Recruitment, restructured.
Fractal exists because the old choice — rigid in-house teams or detached, expensive agencies — stopped making sense. We built the third option.
In-house quality. Agency flexibility. Shared fairly.
Every niche role, a new struggle
Building a specialist team for every role you'll ever hire is inefficient — yet generalists can't win niche talent. Companies were stuck choosing between quality and flexibility.
A network, not an agency
Match every niche role to a specialist recruiter, globally — in-market, in-language, in-sector — and deploy them as fractional members of the client's own team, purely on results.
Half the fee to the hands that earn it
Recruiters keep 50% of every fee they generate. It keeps the best specialists in the network, and it keeps the incentives exactly where they should be: on the placement.
Global, growing, on demand
Fractal builds custom recruiter networks for start-ups, SMEs, enterprises and RPOs — in-house recruitment, on-demand, at a fraction of the cost of an agency.
“I was once told I was ‘too much of a socialist to be a recruitment business owner.’ Fractal is what happened next.”
After 25 years in recruitment — building global outsourcing businesses, owning agencies, investing in tech start-ups, completing an MBO and writing a book — Mark founded Fractal on a simple conviction: the people who do the work should share fairly in what it earns, and the companies who pay should only ever pay for results.
Mark Lee, CEO & Founder
The people behind the network.
Mark Lee
25 years in recruitment: built global outsourcing businesses, owned agencies, invested in tech start-ups, completed an MBO and authored a book. Founded Fractal to prove fairness and commercial success aren't opposites.
Steph Robson
Eight years across agency, in-house TA and RPO — from start-ups to enterprises — plus five years in leadership development. Steph keeps the network running and the experience seamless on both sides.
James Jenkins
20+ years in talent acquisition: led RPO solutions at Cielo and Korn Ferry, with seven years of in-house leadership at Accenture and Google across EMEA.
Paul Flavin
25 years in recruitment: 12 years of in-house TA at PwC, Accenture and Deloitte in the UK, five years with Korn Ferry, and founder of a US-based search and project-recruiting business.
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