At Office Hours, we work with many of the largest and most influential venture capital firms, consulting firms and technology companies in the world. Many of our employees have joined us from similar firms (like a16z, Bain & Company, EY-Parthenon, Affirm, AlphaSights, and others) to build a better expert network experience.

For these reasons and many more, compliance is in our DNA — it lies at the heart of everything we do.

We recognize that our clients have unique compliance needs, so we’ve built a robust compliance program that provides clients with customized control over their experience on Office Hours, and ultimately, peace of mind that consultations are being conducted in a safe and compliant manner.

Everything in our compliance program tracks back to our four core pillars:

Core Pillars of Compliance at Office Hours

Confidentiality is a foundational element of safe and compliant conversations on Office Hours. Many of our clients come to Office Hours to analyze companies and industries, vet investment strategies and upcoming deals, or help address their own customers’ most pressing business challenges.

We are committed to protecting all of those conversations from any unauthorized disclosure, so we place firm confidentiality obligations across our entire network and our company.

Experts are subject to strict confidentiality obligations under our Terms of Service and we use regular training both with experts and internally to reinforce confidentiality obligations. Attestations help ensure strict adherence to those obligations prior to every conversation. And clients can also choose whether to utilize anonymous calls to ensure total confidentiality over their personal identifiable information.

In order to facilitate high-value conversations, it’s crucial to be able to trust that you know exactly who you are speaking to, and what they know. Office Hours verifies the work experiences, qualifications, knowledge areas and professional affiliations of every expert on our platform. Every expert also maintains a profile page that cross-references numerous online data sources as well as our own knowledge graph to ensure you know exactly who each expert truly is and what they are knowledgeable about.

We also continuously monitor call feedback, advisor reviews, usage and quality ratings and other platform data in order to ensure consistently high-quality and compliant consultations.

Protecting against any disclosure of material non-public information (MNPI) and other forms of prohibited information is fundamental to providing a safe and compliant experience before, during and after each interaction on Office Hours. We provide interactive training on MNPI, insider trading, protected third-party and employer information, and other categories of prohibited information. And our experts must provide multiple forms of approval and acceptance of their obligations not to disclose any such information. 

A major part of our vetting and confirmation of experts’ identities involves multiple confirmatory steps of their employment, and both manual and automatic tools to raise flags around public-company affiliation, conflicts of interest or other potential areas that require close compliance review.  We also offer extensive monitoring tools during Office Hours consultations, including the ability for clients’ compliance or authorized third-party partners to chaperone conversations in ‘incognito mode’. These real-time monitoring features also give clients the ability to intervene or even stop a call in flight, providing an extra safeguard against any disclosure of prohibited information. We also provide secure and private transcript services to our clients, giving both business and compliance teams their own private library of their conversations for continued use and review. 

Critically, we never publish or share these private transcripts with any unauthorized parties, and each client has exclusive access and use of their own records — they belong to you. 

Clients and experts both trust Office Hours to handle sensitive information securely, so we take that responsibility extremely seriously.   We follow industry-leading security practices, and are certified SOC2 Type II compliant. We use threat monitoring and penetration testing to ensure our systems stay secure, and fully encrypt all data at rest and in transit. Most importantly, our personnel follow secure practices, including fully encrypted devices, multi-factor authentication and regular cybersecurity training.  

If you’d like to learn more about our compliance program or sign up for a trial of Office Hours, book a demo below. 

Also - we’re hiring, so don’t hesitate to reach out to learn more about our team, approach and open roles! We look forward to hearing from you. 

We work with many of the largest and most influential venture capital firms, consulting firms and technology companies in the world. We recognize that our clients have unique compliance needs, so we’ve built a robust compliance program that provides clients with customized control over their experience on Office Hours, and ultimately, peace of mind that consultations are being conducted in a safe and compliant manner.

Compliance at Office Hours

Whether you’re an investor doing diligence, a consultant pushing to a hit an important deadline, or a founder working to get your company off the ground, speed is incredibly important. 

We share your sense of urgency.


Working with expert networks can provide extraordinary value, but insights need to be accessed and incorporated quickly. Not only do networks need to find and recruit experts with the right perspectives, they need to do it as fast as possible. 


So how does Office Hours consistently deliver top quality experts to our customers faster than legacy expert networks?

