One Platform, Endless Possibilities

Rafiki OS powers flexible workforces across industries—whether you're a freelancer, agency, consultant, work in hospitality, events, staff augmentation, or simply an innovative business scaling smartly.

Freelancers & Solopreneurs

Build your business, your way.

Easily subcontract, manage payments, and progress your career without the risk of full-time hires. Need the right talent, or complementary skill-sets so you can close that large client? We’ll connect you to skilled professionals for your clients, ensuring seamless collaboration.

SMBs

Effortless contractor payments & flexible workforce solutions.

Pay multiple freelancers, contractors, or specialists in one automated, smart transaction. Vet talent with KYC/KYB verification or tap into Rafiki’s pre-vetted fractional workforce. Move fast, stay lean, and execute like a high-growth startup.

Consultancies

Don’t just consult—execute.

Increase your impact (and earnings) by offering hands-on execution alongside strategy. Rafiki makes it easy to subcontract and assemble expert teams, giving clients both insights and results.

Agencies

Seamless payments & on-demand talent.

Automate KYC/KYB and contractor payments in a single, smart transaction. Need skilled specialists? We provide the talent to help you scale with fluctuating client demands—no overhead headaches.

Investors

De-risk your portfolio’s talent strategy.

Help your startups hire and pay contract talent compliantly. We handle KYC/KYB, payments, and skill-matching, so your portfolio companies can focus on scaling without risk.

Recruiters

Expand into staff augmentation with ease.

Quickly pay pop-up teams using Rafiki’s automated contractor payroll. Offer clients white-labeled EOR/AOR or Contract-for-Hire services to unlock new revenue streams.

Hospitality & Events

One-click payments for your temp workforce.

Workers log hours, Rafiki OS consolidates payroll—one platform, one payment, no manual admin. Easily verify, manage, and pay all contract staff in a single transaction.

Building & Construction

Derisk your construction business.

KYC, KYB, split-bill, and pay teams of subcontractors, across all of your projects at scale, helping you stay on time and on budget! Keep your builders, plumbers and electricians happy!

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.

What is Rafiki?

Rafiki offers smart payments, collaboration, and subcontracting software for independent talent and flexible workforces. Rafiki helps independent talent earn more through collaboration, payments & efficient project solutions, while helping businesses manage & pay multiple freelancers, fractional specialists, or contract workers at scale.

What makes Rafiki different to other platforms?

Rafiki is an innovative and novel approach to talent strategy and the future of work. Our platform helps the independent workforce collaborate, pay one another and get paid easily, while helping global businesses with flexible workforce strategies, hands-on execution, compliance, and contractor payroll.

How are payments handled?

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. For specific information on our payments infrastructure and details, please feel free to get in touch.

Does Rafiki recruit?

In short, yes. We offer specialist freelance, fractional, and contract talent recruitment for the digital and tech space. We leverage our own product and standalone SaaS, Rafiki OS, to do this. By doing so, we're also able to offer hands-on, executional consultancy and support via our agency, Rafiki Works, while Rafiki Talent Solutions offers services like Agent Of Record (AOR), Employer Of Record (EOR), and Contract To Hire.

Who is Rafiki for?

Rafiki is for independent talent of all kinds, and companies working with independent talent globally. 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.

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