Invoice Chasing for Freelance Creatives
DolceDrago 308 — a skill for getting paid by the client you cannot afford to lose
Variant of Nº019 — The Invoice Chaser
What it is
Builds the payment chase for a freelance creative, where the debtor is not an account number but one of six clients and possibly a third of the year's income. It places the levers an ordinary supplier does not have — working files still held, a licence that starts on cleared payment, a cancellation fee — at the rung where each actually moves money. Use it when a client goes quiet after final delivery, when an agency's accounts team stops replying, or when a job was killed halfway and nobody has mentioned paying for it. For designers, illustrators, writers, photographers and developers on their own.
What you receive
a freelance payment-chasing ladder — handover nudge to final notice, with the source-file, licence and cancellation-fee leverage placed where it works — plus the contract fixes that stop the next one
Delivered as a single, complete .md skill file — open it, paste it into any capable chat model, and work. No installation, no account with anyone but us.
Supported models
- Claude (Opus/Sonnet)
- ChatGPT (GPT-4o/5)
- Gemini
- any capable chat model
People reach for it when
- “client hasn't paid but is already using my logo everywhere”
- “how to chase an agency for money without losing the retainer”
- “my biggest client is 40 days late and I can't afford to annoy them”
- “client went quiet after I sent the final files”
- “charging for a project the client cancelled halfway through”
Record
lineage: variant · parent 019
gates passed: demand-evidence · function-fit · beats-the-blank-page
status: IN THE COLLECTION
Sale-time bench runs and the fix-or-refund log attach to this record when the payment room opens.
In the collection. The sale room is being fitted; this work goes on sale when it opens.
Join the house — be written to when sales openBack to the collectionLicense
Free-shelf works ship under the DolceDrago House License — use the outputs freely, personal or commercial; the work file itself stays with the house.