For freelancers and sole traders · Malta & Gozo

You do the work. The chasing can run itself.

Payment reminders, enquiry replies, contracts, receipts. I set them up in your own accounts, in your words, and they run while you're with a client.

Message me on WhatsApp See it for your kind of work →
  • Free first chat
  • Fixed quote first
  • No tie ins

Based in Mellieħa. I work across Malta and Gozo, over a message or a coffee.

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Kim, wedding photographyEmail

Example screen. Not a real client, not real figures.

Sound familiar?

Where the evenings go.

Every one of these can be dealt with on time, without you at the keyboard.

Works with what you already use

It works with the apps you already use. Anything new, like the account it all runs on or a way to take card payments, goes in your name, and the quote lists what it costs each month. If your bookings live in your notes app, the first job is moving them into your calendar, and I'll do that with you.

  • Gmail
  • Outlook
  • Google Calendar
  • Google Sheets
  • Google Drive
  • Dropbox
  • Calendly
  • Stripe
  • PayPal
  • Notion
  • Trello
  • Text messages
  • Something else? Ask me and I'll check before I quote.

Not on the list: your Instagram inbox and your own WhatsApp. Nothing I build reads or replies in either. If you use WhatsApp Business or an Instagram business account, both have a free away message built in, and I'll show you where.

Pick what you do

What this looks like in your week

Common examples, not a list of limits. If something in your week repeats, tell me yours.

The usual jobs

Pick the one you'd hand over first.

The numbers

What the research says

Every number below is sourced and dated. Three of them date from 2017.

16.7%

of Malta's self employed with no employees named late or missing payment as their main difficulty. No other difficulty was named more often.

Eurostat, Labour Force Survey ad hoc module on self employment (lfso_17sediff), 2017. Self employed with no employees in their main job, aged 15 and over, in private households, Malta: 3,800 of 22,800.
10.0%

of the self employed with no employees across the EU's 28 member states named the same main difficulty in 2017. In Malta it was two thirds more common.

Eurostat, Labour Force Survey ad hoc module on self employment (lfso_17sediff), 2017. Same definition, EU28: 2,370,500 of 23,784,900.
67.9%

of Malta's self employed had no employees in 2017.

Eurostat, Labour Force Survey ad hoc module on self employment (lfso_17sediff), 2017. Self employed in their main job, aged 15 and over, in private households, Malta: 22,800 of 33,600.
13.5%

of all people in Malta with a main job were self employed in it, April to June 2026.

NSO, Labour Force Survey Q2/2026, NR 160/2026, 11 September 2026, Table 5.

Working together

What happens after you message.

1
Free · no rush

We talk.

A WhatsApp chat or a coffee. Tell me the job you'd most like off your plate.

2
A day or two

You get a fixed quote.

What it'll do and what it costs, in one number. Nothing starts until you say go.

3
1 to 2 weeks

I build it and show you.

In your own accounts. You see it working and change anything before it goes live.

4
Every day after

It runs.

The first week's fixes are free. After that, it's €30 an hour, or €80 a month cover.

What it costs you

  • First chat Free.
  • The build One fixed price, quoted before any work. You can start with one job.
  • First week after it goes live Fixes free.
  • After that €30 an hour when you need me, and nothing if you don't. Or €80 a month cover.
  • Running it The account it runs on is in your name and billed to you directly. The quote says how much.
  • VAT None on top, because I'm registered under Article 11.
  • Tie ins None.
Start with step one Free, no pitch, and it takes as long as you need.

Your data stays yours, in writing.

Your clients' details stay in accounts in your name. Before I start, we sign a GDPR processing agreement that says what I can and can't do with them. If I ever spot a data breach, you hear from me without undue delay, and when we stop working together, I hand back or delete anything I hold and remove my access.

Riccardo Tedesco

About

The person you message is the person who builds it.

Riccardo Tedesco

I've lived in Malta all my life and I'm based in Mellieħa. Before this I spent five years training as a commercial pilot, which is where I picked up a systematic way of working.

