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A CFO, a designer, an engineer: keep the people you trust on call, each with a backup, and bring them in for the hours the work needs. No recruiting from scratch, no full-time salaries for part-time needs, no retainer hours going unused. You approve hours as they land, so every invoice matches.
Become an early partnerSent here by someone you work with? They already run their hours on Tesserow. Confirming yours is one tap and always free; the shared record is what an early-partner conversation is about.
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Keep your trusted people on a bench, a primary and a backup for every role, in the order you'd call them. When someone is full or a new need comes up, you already know who to call, and you're not starting from scratch.
Senior expertise without a full-time salary, and without retainer hours that go unused. Every request arrives priced and checked against available hours before you send it.
List an open role and hear from professionals who already work this way. Nobody arrives with a résumé; they arrive with hours their clients signed. No finder's fee, no cut.
Know what your fractional team has committed to you, this week and next, and get flagged when a key person is stretched thin. An hour committed to you can't be committed to anyone else.
Budgets are visible as you go, and hour caps hold on their own, so nobody has to be the one who polices them. You approve hours with one tap as the work lands.
Hours confirmed by both sides as work lands, and every invoice reconciles back to them. A signed, tamper-evident record of every approved hour, ready to export when an auditor or your board asks. Confirming is always free; the system of record is what you pay for.
Hiring sites help you find a stranger, and many take a cut of every hour. Tesserow is where you work with the people you already trust and keep them close. No bidding, no finder's fee, no cut of anyone's rate.
Keep your agreement for scope, IP and the legal terms. Tesserow holds the numbers from it (rates, weekly budgets, hour caps, dates). Both sides confirm them once, then work inside them without rereading the PDF.
You enter the terms once and both sides confirm them, so the record matches what you agreed. Caps and end dates hold on their own, weekly budgets are flagged as you go, and changing terms means new terms both sides confirm.
They log hours as they work instead of rebuilding a month from memory, and it is free for them. You bring the people you already have: no re-hiring, no disruption.
Illustrative example: this is what a month looks like when nothing is taken on faith.
Your contractor's other engagements are a black box. Nobody sees the week that promised more hours than it holds, until your deadline slips.
Hours get reconstructed at month-end and taken on faith. When questions come up, the answer is an awkward conversation, not a clear record.
A number arrives. The work behind it lives in someone else's memory. Approving it is an act of politeness, not verification.
Retainers guess at the hours. Terms sit in a PDF nobody rereads. The real cost shows up at invoice time. Tesserow tracks the work as it happens, so the relationship can flex with it. Agree once, then just work: the contract sets the lines and Tesserow keeps them. Rates, weekly budgets, hour caps and dates live in Tesserow, so both sides work inside the terms without rereading the agreement.
We're onboarding a small group of businesses that build on fractional talent, personally, one at a time. Start with the contractors you already trust: no re-hiring, no disruption, just a shared record from here forward.
Talk to us about your benchA short conversation first; we onboard every early partner by hand.
Your professionals may let AI agents do their routine work. On Tesserow the agent can never approve hours; the trail shows when it acted. Tesserow for agents