The better way
to manage freelance projects.
Connect, collaborate and create projects with fractional experts, freelance executors, creative consultants, and specialists agency founders. Let us handle the rest.
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Everything you need to start and grow your independent career.
We're building the digital home which empowers independent talent to progress their careers, grow their businesses, collaborate, and earn more. Rafiki X is in private beta. If you're interested in joining our community, please enquire below.
Access international projects, create your own pop-up teams, & earn more.
We've made it easier to sub contract your own pop-up teams in a fast, flexible way, so that you can close larger clients today. Rafiki makes project management across multiple resources easy. Easy to connect, collaborate, pay and get paid.
Collaborate with exceptionally passionate specialist talent.
We believe freelancing should be done in teams. We want you to close larger, ongoing clients while collaborating with complementary freelancers. We've curated a diverse, exclusive community of freelancers, consultants, agency founders, and fractional specialists across Africa...and they're already collaborating on deals!
Late payments? Risky projects? Not anymore.
We've been there. Burnt by a client. Cashflow disaster. We've embedded freelancers into every step of our product design process, ensuring we're making your projects and payments are consolidated, efficient, and hassle-free.
Your career, your clients, your fractional team, sorted.
Leverage Rafiki’s talent tool to filter, find, and collaborate with skill-specific talent in Africa. Get hands-on support with projects, proposals, or expert advice, or become one of Rafiki's experts in residence.
Hire one, or build your own pop-up team of fractional specialists. We’ll take care of payments across multiple resources with one easy payment.
Collaborate
Looking for help with a project? Need to create a pop-up team for a larger client? Perhaps you’ve got your own team already, but need help subcontracting and project managing your team? We’ll help you connect, collaborate, and create winning proposals to close larger clients.
Earn More
Time is money, and we’ll help you win back your time through smart invoicing, project management, and by driving demand into our platform. Rafiki doesn’t cut into your earnings, so you’ll also earn whatever you and your client decide your project fee is.
Risk Less
Heard of scope creep? Sure you have. It’s the bane of any freelancer’s life. Delayed payments and cash-flow problems? For sure! Our unique project management tooling de-risks your freelance projects, allowing you, and your clients, to move faster with continuous sign-off and payment structures.
Service demand and collaborate with specialists in:
Work with the right talent, at the right place, at the right time.
We're helping top startups and SMEs manage their flexible workforce in an easy, safeguarded, and managed way.
Leverage fractional experts, freelance executors, creative consultants, and specialists agency founders with software-specific industry expertise.
Manage and pay your own freelancers, or tap into our managed marketplace to get expert advice on what you need and when.
Open Talent is the name of our game, and we're here to help you source, onboard, manage, and pay talent across your freelance projects.
A highly curated community of independent talent.
Our standalone SaaS is underpinned by a highly curated, specialist freelance and fractional talent-pool. We're here to help you figure out what you need and when, and ultimately access and manage software and industry specific skills directly.
Everything, and everyone, you need to build and grow your business.
We've focussed our community on specific skills and softwares required for every step of your business growth. From experts in user interviews, creative strategist, brand building and product designers, to developers and marketing specialists. We'll help you figure out what freelance talent you need, when, where, and how.
Simple payments and safeguarded scopes.
We're focussed on creating the best-in-class project management processes for your contingent workforce and freelance projects. Rafiki X helps you manage and pay multiple resources effectively, keeping an audit trail and consolidated workflow reports of all freelance work within your business.
Project-management-as-a-service.
Leverage Rafiki’s internal team to help you validate your resource assumptions, identify the ideal freelancer or pop-up team, help create your project and milestones, and manage your freelancers from start to finish.
High Value
Our approach to talent blends specialist expertise with hands-on consultancy.
Get access to highly-skilled resources quickly, and on a flexible basis.
Cost Effective
There's no need to commit to long-term, full-time hires anymore. Keep your internal team lean, and leverage cost-effective talent as and when your core team requires.
Risk Less
Derisk your contingent workforce or freelance projects through milestone-based, micro-payments, unlocked at every step of the way. Cash flow is king, and we'll help keep your seat at the throne.
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Get Early Access
We’re in private beta, working closely with a handful of agency owners, founders, and freelancers to refine Rafiki X.
FAQs
Everything you need to know about using Rafiki to build your freelance business, grow your agency, or find the right fractional talent to grow your company.
Rafiki X helps independent talent earn more through collaboration and efficient project management. We're focussed on making it easier for you to manage freelance, consultant, or independent agency contracts on an ongoing basis. By de-risking the relationship between clients and freelance projects through smart invoicing and project management, we make it easy for both talent and founders to manage projects and independent workforces.
We're very focussed on derisking the relationship between independent talent in Africa and companies globally. Our approach to invoicing, subcontracting, sourcing, vetting, placement, and project management as a service addresses this. We've got a highly curated talent marketplace, but can also be used as a standalone SaaS for your freelance career or contingent workforce.
We're making payments across multiple resources easy, with a single payment into our platform, paid out to freelancers as and when agreed on during project-specific agreements.
Milestone projects break down big tasks into smaller, manageable phases with specific due dates, deliverables, and micro-payments. We've found this approach perfect for a safeguarded approach to projects and ensuring continuous sign-off and alignment, especially for fractional relationships.
Each milestone gets funded separately, and work begins only after the payment is deposited. Here’s the process:
- Payment Deposit: The client deposits the payment at the start of each milestone.
- Secure Holding: Payments are securely held by Stripe until the client approves the deliverables.
- Release of Funds: Once approved, the funds are released to the contractor.
- Subsequent Milestones: For the next milestone, the client needs to deposit the payment before work can continue.
Rafiki X is for freelancers, consultants, fractional professionals, small & independent agency owners, founders, startups, and SMBs. Our specialist focus is on ensuring we have the best utility for freelance and fractional talent building their careers, and for anyone leveraging this talent for ongoing work, on a highly customisable basis.