I took that into every job since: restaurant floors as a waiter, a warehouse, a hospital IT desk, and an office that got through hundreds of documents a day. I kept noticing the same thing everywhere, people giving up their day to jobs a small setup could handle, and it drove me to build things that took the job off their hands.

That's where this came from. I enjoy the puzzle of it, and I'm just as interested in the people it's for.

I started this on my own too, so I know the half of the job nobody pays for: the invoices, the receipts and the tax paperwork after the real work's done.

It's just me, so I learn how your work actually runs and build around it. You see the work before it goes live, and the price is fixed before anything starts.

If your problem doesn't need automation, I'll tell you. Talking you out of a bad idea is part of the job.

Fair questions

You're probably thinking…

“What does it cost?
You'll know every part before anything starts. The first chat is free. The build is one fixed price, quoted after we talk, and you're free to say no. You can start with one job, and the quote covers only that. The account it runs on is in your name and billed to you directly, and the quote says what that costs each month. Payment links carry the card provider's own fee, so bank transfers and Revolut stay an option: you tick those. For the first week after it goes live, fixes cost you nothing. After that, €30 an hour when something needs me, and nothing if nothing does, or €80 a month cover, which pays for fixing anything I built that stops working, including when Google, Meta or another app changes something on their side. It doesn't include changes someone else makes to the setup, which are €30 an hour, or outages at those services, which only they can fix. New features get their own quote. There's no VAT on top, because I'm registered under Article 11. If you're under Article 11 too, that's VAT you'd have had no way to claim back.
“Can it answer my Instagram and WhatsApp messages?
Not the ones on your own accounts, and I'd rather say so now than in the first chat. Nothing I build reads or replies in your Instagram inbox or your own WhatsApp. If you use WhatsApp Business or an Instagram business account, their own free settings can send an away message, and I'll show you where. What I build starts after that: a form for your bio that answers with your prices, then the contract, the deposit link and the reminders.
“Can't I just set this up myself?
Some of it, yes, and some of it's free. Your invoicing app may already send reminders. If a setting you already have does the job, I'll show you where, and that's the end of it. What I build is the part between your apps: the date marked booked that sends the contract and the deposit link, and the reminders that stop the moment it's paid or you tick it. You'd be paying for the hours of setting that up, and the fixing when an app changes something, not for the tool.
“Won't my clients find it a bit cold?
It only handles the bits around your work: the reply that says you're with a client, the reminder, the receipt. Those go out exactly as you approved them, word for word, from your own email address. If a reply is written on the spot by AI, its first message says it's an automatic assistant, which EU law has required since August 2026, and anything it can't handle comes straight to you. Your clients don't have to change a thing. A quick reply saying you'll answer properly tonight reads warmer than two days of silence.
“What if it reminds someone who's already paid?
Payments by link tick themselves off. Bank transfers are yours to tick, on your phone. Reminders only go out to whoever's still unticked, so once you've ticked a transfer, that client hears nothing more.
“Is my clients' information safe?
It's set up to hold as little as possible. Each system keeps only what its job needs, it runs in accounts in your name, and we sign a GDPR processing agreement before I start, so what I can and can't do with your clients' information is in writing. When we stop, I hand back or delete anything I hold and remove my access.
“What if it breaks?
Every build sends an alert when a run fails. Paying as you go, it comes to you, and you message me: fixes to what I built cost €30 an hour. On €80 a month cover, the alert comes to me instead, I reply the same working day and start the fix by the next, at no extra cost. Neither one ties you in.
“It's just you. What happens if you disappear?
Then nothing's stuck with me. It's all built in your accounts, in your name, with notes on how it works, so it doesn't depend on me and anyone who knows the tools can pick it up. Once it's paid for, you can walk away with everything whenever you like, and I remove my access.

Get in touch

Tell me the job you keep leaving till the evening.

That's the whole first step. If it can run by itself, I'll tell you what that'd take. If it can't, I'll say so, and if a setting you already have would do it, I'll show you where.

WhatsApp or Call +356 9951 1425 Email riccardotedesco9@gmail.com I reply the same day, in English or Maltese. I work with businesses and the self employed, not on private or household jobs.

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