Your Skills Are Already in Your Timesheets
23 May 2026
23 May 2026 by Luke Puplett - Founder
You log your hours. You note what you worked on. But when you need to write a proposal or update your CV, you're hunting through months of timesheets trying to remember every skill you touched.
The work is there. The skills are there. They're just not labeled. And they're not verifiable.
What if they were?
The Problem
Freelancers log work constantly: the hours, the project, maybe a note about what you built. But those details stay buried in timesheets. When opportunity comes—a proposal, a job application, updating your portfolio—you have to hunt through months of entries and manually remember what you've done.
Skills get undersold or forgotten because they're implicit in your work history, not explicit in your profile.
The Solution: Extract Skills from Your Work
We run your timesheet activities through an LLM. It reads the activity names, projects, companies, and any notes you added. It identifies the skills you used and lists them right there in your timesheet.
No manual work. No forgetting.
See It in Action
Ask our WhatsApp bot: "What skills have I used this year?" It reads through your timesheets, extracts skills with confidence scores, and sends them back. React, TypeScript, team leadership, whatever you've logged—it's all there.
That's it. Simple. Automatic. Grounded in real work.
Pair with Verifiable Timesheets
Extracted skills are just the beginning. When you approve your timesheet, those skills—along with all your work details—get attested to the blockchain via verifiable timesheets. Then you can prove you have specific skills with cryptographic evidence. No employer verification call needed. No trust required. Just proof.
Log your work. Let your skills emerge. Prove them on-chain.
That's lovely and everything but what is Zipwire?
Zipwire Collect handles document collection for KYC, KYB, AML, RTW and RTR compliance. Used by recruiters, agencies, landlords, accountants, solicitors and anyone needing to gather and verify ID documents.
Zipwire Approve manages contractor timesheets and payments for recruiters, agencies and people ops. Features WhatsApp time tracking, approval workflows and reporting to cut paperwork, not corners.
Zipwire Attest provides self-service identity verification with blockchain attestations for proof of personhood, proof of age, and selective disclosure of passport details and AML results.
For contractors & temps, Zipwire Approve handles time journalling via WhatsApp, and techies can even use the command line. It pings your boss for approval, reducing friction and speeding up payday. Imagine just speaking what you worked on into your phone or car, and a few days later, money arrives. We've done the first part and now we're working on instant pay.
All three solutions aim to streamline workflows and ensure compliance, making work life easier for all parties involved. It's free for small teams, and you pay only for what you use.