A dedicated Upwork bidder for freelancers and agencies in Nairobi.
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
Improvexus is an Upwork bidding agency. If you're a Nairobi freelancer selling writing, web development and data & AI, we pick the jobs that are worth your Connects, get to them while they're new and write each proposal to the client's brief.
What Nairobi is known for, and what it means for your bid.
Nairobi is East Africa's technology centre, often called the Silicon Savannah. It's known for mobile-money innovation and as a regional base for the United Nations and many international organisations. Academic and technical writing has been a freelance field there for a long time, and software is growing next to it.
Writing & content
What clients screen forA sample on the client's subject, in their tone. Editors treat the first paragraph of your proposal as a writing test.
How we open the proposalWrite your opening the way the finished piece would read. Link one published sample on the same subject and confirm the word count, sources and turnaround.
Web & software development
What clients screen forA finished project in the same stack, and some sign that you read the technical brief properly. Clients in this category have often been let down by a developer who said yes to everything.
How we open the proposalName the stack and the hardest part of the brief in your first two lines. Link one build that's close to it and say what the first milestone would deliver.
Data, analytics & AI
What clients screen forEvidence that you understood the data before you suggested a model or a dashboard. Vague talk about AI is the most common reason these proposals get skipped.
How we open the proposalSay back the question the client is really asking of their data. Name the approach you'd try first and why, and describe what a first deliverable would look like after a week.
When Upwork's clients start work, in Nairobi time.
When clients on the US East Coast start work at 9:00 am, it is 4:00 pm in Nairobi. That falls inside your own working day, so timing is on your side. What decides the job is how good the proposal is.
- City
- Nairobi
- County
- Nairobi County
- Time zone
- UTC+3
- Local currency
- Kenyan shilling (KES)
| Client market | Their 9:00 am is | Their 5:00 pm is | For you that is |
|---|---|---|---|
| US East Coast (New York) | 4:00 pm | 12:00 am (next day) | the working day |
| US West Coast (San Francisco) | 7:00 pm | 3:00 am (next day) | the evening |
| United Kingdom (London) | 11:00 am | 7:00 pm | the working day |
| Australia (east) (Sydney) | 1:00 am | 9:00 am | the night |
Our team works on Pakistan Standard Time, which is 2 hours ahead of Nairobi. The practical fix for the clock above is a bidder who covers the hours when you're away from your desk. You can read how our bidding works, or see how the market differs across the country on our page about the Upwork bidding agency in Kenya.
Questions people ask us.
Do you work with freelancers in Nairobi?
Yes. We work remotely with freelancers and agencies in Nairobi and across Kenya. Our team works on Pakistan Standard Time, which is 2 hours ahead of Nairobi. We handle targeting, proposals and weekly reports online.
What kind of work do you bid for from Nairobi?
We bid in any category you sell on Upwork. The work Nairobi is best known for is writing, web development and data & AI, and each of those is bid in its own way. Take writing as an example. Clients in that category look for this: a sample on the client's subject, in their tone. Editors treat the first paragraph of your proposal as a writing test.
Can I visit your office in Nairobi?
We don't have an office in Nairobi. Improvexus is based in Pakistan and we run every engagement online, so where you live doesn't change how we work together.
How do we get started?
Fill in the enquiry form with your Upwork profile link and what you want to improve. We read your profile first. Then we reply by email or WhatsApp with what we'd change and how working together would go.
Other cities we cover in Kenya, nearest first.
Tell us about your account.
Send your Upwork profile link and what you want to improve. We read your profile before we reply.