Independent-consultant marketplaceFounded 2014
Graphite
San Francisco, CA, United States
Graphite is an on-demand talent platform for independent consultants and executives specializing in finance, accounting, corporate strategy, and marketing project work, serving enterprises, PE/investment firms, and professional-services firms. Acquired by Toptal in January 2026; the Graphite brand continues but it is no longer an independent company.
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Founded
- 2014
- Website
- graphite.work/
Notable facts
- Launched in 2014 as SpareHire; relaunched under the Graphite name and brand on July 23, 2019.
- Reported 12,000-plus vetted independent consultants and executives, and roughly a 1-in-20 applicant pass rate, at the time of its January 2026 acquisition by Toptal.
- Its real domain is graphite.work - graphite.com belongs to an unrelated AI code-review company, a naming collision worth flagging for buyers searching by URL.
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Sources. This profile is compiled from public reference data, WebSearch-verified against source 1 · source 2. Data as of 2026-07-14. See methodology.
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