It all starts with the quality of our people. Our client services team is 100% U.S.-based, located in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York, allowing us to offer 'round-the-clock service to your team regardless of your timezone.

Our team is made up of top performers with work experience that enables them to act as true thought partners to our startup and venture capital clients. Many members of our team have worked at legacy expert networks, at other high growth tech start-ups, or in venture capital.

Subscribers to our Pro plan receive dedicated support from this team who will partner with you to recruit the exact right experts for your project.


Our team is armed with industry-leading software tools to identify, source and onboard new experts.

We’ve built our own CRM and outreach tooling that allow us to efficiently target and contact individuals online we think would be the right fit for your project, and bring them onboard.

We’ve also built our own custom screening workflows, which help us efficiently screen advisors to ensure they have the knowledge you need.

We understand the importance of fairly compensating advisors for the invaluable knowledge and expertise they provide to our clients. Our advisor-friendly policies help us establish trust with advisors to ensure they’re ready and willing to work with our clients now and in the future.

For example, unlike other expert networks, we empower our advisors to set their own rates. We also provide clear and transparent guidance into our policies around cancellations and bad experiences. 

This transparency and flexibility helps us efficiently attract, onboard and retain top expert talent for your projects.

#4. Rapidly growing, engaged advisor network

As our network grows, with each passing day, it becomes more likely that we already have the right advisor for your project in our network, ready to be booked on-demand.

When advisors onboard onto our platform, they're asked very specific questions about their background and experiences that will help us better match them with our clients in the future (e.g. "Which software tools have you evaluated?").

We’ve had so much success with this approach that today, over 50% of consultations facilitated via our platform are with advisors who already have an active account on our platform.

There’s no time to waste when making big decisions, so we've engineered our entire business to help you access expert perspectives as quickly and as efficiently as possible. 

If you're interested in trialing Office Hours Pro for your next project, you can book a demo using the link below.

Whether you’re an investor doing diligence, a consultant working to a hit an important deadline, or a founder working to get your company off the ground, speed is incredibly important. We share your sense of urgency.

How we bring you the right experts — faster

Venture capital investors are always on the hunt for the next big idea — the next unicorn that will revolutionize an industry. And to make the best possible investment decisions, they need access the best possible information, tools and expert perspectives.

Over the past 3 years, Office Hours has set itself apart from other expert networks by building a network and product tailored specifically to the needs of the world’s top venture investors.

The world’s best network for venture diligence

What truly sets Office Hours apart is our extensive network of verified experts, and the knowledge graph we’ve started to build around them.

High concentration of software key decision makers: We’ve onboarded thousands of experts who have verified their relationships to specific software products, meaning we can connect you with customers, former employees and competitors of your investment target extremely quickly.

Powerful search: Unlike other networks, you can search and book experts yourself. With over 2 million structured data points captured on advisor profiles, it’s fast and easy to find the perspectives you need. Try a sample search now.

World-class client support: Can’t find who you need in our network? With Office Hours Pro, our Client Solutions team is available around the clock to source them and bring them onto the platform for you. Our team works with venture firms of all sizes, making them fantastic partners in accessing the expert perspectives you need.

Office Hours is more than just a network of experts -- we've also built an industry-leading software platform designed to streamline the primary research process for venture capital investors. 

Our platform offers:

Automated transcripts: Save time and easily reference past conversations with our automated transcription feature.

On-platform video conferencing & screen-sharing: Facilitate seamless collaboration and communication with experts and colleagues using our built-in video conferencing and screen-sharing tools.

Guest invites: Easily invite other team members or external collaborators to join your conversations with experts.

Knowledge-driven expert search: Our intelligent search algorithm helps you quickly find the right expert based on their knowledge and experience.

Enterprise-grade compliance workflows: We've built compliance tools in partnership with some of the largest venture capital firms in the world. 

Now more than ever, venture capital investors need to support their portfolio companies. That's why we offer a range of services to help you guide your portfolio companies through crucial stages, from refining their pitch to getting product feedback and supporting their teams on critical projects. We work with individual investors or VC firm platform teams to provide portfolio companies with invaluable expert perspectives.

Portfolio companies at all stages are booking Office Hours to level-up across the board, most frequently to solve problems in:

In today's fast-paced, competitive investment landscape, venture capital investors need every advantage they can get. Office Hours provides the targeted focus, extensive network, unparalleled flexibility, and cutting-edge software platform that you need to make informed investment decisions and support your portfolio companies.

