Expert Interviews

Our process combines rigorous screening, tailored discussion guides and rapid synthesis, providing clients with evidence-based insight they can use to sharpen investment theses, stress-test strategies and accelerate decision-making.

Expert Recruitment

We identify and recruit carefully selected industry experts aligned with the client’s precise brief and hypotheses. Drawing on our global network and multilingual capabilities, we source decision-makers, operators, distributors, channel partners, former executives, technical specialists, and end users across relevant geographies.

Each expert is screened against predefined criteria to ensure relevance, depth of experience, and independence. We manage the full outreach process, including qualification calls, availability coordination, scheduling, and confidentiality agreements. Where honoraria are required, we administer and process participant payments directly, ensuring a smooth and compliant engagement process for both client and expert.

Our boutique model allows us to adapt recruitment scope and profile requirements as the project evolves, enabling targeted follow-ups or additional expert waves when needed.

Interview Process

We structure interviews around your key questions, commercial hypotheses, and decision framework. Prior to each call, we prepare tailored discussion guides that balance structure with flexibility, ensuring conversations remain focused while allowing for valuable tangents and unexpected insight.

Our analysts conduct in-depth, consultancy-level interviews that go beyond surface-level commentary. We probe for quantitative inputs, operational detail, customer behaviour, pricing dynamics, competitive positioning, channel economics, and forward-looking expectations. Where relevant, we test assumptions directly and challenge inconsistencies to ensure robustness.

Interviews can be exploratory, comparative, or highly structured depending on your objectives. We also adapt tone and depth according to the seniority and functional background of each expert.

Validation and Transcript

Insight is only valuable when it is structured and validated. After each interview, we synthesise findings into clear, actionable outputs aligned with your project framework.

We triangulate insights across multiple experts to identify consensus themes, outliers, and areas of divergence. Where quantitative inputs are provided, we cross-check figures and contextualise ranges to avoid over-reliance on single data points.

Deliverables can include structured executive summaries, thematic matrices, comparative tables, and full verbatim transcripts where required. Transcripts are cleaned and formatted for clarity, allowing seamless integration into investment memos, board presentations, or strategy documents.

Our approach ensures that expert interviews move beyond anecdotal evidence and become a defensible, evidence-based component of your broader analysis.