Turn Your Idea Into a Clear Engineering Plan — Free, Instantly

Enter what you want to build and receive a step-by-step technical project plan with estimated cost.

How it Works

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Tell us what you’re building. Paste your idea, feature list, integration, or AI concept — rough notes work, so does a full PRD.

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Broken down by story point.

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Ready to move forward? Use your estimate to scope internally - or get paired with senior, U.S.-based fractional engineers who can start immediately.

Our AI-powered system behind predictable  pricing

Story points replace hours as the basis for pricing. Each task is evaluated for complexity and effort using a standardized, AI-powered approach, so estimates are consistent and your costs remain predictable and tied to completed deliverables.

1 Point

Simple + minimal effort
  • Update error message text in a user authentication flow
  • Add a new field to an existing API response that's already available in the database
  • Update environment variables in a staging deploy config
  • Add a new option to a static or config-based dropdown menu

3 Points

Straightforward, but real work
  • Implement client-side form validation, use known validation lib
  • Add CSV export functionality to an existing UI data table
  • Create a new email notification template for password resets using the existing email service
  • Add a new filter, like "Filter by Status," to a report—both the UI element and simple backend logic

5 Point

Some complexity, a few unknowns
  • Implement a new REST API with to create/update team members
  • Add real-time webhook with retry logic for status update events
  • Build a usage dashboard component showing monthly active users from a new data source
  • New settings page where users can toggle a few email preferences: UI + backend to fetch/save the settings

Fraction breaks down tasks 5 points or larger to expose complexity and ensure productivity tracking.

Browse Our Talent

Build With Senior U.S.-Based Engineers
— Priced by Outcomes, Not Hours

Fraction scopes your product into clear story points and pairs you with senior US-based engineers, using transparent per-point pricing so you only pay for shipped features.
💰 $149 per point 
(Story point-based pricing)  
US-based
senior engineers

Why Teams work with us

Get the impact of senior talent, without the delays, cost, or overhead of a full-time hire.

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Top-Tier Talent

Experts from high-growth startups, minus the overhead

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Scale Up or Down, Anytime

Bandwidth adjusts with your changing needs

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Plug-and-Play Talent

Start fast — no hiring cycles, no sourcing delays

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Aligned from Day One

Built to match your team, goals, tools and workflow

FAQ

Why Outcome-based Pricing?

Hourly rates don’t reward productivity.

Traditional staffing is based on hourly billing, which pushes clients to chase cheaper offshore rates, often at the cost of quality.

AI enables fair, neutral estimates.

By measuring task difficulty in story points, AI removes bias from engineers or managers who might have conflicting incentives.

Better engineers thrive.

The best engineers can work faster without losing quality, and with Productivity Pricing, they earn more for delivering good work. Clients win too.

Onshore quality at offshore prices.

This model allows Fraction to deliver top-tier engineering at competitive rates.

Why Not Fixed Bids?

Software is infinitely flexible.

Clients naturally request changes throughout the process.

Vendors pad or low-ball.

To cover those changes, bids are either inflated upfront or filled with expensive change requests later.

Productivity pricing solves this.

Work is broken down at the task level, giving clients granular control over spend instead of committing to an entire project upfront.

Get started with us 7 days risk-free. Seriously.