Don't miss out on the opportunity to elevate your investment game – join Office Hours today and experience the difference for yourself.

Sign up for a demo and start a trial of Office Hours Pro today.

"We've used a number of expert networks over the years, and Office Hours really stands out above the rest. Their level of service, quality of experts, and flexibility of the platform makes this our go-to service.” - Investor, Software Venture Capital Firm

The Ultimate Expert Network Platform for VCs

Office Hours is on a mission to help everyone realize the true value of their own unique knowledge. But what does that mean in practice? 

Over the past three years, we've built the expert network and software platform of choice for hundreds of the world's most successful venture capital firms, startups, and consulting firms.

In this post, we break down how our Office Hours sets itself apart from traditional incumbent vendors like GLG, AlphaSights, Guidepoint, and others.

We believe that every person's unique lived experiences and knowledge are immensely valuable to someone somewhere else in the world.

The problem? Most of that knowledge and experience is stuck in our heads, making it incredibly difficult to share with others and monetize.

Our vision is to make human knowledge easily accessible and infinitely scalable. To do so, we're starting by building a marketplace full of the world's most knowledgeable professionals and making that knowledge available to firms and teams of all sizes.

We have thousands of verified, active experts across industries, with a heavy concentration in technology and healthcare. Here are examples of the types of experts you can speak to on Office Hours:

Chief Technology and Chief Information Security Officers at F500 companies

Product Managers at high growth SaaS companies

Key decision-makers for popular software categories

Software engineers with experience deploying specific software products

Executives responsible for new product innovation at major U.S. healthcare payers

Top Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) in specific disease categories

Physicians with experience prescribing certain drugs and treatments

We're building the graph of what people actually know, not just relying on heuristics like titles, education, and work experience to facilitate connections. Those traditional heuristics, while helpful, often lack enough context to be useful.

Say you're a founder looking to validate a new product idea for your startup. Sure, you might think you know who your target customer is based on their title.

But what if you could actually find the right experts by searching through the other software products they've evaluated or purchased in the past? You can do that on Office Hours.

Over 40% of advisors in our network have completed an Office Hour successfully and earned money through our platform. And the vast majority have chosen to make their profiles public. As a result, you can be confident advisors booked on Office Hours will be responsive to your needs.

From knowledge-driven search to lists of experts curated by our team, we're building the most efficient and powerful expert discovery engine.

Calendar integration tools, streamlined project management tools, simple booking flows, and hassle-free payment infrastructure make booking and attending expert consultations as easy as humanly possible.

Most expert networks still only offer telephone conference bridges. On Office Hours, you can join via phone or via the web, invite your colleagues to join your calls, and share your screen with experts to get feedback on a product or brainstorm concepts live. And you never have to leave your browser.

Stay focused on your consultation and let us handle note-taking. You can select from AI-generated or human-reviewed transcription options, and our platform will notify you as soon as they're ready for review. 

Transcripts are available to other members of your team to help your company or firm develop a proprietary knowledge base, but unlike many of our competitors, your transcripts are private and never shared with anyone else.

Compliance and team collaboration workflows

In partnership with some of the top venture capital and consulting firms in the world, we've built a suite of world-class compliance approval tools to ensure consultations on Office Hours are safe, secure, and compliant. 

From public company affiliation tracking to custom attestation questions, compliance officers can rest easy knowing Office Hours is a partner in enforcing rigorous compliance standards.

Our experienced, responsive Client Solutions team is made up of the very best from traditional expert networks. 

If you upgrade to Office Hours Pro, you'll have the support of a dedicated Client Solutions representative who, in addition to simplifying logistics as much as possible, can also recruit the exact right profile for you, even if your target isn't already a member of our growing network of advisors.

Prefer 30 minutes instead of 60? Want to make sure your identity is blinded? Our platform was designed to make your expert calls as easy and as flexible as possible.

Don't just take our word for it. Sign up for free and explore what Office Hours can do for your team.

At Office Hours, we're committed to democratizing access to knowledge and expertise. Whether you're a startup founder looking to validate your product idea or an investor in search of the latest market trends, our platform has something for you.

Join today (no commitment!) and see for yourself how our network and platform can help you achieve your goals.

Office Hours is building the most powerful, flexible expert network in the world.

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