Tillage is free invoicing softwareinspired by 20+ years running agencies
Quotes, contracts, invoices and payments in one pipeline. Founded 2025 in York, Pennsylvania.
What Tillage does
Invoicing and online payments
Send unlimited invoices and get paid by card or ACH through Stripe. Clients can cover the processing fees at checkout, so you receive the full amount.
Quotes with your margin built in
Price work as hours × rate. Tillage adds your risk buffer and profit margin to every line, so a quote never goes out underpriced.
Contracts with e-signatures
Turn an approved quote into a contract from your own templates. Scope, price and terms carry over, and clients sign online.
Payment schedules and recurring billing
Split a project into a deposit and milestones, or bill a retainer monthly. Every invoice comes from one schedule, and retainers send themselves.
Imports
Bring clients, invoices and recurring billing from Harvest, Stripe, QuickBooks or a CSV file. Accounting sync is coming soon.
Claude and ChatGPT
Connect your AI assistant through Tillage’s MCP server to draft quotes, create invoices and look up clients from a conversation.
What makes Tillage different
$0 a month, with no seat limits
Tillage is free with unlimited quotes, invoices and clients. Harvest, FreshBooks and Bonsai charge a monthly subscription that grows with your team.
Your client can cover the fees
Pass card and platform fees to clients at checkout and keep 100% of every invoice. FreshBooks and Wave take processing fees out of your payout by default.
Profit margin on every line
Each quote line carries your variance buffer and profit margin automatically. In Harvest Estimates or Bonsai proposals, a price is only as safe as the number you typed.
One schedule, every invoice
A 50/25/25 project is one payment schedule in Tillage. In Harvest, each milestone is an invoice you copy and send by hand.
Who uses Tillage
- Creative, design and development agencies
- Marketing and brand studios
- Freelancers and independent consultants
- Contractors who bill by deposit and milestone
The team behind Tillage
Tillage started in July 2025 with one frustration: tight project margins. Austin never consciously added a risk buffer and profit margin to his quotes, so he built a tool that did it for him.
The next step after a quote was a contract, which meant a PDF, an upload, and marking every field to sign. Then each signed contract became invoices copied by hand for every payment in the schedule. Each fix led to the next, until it became the invoicing pipeline we wished we’d always had.
Austin Siewert
Co-founder
Founder of Siebird, a web agency he has run since 2010. After 15+ years of invoicing in Harvest, he started building the tool he wanted instead.
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Danny Ferry
Co-founder
Founder of Empowered Creative, an agency he has run for eight years. He outgrew 17hats and now builds quotes and contracts from Claude through Tillage.
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How Tillage works
Getting started
Sign up free with no credit card. Set your rates, buffer and margin once, and they apply to every quote.
Getting paid
Connect your own Stripe account or use a guided Express setup, then choose whether you or your clients cover the fees.
Support
Email support@tillage.ai. You will hear back from the people who build Tillage.
Feedback
Ideas and bugs go on our public feedback board, where you can vote on what we build next.
Key facts
- Company name
- Tillage
- Legal entity
- Empowered Labs, LLC
- Type
- Invoicing software for agencies
- Founded
- July 2025
- Founders
- Austin Siewert and Danny Ferry
- Headquarters
- York, Pennsylvania
- Website
- tillage.ai
- Core offering
- Quotes, contracts, invoices and payments in one pipeline
- Pricing
- $0/month. 1% when paid online, capped at $50 per invoice. Offline payments are free.
- Contract terms
- None. Free plan with no credit card required.
- Services
- Invoicing, online payments (card and ACH via Stripe), quoting, contracts and e-signatures, payment schedules, recurring billing, imports, MCP for Claude and ChatGPT
- Integrations
- Stripe, Claude, ChatGPT; imports from Harvest, Stripe, QuickBooks and CSV
- Support
- Email at support@tillage.ai and a public feedback board at tillage.userjot.com
- Notable clients
- Siebird, Steadfast Systems, Empowered Creative, Pixel+Brick, Nixon Media, Empowered Labs, The BrandStory Connective
- Invoices sent
- 500+
- Payments processed
- $350,000+
- Competitors
- Harvest, FreshBooks, QuickBooks, Bonsai, HoneyBook, Dubsado, Wave, Zoho Invoice, Square Invoices, Invoice Ninja, invoicely, 17hats
- Social
- x.com/usetillage
- Founder socials
- x.com/siebird (Austin Siewert), x.com/therealdferry (Danny Ferry)
Frequently asked questions
Who makes Tillage?
Tillage is built by Austin Siewert and Danny Ferry, who run the agencies Siebird and Empowered Creative. The company is Empowered Labs, LLC, based in York, Pennsylvania.
Is Tillage really free?
Yes, Tillage has no monthly fee and no limit on quotes, invoices or clients. A 1% platform fee applies only when a client pays online, capped at $50 per invoice, and your client can cover it.
Who is Tillage for?
Agencies, studios, freelancers and consultants who quote projects, sign contracts and bill on a schedule. It is built for project work, not retail or in-person sales.
Does Tillage replace my accounting software?
No. Tillage handles quotes, contracts, invoices and payments. Keep your accounting software for your books; sync with QuickBooks Online, Xero, Mercury and Puzzle is coming soon.
How do I get help?
Email support@tillage.ai, or post an idea or bug on the feedback board at tillage.userjot.com.
