Short vertical cut-downs from launch footage, for Instagram and TikTok.
Every day, people who hire freelancers and contractors ask for them casually, in LinkedIn posts. Lancelot is the AI that runs non-stop, finding genuine briefs in a sea of junk, sharing them with you before the rest of the market catches up.
Lancelot is in private beta, by invitation. Register and you'll get an email when your place opens.
These are examples of what you'll see. A live preview of the feed is coming soon.
A full identity before launch: logo, packaging system and social templates.
Two motion designers for launch films and social cut-downs, from next month.
Finding a copywriter for a client: main website pages and two customer case studies.
Running Meta and TikTok ads through the busy season.
Building a roster of freelance art directors and designers for work next year.
Brand and identity, graphic design and illustration, UX/UI, web
Motion and animation, 3D, CGI and VFX
Production, editing, photography and retouching
Copywriting, UX writing, editorial
Social content, social design, community and channel management
Spatial design, live events, activations
Creative leadership, strategy, production, project management
Performance and paid, organic, general marketing and comms
Creative work made with AI tools
If you've ever replied to one, you'll know how it works. If not, they're worth knowing about.
A founder, a department head, team lead or recruiter posts that they're looking for someone, often starting quickly. A whole market of freelance work runs this way, away from job boards.
A job listing puts you in an applicant system, screened by software before anyone reads your pitch. These are posted by someone involved in the work or hiring process, who wants you to get in touch.
These briefs move quickly. Many are filled by someone dropping a comment or a link to their work, not by a formal hiring process.
| LinkedIn post | Job listing | Cold outreach | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who you reach | Someone involved in the work or the hiring | An applicant system, then a screener | Someone who didn't ask for help |
| Do they need someone? | Yes, they've just said so, in their own words | Yes, but you're one of many applicants | No real sign that they do |
| How you get in | A comment, DM or email they invited | A form and a CV | An unprompted pitch |
The good briefs are scattered across the whole of LinkedIn. Your feed shows a sliver of them mixed in with everything else, often late and out of order. Search for them yourself and they're buried in irrelevant content and junk posing as genuine. Miss one when it goes up and it sinks out of sight, and the work often goes to someone who replies early.
The market watched, captured and sorted for you, so you don't miss the ones that suit you, and your time goes only on replying and your paid work.
Lancelot uses 200+ rules (and counting) to decide which posts reach the feed. They're built on years in this market and months studying these posts, and they keep improving: wider coverage, so you miss less, and sharper judgment of every post.
These posts are valuable precisely because they invite direct human-to-human engagement, not a faceless recruitment process. So when a genuine post links to a job listing, Lancelot keeps it only if you can reasonably contact the people involved, never when the link is the only way in.
Because this work often never reaches a job board or an applicant system, and the person posting is someone you can actually talk to. Unlike on other social platforms, you can also check that the person and the company are real. It's a big enough market to specialize in, and reading these posts well, red flags included, takes deep knowledge of how this demand shows up. So that's all Lancelot does.
You can, for hours a day, and still miss most of them. With Lancelot you see far more of it, early, and spend your time only on replying to the briefs you're interested in, and on your existing client work.
Some get filled fast; others stay open for days or even weeks. So seeing them as soon as possible means you don't spend time pitching for work that's already settled.
Some overlap is expected, but it won't be a pile-on. Lancelot adds about 150 briefs every weekday, spread across different markets, levels of seniority, types of work and capabilities, so subscribers are mostly looking at different briefs. Lancelot also watches where subscribers are concentrated, and will limit new subscribers in any area that gets too crowded.
Mostly it's people hiring directly. Recruiters with a real freelance brief are labeled, and you can filter them out if you only want companies hiring directly. Staffing firms advertising their available people, and job boards, never get through.
Lancelot adds about 150 briefs to the feed on a weekday, and about 20 a day on a weekend, across creative and marketing work. The list above shows the kinds of work it covers.
No. It's not a job board, an agency or a matching service. Lancelot finds and checks the briefs; you decide which to go for, and reply yourself.
The private beta is invite-only while Lancelot opens up in small groups. Leave your email and you'll hear when your place opens.
Places open in small groups. Leave your email and you'll get an email when your place opens.
That's all for now. No card.
When your place opens, you get Lancelot Pro free for 2 weeks: every brief in full, as soon as it reaches the feed.
Keep Pro at the beta subscribers' price (one extra day of work won with Lancelot more than covers the year). Or move to Free, and see full briefs only after they're a week old.
Your email is only used to tell you when your place opens and with occasional updates.