Free tool · for agencies & studios
Free Contractor Bench List
Staffing from memory is staffing you'll drop. This free starter is a single-tab bench list: record each contractor you can call on — their discipline, primary skill, day rate, and whether they're available — and a count tallies who's free. Download it, list one discipline's bench, and stop staffing from a scatter of DMs. It's a taste of how the full Contractor & Freelancer Bench & Capability Tracker turns a mental rolodex into a searchable bench you own.
Take it with you — free, no signup
Direct download. No email, no account — just the files.
What it does
- Lists the contractors you can call on — discipline, primary skill, day rate, and availability — on one tab.
- Counts who's available now, so a quick scan tells you who to call.
- Keeps your bench in a file you own, not a per-seat app holding your contractors' rates on its server.
- Opens in Excel, Google Sheets, and LibreOffice — no email, no signup.
Own it, don't rent it
Want the whole bench, not just a list?
This free list is one discipline's bench. The full Contractor & Freelancer Bench & Capability Tracker maps who can do what across a full capability matrix, nets current assignments into a utilization board that flags who's over-allocated, and adds a Staffing Finder that shows — for a skill you pick — who is both qualified and free to take it, plus a bench-health dashboard, in one connected workbook (Excel, Google Sheets, or LibreOffice) plus three guides.
A one-time purchase you keep and reuse — the owned workbook between a blank spreadsheet and a rented per-seat resource-management app.
A planning template, not HR, legal, tax, or worker-classification advice — it plans and tracks your bench, it doesn't classify anyone. The example contractors are fictional. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any resource-management software. Free to use; please don't resell or redistribute.