Experts Earning Royalties from Transcripts

This pushes Office Hours toward a creator style marketplace where the valuable asset is not just an hour of time, but a reusable piece of expert knowledge that can keep earning after the call ends. In practice, that means turning a transcript from a one time consulting interaction into something that can generate royalties, surface the expert to future buyers, or feed more paid sessions. That is a different model from classic expert networks, which usually pay once per call and keep most of the downstream value inside the platform or the client workflow.

• Tegus showed why transcript assets matter. It built a business around storing, tagging, and cross linking expert calls so the same interview could help many users, and AlphaSense bought Tegus for $930M in July 2024 to add that library to a broader research platform.
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• Office Hours is trying to split that value with the supply side instead of treating transcripts as pure platform inventory. In the interview, the company ties transcript monetization directly to expert retention and to its broader goal of creating more earning paths than just live calls.
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• That matters because expert networks live or die on keeping good experts engaged. Office Hours frames low expert retention as a core weakness of traditional networks, while its open marketplace, visible profiles, rates, and testimonials are designed to make experts feel ownership over demand and reputation.
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The category is moving toward systems where every interaction becomes structured knowledge and every strong expert becomes a repeatable economic node. The winners will be the platforms that can do both, capture the transcript value, and route a visible share of that value back to the people whose judgment created it in the first place.