Write and send PeoplePerHour proposals with an AI agent

1. Open the project from the PeoplePerHour Jobs page and read the brief for deliverables, time frame and required skills.
2. Ask on the project clarification board when the brief leaves the scope open, then wait for the buyer to answer.
3. Fill in the PeoplePerHour proposal form with what you will deliver and your price, and set the deposit the buyer pays into Escrow before work starts.
4. To change a proposal the buyer has not accepted, open the WorkStream, click Cancel on the proposal itself and send a corrected one with the New Proposal button at the bottom.
5. Every PeoplePerHour proposal is typed from scratch, and the deposit minimums and the 80% price floor are easy to get wrong when you write several in one evening.

Draft proposals for the two landing page projects you shortlisted today, using my Figma portfolio and a 50% deposit, and show me each one before it goes out.

1. 01

   Build the pitch from the brief

   The agent reads the project with get_project and names each deliverable back to the buyer, adds one question if the scope is open, and links one or two portfolio pieces you marked as relevant. Generic openers are cut, since PeoplePerHour pushes low-relevance proposals to the end of the list.

2. 02

   Price inside the floor

   Your price is compared with the buyer budget. Below 80% of it, the agent either lifts the price to the floor or tells you the project is not worth it at your rate; it never drafts a proposal under the PeoplePerHour minimum.

3. 03

   Pick the deposit by size

   Fixed-price work up to £40 gets a 100% deposit. Above that the agent uses your default, never below 30%, and suggests 50% for a first job with a buyer who has no history with you.

4. 04

   Show the draft before it counts

   Each proposal costs a credit once sent, so the agent shows you the full text, price, days and deposit and waits. You edit or approve one by one; nothing goes out in a batch you have not read.

5. 05

   Correct a pending proposal

   When a buyer asks for a lower price or a later date before accepting, the agent finds the pending one with list_proposals, cancels it and sends the new terms to the same project. If the buyer has already accepted, it stops and drafts a WorkStream message that records the changed agreement instead.

2 proposals approved and sent, 1 held back.
Sent: "Landing page design for a SaaS launch", £450 (budget £500), 7 days, 50% deposit.
Sent: "Redesign Shopify product pages", £320 (budget £350), 5 days, 50% deposit.
Held: "Brand identity and website", budget £600, your price for the scope is £1,400.
Re-sent: "Pitch deck refresh", cancelled at £380 and sent at £340 in the same WorkStream, no extra credit.
Credits used today: 2.

• Each PeoplePerHour proposal uses one Proposal credit even when the buyer never accepts it, and a Featured proposal uses a Featured Proposal credit on top.
• Cancelling a pending PeoplePerHour proposal and re-sending it to the same buyer in the same WorkStream does not use another credit. An accepted proposal cannot be cancelled or changed.
• PeoplePerHour sets minimum Escrow deposits for fixed-price proposals: 100% up to £40 and 30% above that, with 50% recommended for bigger jobs. The same bands apply in dollars and euros.
• Hourly work on PeoplePerHour has its own deposit minimums by hours: 100% for 1 to 4 hours, 50% for 5 to 10 and 25% above 10.
• PeoplePerHour no longer emails buyers about each new proposal unless it is recommended or featured; the rest reach them in a summary email.

send_proposal and cancel_proposal ask for your OK by default. To run it daily without you, switch confirmation off for those tools in your dashboard.

Sources: PeoplePerHour Help: Canceling a proposal · PeoplePerHour Help: Job Deposits and minimum Proposal amounts · PeoplePerHour Help: How many proposals can I send in a month? · PeoplePerHour Help: New Proposal Listings

curl https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/peopleperhour/send_proposal \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $COTLET_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"project_id":"pj_48213","brief":"I will design the landing page in Figma from your ready copy and hand over the files, with two rounds of changes.","price":450,"delivery_days":7,"deposit_percent":50}'

{
  "proposal_id": "pp_90412",
  "project_id": "pj_48213",
  "status": "pending",
  "price": 450,
  "delivery_days": 7,
  "deposit_percent": 20,
  "workstream_id": "ws_7731",
  "sent_at": "2026-10-10T09:30:00Z"
}

MCP: add https://cotlet.dev/mcp/v1 with the same key; the tool is peopleperhour_send_proposal. Example data.

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