What is fractional talent?

Specialists or micro agencies who work part-time or on-demand across multiple clients. Rafiki brings them together for projects with clear scopes, approvals and payouts.

How does Rafiki Talent Services operate?

We curate talent, help scope engagements, and run onboarding, verification, contracts and payouts through Rafiki OS. You get a compliant, fast path from brief to delivery and payment.

How are payments handled?

Payments run inside Rafiki OS with project wallets and automated routing. Choose wallet to wallet or fiat to bank payouts. Costs and timing are quoted before you approve.

Rafiki Talent Services | Fractional Talent for Modern Teams

Rafiki Talent Services

Fractional talent that moves as fast as your projects

Access vetted specialists and micro agencies across design, engineering, marketing, data and finance. Talent is embedded into Rafiki OS so onboarding, verification, invoicing and payouts are quick and compliant.

Enquire now Read the FAQ

Why fractional
Benefits and use cases

How it works
From brief to payout

Talent we serve
Individuals and micro agencies

Embedded into Rafiki OS
Projects, billing, payouts

Why fractional

Flexible capacity without full-time overhead

Right talent, right moment

Spin up niche skills for weeks or months instead of hiring permanently. Scale up or down per milestone.

Predictable cost

Scopes and rates are agreed in Rafiki. Timesheets roll into tidy invoices and merged client invoices when needed.

Low admin

Onboarding, verification and payouts are standardised. Reduce back and forth and keep a clean audit trail.

How it works

From brief to verified delivery

Curate and scope

We shortlist talent and help shape scope, milestones and approvals.

Onboard and verify

Individuals and businesses complete KYC/KYB once. Profiles are reusable across projects.

Deliver and payout

Milestones trigger payouts with automated routing to individuals or entities.

Talent we serve

Specialists, squads and micro agencies

Individuals

Designers, engineers, product managers, data analysts, growth and finance professionals.

Micro agencies

Two to twenty person studios across creative, development, performance and research.

Squads on demand

Curated pods assembled per brief. One central invoice with multi-entity payouts handled by Rafiki.

Rafiki OS

Talent embedded into the operating system

Projects and approvals

Scopes, milestones and approvals live in Rafiki OS so work maps to payments.

Billing and invoices

Timesheets become invoices, and you can merge many into a central client invoice.

Fast payouts

Wallet or bank. Transparent quotes before you confirm. See Features for details.

Compare Rafiki to other options on the Comparisons page.

FAQ

Talent services — common questions

Can I bring my own talent?

Yes. Invite external collaborators to a project. They onboard and verify once, then reuse their profile across future work.

How do fees work?

You see a clear quote for payouts and rail costs before approval. Subscription fees for Rafiki OS are separate from talent engagement costs.

Do you help with contracts?

Yes. Standard terms, NDAs and SOW templates are available. Bookmarks let you link external docs today, with in‑project storage coming soon.

Where is talent based?

Global, with strength across Africa to EU and UK corridors. Verification and payouts adapt per region.

Enquire now

Share this post

Not copied

Get Access To Rafiki

Join the network of top agencies and startups leveraging Rafiki OS. Get access to Rafiki's talent community of freelancers and fractional specialists.

Enquire Now