Talente connects businesses with skilled professionals across Africa. Specialists team up, bid together, and deliver under milestone-protected contracts. We call these self-organizing teams Swarms — and they're changing how work gets done.
Who is Talente for?
How it works
Publish a job, a quick task, or a full RFP. Attach skill requirements, set your budget, and go live in minutes.
Professionals with complementary skills self-organize, agree on roles and revenue splits, then bid with a single unified proposal. On Talente, we call these teams Swarms.
Work through milestones with escrow-protected payments. Each approval releases funds automatically — split exactly as the team agreed upfront.
How teams work on Talente
Most platforms match lone individuals to a job. Talente works differently: a developer, a designer, and a project manager can team up, bid on a contract together, and split earnings automatically.
We call these self-organizing teams Swarms. Each Swarm operates under a shared agreement — roles, revenue splits, and escalation paths — all locked in before the first line of work begins.
Everything you need
Every tool your team needs to find work, execute it, and grow — from first brief to last invoice.
pgvector cosine similarity on ESCO embeddings surfaces the right teams, not keyword noise.
Groups of specialists bid and execute together under a shared agreement with configurable revenue splits and milestone escrow.
Funds are locked until milestones are approved. Disputes trigger mediation, not headaches.
H3 hexagonal indexing finds nearby tasks and talent. Search by city or radius — pan-African by default.
No smartphone? No problem. Browse jobs, check payments, and log hours over USSD on any feature phone.
ESCO-backed verifiable credentials, assessment badges, and work history — portable across any platform.
Automated tender ingestion via Crawl4AI. Matching teams are notified the moment a relevant RFP lands.
Accounting, CRM, payroll, and invoicing — so your team or org never leaves the platform to manage the books.
M-Pesa, Flutterwave, Paystack, Stripe — receive earnings in your preferred method, in your currency.
By the numbers
What people say
I used to freelance solo and lose half my time to chasing invoices. On Talente, my team won a $12k contract in our first month — milestone escrow meant zero payment anxiety.
Amara Diallo
Full-Stack Developer · Senegal
We needed a product team fast — designer, backend developer, PM. Talente surfaced a matched group within 24 hours. The contract and payments ran themselves.
Ngozi Okonkwo
Head of Product, Fintech Startup · Nigeria
The skills passport is real. I certified on three ESCO competencies, my profile rank jumped, and I started getting invited to bids I never would have found on my own.
Kwame Asante
UX Designer · Ghana
Whether you're selling skill or buying it, Talente gives you the infrastructure to do it right.
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