Run expert calls with people who have run your market
Get first-hand answers on a market, a company or a decision, from the people who have run it themselves. Hand matched to your exact question, fully managed and compliance screened.
Definition
What is an expert call?
An expert call is a scheduled one to one consultation, usually 30 to 60 minutes, between your team and a screened industry expert — a former executive, an operator or a specialist who has worked inside the market you are asking about. Also known as an expert network call, it is a direct route to primary perspective on a market, a company or a decision, from someone who has lived it.
Brief to expertmatched against the question you are asking
30 to 60 minutesone to one, on your calendar
Screened firstMNPI and conflict checks before anything is booked
What it answers
Go beyond secondary data and into first-hand insights
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Industry deep dives
Market sizing, growth drivers and the demand signals that move first, from people who watch them move from inside the market.
- 02
Company insights
Read a company through its former employees, its customers and the competitors it meets in the market, and you get the version that never reaches a filing.
- 03
Investment due diligence
Test the investment case against operators who have run the same model, in the same market, and know which assumption usually breaks.
- 04
Competitive positioning
Where share is won and lost, read through the operators competing for it day to day.
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Regulatory and pricing reality
What the rules mean in practice, who enforces them, and what prices buyers actually accept.
How it works
How Nextyn conducts expert calls
Our research lead owns the brief end to end, and nothing is booked until you say yes.
Why Nextyn
What you get from an expert call with Nextyn
The value of the hour comes from who is on the other end, and we choose that person carefully for your question.
One hour with the person who has run your exact play, on the question you are actually asking. We match against the company, the region and the question, and a researcher confirms the fit before anything is scheduled. Each expert is recruited for the brief in front of us.
Your compliance team will ask how the expert was cleared and what they were restricted from discussing. Both answers exist in writing before the call is booked. Material non-public information and conflict checks run on every engagement, restrictions are disclosed upfront, and the process is documented well enough to be audited.
Our research lead owns the brief from scoping through to the transcript, so the work carries forward when the question sharpens halfway through.
Our own researchers recruit on the ground across India, Southeast Asia and the Gulf, alongside full reach in North America and Europe. Every brief is sourced fresh in the market it asks about.
Take the call yourself, or have a Nextyn researcher moderate it against your discussion guide and send you the output. The same expert pool sits behind panels, surveys, advisory boards and longer engagements when one hour is not the right unit.
Every call lands in one searchable place. Nextyn IQ reads across the whole project, shows where experts agree and contradict each other, and flags what is still uncovered — so the tenth call builds on what the first nine already covered.
Who uses it
Who books expert calls
Private equity, hedge funds, consultants and corporate strategy teams, all working to a decision date.
01Private equity and investorsCommercial due diligence, deal validation and management reference checks, ahead of the investment committee date.Book an expert call
02Hedge funds and public marketsThesis testing and real time channel checks on companies and demand, between the prints.Book an expert call
03Management consultantsOn demand specialist input that sharpens a client engagement inside its own timetable.Book an expert call
04Corporates and strategy teamsMarket entry research, competitor tracking and regulatory guidance from people who have operated on the ground.Book an expert call
Nextyn IQ
What was said on the call stays with the team
- Transcripts kept transcribed and searchable, so the insight stays with the whole team
- Structured summaries the argument, the evidence and the caveats separated out, ready to paste into the deck
- Synthesis across the project Nextyn IQ reads every call together, shows where experts contradict each other and flags what is still uncovered
- Go further with the same expert follow-ups, written questions, or a longer engagement with the person who already understands the question
Expertise in action
Expert call case studies and analysis
How teams have used expert calls to settle a question, and what came back.
Case studyGrocery Private Label Expert Calls Case StudyExpert calls with category buyers and brand commercial directors on the range reviewRead more
Case studyA Sector Primer for a Coverage Team Case StudyExpert calls with development directors, asset managers and occupier leads, run in orderRead more
ArticleDiligencing a Category That Does Not Exist YetWhen there is no market to size, diligence the problem instead. What to test when the category has no analysts, no comparables and no data.Read more
ArticleWhat to Know Before Signing an LOIAn LOI buys exclusivity and costs leverage. Which commercial questions are worth answering before you sign, and which can wait.Read more
Start here
Speak to an expert about your question
A dedicated Client Solutions Manager will be in touch shortly to help with your research needs.
- 01Send your project scope
Your questions, and the thesis behind them. A paragraph of context is enough.
- 02We come back with angles and expert profiles
A shortlist with rates included.
