Fractional Support for Startups & Agencies
Hire vetted & verified freelance, fractional, and specialist agency talent across Africa. Avoid full-time hiring and overhead while getting strategic support, team payments and compliance for your startup. Or you can manage & pay your own teams directly through Rafiki OS.
Clients that trust us
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Our Expertise
Full-Service Creative, Design, Development, and Growth Marketing for Flexible Teams. End-to-end solutions in creative strategy, product design, custom development, and performance marketing - built to help startups, agencies, and global teams scale.
Whether you’re paying individuals or entire teams, Rafiki manages KYC, KYB, COR and EOR workflows behind the scenes, making every transaction compliant, auditable, and instant.
Creative Strategy
We craft brand identities and AI-powered content that make your business stand out. From corporate visuals to creative storytelling, we design strategies that highlight what makes you unique.
Product Design
Specialists in graphic, holographic, UI, and UX design. We deliver rapid prototypes, natural language experiences, and custom web app designs that blend creativity with technical precision.
Development
Experts in ReactJS, React Native, NodeJS, NextJS, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. We build high-performance apps using Lovable, Webflow, Builder.ai, Cursor, and Windsurf for faster, smarter delivery.
Growth Marketing
We grow startups and agencies with SEO, AEO, SEM, content automation, email, social, and performance marketing. Test new channels and monetisation strategies with proven results.
Why Businesses Choose Rafiki Talent Services
"Rafiki works with the cream of the crop. They are perfectly positioned to match innovative clients with the best developers in South Africa. Thanks you!"
Anesu
Software Engineer | South Africa
"Working with Rafiki has been great. Excellent and proactive, catering extremely well to our schedule and requests. We really enjoyed working with them and we couldn’t recommend them more highly."
Niccolo Pantucci
Lead Agent | UK
"From the initial brief all the way through to project handover, our experience with Rafiki has been excellent. Their fractional freelancer model is clear, seamless and effective, and we look forward to continuing the working relationship."
Brett Matheson
Co-Founder | South Africa
“Rafiki has done a great job building out our brand, website and booking engine integration. Their team are super knowledgeable and helped us come to quick and well thought out product decisions that lead to us launching our first product in weeks rather than months”
Nicolas Beterette
Co Founder & CEO| Europe
"We've been using Rafiki OS for a few months now, and it's genuinely made subcontracting work super easy. The invoicing logic is epic for my team's billable work, and convenient for me when managing cross-border client and internal payments across my team."
Jordan
Agency Founder | South Africa
"I am beyond thrilled with the exceptional work and partnership we’ve experienced with Rafiki Works in creating our new corporate CI and website. The results have far exceeded our expectations, and I am excited about the future projects we will undoubtedly embark on together. Thank you for making this a truly outstanding experience!"
Nicolas Mack
Founder & CEO | Germany
"We were very impressed at the quality and speed of Rafiki's work and I'm really looking forward to continuing the relationship."
Ryan Beangstrom
Co Founder | South Africa
"It was such a pleasure working with Rafiki Works. Their communication was clear and open at all stages of the project and the whole process was efficient. Was a lovely experience all round!"
Sinéad
Creative Director | UK
"I’ve had the pleasure of working alongside the Rafiki team from day one. From concept to execution, every project has been efficiently managed and thoroughly enjoyable. Greg and Nick have built something really special here."
Kath
Creative Strategist | South Africa
Fractional Work
A selection of projects handled by Rafiki's fractional talent community of senior freelancers, consultants, and micro-agencies.
Ready to build something special?
Let’s discover, design, build & grow your project together.
FAQs
Everything you need to know about Rafiki's fully-managed service, the ideal option for projects needing additional support, end-to-end, and various levels of consultancy from Rafiki's core team.
We're a team of founders across various startups, consultancies, and development agencies. We're hands-on operators with a passion for building better solutions to problems we faced when hiring, managing, and paying flexible talent. We leverage our own SaaS platform to provide clients with flexible talent on demand with a lower capital outlay and commitment upfront, while taking care of all compliance and payments on your behalf.
Our team is split between London and Cape Town, while our extended team of fractionals is split between the UK, Netherlands, South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, and Zimbabwe.