Moderated calls run by analysts briefed on your thesis
Send us your questions, a Nextyn analyst recruits the expert, runs the interview, writes it up, giving you the insight without the hour ever leaving your team.
Definition
What is a moderated call?
A moderated call is an expert interview that Nextyn conducts on your behalf. You provide the brief and the questions; one of our trained research analysts recruits the right expert, runs the conversation and delivers the findings. It is the fully managed version of an expert call: the same access to screened industry experts, with the interview moderated, documented and packaged for you.
Guide to expertmatched against the question you are asking
You keep the hournobody from your team on the line
Approved firstnothing is fielded until you sign off the guide
What it buys
Cover more ground without spending the hours
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Coverage without the calendar
Interviews run across time zones without anyone on your team taking a late call, or losing a morning to one.
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Consistent questioning
The same guide asked the same way every time, so the answers actually compare across experts.
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Questions you cannot ask
A third-party moderator can put things to an expert that a named buyer or a competitor cannot ask directly.
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Volume weeks
Cover more ground in a diligence window than your own bench has the hours to absorb.
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Briefed, not scripted
An analyst who understands the thesis hears the answer and asks the follow-up that a script would miss.
How it works
How Nextyn conducts moderated calls
Our research lead owns the brief end to end, and nothing is fielded until you approve the guide.
Why Nextyn
What a moderated call buys you back
A moderated call gives you back the hour, with an analyst briefed well enough to ask the second question.
The value is in hearing an answer and knowing which follow-up to ask. Our analysts are briefed on the thesis before they dial, so the interview goes where it needs to without you in the room.
Some questions land differently when the person asking has no stake in the answer. A third-party moderator can ask what a named buyer or a competitor cannot, and the engagement can be run with your firm kept anonymous where it needs to be.
A diligence window has a fixed number of analyst hours in it. Moderated calls add interview capacity without adding headcount, and our research lead owns the whole program.
The same guide asked the same way, by the same team, across every expert in the program. That is what makes the answers comparable.
Real on-the-ground recruiting across India, Southeast Asia and the Gulf, alongside full reach in North America and Europe, and moderators who can run the interview in the market.
Every interview lands in one searchable place. Nextyn IQ reads across the whole program, shows where experts agree and contradict each other, and flags what is still uncovered, so the tenth call builds on the first nine.
Who uses it
Who books moderated calls
Four kinds of team, one shared constraint: the hours, not the access.
01Corporate strategy teamsMarket and competitor interviews run to your guide, while your own people stay on the analysis.Request a moderated call
02Market intelligence firmsStanding programs where consistency across interviews matters more than who holds the phone.Request a moderated call
03Management consultantsInterview capacity added to a case team without adding anyone to the case team.Request a moderated call
04Private equityDiligence programs where the binding constraint is your own bench rather than expert access.Request a moderated call
Nextyn IQ
The record stands in for the call you missed
- A record that stands in for you the write-up has to be good enough to answer the question you would have asked next
- The argument and the caveats, separated what the expert claimed, what they evidenced, and where they hedged, set out apart from each other
- Every call in Nextyn IQ transcripts searchable across the team and read together with everything else in the program
- Take the next one yourself if a thread is worth pursuing in person, we put you on a direct call with the same expert
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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 moderated call is an expert interview that a trained Nextyn analyst conducts on the client’s behalf, running 30 to 60 minutes. The client provides the brief and the questions, a Nextyn analyst sources and clears the expert, runs the conversation, and follows the answers where they lead within the agreed scope. The client receives a transcript, a structured summary separating argument from caveat, and written findings, all delivered into Nextyn IQ. The format suits teams who want the insight without spending the hour, and clients who prefer to stay anonymous.
A trained Nextyn research analyst moderates every call, briefed on the client’s thesis before the interview. The briefing is what makes the follow-up question possible: an analyst who understands what the client is establishing can press on a general answer and draw out the specifics. Analysts are assigned with regard to the sector in question, and the same analyst stays with a project across its calls so context compounds from one conversation to the next. The client approves the discussion guide before any interview is run.
Yes. Nextyn runs the client’s discussion guide, and every guide is approved by the client before fielding. A Nextyn analyst follows the questions as written and pursues the answers where they lead, within the scope the client sets at briefing. Where a call surfaces a promising line beyond the agreed scope, the analyst flags it in the findings for the client to decide on. Clients who prefer Nextyn to draft the guide can brief the objective instead and approve the drafted version before fielding.
Yes. Nextyn runs moderated calls with the client’s firm kept anonymous throughout. A Nextyn analyst approaches the expert, so the expert learns the subject of the research while the commissioning firm stays private. That allows a client to explore a market, a category or their own position in terms they would rather keep confidential. Anonymity is set at briefing and applies to the recruitment approach as well as the interview itself. The client still receives the full transcript, and can request a direct follow-up later and choose whether to be named.
Nextyn delivers three things after every moderated call: a full transcript, a structured summary, and written findings. The summary separates the expert’s argument from their caveats, so a client sees where the view is firm and where it is qualified. Findings set out what the call established against the brief. All three land in Nextyn IQ, searchable alongside the rest of the project, so later joiners read the source directly. Nextyn confirms the delivery date at briefing.
Yes. Nextyn arranges a direct call with the same expert whenever a thread is worth pursuing in person. Clients frequently use moderated calls to cover ground efficiently, then take one or two conversations directly once the transcripts show which experts merit an hour of their own time. The follow-up runs as a standard expert call, scoped and confirmed in writing like any other, and the expert is re-cleared before it is booked. The client decides at that point whether to be named.