Office Hours shifts to corporate research budgets

The key change is that Office Hours stops being a niche diligence tool and starts looking like a general purpose research utility for any team that needs fast answers from real buyers, users, or operators. Once product marketing, strategy, and product teams can use the same network for pricing studies, persona work, and feature feedback, spend comes from larger recurring research budgets, not just one off expert call budgets.

• Traditional expert networks were built around hedge funds, private equity, and consultants, with heavy human brokering and high per call prices. Office Hours uses self serve search, transparent expert rates, scheduling, and payments, which makes it easier to sell into internal corporate teams that need many smaller research projects each month.
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• The product is already being used like a research workflow, not just a phone call marketplace. Teams can find a target persona, book interviews, run AI or human transcription, and keep transcripts private inside a workspace. That matches how product marketing and strategy teams actually run pricing, messaging, and customer discovery work.
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• This expansion mirrors adjacent platforms. Tegus showed that expert access can broaden into a larger research product, and Prolific shows that enterprise customer insights can become a large self serve business once matching and participant access are fast enough. The common pattern is turning expert access into an always on research layer.
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The next step is for these categories to blend further, with calls, AI interviews, surveys, mentorship, and model evaluation all drawing on the same supply of verified expertise. If Office Hours keeps building around that shared network, it can grow from an expert network vendor into core infrastructure for corporate research and decision making.