Why the Freelancer Economy Is Broken — And How Precedes Fixes It

By Felipe Thomaz Pedroni

The current landscape of freelancer marketplaces is a chaotic blend of vague promises, fuzzy evaluations, and endless disputes. Whether you're hiring for design, development, or performance tuning, you're likely trapped in a game of subjective reviews, human judgment, and ambiguous deliverables.

The Problem with Traditional Freelance Platforms

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• ❌ Deliverables are open to interpretation, leading to disputes.
• ❌ "5-star reviews" replace actual metrics — even for highly technical work.
• ❌ Freelancers are rewarded for likeability, not outcomes.
• ❌ Human moderators settle disputes, often unfairly or arbitrarily.
• ❌ Multiple freelancers can reach different results — which one is correct?

In performance-critical work, this is unacceptable. Optimizing software isn't about opinions — it's about speed, throughput, memory, and latency. Numbers, not narratives.

Introducing the Pay-Per-Optimization Model

Precedes introduces a radical shift: objective-only contracting based on measurable software improvements. No ratings, no reviews, no ambiguity.

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• ✅ Optimization Score: Every freelancer has a score based on actual performance gains delivered in past projects.
• ✅ Transparent Results: Clients define expected gains in advance — if they’re not met, payment is reduced.
• ✅ No Subjectivity: All work is evaluated on quantifiable metrics like execution time, throughput, or memory usage.
• ✅ One Clear Outcome: No "two versions" of success. The numbers tell the story.

Welcome to a New Era of Fair, Verifiable Work

Precedes isn't a gig economy clone. It's a precision platform for the world's top optimization engineers — where results speak louder than stars. It’s time we built a system that respects both clients and talent through fairness, objectivity, and code that runs faster than ever.

Stop guessing. Start measuring. Welcome to Precedes.