Upwork AI Agent

Connect your Upwork to Zaira autonomous AI agent. Describe what you need in plain language, Zaira will use Upwork actions like hire freelancers to get the job done for you.

01Capabilities

What can your Upwork AI agent do?

Client tools for hiring, freelancer tools for winning work, and shared tools for contracts and messaging. Zaira carries out tasks using the supported actions listed here.

For clients

  • Search Talent — Find and rank freelancers by skill, rate, and location.
  • Post Job — Draft and publish a job post from a short brief.
  • Review Proposals — Get ranked summaries of incoming proposals.
  • Manage Offers — Review, accept, decline, or counter an offer.
  • List Contracts — View active contracts and milestones at a glance.
  • Manage Milestones — Create and approve milestones for active contracts.
  • Track Time — Review logged timesheets and deliverable status.
  • Send Message — Read and send Upwork messages from your AI agent.
  • Check Spend — View payments and hiring spend across contracts.

For freelancers

  • Search Jobs — Filter open jobs by skill, budget, experience, and client history.
  • Draft Proposal — Draft a tailored proposal grounded in your profile and work history.
  • Respond to Invites — Reply to interview invitations and keep momentum on active leads.
  • List Contracts — View active contracts and milestones at a glance.
  • Manage Milestones — Create and approve milestones for active contracts.
  • Track Time — Log and review your billable time.
  • Send Message — Read and send Upwork messages from your AI agent.
  • Update Profile — Update availability, portfolio, skills, and visibility.
  • Check Earnings — View earnings and Connects balance.
02Use Cases

Automate your Upwork tasks with Zaira effortlessly

See how people are automating their Upwork tasks with Zaira while they sleep.

Review proposals as a ranked shortlist, not a spreadsheet

Zaira summarizes every incoming proposal against your job post, ranks the candidates worth your time, and flags the ones that read like everyone else's.

Find jobs that actually fit your profile

Zaira scans open jobs against your skills, rates, and history, and returns a short list worth applying to instead of hundreds of noisy feeds.

Draft and submit proposals on autopilot

Zaira drafts a tailored proposal grounded in your profile and work history, and submits it after you approve. Connects only move when you confirm.

Update your profile and availability

Tell Zaira you're available for new work or want to highlight a recent project — it updates your Upwork profile, availability badge, and portfolio for you.

03How it works

How to set up your Upwork AI agent

Three steps: pick your role, connect in one click, and review every action before it goes live. Run tasks on demand; recurring runs depend on the workflow's supported capabilities.

01

Pick your role and connect Upwork

Choose client or freelancer, then connect your Upwork account in one click. Zaira uses OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration — no API keys, no code, no setup.

02

Your agent runs your side of Upwork

Hiring, it searches talent, posts jobs, ranks proposals, and prepares offers. Freelancing, it surfaces jobs, drafts proposals, and tracks contracts — all from your AI workflow.

03

You stay in control 24/7

Every write action is drafted first and requires your confirmation. Binding actions like offers and milestone payments complete on Upwork.com, not inside the agent.

05FAQ

Frequently asked questions

See the answers to the questions people ask about how Upwork works with Zaira.

Yes. Pick the client role when you connect and Zaira focuses on the hiring side: searching and shortlisting freelancers, posting job listings, ranking incoming proposals, preparing offers, and managing contracts, milestones, and candidate communication.

Yes. Pick the freelancer role and Zaira focuses on finding and winning work: filtering open jobs against your profile and rates, drafting tailored proposals, responding to interview invitations, tracking contracts and milestones, and keeping your profile and portfolio current.

No. One Upwork connection covers both. The role you pick changes which capabilities Zaira sets up and how it talks about your workflow — it does not limit or re-scope your Upwork access, which is always determined by the account you authorize.

No. The Upwork AI integration from Zaira works without a single line of code. Click Connect, log in to your Upwork account through the OAuth window, and your AI agent can start searching talent, posting jobs, and managing contracts right away.

If you hire, the Upwork AI integration searches freelancers by skill and rate, drafts and publishes job posts, reviews and ranks proposals, prepares offers, manages active contracts, and tracks milestones. If you freelance, it filters open jobs against your profile, drafts proposals, responds to interview invitations, checks logged time, and keeps your profile and earnings current — all from your AI agent.

Yes. Upwork's MCP server is free for every Upwork client and freelancer. Standard Upwork fees apply to work done through it, and freelancers still spend Connects to submit proposals — exactly like on the website.

Any AI agent that supports remote MCP servers with OAuth. That includes Claude (Web, Desktop, Code), ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, and other MCP-compatible tools like Windsurf, Cline, VS Code, and Goose.

Yes. Go to Upwork Account Settings → Connected Apps and remove the connector. This immediately invalidates the access and refresh tokens. You control data access and can revoke permissions at any time.

No. Every write action — posting a job, sending a message, submitting a proposal — is drafted first and requires your confirmation. Connects are only spent when you confirm a proposal submission, exactly like on Upwork.com.

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