scoped deliverables, and a forecast line for the next quarter. Two hires, one CFO, one designer, one growth lead — all invoiced through the same workspace, all reconciled against payroll in the same view.
$214Kpaid to fractional contractors in 2024, reconciled against runway
Creative agency · 2–8 contractors
The studio replaced a stack of HoneyBook, Slack threads, and a contractor spreadsheet. Fromlu now handles client billing, contractor payouts, and quarterly tax — and the founders can see at a glance which engagements are profitable and which aren't.
31%lift in margin on contractor-led projects after consolidating onto Fromlu
Find the row that sounds like you. Then run the work on the same workspace.
See pricing for Solo and ProNo marketing copy survives contact with a real client call. These two solopreneurs tell you what changed — and what didn't — after they moved their books into Fromlu.
"I used to keep a Notion page for projects, a Google Sheet for retainer hours, and three browser tabs open just to send an invoice. After fourteen days in Fromlu, I closed two tabs forever. The Cash Flow Forecast Engine is the part that earned its keep — it told me in February what my quarterly tax bill would look like, and it landed within a hundred euros of the actual figure."
"What I needed was boring and specific: a place to track three retainer clients, send invoices in CAD and USD, and stop losing Saturday afternoons to admin. Fromlu does exactly that, and the migration concierge pulled six years of FreshBooks history into the new workspace before I had my coffee on day two. My average invoice now clears in nine days."
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