Your former clients are your strongest proof.
FEIR turns the end of each engagement into a verified reference: who is speaking, in what role, on which engagement, with the scope confirmed by the client. One link to attach to your proposals.
Five minutes on the client's side, no account for them. Collecting is free.
What happens today when someone checks you out
A serious buyer calls two or three people before signing. Scheduling those calls takes a week, when it works at all: people are in meetings, travelling, or don't pick up. And what gets said disappears the same day. You may have thirty successful engagements behind you; in front of each new prospect, you start from zero.
With references already written, the prospect has an answer the same day. And since you can't edit what your contacts answered, their words carry more weight than a testimonial you laid out yourself.
Stop spending relationship capital
Every time someone asks for references, you call a former client to ask for a favour. That cost repeats on every deal. With FEIR you ask once, at the end of the engagement, while people are reachable and remember the details. After that, you never ask anyone again.
Why the timing of collection matters
A FEIR reference is collected cold, at the end of the engagement, before any deal is on the table. So it wasn't written to win the contract you're chasing now. A LinkedIn recommendation is written for the shop window, and a reference call happens at the exact moment everyone has an interest in speaking well. Collecting at the end of the engagement escapes that suspicion, which is why FEIR made it the rule.
Where the link gets used
In a proposal, next to the portfolio. After a first call, when the prospect hesitates between two profiles. As the answer to “could you send us some references?”, which always arrives at the worst time. And as the one destination on your website or LinkedIn profile.
Today
“references available upon request” at the bottom of the CV, screenshots of LinkedIn recommendations, testimonial PDFs you laid out yourself.
With FEIR
one link. Who is speaking, in what role, on which engagement, and the Verified mark when the answer came from a work email on the company's domain.
Questions you're probably asking
- Will my clients actually answer?
- Everything is built for it. The request is a single email that states plainly it comes from you, the questionnaire is guided and takes five minutes, there is no account to create, and FEIR stops after two reminders. And you pick the moment: the end of a successful engagement is when people say yes.
- What if a client qualifies my scope?
- Then their answer will say so, in their own words: the questionnaire lets them confirm, qualify or leave aside each mission you declared, and you can't touch any of it. That's uncomfortable, and it's what makes the rest worth reading: people believe a document that can say “not quite”. You still choose what you share.
- I work through an agency. Is this for me?
- Yes. You move from client to client, and each of them can attest to your work. The history belongs to you and follows you, including the day you go independent.
- What exactly does my prospect see?
- The references you chose to share: who is speaking, in what role, on which engagement, with the Verified mark when the answer came from a work email. Nothing else: no other contacts, nothing you didn't share. What “verified” means
- How much does it cost?
- Collecting is free and will stay free. Advanced sharing options will become paid later.
Your next references already exist
They live in your former clients' memory, and that memory fades. Collect them while it's fresh.