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Beta doors are officially open 🚀
We’ve been building Mably to make client experience simpler, cleaner, and less chaotic for freelancers and creators.
Now it’s your turn to try it.
→ Test the beta
→ Break things
→ Share feedback
→ Help us shape the future of Mably
Early users get early access to features, updates, and the chance to influence what we build next.
Comment if you'd like to join for free or want to lock the lowest price for forever :)
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Building Mably has been a really interesting journey so far.
We’re trying to create a calmer and more organized client experience for independents, something that feels simple, smooth, and genuinely pleasant to use during real projects and something that I can use in my own projects.
Still early, still evolving every week, but excited about where it’s heading :)
i know this Jitter template🙂 also used it in my visuals😏 keep crushing with this!
Empty states are the worst part of trying a new tool.
You sign up, land in a blank workspace, and are supposed to imagine what the product feels like once it's actually being used. Most freelancers bounce before they get there.
This week we shipped a fix in Mably.
When a freelancer signs up now, their first screen is a fully-loaded demo project.
⭢ A sample client. 5 files. 4 links. 3 invoices. A live activity feed with 14 events. A 9-message chat thread going back and forth.
You can walk through every screen your future client will see, the portal, the file approvals, the invoice page, the chat, before you ever create a real project of your own.
No credit card. No 4-minute product tour. No empty dashboards. Just the actual product, pre-filled, ready to explore.
Two reasons we built it this way:
⭢ Freelancers shouldn't have to pay to find out if a tool fits their workflow.
⭢ The thing that sells Mably isn't a feature list, it's seeing how clean your client's view will look. The demo shows you that in 30 seconds.
When you're ready to start a real project, the button is right there.
If you run client work, design, dev, video, consulting, copy, log in and poke around. The demo is waiting for you.
We’re currently welcoming early beta users. If you’re a freelancer and want to test it for free, here's the link - https://mably.io/
17 months ago, we launched an AI chatbot for a small business client.
Here's an honest update.
Two months in, the numbers were modest.
80 conversations. 708 messages. 14% conversation-to-lead rate.
Not bad. But most visitors still preferred the contact form.
So we left it running.
We watched how people used it and made improvements. Nothing major.
17 months later:
1,350 conversations. 179 leads. 13.2% conversion rate.
At 16x the volume, the quality held almost exactly.
But there was a real shift around July 2025 that’s worth pointing out.
1. Average chats per month doubled, from 40 to 79.
A clear sign that where conversations are taking place is changing. People are no longer browsing sites in the same way.
They want their questions answered fast, and if you can’t deliver that, you miss out.
2. The chatbot became the #1 lead source on the site
From July 2025 onwards, the chatbot has consistently driven more leads than the forms, and that's held through 2026.
3. The average conversation runs 9 messages deep.
These are not quick FAQ lookups.
Some conversations span materials, pricing, customisation, planning permission and delivery.
These are real pre-sales conversations handled without a team member in the room.
PS: Only 3 thumbs down in 17 months. We'll take that.
Good work. Yeah as the industry shifts customer behavior does so as well
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