How Talkfolio works

Talkfolio is a chat-first portfolio for freelancers, consultants, and creators. Instead of sending a PDF, Notion page, or five scattered links, you publish one Talkfolio Link. The visitor chats with an agent that knows your projects, rates posture, availability, and FAQs.

The agent is not a generic chatbot pasted on a brochure site. It retrieves from your profile sections. If you never added pricing or case studies, it cannot invent trustworthy ones. Quality tracks how complete your knowledge base is.

Talkfolio Link

Your public URL at talkfolio.me/[slug]. Visitors land here and talk to your agent.

Agent

The chat assistant built from your profile content. It answers from your projects, bio, FAQs, and other sections you publish.

Visitor

Anyone who opens your public page. They do not need a Talkfolio account.

Knowledge base

The profile sections you fill in the dashboard: projects, experiences, skills, services, testimonials, FAQs, links, and resume.

Lead

A visitor who shares contact info or shows buying intent. Leads show up in your dashboard with scores and conversation context.

Profile Gap

A question visitors asked that your content could not answer well. Gaps tell you what to add next.

Onboarding is four steps. You can draft as you go. Publishing is the moment your public page goes live.

After onboarding, the dashboard Content area is where the agent gets its memory. Empty sections mean empty answers. Fill the parts clients actually ask about.

• Profile. Display name, headline, bio, location, avatar, email, resume upload, and pricing labels (hourly, fixed, milestones, or custom).
• Projects. Title, description, problem, outcome, role, tech stack, and URLs. Featured projects surface more often in answers.
• Experiences. Company, role, dates, and what you owned.
• Skills. Names with proficiency levels the agent can cite.
• Services. What you sell, deliverables, and price labels visitors ask for first.
• Testimonials. Social proof the agent can quote when trust is the blocker.
• FAQs. Question and answer pairs. Free plans cap at 10. Pro and Max are unlimited. FAQs also feed the public FAQ sheet in chat.
• Links. Ordered social and custom URLs for Linktree and redirect tools.
• Resume. Upload a PDF and decide whether visitors can download it from chat.

When you save content, Talkfolio re-indexes it for retrieval. Watch embedding status in the dashboard if answers feel stale right after a big edit.

My Agent controls how the conversation feels and which actions are allowed. Defaults work on Free. Pro unlocks deeper customization.

• Agent name, greeting, and suggested prompts visitors can tap.
• Tone presets and custom instructions on Pro and Max.
• Accent colour and custom avatar on Pro and Max.
• Show or hide rates and email in responses (Pro+).
• Allow booking so the agent can offer calendar slots when you enable Bookings.
• Allow resume download when a PDF is attached.
• Hide Powered by Talkfolio branding on Pro and Max.

Keep instructions short and factual. Long prompts that contradict your published content create confused answers. Prefer updating Projects and Services over stuffing rules into custom instructions.

A visitor opens talkfolio.me/[slug]. After a short bot check (owners skip it), they land in a full-page chat with your agent.

Once traffic hits your link, the dashboard is the operating room:

• Analytics. Visitors, conversations, leads, content health, and Linktree. Pro adds funnel, intent breakdown, gap intelligence, and AI Analyser. Max adds sentiment, topic clustering, and full conversation history.
• Leads. Emails and scores from chat. Max unlocks tags, notes, pipeline stages, and visitor blocking.
• Visitors and Chats. Who showed up, what they asked, and how far they got.
• Profile Gaps and Top Queries. Demand you have not supplied yet. Treat gaps as an editorial backlog for your knowledge base.
• Bookings. Availability and slots the agent can offer mid-chat.
• AI Analyser (Pro+). Compares visitor demand to what your profile covers and suggests what to add.

Billing runs through Polar. Message quotas reset each billing period. Hitting the limit pauses the agent for visitors until you upgrade or the period resets. There are no overage charges.

Current paid prices appear on the homepage pricing section. Manage plan changes from Settings → Billing.

/professionals is a pay-to-rank leaderboard by category (development, design, AI, and more). You need a logged-in account and a published profile to claim a spot. Bids start at a board minimum (currently $5 to claim, with raises and #1 takeovers following board rules). Checkout runs through Polar.

Use the board when you want discovery traffic beyond your own outbound links. It is optional. Your Talkfolio Link works whether or not you bid.

When you save profile sections, Talkfolio chunks that text and stores vector embeddings tied to your profile. On each visitor question, the system retrieves the closest chunks (bio, projects, experiences, and the rest) and grounds the reply in them, plus the tools you enabled.

That is why incomplete profiles feel dumb and complete ones feel sharp. The model is not browsing the open web for your résumé. It is searching the knowledge base you maintain. Profile Gaps exist so missed questions become content work instead of silent lost deals.

Talkfolio does not use your portfolio content to train general-purpose models. Your chunks stay scoped to your agent. Details live in the Privacy Policy.

Claim a slug, publish a thin first version the same day, then thicken the knowledge base from Profile Gaps. One honest project write-up beats ten empty sections.