How it works
Four things you get done with it. The features sit underneath the outcome they serve, because on their own they are just a list.
Stop answering "do you have capacity?" by hand
You publish one page and send its link. It shows how booked you are as a percentage and a status, and the date you are next free.
A shareable Beacon page
One link, readable by anyone you send it to. No account needed to look at it, and no sign-up wall in front of it.
Or a badge on your own site
The same status as a small embeddable badge you can drop into your portfolio, so the answer is on the page a client already landed on.
Publish a number you are willing to stand behind
The figure comes from the work you have actually accepted, and it goes public only when you say so.
You publish it deliberately
Your Beacon shows the last figure you chose to publish, not a live read of your calendar. Nothing reaches it that you have not decided to say.
And a stale one says so
The page carries a marker showing how recently it was updated. A Beacon nobody has touched for a month is visibly a Beacon nobody has touched for a month - which is the difference between an honest signal and a confident one.
Say no without losing the work
When you are full, the page can say so plainly and still give the person reading it something to do.
They can leave an email
A client who arrives while you are booked can ask to hear from you. You decide when to get in touch - nothing is sent automatically when your capacity changes, and no email goes out that you did not trigger.
Or you can mark yourself away
Time off is its own state, not a percentage. The page says you are away instead of implying you are simply busy.
Make it look like you, not like a dashboard
The page is often the second thing a client sees after your portfolio.
Your words on it
A short bio, quotes from people you have worked with, a colour, and a button pointing wherever you want the conversation to continue. All of it typed by you - nothing is assembled from your data.
And nothing else
What appears is what you put there, plus the figure you published. No client names, no project titles, no drafts, no half-decisions.
What it looks like to use
The app is one screen with a navigation for the rest, and it is built for a phone as seriously as for a laptop - which matters, because capacity gets updated between jobs rather than at a desk.
Candid Beacon
- Dashboard
- History
- Waitlist
- Insights
- Work setup
- Activity
- Dashboard
- History
- Waitlist
- Work setup
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