Hey guys, as some of you have seen I restarted my Upwork game on December 1st. 0 dollars per month in retainers. I spent the first month or so understanding how Upwork works in 2026, as I had not applied to a job in over a year. Once I understood how the game is played now, I got rolling (check my previous posts about it). Since then I've landed $27,780 in monthly retainers, and about 5k in what will probably just be one off jobs. The crazy part is I've barely pushed on it. My bottlenecks for resources have been what slowed me down (hence why I'm hiring, apply at matt@width.ai), and once cleared up I should be able to push even further. I've also turned down 5 jobs so far that did not fit my criteria. I will be recording a full breakdown video this weekend on the Journey, what I do, how I've been able to land these, and my plan moving forward. If you are trying to scale on Upwork I highly recommend you tune in. Video will be on the channel. good luck - Matt

I'm a bit late... But I think it's time to start jumping into it for some videos. Watching some demos, this seems like a huge opp for automations. What are your favorite usecases?

Human in the loop can now be used as 1. Individual Nodes 2. Chat nodes 3. Tool calls This allows you to review outputs of Ai Agents before they are published on social media, internal documents and more. A ton of companies require this and it’s a way to show you aren’t a beginner in n8n automations. https://youtu.be/nHiEdjY9FKE

If you're in this community and on the edge of deciding if this is it, don't take long to be indecisive and make that mistake. I do data / team ops with AI, and everything here is crystal clear and solid. You'd be doing yourself a disservice if you go back to Youtube and keep grinding to "find those gems" when they're all right here in the community. Just keep at it, iterate, improve the data to improve the data, and your decision making increases and everything else flows from there.