How to Use Happ’s AI to Price Your Services and Write Your Terms

When you're inside the contract wizard:

• In Step 3 (Services), alongside the options to add services manually or from your saved library, you'll see an option to get AI suggestions. Tap it and Happ will generate a list of relevant services with pricing for your project type.
• In Step 5 (Terms), alongside the manual entry and saved templates options, you'll find AI-generated terms. Tap it and Happ will produce a set of contract clauses relevant to your profession and the type of work in this contract.

Both features use a combination of your profile information (your profession, specialization) and the broader Happ community's data to generate suggestions that are specific to what you actually do — not just generic freelance boilerplate.

When you tap for AI service suggestions, each suggestion comes with:

• A service name and description — a standard way of defining that type of deliverable in your field.
• A market-rate price range — the low and high end of what Happ sees being charged for similar work across the community.
• A fit score — how relevant this service is to the project you're currently building, based on what you've entered so far.

How to use the market-rate range:
Think of it as a reality check, not a prescription. If your rate sits comfortably in the middle of the range, you're well-positioned. If you're consistently pricing below the bottom of the range, that's a signal worth paying attention to — not necessarily to change immediately, but to understand why. Are you earlier in your career? In a lower cost-of-living market? Competing on speed or relationship? Or are you just undercharging out of habit?

If you're above the top of the range, that's not necessarily a problem either — value-based pricing, niche expertise, or a premium client base can all justify higher rates. But if you're consistently losing projects at that level, it might be worth revisiting.

How to use the fit score:
High fit scores mean the AI thinks this service is closely aligned with your current project. Lower scores mean it's a possible addition but less central. Use high-fit suggestions as your core line items, and lower-fit ones as a prompt to think about whether there's something you're forgetting to charge for — like a usage rights fee, a rush surcharge, or a delivery/export cost that often gets absorbed silently.

You can add any suggestion directly to your contract with one tap, then edit the name, description, or price to match your actual scope before sending.

Before you lock in any pricing from the AI suggestions, run a quick sanity check against your Minimum Viable Rate (MVR) — the lowest hourly or project rate you can accept without losing money on the engagement.

If you haven't calculated your MVR yet, our Freelancer Pricing 101 guide walks you through it in about 20 minutes. The short version: add up your life costs + business costs + taxes + a small profit margin for the year, then divide by your realistic billable hours. That number is your floor.

The AI's market-rate range is your ceiling context — it tells you how high you could reasonably go without being out of step with the market. Your MVR is your floor — it tells you the minimum you can say yes to without subsidizing the client's project with your own time and money.

A healthy price sits above your MVR and within (or justified above) the market range. If the AI's range comes in below your MVR, that's important information: either your costs are higher than typical for your market, you need to adjust your business model, or you need to reframe the value you're offering so you can charge outside the standard range.

When you tap for AI-generated terms in Step 5, Happ produces a set of contract clauses based on:

• Your profession and creative field (set in your profile)
• The type of project and services in the current contract
• Standard terms used across the Happ community for similar work

This means a photographer's AI-generated terms will cover things like usage rights, model releases, and shoot-day cancellation policies — not the same boilerplate a graphic designer or DJ would need.

What to do with the generated terms:

• Read everything before you use it. The AI generates a starting point, not a final document. Make sure every clause reflects how you actually work and what you actually want to enforce.
• Edit what doesn't fit. Remove clauses that don't apply to your work. Adjust revision limits, payment windows, and cancellation terms to match your real policy.
• Add what's missing. The AI covers the common ground well, but you know your work better than any algorithm. If there's a specific protection you need — around travel costs, equipment, exclusivity, or anything else specific to your niche — add it manually.

For a full breakdown of what strong contract terms should cover — and what to leave out — see our Essential Freelance Agreement guide.

Once you've taken the AI suggestions, edited them to reflect your actual work, and confirmed they're ready to use, save them:

• Services: Go to Settings → My Services and save each line item. Next time you build a contract, these will be available with one tap — no AI needed, no manual entry, no second-guessing your rates.
• Terms: Go to Settings → Business Terms and save your edited clause set as a named template. You can have multiple templates for different project types — one for brand shoots, one for editorial, one for events, and so on.

Think of the AI as the tool you use to build your library, and your library as the tool you use for everything after. The more you invest in your saved services and terms upfront, the less time you spend on admin for every contract that follows.

If you work across different creative disciplines or have meaningfully different client types, it's worth building separate templates for each. A contract for a commercial client with a large marketing budget should look and read differently from one for a small local business or a personal project — and your saved templates make that easy to maintain without starting from scratch each time.