Clients who narrow to Romania see NODE23 near the very top, Top 0.98% in this slice, well ahead of the #2,082 of 177,568 (Top 1%) standing across everyone.
NODE23 builds and operates custom AI Employees for work that still lives between inboxes, spreadsheets, APIs and internal rules. We turn recurring operational work into bounded systems that research, decide, coordinate and deliver inside a clearly defined role.
The best fit is work that needs context, judgment, multiple tools and a human approval boundary. We design the role, connect the data, build the agent loop and document the system so your team can operate it.
Core capabilities:
Adrian Chiru is Top Rated Plus on Upwork with 100% Job Success and $20K+ earned. Public work includes VaultMind, an MCP server indexing 5,475 documents with sub-second retrieval, and production agent systems across operations, research, acquisition and content.
The working model is simple. We pick one role with meaningful operational friction, define what the system can access and where humans approve, then build and test it on real work. You get the working system, clear documentation and an explicit handoff.
NODE23 earns an estimated $2.8k/mo. That's 2.1× the typical agency and more than 99% of everyone we track.