You already know who you want on this job.
Finding them still means a WhatsApp group and someone else's rate.
You've probably never even been in the same room.
Post a brief.
Get pitches.
Mauka mila.
mauka is where Indian productions hire media people. You post a brief. Freelancers reply with a fee, a timeline and a sample for that job. No assistant in the middle. No rate decided in a group chat.
Free to join. We start in Mumbai. Every craft is welcome.
A few things we refused to ship, because they don't fix how work gets hired.
A brief always has craft, language, city, budget, dates and usage. Pitches sit next to each other because they answer the same six things.
Talent see briefs that match what they actually do. You get six pitches a month, so people don't spray and pray.
No followers, no posting for the algorithm. Fit Score orders the list, and you can see why.
You need one voice. Not forty inboxes.
Agencies, corporate AV, e-learning, D2C brands, small houses. You know the read. Right now you brief an assistant, wait, and take whoever replies.
Every brief has six things filled in: craft, language, city, budget, dates, usage. That's how you can actually compare pitches.
Twelve pitches, one screen, sorted by fit.
Each pitch shows language, grade, budget overlap and city. If something is a partial match, it says which part.
A 30-second read of your script, a style frame, a one-page take. You hear the work before you pay.
Fit Score sorts the list. Sort by price and the page says you switched.
You fund the hire, then release it in milestones as you approve the work.
You set the price. You send the sample. You rate them back.
Voice artists, writers, 3D and motion people. You're working. The job still arrives in a WhatsApp group, at a number someone else picked.
Briefs come to you, ranked by your forte.
You quote your fee and your turnaround. We don't push you down, don't run a reverse auction, don't stick a cheapest-first badge on anyone.
On purpose. You spend a token on the brief that's actually yours, and the buyer knows it cost you something.
Payment, scope, commitment, communication, respect. Talent don't get star ratings. Buyers do.
Available, tentative or blocked. Looking, casually looking, or not. You set both. Nobody pitches around it.
After every job you rate the buyer. The next person reading their brief sees it.
Block a shoot week and briefs that clash stop reaching you. No explaining, no apologising.
What you'll actually see when you open it.
If you make ads, films or series, you're on here.
If the work ends up on a screen or in a speaker, there's a brief for you. Each craft has its own fields, so a colourist isn't filling a voice-artist form.
Mumbai opens first. Voice, screenplay & copy, and 3D / motion will have the most people on day one, but every craft above can join now. Grades are Emerging, Working, Established, Marquee. Four dots. No colour coding to decode.
Escrow you can see. Craft a panel has actually checked.
The full fee goes in when you hire and releases as you approve each milestone. Talent can see it is funded before starting; you can see exactly what is still held.
A Vetted badge means real people reviewed real work. Grades and vetting are separate, so a newer artist with a strong reel isn't hidden.
Every brief states where the work runs and for how long. Nobody discovers a year later that a read became a TV campaign.
Free to post. Free to pitch. We earn only when work is approved.
Unlimited briefs, all six facets, no listing fee and no charge to see who pitched.
Six pitch tokens a month, included. No fee to send a sample, no fee to be shortlisted.
No cut on released work for a year. After that, 1%, and only when you hire the same person again through mauka.
A ₹48,000 hire costs ₹48,000. The artist gets ₹48,000, in the milestones you both agreed. First 20 production houses: free for a year. First 1,000 talents: free, permanently.
Mumbai first. Then wherever enough of you show up.
Remote briefs work from day one, so a Pune booth can read for a Mumbai film. Join from anywhere. We'll mail you when your city opens.
First 20 production houses and first 1,000 talents get in free.
We're opening Mumbai in stages so early briefs meet actual talent, and early pitches meet actual buyers. That's the deal for getting in now.
Questions we keep getting
What does mauka cost?
Posting and pitching are free. We take nothing on the first twelve months of released work. After that it's 1%, and only if you hire the same person again through mauka. The artist's quote is what they get. First 20 production houses: free for a year. First 1,000 talents: free, permanently.
How is a pitch different from a job application?
It's a fee, a turnaround, a short note and a sample made for that brief. You get six a month. Nobody can spam every listing.
Do I have to hire the cheapest pitch?
No. The list defaults to Fit Score. If you sort by price, the page tells you that's what you're looking at.
When does money leave my account?
When you hire. The full amount goes into escrow and comes out as you approve milestones. Talent can see it's funded before they start.
Are talent star-rated?
No. They get a craft grade (Emerging, Working, Established, Marquee) and, if a panel has seen their work, a Vetted badge. Stars go the other way: talent rate productions on payment, scope, commitment, communication and respect.
I'm not in Mumbai.
Join anyway. Remote briefs work from day one. Pune, Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Kochi are next. How soon your city opens depends on how many people from there are on the list.