Offering design services

Beyond selling ready-made items, you can take on gig work — shops post jobs (a kitchen to draft, a set of renders, a nest to program) and hire a designer or drafter to do it. This page is about setting yourself up on the supply side: being findable and hireable. For how a job is run start to finish, see the Jobs board itself.

Turn on "available for hire"

Go to Settings → Offer design services and flip on Available for hire. That adds a for hire card to your public profile (/u/your-username) with everything below. You can fill the fields in first and flip the switch when you're ready — nothing shows publicly until it's on.

What shops see on your card

• Disciplines you offer — pick any of Design, Drafting, Rendering, Nesting, CNC programming, Production / CNC capacity, or Other. These are the same categories a shop chooses when it posts a job, so matching them is how you get found. Running a Mozaik shop with a CNC and spare time on the machine? Pick Production / CNC capacity and let other shops send you overflow work to cut.
• Starting rate — an optional per-hour guide price. It's a signal, not a commitment: you still set the real number when you bid on a specific job.
• What you offer — a short pitch: the work you take on, your turnaround, and what makes your work stand out.
• Your reputation — once you complete jobs, your average rating and the count of finished jobs appear automatically.

Build a portfolio

Under Settings → Offer design services → Portfolio, add up to 12 work samples:

• Upload images — JPG, PNG or WebP, up to 5MB each. Good for renders, elevations, or finished screenshots.
• Add links — point to work hosted elsewhere (a portfolio site, a video, a shared drive). Give each a short label.

Remove a sample any time by hovering it and clicking the trash icon.

Completed jobs show up on their own

When you finish a job and the shop accepts your delivery, that job — its title, discipline, the date, and the review the shop left you — is added to the Completed jobs section of your card automatically. You don't add these yourself; real finished work is what builds your reputation here.

Getting found and hired

Once you're available for hire, you show up two ways:

• The designer directory — Jobs → Find designers lists everyone available for hire, filterable by discipline. Shops browse it to find someone for a job.
• Your profile card — a shop that likes your card can invite you to a specific job.

Invitations. When a shop invites you, it lands in Jobs → Invitations. Open it to read their note, message back and forth to clarify scope, and then bid on the job when you're ready (bidding accepts the invitation). You can also decline an invite you're not interested in.

You don't have to wait to be invited — watch the Jobs board and bid on anything that fits.

Delivering work and getting paid

When a shop awards your bid, they pay up front and the money is held in escrow — you can start knowing the funds are secured. The job now has a workspace at Jobs → Your contracts, where both of you handle everything from here:

1. Deliver — upload your files (straight to secure storage; only you and the shop can download them) with a note, and submit. The job moves to "delivered."
2. The shop reviews — they either accept (which releases your payment — the job price minus the 15% platform fee — to your payout account) or request a revision with notes, which sends it back to you to deliver again.
3. Auto-release — if the shop doesn't respond within 7 days of a delivery, the payment auto-releases to you. You're never left waiting on an unresponsive client.
4. Reviews — once complete, both sides leave a rating and review. Yours appears on your for-hire card and builds your reputation.

You'll get a notification at each step (see the Notifications help page to tune those).

If something goes wrong. While a job is funded, either side can Report a problem from the workspace to open a dispute. The held payment freezes and a moderator reviews it, then settles it one of three ways: released to the designer, refunded to the shop, or split. Both of you are notified of the outcome. Disputes are for genuine problems — a revision request is the normal way to ask for changes.