Case Study
$6,000 in Month One: How Sigma Square Paid Back Their Pilot Before It Was Half Over
$6k
revenue in month one
3 hrs
per week time spent on Upwork instead of 8 hrs/day
1.5–2x
more proposals per week
Company Name
Sigma Square
Industry
Web & Ecommerce Development
Headquarter
Lahore, Pakistan
Company Size
11–50 employees
Founded
2012
Upwork Job Success
100%
Most tools take months to show ROI. Sigma Square saw theirs in weeks. Within the first month of their pilot, Muhammad Usman closed $6,000 in new contracts while cutting the time he spent on Upwork from 8 hours a day to 3 hours a week - and sent 1.5 to 2 times more proposals simultaneously. He didn’t change his standards. He changed what was doing the work.
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For Muhammad Usman, Business Manager at Sigma Square, Upwork was less a platform and more a daily sprint.
Every morning started the same way: open the feed, filter for jobs that matched the agency’s expertise in web development and e-commerce, evaluate each client - hire rate, reviews, budget, activity - and write a tailored proposal. Then repeat. Then repeat again. The discipline was non-negotiable: get in early, before a listing fills with 50-plus competing proposals and the odds collapse.
From 50–60 carefully chosen proposals per week, the system worked - generating 7–8 qualified leads consistently. But the ceiling was obvious. To get more leads, Muhammad would need more hours. And 8 hours a day was already everything.
Speed was critical, I needed to apply early to high-quality jobs before they got crowded.
Muhammad Usman
Business Manager
The first month changed that calculation entirely
Muhammad started his pilot with help from his Customer Success Manager, who began not with the platform - but with an audit.
Before touching any settings, the Getmany team reviewed Sigma Square’s Upwork profile and niche: what the agency was positioning, which job categories to target, where the profile was strong and where it was leaving opportunities on the table. Then, based on that audit, the Customer Success Manager configured the platform specifically for Sigma Square’s ICP - their ideal project type, budget range, client quality signals - so that the scanners were dialled in from the very first day.
📌 Editor’s note
Every Getmany client gets a dedicated Customer Success Manager - not just onboarding docs. They audit your profile before day one, configure the platform for your specific ICP, and review your results on an ongoing basis to keep performance improving.
Marina Loboda
Customer Success Manager
I was pleasantly surprised by how quickly it processed job requirements and made accurate AI-driven decisions for bidding.
Muhammad Usman
Business Manager
That accuracy wasn’t accidental - it was the result of a setup built around how Sigma Square actually works, not a generic default.
This is included in every Getmany pilot: a profile and niche audit, followed by a full onboarding where the platform is configured around the client’s business - their ICP, their niche, their targeting logic. The goal is simple: working scanners from day one, so clients start seeing results before their pilot is even half over.
For Sigma Square, it worked exactly as designed.
Same standards. Twice the volume.
Within that first month, Sigma Square closed approximately $6,000 in new contracts - enough to cover the pilot and then some, before reaching the halfway point of their three-month pilot subscription.
Before Getmany: 50–60 proposals per week, written and submitted manually. After: 1.5 to 2 times more proposals per week - automated, consistent, running around the clock. Higher volume, zero additional hours spent sending them.
More proposals going out consistently to better-matched jobs means steady, predictable lead flow - without him manually driving it every hour of every day.
Muhammad now spends 2–3 hours per week reviewing performance in Getmany - checking the proposal-to-lead ratio, tracking which leads came in, deciding which conversations to move forward. The 8-hour daily grind became a weekly check-in.
I was spending around 8 hours daily manually applying on Upwork. Now it’s reduced to about 2–3 hours per week reviewing Getmany for metrics and leads.
Muhammad Usman
Business Manager
Advices you can steal
01
Have a lead conversion process ready before you start
The leads will come. What happens next is on you.
02
Invest time upfront in setup
Targeting configuration determines quality - don’t rush it.
03
Track your proposal-to-lead ratio from week one
It tells you faster than anything else whether you’re dialled in.
04
Expect month one to surprise you
It surprised us.
It’s worth trying if you want to save time on manual bidding and increase your proposal efficiency - as long as you’re ready to focus on managing and converting the leads it generates.
Muhammad Usman
Business Manager, Sigma Square
