Work & Expertise
What you can do and what it's worth, so opportunity can find you accurately.
What is it?
Your skills with receipts: what you've built, what you've shipped, what you charge, how you work, what kinds of problems you're best at, testimonials, the portfolio. The professional you, curated by you, instead of inferred from a resume format invented for filing cabinets.
Why store it?
Because the professional matching that runs the economy is done today on the thinnest possible context: keyword-scanned resumes and self-reported profiles on platforms that own them. An expertise room in your castle inverts it. An agent matching you to work reads a rich, current, honest profile you control, and the match quality follows the context quality. The better your expertise context, the better the opportunities that find you, and the less time anyone wastes on bad fits.
What does a service legitimately need?
The expertise profile scoped to the match: skills, availability, rate range, work samples relevant to the job. A client-finding agent needs what you can do for clients. It never needs your income history, your other clients' names, or why you left anywhere.
What never leaves home?
The negotiation layer and other people's confidences. Your floor rate, your alternatives, how badly you want it: sharing those is negotiating against yourself. And a portfolio full of client work carries client confidences, so the double duty of care from Relationships applies: their material is not yours to share.
Further Reading
- Projects: where the expertise is currently deployed.
- The Protocol: transparency of holdings, for the platforms that hold your profile today.