Know Your Freelancer. And prove it.
Zooly is the Freelance Management System for anyone working with freelancers: whether you hire directly, broker on their behalf, or run a marketplace. Freelancers themselves get their personal vault once, then prove genuine self-employment on every engagement from there. Qualification, contracts, onboarding, payments: all in one place, all audit-proof.
How it works
Every freelancer gets a personal vault: a verified Know Your Freelancer (KYF) profile that proves genuine self-employment on every assignment. That vault is the engine behind the platform and the compliance services that come with it.
When a new engagement starts, Zooly checks the vault against the client relationship, on an ongoing basis:
- Dossier onboarding: verifying the freelancer's data before work begins
- Dossier monitoring: keeping the verification current for as long as the engagement runs
The result: a compliance index, visible to both sides, showing at a glance how well-substantiated the working relationship is.
For freelancers
Your own dossier. Show you work independently.
Build your verified freelancer profile once and keep your key information and evidence together in your personal vault. Use it across engagements to help clients verify your independent status and work with you with greater confidence.
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Create your profile
Add your professional and business information.
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Build your dossier
Keep your verification and supporting evidence together.
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Use it for engagements
Use your dossier to support verification for each new engagement.
Stay verified
Keep your dossier current as your work and engagements evolve.
One freelancer. One personal vault. Use it across every engagement.
Why this matters now
Under the EU Platform Work Directive, the burden of proof is shifting to intermediaries and clients. Can't prove someone is genuinely self-employed? The law increasingly defaults to an employment relationship — and payroll, back taxes, and fines follow.
Get it right, and it's simply... Zooly. Not just a signed contract, but a record that holds up under scrutiny. Even five years later, if a regulator comes asking.
Zooly itself is not a work platform under the Directive. It facilitates a B2B relationship between clients and freelancers, without directing or supervising their work. That distinction matters if you're running a marketplace: build it on Zooly and you're not automatically caught by the obligations you're helping your clients avoid.
Get in touch
Prefer to talk it through? Reach out directly.
Talk to the founder
Han R. de Groot
“The future of flexible labour needs a Freelancer Management System that is thoroughly European. That's Zooly.”
Talk to Sales
Edwin Zuijdendorp
“Every client I talk to has the same worry: are we covered if a regulator asks questions? I show them the dossiers, and the worry goes away. Simple as that, with Zooly.”
About us
We started Zooly because we kept running into the same thing: good organizations, good freelancers, and working relationships that clicked, but got stuck in paperwork and legal hassle nobody has time for.
And the pressure isn't easing up. Before you know it, you're dealing with a drawn-out administrative mess. Which is exactly why we built Zooly the way we did: every engagement backed by a record, not just a signature.
By the way, 'Zooly' is slang for cool, special, great. And that's exactly the idea. Compliance doesn't have to be something you begrudgingly survive. Done right, it's proof that you have your affairs in order.
Latest News
Latest news from the freelance ecosystem
This year, has ushered in new developments and launched new initiative —all with the goal of preparing leaders, businesses and skilled professionals for the future of work.
A new platform feature calculates and withholds tax obligations automatically for placements spanning multiple EU jurisdictions, eliminating a manual reconciliation step that agencies previously handled in spreadsheets outside the platform. The rollout covers the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and France at launch, with additional jurisdictions planned for later this year based on customer demand.
The Dutch DBA Act (Deregulering Beoordeling Arbeidsrelaties) enforces joint responsibility of clients and contractors to prevent false self-employment. The Netherlands Tax Administration (Belastingdienst) assesses working relationships; if a zzp'er (self-employed professional) does not meet entrepreneurship conditions, they face additional tax assessments, repayment of tax benefits, and potential fines. Clients may owe payroll tax, pension contributions, and fines. From 1 January 2025, unintentional false self-employment triggers retroactive assessments; intentional cases can be backdated further. Model agreements remain valid until 2029 but do not guarantee protection. A new Self-Employment Act (Zelstandigenwet) is announced for 1 January 2028, introducing two tests for self-employment and a special commission. Businesses hiring freelancers must reassess working relationships to avoid financial and legal consequences. Some Hyperlink Here
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Knowledge Catalog
Freelance compliance knowledge, in one place
Explore legal and compliance information on freelancer engagements, employment-status assessment and applicable regulatory requirements across jurisdictions.
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