Pay for Features Built.
Not for Time Spent.

We help software companies build for $149 per story point, to accelerate engineering and lower costs.

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🚀  10-20+
Story points/week
💰 $149 
(per point)
💻  2 million
hours of work done
🇺🇸  US-based
senior talent
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What is Outcome - based Hiring?

Outcome-based hiring ties cost directly to results so you only pay for completed work.

Traditional hiring and hourly billing punish speed: the faster someone works, the less they earn. That system is broken.

With outcome-based hiring, every task is estimated in story points, and you only pay once those points are delivered.

This rewards efficiency, drives higher-quality outcomes, and gives you more value at a fraction of the cost.

What Outcome - based hiring Means for you...

Paying for Outcomes – Story points measure progress, not hours.

Aligned Incentives – The faster work gets done, the more everyone wins.

Predictable Costs – Clear story-point estimates keep budgets under control.

Outcome -
based Hiring Isn't...

Hourly Billing - No tracking clocks, padded timesheets, or paying for someone to sit idle.

Wasted cycles - On onboarding or hand-holding. Story points are about real output.

Offshore gamble – All talent is U.S.-based and battle-tested.

How it Works

1

Intro Call

We get on a quick call to understand your goals, challenges, and team structure.

2

Expert Match

We’ll send you a profile of a senior expert aligned with your needs.

3

Try (Zero Risk)

We'll send a proposal and drop talent into your workflow. Not a fit? Cancel within 7 days—no charge.

Productivity-Based Pricing

Grow

$7,940/mo
Browse Engineers
US-based senior engineer, 2x/week code delivery
2 meetings/week + 1 hour/day real-time Slack
15+ story points/week

Scale

$11,920/mo
Browse Engineers
US-based senior engineer, 3x/week code delivery
3 meetings/week + 2 hours/day real-time Slack
20+ story points/week

What is a Story Point?

Fraction AI automates story point estimates for tasks (story points measure task complexity). 10 story points might equate to 3-5 easy tasks or 2 medium tasks in a week. Task difficulty is non-linear. We break big tasks into sub-tasks to account for that.

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.

Why Teams work with us

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

Top-Tier Talent

Experts from high-growth startups, minus the overhead

Scale Up or Down, Anytime

Bandwidth adjusts with your changing needs

Plug-and-Play Talent

Start fast — no hiring cycles, no sourcing delays

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.

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