For businesses
This is hiring, without the haystack
One sentence about your goal is enough to start. What follows is a structured brief, a scored shortlist of verified specialists, a contract, and money that only moves when you approve the work.
Briefing, matching and the audit are free. You fund only the milestone amount you agreed — the 12% commission comes out of the specialist's release.
The four stages
Audit, brief, match, hire
Each stage produces something the next one uses — so nothing is retyped, and the scope you agreed is the scope in the contract.
Stage 1 of 4
Find out what is actually broken
Before you hire anyone, the AI audit scores your marketing and tells you what to fix in what order. It is free, and it frequently changes what people brief for.
- Scored across website, conversion, SEO, analytics, advertising and social
- Problems named in plain language, not jargon
- A fix order, so the cheapest wins come first
- Starts your brief from its findings if you want it to
Free AI marketing audit
Start with the diagnosis
Answer a short set of questions about your channels, spend and goals. The audit returns a score per area, the specific problems it found, and the order to fix them in.
Indicative output generated from the inputs you provide. Not professional advice; not a guarantee of results.
- Free, and available before you create a brief
- Scores website, conversion, SEO, analytics, advertising and social separately
- Names the single highest-value fix first
- Starts your brief from its findings in one tap
Free AI marketing audit
51
/ 100 overallBiggest single win: fix conversion tracking first.
Indicative, generated from the inputs you provide. Not a guarantee of results.
AI brief builder
Plain language in, structured brief out
“We need more qualified leads from Google” is a complete input. The AI expands it into scope, deliverables, a budget band and a timeline — and you correct anything it assumed.
You review and approve the brief before it is used for matching or contracting.
You said
Brief generated
- Objective
- Reduce cost per qualified lead
- Channels
- Google Search, landing pages
- Scope
- Tracking audit → account rebuild → CRO
- Budget band
- €4,000 – €6,000 project fee
- Timeline
- 8 weeks, 4 milestones
Every field is editable before you send it.
Transparent matching
A shortlist that shows its working
Every match arrives with the reasons it was made and the concerns that came with it — availability, thinner experience in your vertical, a rate above your band. The concerns are the point.
Ranking cannot be purchased. Only verified specialists are eligible to be matched.
- Scored against every eligible verified specialist
- Reasons and concerns shown per match
- No pay-to-rank, no sponsored slots in shortlists
- Three strong matches rather than five padded ones
Your shortlist
4 matches
Scored against 312 verified specialists
AI Team Builder
Bigger goals need more than one discipline. Team Builder assembles a multi-role plan across the exact specialisms your brief implies, with a budget split per role.
AI copilots
Proposal drafts, a side-by-side proposal memo, scope-drift alerts and meeting summaries — surfaced in context, always editable, never sent on your behalf.
Meetings
Interviews and project calls from inside the workspace, with an AI summary of the notes that both sides can edit.
AI Team Builder
When one specialist is not the answer
A full funnel rebuild is not one job. Team Builder turns your goal into a role plan — who you need, what each one owns, and how the budget splits between them.
Team plans are a starting proposal. You add, remove and re-scope roles before anything is contracted.
Performance lead
Owns paid search and the media plan
CRO specialist
Landing pages and funnel experiments
Analytics engineer
Tracking, attribution, reporting
Creative strategist
Ad concepts and asset production
Illustrative split for a lead-generation rebuild. Your plan is generated from your own brief.
Proposals & contracts
Comparable proposals, one signature
Proposals arrive in a single format, so you are comparing scope and milestones instead of formatting. Accept one and the contract is generated from the brief you already approved.
Contracts are between you and the specialist. AdSTARS is not a party to the engagement.
- One format, so scope is genuinely comparable
- Milestones and dates visible before you accept
- Contract generated from the approved brief
- Signed in-app, stored with the project
Proposal A
4 milestones · 8 weeks
Includes tracking rebuild
Proposal B
3 milestones · 6 weeks
Excludes creative production
Proposal C
5 milestones · 10 weeks
Adds CRO experiments
Project workspace
Everything about the engagement, in one place
Milestones, approvals, realtime chat with attachments, delivery files, meetings and reviews — shared between you and the specialist, on the record.
- Milestone status and approvals
- Chat with file attachments
- Deliverables and handover docs
- Meetings with AI note summaries
- Two-way reviews after release
- Dispute filing from inside the project
Milestones
- ✓ Audit
- ◷ Rebuild
- ○ CRO
- ○ Handover
Chat
- Ana: tracking is live
- You: approved ✓
- Ana: draft attached
- 📎 rebuild-v2.pdf
Analytics
- CPL −38%
- CVR +12%
- Spend €6.1k
- Experiments 3
Milestone escrow
Funded before work, released on approval
Each milestone is funded before the specialist starts it and held by Stripe, our regulated payment provider, until you approve the deliverable.
AdSTARS is not a bank and does not hold client funds directly. Escrow terms apply.
In escrow
Funded€3,600
Held for 3 milestones · released on your approval
Cancel before work starts and it refunds automatically. Escrow terms apply.
AI copilots
Help where the work happens
Copilots sit inside the workspace rather than in a separate chat window: drafting a proposal from the brief, comparing proposals on the same facts, or flagging work that has drifted outside the agreed scope.
Copilot output is decision support, not professional advice. Nothing is sent or approved on your behalf.
Before you brief
Turns a rough goal into scope, deliverables and a realistic budget band — then flags what you have left undefined.
Before you hire
Compares the proposals you received on the same facts — price, timeline, track record — in a memo that recommends and leaves the decision to you.
While work is under way
Scope Guard compares project activity with the agreed scope, flags drift early, and estimates a change request before anyone agrees to it.
Let's run the numbers
What is fixed, whatever you brief
These do not vary by discipline, budget or specialist.
Have questions?
Business FAQs
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Early access
Be first to put a brief through it
Join the launch list and the free AI audit is yours the day it opens. Briefing and matching stay free after that.
Fees, escrow terms and verification policy apply. AdSTARS Connect introduces businesses to independent specialists and is not a party to the resulting contract.
- 1Shortlists contain no paid placements. Specialists cannot pay to be matched, to rank higher within a shortlist, or to appear in the verified directory.
- 2Milestones must be funded into escrow before the specialist begins work, and funds release on client approval. Cancellations are refunded under the escrow terms. Funds are held by Stripe, our regulated payment provider, not by AdSTARS.
- 3After a milestone releases, client and specialist each review the other. Reviews are attached to completed, paid work only — which is why there are fewer of them than on marketplaces that accept unverified reviews.