foundmaker solves one half of the problem: it shows you who has actually made things. The other half — checking the work is theirs, briefing well, agreeing terms — decides whether it goes well, or at all. That half is unglamorous, free, and almost entirely learnable.
Six short pieces. No sign-up, and nothing here is selling you anything.
Someone using another person’s portfolio to collect a deposit is the one failure that costs you real money, and the one you can rule out almost entirely in ten minutes. Everything else here is about making a project go well. That piece is about making sure there is a project.
How to be sure you’re hiring the person who made the work →Every piece on the wall carries its evidence. Read it first, then write to whoever made the thing you liked.