An elite, multi-disciplinary agency was drowning in low-quality leads, wasting senior talent on manual, time-consuming project searches that bottlenecked their growth.
Leveraged Vollna's advanced filters to create automated, hyper-specific job feeds for each specialized team, with real-time alerts for instant action on high-value projects.
3x increase in qualified enterprise leads
Saved 40+ hours of senior consultant time weekly
Achieved a 75% faster proposal response time
Increased proposal-to-reply rate with a first-mover advantage
AlphaSquad isn't just another Upwork agency. As a member of the top 1% and Expert-Vetted, their reputation for excellence is undisputed. With a large team of over 50 specialists across AI, SaaS, blockchain, and enterprise web development, their technical prowess was never in question.
Their challenge was one of scale and efficiency: how does an elite agency, built for high-value, complex projects, find its ideal clients on a platform with millions of listings? The answer, before Vollna, was brute force. Their senior consultants and business development leads—highly paid experts in their fields—were spending a collective 40+ hours every week manually sifting through Upwork's firehose of jobs. They were panning for gold, but mostly finding sand. This manual qualification process was a critical bottleneck that wasted valuable, non-billable hours and meant they were often late to apply for the most promising opportunities.
"Before Vollna, we were drowning in a sea of low-quality leads. Our best people were wasting time on search instead of strategy. We knew the multi-million dollar contracts were on Upwork, but finding them felt like a lottery."
AlphaSquad approached client acquisition with the same mindset they use for software development: it needed to be precise, automated, and scalable. Vollna provided the toolkit to build this engine. The first step was to dismantle the "one-size-fits-all" search. Using Vollna's powerful and granular filtering, they created dedicated, real-time job feeds for each of their specialized units.
Real-time Slack and email notifications were the final, crucial piece. The moment a perfectly matched project was posted, the right team lead saw it. No more delays. No more missed opportunities. They could assess, strategize, and submit a highly tailored proposal within minutes.
The transformation was immediate and profound. Freed from the manual grind, AlphaSquad's senior team could focus on what they do best: crafting winning proposals, building relationships, and delivering exceptional work. Vollna didn't just find them jobs; it filtered the market to find their *exact* ideal client, over and over again. The results solidified their position as an enterprise leader on the platform. With a 3x increase in qualified leads, their pipeline was consistently filled with the high-stakes projects they were built for. Saving over 40 hours of expert time weekly translated directly into higher profitability and better resource allocation. Most importantly, their 75% faster response time gave them a decisive first-mover advantage, dramatically increasing their proposal-to-reply rate.
"Vollna gave us the signal in the noise. It lets us run our client acquisition with the same precision we use to build enterprise software. It's an indispensable part of our growth engine."
Arslan credits three key Vollna features for their success:
For AlphaSquad, Vollna was the missing piece to translate their elite technical skill into a scalable, efficient client acquisition strategy. By automating the top of their sales funnel, they empowered their senior experts to focus on closing deals and delivering results, cementing their position as a dominant force in the enterprise software space on Upwork.
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