The more specific the expertise required, the harder standard platforms fail. That is exactly where we start. Consulting and strategy teams running M&A, CDD, or technology assessments increasingly require expert interviews with highly specific practitioners — specialists that major interview scheduling platforms cannot reliably source. Frenus combines direct access to a proprietary expert community of over 40,000 professionals across Tech, ICT, Manufacturing, and Utilities with dedicated niche expert research to identify and schedule interviews that standard platforms simply cannot deliver. First interviews are typically scheduled within one to two weeks. Fees apply only upon successful scheduling and approval of the first five minutes.
Expert interview platforms work well for common expertise. They fail systematically at the edges, where the topic is highly specific, the relevant expert population is small, and the standard panel has already been exhausted by competing requests. For consulting teams running time-critical M&A or strategy engagements, this failure has real consequences: key hypotheses go unvalidated, niche market dynamics remain unconfirmed, and investment theses are built on secondary research alone because the right primary voices could not be reached in time. The more niche the required expertise - a specific technology stack, a regional market dynamic, a narrow industrial application - the wider the gap between what major platforms promise and what they actually deliver.
We combine two complementary capabilities to source niche experts at transaction speed. First, we draw directly on our proprietary micro-community network of over 40,000 professionals across Tech, ICT, Manufacturing, and Utilities - a panel built through years of community development rather than mass recruitment, giving us access to practitioners who are not actively registered on major interview platforms. Second, for expertise that falls outside our existing network, we conduct dedicated expert identification research - mapping conference speaker lists, publication authorship, LinkedIn organisational structures, and specialist forums to identify and approach the precise profiles the project requires. The combination covers ground that no single platform can match.
Consulting and strategy teams receive scheduled expert interviews with precisely qualified specialists, typically within one to two weeks of engagement start. Niche topics that standard platforms cannot fill are covered through dedicated research. The fee structure eliminates financial risk: charges apply only when an interview is successfully scheduled and the expert's relevance is confirmed in the first five minutes. Teams can run M&A, CDD, and strategy workstreams with primary expert validation intact, regardless of how specific the required expertise is.
We conduct a structured briefing session with the project lead to define the precise expert profile required, functional background, industry experience, seniority level, geographic market exposure, and the specific knowledge that qualifies a candidate for this engagement. For M&A and CDD contexts, we align on the analytical questions the interviews must address, ensuring every expert sourced is selected for research relevance rather than general seniority. Clear profile definition at this stage is what makes the difference between productive expert conversations and expensive mismatches.
We search our proprietary community of over 40,000 professionals for candidates matching the defined profile, then conduct dedicated research for any expertise falling outside our existing network. Conference speaker databases, technical publication authorship, specialist associations, and LinkedIn organisational mapping allow us to identify practitioners that standard platforms, with their standardised panel recruitment, systematically miss. To date we have successfully sourced relevant interview partners for every niche topic brought to us, across topics ranging from highly specific technology architectures to narrow regional industrial markets.
We manage the full outreach and scheduling process - approaching experts with professional context, coordinating availability, and scheduling interviews within the project timeline. First interviews are typically confirmed within one to two weeks. Every interview opens with a structured five-minute relevance confirmation. If the expert does not meet the brief, no fee is charged and we source an alternative immediately. This structure means the financial risk of a mismatched expert sits with us, not with the project team.
For engagements requiring multiple interviews, typically five to fifteen complementary experts alongside existing platform sourcing, scaling to sixty for larger projects, we run parallel sourcing streams rather than sequential scheduling. As interview findings surface new lines of inquiry, we adapt the expert brief and source accordingly. This agile pipeline capability is particularly valuable in M&A contexts where the analytical questions evolve as the transaction progresses and new expertise gaps emerge mid-engagement.
Major platforms source from pre-registered panels, which means common expertise is well covered and niche expertise is not. We complement existing platform sourcing rather than replacing it, typically adding five to fifteen specialists per engagement that standard networks cannot reach. Our combination of proprietary community access and dedicated research means we can identify and schedule niche experts that no panel-based platform can find systematically.
Our primary coverage spans Tech and ICT, Industrial Manufacturing, and Utilities, the sectors where our community and research capabilities are deepest. Within these verticals we cover a broad range of functional expertise including market dynamics, technology architecture, regulatory environment, commercial strategy, and product development. We recommend a brief scope discussion before engagement to confirm coverage for highly specific topics.
Every interview opens with a structured five-minute relevance confirmation. If the expert's actual experience does not match the brief, the interview does not proceed and no fee is charged. We source an alternative immediately. The financial risk of a mismatch sits with us, not with the project team.
We have scheduled between five and sixty experts for individual engagements. For larger projects we run parallel sourcing streams, there is no sequential bottleneck. The practical range depends on the specificity of the profiles required and expert availability, not on our sourcing capacity.
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