Set up AutoGig

Start your free trial

Create your AutoGig account: 30 days, no credit card. The trial covers one Upwork profile.

Set up your profile and limits in the dashboard

The extension reads these settings from your dashboard on every cycle, so there is nothing to download, and a change applies on the next cycle.

1. Open your AutoGig dashboard at app.autogig.io.
2. Answer Who's bidding? with My agency. It works with a single profile, and the extension bids with the profiles you add here. Your plan sets how many profiles you can run (the free trial and Starter: one). On Pro or Agency we switch the extra profiles on by hand after your first payment; if the dashboard still allows one, email hello@autogig.io.
3. Fill in your profile: your name as it shows on Upwork, the Upwork search URL it should work through (run a job search on Upwork with your budget, category and client filters, then copy the link from the address bar in place of the example), your minimum hourly rate, your GitHub URL (without it, a GitHub screening question gets a general line with no link) and the proposal voice (“I” if you bid as yourself). It saves as you type.
4. Choose the Hourly ask: “Match what the client pays” aims at the client's average hourly paid, never below your minimum rate; otherwise capped at the job's posted rate. So if your minimum is above what the job posts, it asks your minimum.
5. In Settings, under Proposal AI, replace the System prompt with your own proposal instructions. The starting instructions on your account aren't about you. If yours tell the AI to write in a “we” agency voice, claim 12 years of experience and top-tier status, or promise exceptional results, that is our own agency's stock text: don't bid with it unless all of that is true for you.
6. Still in Settings, set your bid schedule, timezone and Max bids / day. If that page shows job-filter fields (job type, minimum budget, minimum client rating, minimum client spend, categories, keywords), Max bids / run or Delay between bids, leave them: the extension doesn't apply them yet, so your Upwork search does the filtering. Back on the dashboard, set Stop after ($/day) for a daily spend cap.
7. On your dashboard home, check that it says Bidding is On. If it says Off, switch it on: the extension can't write a proposal while bidding is off.

Add the extension to Chrome

Add the AutoGig extension from the Chrome Web Store, in the Chrome where you're signed in to Upwork. Pin it to your toolbar, then click its icon to open the side panel.

Connect it to your account

1. In the side panel, press Connect to AutoGig. It opens the Connect page on your dashboard.
2. Sign in to AutoGig if it asks, then press Connect the extension.
3. Back in the side panel, check that it shows your email and your bidding profile.

Choose how it bids

In the side panel, under Bidding, pick one mode. Bidding starts Off, and nothing runs until you pick one.

1. Fill the proposal, I press Send: each cycle it finds a job for the next profile, screens it, writes the proposal and fills the form, then leaves the tab open for you to review and send. It never sends, and it logs nothing to your dashboard: the side panel's Activity shows what it did. It waits until you've closed that tab before it fills the next one.
2. Send proposals automatically: the same, then it boosts at the 1-Connect minimum and sends, at most one proposal per cycle. It asks you to confirm first, because it spends your Connects. It is built to stay inside your dashboard's pause switch, daily bid cap, spend cap and schedule, and it sends nothing if it can't reach AutoGig to check the pause switch and caps. The jobs it sends and the ones it skips are logged in your dashboard's History, with the reason.
3. Under Every, pick how often a cycle runs (every 2 to 30 minutes). Run a cycle now starts one straight away.

Keep Chrome open while it works. Each cycle opens one Upwork tab of its own and closes it when it's done (Fill only leaves the filled tab open for you).