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Expertwired is an Amsterdam-based expert network company that provides clients with market intelligence from industry experts in an accessible and user-friendly way. The company provides 1-on-1 video consultations to clients who wish to improve their market understanding by speaking with C-level industry experts. The clients of Expertwired include top-tier consulting companies (such as KPMG, PwC, and Deloitte), private equity investors, large corporates, and research institutions.

Expertwired provides paid expert interviews. The industry experts are matched using proprietary technology and pre-vetted before interviews to make sure they are the best matching professionals who meet the requirements of the clients.

History
Expertwired was founded in early 2020 by Reinier Huisman (CEO) and Jeroen Slor (CTO), who had rich experiences in various advisory and tech roles. Huisman has over 15 years’ experience in strategy consulting and M&A, among which some years at eBay Inc. in the global strategy/M&A team providing him with hands-on understanding of how the expert network industry has developed over these years, and his eBay experience possibly provided him with the online marketplaces understanding to leverage at Expertwired.

Expertwired is backed by private investors and is rumored to have closed an angel funding round of close to €1 million in early 2021.

Business model
The company conveys the idea of “experts at your fingertips”, aiming to remove the barrier of time & money usually spend in performing market research by offering direct access to industry experts accurately matched to the user’s research requirements with the help of technology & software-based matching algorithms[1].

Expertwired does not follow the traditional business model of expert networks that rely on large databases of experts to match with client’s demands. Instead, the company uses technology and proprietary software to custom source experts via various online channels of publicly available data.

Expertwired is one of the few expert networks offering a flexible (pay-per-use) payment model.

Expertwired claims to be the only expert network being transparent in the rates of experts and what client’s pay and as such taking out the large margin which traditional expert networks add to the rate clients pay to cover for their services. This results in experts being paid on average twice the rate they get paid from other networks and still being the most attractive rate clients pay compared to other networks – possibly explaining the high growth the Expertwired network.