The democratized expert network.

FieldSignal is a boutique competitive intelligence firm on a mission to democratize expert networks. We exist because the same quality of primary research a hedge fund can buy should also be available to a three-person seed-stage team — at a price that doesn't require a six-figure annual retainer.

Entity: Growth Insights Limited
Jurisdiction: Hong Kong SAR
Network: 50,000+ experts
Insurance: US$10M professional

01/Why We ExistWhat we're breaking

For decades, primary research firms like GLG, AlphaSights, Third Bridge and Guidepoint have served only the very top of the market — hedge funds, large PE firms, Fortune 500 corporates. The model has been the same since the early 2000s: six-figure annual retainers, per-call rates of $500–1,500, project minimums in the high tens of thousands.

That economics was justifiable when the only viable customer was an institutional investor with billions under management. It is no longer justifiable when a seed-stage founder, a small specialist hedge fund, or a corporate strategy team at a $50M business needs the exact same quality of primary research and cannot afford the institutional gatekeeping.

We're breaking that model.

02/What We DoSame quality, accessible pricing

02.1

EXPERT CALLS FROM €500

Per-call pricing. No annual retainer. No project minimums. The same vetted operators, executives, and specialists you'd reach through GLG or AlphaSights.

02.2

50,000+ VETTED EXPERTS

Our network includes vetted operators across technology, healthcare, financial services, consumer, industrials, energy, telecom, real estate and education.

02.3

COMPLIANCE EQUIVALENT TO INCUMBENTS

6-month cooling-off, MNPI controls, exclusion lists, real-time monitoring, 7-year audit trail, US$10M professional liability insurance.

03/Who We AreOperators-turned-researchers

FieldSignal is built by former operators — researchers, product leaders and analysts who spent their careers inside the industries we now research. We know what a useful expert call sounds like because we have been the expert. We know what a useless expert call sounds like because we have sat through too many of those, too.

Our team is distributed across UK, EU and APAC time zones, supported by a compliance function staffed by former financial-services compliance officers. Every engagement is led by a senior team member regardless of cheque size.

04/NumbersWhat sits behind the brand

Experts

50,000+

global, vetted

Transcripts

5,000+

anonymised library

Researchers

multi-time-zone team

Insurance

US$10M

professional liability

05/What's DifferentThe boutique-network thesis

+Per-call pricing instead of annual retainers
+Senior account lead on every engagement, regardless of cheque size
+Same expert network across every client tier — no "premium pool" gating
+Compliance equivalent to the largest expert networks
+Transparent published pricing (rare in this industry)
+Operator-led research, not analyst-led

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