The role you cannot fill can still pay you.
For recruiters and headhunters: when a client cannot justify, afford or find a full time developer, data scientist or marketer, refer them to fractional expert capacity instead. You stay the person who solved their problem, and you earn 15% of my net fees in the first year, then 10%, for a maximum of 24 months per client.
Why This Fits Recruitment
Your dead leads are this programme’s best leads
Every recruiter knows the brief that dies: the budget is too small for a senior, the workload would not fill a week, or the perfect candidate simply does not exist. Those conversations are exactly where fractional capacity wins. Instead of closing the file, you make an introduction, the client gets senior work for the hours they actually need, and you get paid for a placement that was never going to happen.
How the fractional model worksThe Commission
Retainers
15% monthly in year one
A client on a £5,000 per month retainer earns you £750 every month in the first year, then £500, and commission ends after 24 months.
Projects
15% of the total
A £50,000 fixed price project earns you £7,500, paid in proportion to the milestone payments I receive. Projects signed after the first year earn 10%.
Not included
Performance and equity
Performance based engagements and growth for equity carry no referral commission. Commission applies only to standard monthly retainers and fixed price projects, anything else only by separate written agreement.
Commission is a share of my net fees, before VAT and after project pass-through costs, on the amounts the client actually pays, never a share of the client revenue. Paid after I get paid, on itemised monthly statements, for a maximum of 24 months per client. If the programme ends, your commission trails for another 12 months.
How It Works
Introduce in writing
One email with the client, their situation and how you know them. First documented referral wins.
I confirm within 2 days
You get written acknowledgement, and monthly updates until the opportunity closes.
Commission confirmed in writing
When the client signs, you receive the commission arrangement in writing before the first invoice.
You earn, documented
Monthly statements, reproducible numbers, a stepped 15% then 10% of my net fees, capped at 24 months per client.
The Part That Makes It Safe
First referral wins
Attribution is documented and transparent. If a client was already in contact with me, I tell you upfront.
Paid on collected revenue
Commission follows my actual payments, on statements you can verify any time.
12 month trail
If the partnership ends, referred clients keep earning you commission for another 12 months.
Terms adjust per case
Volume, exclusivity, special rates: the standard terms are the start, a signed agreement prevails.
One email turns a dead brief into recurring revenue.
You already have the client relationships. I already have the delivery. The referral takes five minutes, and the commission runs for up to 24 months per client.
Standard terms, adjustable per partnership: Recruitment Partner Terms