- 03Approve, then we field
You select and approve the experts you want to speak to.
- 04Nextyn IQ reads across the whole project
Agreement, contradictions and open gaps, read across every call in the project.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
A Nextyn expert call is a scheduled one-to-one conversation of 30 to 60 minutes between a client team and a practitioner who has worked inside the market in question. The expert is a former executive, an operator or a specialist, qualified for direct relevance to your question and checked for compliance before the call is booked. The client asks; the expert answers from first-hand experience. It is also known as an expert network call. Nextyn records and transcribes each call with the expert’s consent, and the transcript lands in Nextyn IQ where the wider team can read it.
An expert network is a managed service that finds and qualifies the practitioners who can answer a specific commercial question, then puts a client in direct conversation with them. Nextyn maintains relationships with operators and specialists across 70+ countries and matches them to each brief. The client describes what they need to know, Nextyn sources the people who can answer it, qualifies them against the question and checks them for compliance, and the client speaks to them directly. Expert networks are standard research infrastructure for private equity, hedge funds, investment banks and consulting firms.
Every Nextyn engagement runs through a documented compliance framework before a call is booked. Nextyn confirms each expert’s current employment and confidentiality position, screens for material non-public information across every company in scope, and agrees written confidentiality terms in advance. Experts are briefed on what is in scope for the conversation. Every transcript is reviewed before delivery, and the screening record is retained so a client’s compliance team can trace exactly how an answer was obtained.
Nextyn clears every expert on three tests before a call is booked. The first confirms relevance, verifying that the expert’s experience matches the specific question. The second confirms independence, screening against every company in scope, including the client and any target. The third confirms scope, establishing what the expert’s employer and confidentiality position allow them to discuss. Experts are briefed on what is in scope, and the agreed scope is confirmed in writing with the client before the call begins. All three checks clear ahead of every booking.
A single paragraph is enough to start a Nextyn expert call. Name the subject, whether that is the market, the company or the asset in question. State the decision the answer will be used to make. Share the working hypothesis the call should test. Nextyn turns that paragraph into a screening brief and a discussion guide, and the client approves both before any expert is scheduled. A Nextyn research lead returns angles, candidate names and rates first, so the client sees the shape of the engagement before it begins.
Nextyn schedules most first expert calls within 24 to 48 hours of the brief. Where a brief calls for a highly specialised operator, Nextyn confirms the timeline upfront and commits to a date it will hold. A research lead returns angles, candidate names and rates before anything is booked, and every call is scheduled once the client approves the expert. Screening clears ahead of every booking, so speed and rigour hold together throughout.
Nextyn records and transcribes every expert call with the expert’s consent, and the client owns the resulting record. Transcripts and structured summaries land in Nextyn IQ, searchable across the whole project, so a colleague joining later reads the original calls directly. Every transcript is reviewed before delivery. Recording consent is agreed as part of the engagement terms, and Nextyn accommodates whichever format the expert agrees to.
Nextyn confirms the cost of an engagement in writing before any expert is approached. A research lead returns candidate names and their rates within 24 to 48 hours of the brief, so a client sees the real cost of the experts proposed before committing. Cost reflects the seniority of the experts involved and the number of conversations a question needs, scoped against each brief. A client can start with a single project. Charges begin once the client has approved both the expert and the rate. Teams running continuous research move to a credit arrangement sized to expected usage, which improves the effective rate as volume grows.
Nextyn sources experts globally, across 70+ countries, with in-market researchers supporting every region it covers. A brief in any covered market is handled by researchers who know that market, reaching listed corporates, distributors, dealers and independent operators alike. References can be taken in the expert’s own market and language, which is what allows one brief to run consistently across several geographies at once. Nextyn confirms coverage for the specific markets in a brief at the outset, so a client knows the reach before the engagement begins.
Nextyn assigns one research lead to a project who reads the brief, sources the experts personally, and stays with the engagement from the first call to the last. That continuity means the context built in the first conversation carries into every one that follows, and the client explains the question once. Every client receives the same level of attention regardless of account size. Nextyn’s bench spans 70+ countries and every engagement runs through the same compliance framework, so a global programme holds one standard throughout.
Private equity and venture capital investors, hedge funds, investment banks, corporate strategy and development teams, and management consulting firms use Nextyn expert calls. Each brings a different question: an investor testing a commercial thesis before committing capital, a corporate assessing a market it plans to enter, a consulting team building the evidence behind a recommendation. Nextyn scopes each engagement to the decision behind it, and the same compliance framework applies across every client type and every market.