Senior fractional PMs, designers, engineers and marketers — matched to your brief and introduced within 48 hours. You pay them directly, at their real rate.
A plain email is enough — no account, no discovery call, nothing to pay until you choose a plan.
The search costs you months. A bad hire costs you years. Two ways to shortcut it already exist. Both charge you for vetting — just not on the invoice.
147 replies. zero vetted. your evening, gone screening.
The platform gets paid whether your hire works out or not — so all the screening risk lands on you.
senior rate, mid-vetted outcome — the gap is the agency's, forever.
They do vet — then keep the relationship too, so leaving them means losing the person.
Meet E. — fractional Head of Product, Series B devtools, 14 months. Vouched by two people in the network.
Her rate. Direct. No middleman.
one name. real reasons. yours from hello.
Agency-grade vetting, direct-hire economics — one flat fee, no one standing between you again.
Composite example — details changed, shape accurate.
For years, a private group of senior freelancers did something quietly useful: when a client needed a skill outside someone's lane, we referred a trusted peer. Not a “connection” — a name we were willing to attach our own reputation to, because it was our client on the receiving end.
Nobody refers a maybe into their own client's team. One bad referral costs you the relationship that pays your invoices.
That's a vetting bar no platform can copy, because no platform has anything at stake. At some point we realised the referral itself was the product. fractionals.tech is that habit, opened to companies like yours: same network, same bar, same question asked about every single person in it — before you ever see a name.
The role, the must-haves, the shape of the engagement — fractional, part-time, or interim. Write it like you'd explain it to a colleague; a colleague is who reads it.
No keyword filter, no ranking model. Someone who knows the network reads your brief and picks the people who actually fit — the same someone who'll answer for the picks later.
Each name arrives with why it was chosen and who vouched. If a name puzzles you, ask — you'll get an argument, not an algorithm's shrug.
Interview, agree terms, start. You pay the talent directly, at their real rate — nothing baked in, no lock-in, and the relationship is yours from the first hello.
There is no algorithm. Not “AI-assisted”, not “smart matching” — none. In a market where every hiring tool claims artificial intelligence, we'd rather promise something rarer: judgment, with a name attached. A person reads every brief. A person picks every candidate. A person can defend every introduction, out loud, to your face.
From senior individual contributors to fractional executives — for fractional, part-time, and interim engagements. Built for startups and scaleups, and just as at home with a team inside a larger org. If your brief needs someone we wouldn't vouch for, we'll say so instead of stretching.
Every plan below ends the same way: refund. That's not a marketing badge — it's what vetting looks like when someone actually does it. Volume businesses can't make that promise.
A marketplace with a million listings can't refund your bad experience; statistically, you are its quality filter. We can make the promise because every name that reaches you was hand-picked by a person prepared to defend it — and when it's your name on the pick, you don't send maybes.
for scale: the hidden agency markup in Exhibit B runs €315–560 a day, every day, forever. everything below is once.
€95
test the waters1 candidate profile, manually matched to your brief. The single best fit one person could find you.
The guaranteeRefund if the profile doesn't meet your stated must-haves.
Start with one name€495
the shortcut to the right hireA hand-vetted shortlist, with unlimited introductions to anyone on it. Compare real candidates, not proposals.
The guaranteeRefund if you don't want an intro with anyone on the shortlist.
Get the shortlist€1,995
you hire, or you don't payEverything in Curated, plus a dedicated matching specialist on your search until it's filled.
The guaranteeFull refund if you don't hire anyone we introduce.
Start a guaranteed searchOne-time search fee per hiring need. No subscriptions, no lock-in. The talent's rate is separate, theirs, and paid by you to them — we never touch it.
Two ways, both in the open. Clients pay the one-time search fee above. And freelancers pay a modest fee on work they win through the network. Nothing is ever baked into anyone's rate: the rate you agree with the talent is exactly what the talent gets — ask them, they'll tell you the same number. We only earn when a match works well enough that both sides come back, which is precisely the incentive you'd want your hiring channel to have.
Yes, and it's a deliberate choice, not a lack of engineering budget. Matching senior people to messy real-world briefs is a judgment call — about context, stage, chemistry, and what the brief didn't say. A person reads every brief and picks every name, which means every introduction comes with reasons and someone to argue with. You can't cross-examine a ranking model.
Because your workload isn't full-time-shaped. Startups and scaleups rarely have a stable, forty-hours-a-week need for one specialism — they have a pricing problem this quarter, a design debt problem next. A senior fractional operator gives you the seniority without the rigidity: two or three days a week of someone who's done it before, for exactly as long as the problem exists. And when the need genuinely is full-time, an interim from the network can hold the seat while you run a proper search.
Not by applying. Every person in the network was referred by a senior freelancer who was willing to put them in front of their own client — which means someone staked a paying relationship on the recommendation. That's the entire admission test, and it filters harder than any skills quiz: nobody refers a maybe into the team that pays their invoices. If your brief needs someone we wouldn't vouch for at that bar, we'll tell you rather than stretch.
Nothing. Send it, a person reads it the same day, and we tell you honestly whether we can serve it — if we can't, you'll hear that before you've paid a cent. You choose a plan only once we've agreed the brief is one we can deliver on. The fee is one-time, per hiring need; there's no subscription and nothing recurring.
Of course. There's no exclusivity clause and no lock-in — run your own search, keep your other channels open, compare freely. We think our introductions win on merit, and the guarantees stay exactly as written on each plan either way. A hiring channel that needs to handcuff you is telling you something.
Same day: a person reads it and comes back with any clarifying questions — usually two or three sharp ones. Then they work the network: who fits, who's available at your capacity, who's been vouched for on exactly this kind of work. Within 48 hours you have introductions in your inbox, each with the reasoning attached. From there the pace is yours.
Each plan has one clause, in plain language. Starter (€95): refund if the profile doesn't meet the must-haves you stated. Curated (€495): refund if you don't want an intro with anyone on the shortlist. Guaranteed (€1,995): full refund if you don't hire anyone we introduce. No forms designed to exhaust you, no “credit toward your next search”. Money, back.
Their real market rate — set by them, agreed by you, paid directly by you. It varies with role, seniority, and commitment, and we'll give you an honest read on it when we discuss your brief. What it never includes is a hidden margin for us: the same person through an agency typically costs 30–70% more for identical work, you just never see the line item.
If you own a hiring decision, yes. Most of our clients are startups and scaleups, because a hiring miss hurts them fastest — but teams inside larger organisations use us for exactly the same reason: they need senior fractional capability without a six-week search or a procurement-grade agency contract. One brief, one fee, done.
Tell us the role, the must-haves, and the shape of the engagement. Sending it costs nothing and commits you to nothing. A person reads it the same day. Introductions within 48 hours — and if we miss, you get your money back.
p.s. — if we read your brief and honestly can't serve it, we'll tell you before you pay anything. that's cheaper for both of us than a refund.