Upwork Goldmine

Product guide · Updated July 15, 2026

Check the opportunity. Keep the pursuit moving.

Use Goldmine to make a faster first decision while you browse, then keep the opportunities worth pursuing organized beside Upwork. Start with one job, narrow a busy search when needed, and finish the next useful action from your Pursuit Board.

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Fastest path

Check one visible job

When a job catches your attention, look for the small round UG icon near the top-right of its card. You can use the same check when the job is already open.

Every UG review checks your Goldmine access before it starts. Signing in first keeps that check from interrupting your browsing flow.

  1. Sign in to Goldmine with your email OTP, then return to the Upwork tab.
  2. Click the UG icon on the job you want to review.
  3. Read the recommendation and its one-line reason, then Shortlist or Drop the job.
A faster way to workShortlist promising jobs while you browse. When you finish, open the Pursuit Board once to prioritize them, prepare proposals and mark each proposal after you submit it on Upwork.

Optional search workflow

Review the visible search page

Goldmine can also review your whole Upwork search page. One click reviews up to 50 visible jobs and hides those that do not clear Goldmine's checks and your settings, leaving a focused list for you to consider.

Search Upwork as usual. Start with the work you want, such as “AI voice agent.” You can also try terms that often appear in more specific briefs, including “attached,” “paid trial,” “existing codebase” or “urgent.”

  1. Run your search on Upwork as usual.
  2. Find the floating Goldmine toolbar at the top-left and click the UG filter icon once.
  3. Review the recommended jobs that remain, then Shortlist or Drop each one.

Sign in first: Goldmine requires you to be signed in. Complete the email OTP before starting for an uninterrupted review. If sign-in opens after you click UG, finish signing in, return to Upwork and click UG again.

Keep the tab open: Keep the Upwork search tab open until the review finishes. You can follow its progress, stop the run, or resume after clearing a page issue.

Make the search yours

Too few picks? Lower your Goldmine floors from Settings. Too many weak picks? Raise them. You can also apply any useful Upwork search filter first when you want Goldmine to begin with a more specific set of results.

Missing a filter that would help? Choose Suggest a feature from the Pursuit Board's three-dot menu, or write to upwork-goldmine@muyal.online. We read every suggestion and use it to shape what Goldmine improves next.

Use batch review with discretionUpwork's current automation guidance includes browser extensions that automatically collect data or perform actions faster or more frequently than a person. Automatically setting a search page to show up to 50 results, then opening and scanning those jobs sequentially, may fall within that guidance. Goldmine has asked Upwork for clarification and will update this guide if a response is received. Until then, use batch review sparingly and stop if Upwork shows a verification step, warning, restriction or instruction. Read Upwork's automation guidance.
  • Stop ends the run.
  • Hide progress reveals the page activity behind the clean progress view.
  • Resume continues only after you manually clear a page issue.

Goldmine does not bypass verification or security checks.

Goldmine batch-review progress showing the current job and reviewed count
Batch progress remains visible and can be stopped by the user.

Decision language

Read the reason, then use your judgment

Every result gives you a recommendation and the strongest reason behind it, not another dashboard to interpret. Compare that reason with your skills, interest and proposal angle, then decide whether the job deserves your Connects. No recommendation guarantees an interview, contract, payment or client quality.

Set your floors before you review

Open the gear icon in the floating Goldmine toolbar. A floor is simply the minimum value you want a job or client to meet before Goldmine recommends it. Your settings are saved on this browser profile and apply the next time you run a review.

Client spend
The minimum visible client spend you want to consider.
Fixed budget
The minimum fixed-price budget worth reviewing.
Hourly rate
The minimum hourly rate you want the visible range to support.
Hire rate
The minimum client hire rate you normally expect.
Gold Star average pay
The visible average paid rate required for the Gold Star distinction.
Excluded countries
Countries you do not want included in your recommendations.
Gold Star
A stronger opportunity that also clears your Gold Star average-pay floor. Review these first when time is tight.
Goldmine pick
The visible job and client signals clear your saved floors. Review the complete job before spending Connects.
Manual look
One signal needs your judgment, but the visible context still makes a quick review worthwhile.
Recommend reject
A decisive concern or one of your saved floors was not met. Read the reason and move on unless your judgment says otherwise.

Follow-through

Keep one useful action in front of you

Finding a promising job is only half the work. The Pursuit Board keeps your shortlist, preparation notes, reminders and submission status beside Upwork, so a serious opportunity does not disappear into another tab, notebook or to-do app.

Use Focus when you want the next few useful actions without seeing the whole backlog. Use Board when you want to review every active pursuit by stage.

Decide
Shortlist the jobs worth pursuing and clear the rest before they consume more attention.
Prepare
Prioritize the shortlist and keep your proposal angle, proof points, questions and reminder beside each job.
Submitted
After submitting on Upwork, mark it here so you can stop checking repeatedly and focus on the next opportunity.
Respond
Move invitations and client responses here so the next follow-up stays visible while it is still timely.
Cleared
Remove stale or unsuitable pursuits from active focus without losing the record.

Focus rounds show up to four actions at a time. Snooze a job when the decision can wait, use the focus timer for uninterrupted proposal work, and clear an old undecided backlog in one step when those jobs are unlikely to be useful anymore.

Goldmine Pursuit Board side panel with focused pursuit stages

Ownership and access

Your board remains visible and exportable

Sign in with the code sent to your email; there is no separate Goldmine password to remember. During an active trial, complimentary period or subscription, you can run reviews and edit the board. If access ends, your board remains visible and exportable as CSV, but becomes read-only.

Goldmine does not ask for your Upwork password and does not store card, UPI or bank credentials. Read the Privacy Policy for the exact data categories and processors.

When a page changes

Recover without forcing the page

  • UG icon missing: let the Upwork page finish loading, then refresh once. The icon appears only on supported job cards and job views.
  • Signed in but nothing happened: return to Upwork. If Chrome says the extension changed, refresh once and click UG again.
  • Job did not open: close any job viewer already open, then click the UG icon again.
  • Verification appears: complete it manually or stop. Goldmine does not bypass it.
  • Batch paused: clear the visible obstruction, then Resume. Stop and restart if the page structure has changed.
  • Old direct link fails: use Find on Upwork from the board. Direct links are intentionally treated as short-lived.

Include the job title, page section, screenshot and what you clicked when writing to upwork-goldmine@muyal.online.