six things you can use right now
Pick the one that sounds like your problem
Shesmalificent has six free tools, and none of them asks for an email before showing your result: a trip cost planner, a girls trip cost splitter, a nine question money quiz, a trip compatibility check, a Freelance Readiness Score and a proposal teardown. A seventh, the proposal scorer, gives one free run, then costs $19 for 5 runs.
Six of them, all free. Not one makes you hand over an email before it tells you anything, which is most of the reason I built them instead of writing another post.
before anybody books the room
Can all of you actually afford this trip?
Put in where you are going, how many of you, when, and what the flight, the stay and the food cost. It tells each of you how much to put aside every week, and makes a picture you can drop in the group chat.
Every number comes from you. Nothing you type is saved.
Two minutes. No email needed to see your plan.
once the trip is booked
What does your half actually come to?
Put in the shared costs and your own personal ones, and it gives you your half, your per-day, and which line is eating the trip. Then it lines your number up against four real trips I took and published the receipts for.
Shared costs get cheaper when more of you come. Personal ones do not. Split the room, not the dinners.
One minute. No email needed to see your number.
if the money part feels messy
Which money section made you wince?
Nine questions, one for each section of the free money checklist. Answer them honestly, because the section that makes you wince is your starting line and the quiz hands you the first step for it.
Most people already know which one it is before they finish reading the question. That is the point.
About a minute. No email needed to see your result.
before anybody books anything
Will you two survive four days together?
Seven questions, both of you, about the seven things that actually go wrong on a trip with somebody you like. One of you answers, hands the phone over, then the other does. You get the gaps and the exact words to fix each one.
A trip falls apart over money and sleep and who wants to be out of the hotel by nine, not over whether you like each other. Those are the seven.
Two minutes. No email needed to see the result.
if you are thinking about freelancing
How ready are you to freelance, honestly?
Thirteen questions about whether freelance income could hold you up right now, from how you describe your work to what happens after a project ends. You get a score out of 5 and the exact gaps to close first.
It will not tell you to quit or to stay. It shows you the shape you are in, and the first gap is usually the one you already suspected.
About three minutes. You see your score first, and the email ask comes after.
when the replies go quiet
Why did your proposal get no reply?
Paste the last one you sent. It gets checked against five things, all of them lifted from my own proposals, and you get the fix for whatever is missing.
What it will not do is tell you whether you were ever going to get that job. It scores the shape of a proposal, not your odds.
About a minute. Nothing you paste is uploaded anywhere and nothing is saved.
when you want it rewritten
How strong is your proposal, out of 100?
Paste the job post and the proposal you wrote for it. You get a score out of 100 on five things, the three fixes worth the most points, the stock phrases to cut, and a stronger opening line.
This one works differently from the six above. Your first run is free and asks for your email, because the result comes back to you. After that it is $19 for 5 runs, or 10 runs for the first 50 founding buyers.
About 15 seconds a run.
The honest part
Every one of these could have been built to hold your result back until you type an email in. That is the standard move in this corner of the internet, and it is why you have stopped trusting quizzes.
Mine do not do that. You get the answer first. I ask once, afterwards, and you are welcome to ignore me.
The proposal teardown runs entirely inside your browser. What you paste in is never uploaded and never stored, which matters, because what you are pasting is usually somebody’s client work.
And none of the six will do the hard part for you. The teardown can tell you there is no question at the end of your proposal. It cannot tell you whether the job was worth applying for in the first place. That one is still yours.
and if you only do one thing
Get the Big Sis Letters
One letter a month. Real numbers when I have them, and nothing I would not read myself. New tools go out there first.