AIRCHOR FOR FREELANCERS
Define the work clearly, keep decisions visible and deliver a project that can continue.
Airchor is designed to give independent builders and clients one shared project state around scope, approvals, evidence, ownership and handoff.
- Scope
- Included · excluded
- Client input
- Decision · access · review
- Evidence
- Work · checks · limitations
- Outcome
- Acceptance · handoff
Informal scope becomes expensive when the project starts changing.
A freelancer may inherit incomplete context, shifting expectations and provider access that was never clearly assigned. The client may see output without understanding what was included, tested or left unresolved.
Airchor is designed to make the working boundary visible before that ambiguity becomes conflict.
Make the agreed change specific and versioned.
A Build Specification should define the outcome, included and excluded work, acceptance criteria, dependencies, client actions, ownership targets and evidence required for delivery.
When scope changes materially, the specification changes visibly and requires a new approval.
DURABLE PROJECT TRUTH
One Project Model
- Product intent
- Scope
- Requirements
- Architecture
- Sources and evidence
- Decisions
- Risk and unknowns
- Ownership and connections
- Current state
- Next action
Next actionVisible, reviewable and version-aware
BUILD SPECIFICATION · VERSIONED
Approved scope for one Build
- 1Objective
- 2Scope and exclusions
- 3Acceptance criteria
- 4Constraints
- 5Evidence requirements
- 6Human approvals
- 7Provider boundary
DECISION
Has the approved scope changed materially?
- Choices
- Continue within scope · Revise the specification · Pause
- Evidence
- Client decision, dependency and acceptance criteria
- Outcome
- Visible approval boundary
- Owner
- Client and independent builder
- Status
- Decision recorded
- AI agentPerform bounded approved workTask evidence
- HumanApprove, review or provide evidenceRecorded decision
- External systemPerform provider-controlled operationCorrelated result
Human confirmation, provider completion and independently verified completion remain separate states.
INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION RECORD
Approved acceptance criteria
- Method
- Independent checks and review
- Evidence
- Linked, attributable records
- Result
- Passed, failed, incomplete or blocked
- Limitations
- Only the declared scope
- Verifier
- Separate verification path
Keep client decisions inside the delivery workflow.
Content decisions, access, provider configuration, review and acceptance can become explicit Work Items with responsible actors and due evidence. The project can then show what is blocked, what is waiting and what can proceed.
Explain what was done and what the evidence actually proves.
The Control Plane direction connects task progress, files, commands, tests, preview evidence and approval. Independent verification and Tested Preview remain roadmap capabilities, and their scope must be clear when introduced.
Leave the client with the assets and context needed to continue.
Airchor is being designed around client-controlled repositories, providers, domains, deployments and project assets. The Project Model, Build Specification and delivery record support a cleaner handoff to the client, another freelancer or an agency.
