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Practitioners and industry specialists with relevant first-hand experience, sourced for your question, verified, and ready to talk.

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Daniel M.

Former VP of procurement · Grocery

  • ID verified
  • Role confirmed
  • Conflict check

Arjun M.

Plant manager · Specialty chemicals

  • ID verified
  • Screen passed
  • Conflict check

Who you can reach

First-hand experience, not job titles.

  • Former executives

    Senior leaders who ran the function or the business you’re studying.

    Helen B.

    Former COO, regional grocer

    Example request “Former VPs of procurement at national grocery chains”

  • Operators and managers

    The people who run the plant, the warehouse, the region. Closest to how things really work.

    Marcus E.

    Warehouse manager, 3PL

    Example request “Plant managers at mid-size specialty chemical makers”

  • Practitioners and specialists

    Niche, first-hand experience that rarely shows up in a database.

    Sofia R.

    Fleet maintenance manager

    Example request “Engineers who have migrated a core banking system”

  • Licensed professionals

    Verified credentials for questions where expertise has to be provable.

    Dana W.

    Licensed CPA, lease accounting

    Example request “Licensed pharmacists working in rural counties”

How it works

Screened, verified and ready to talk.

  1. 01

    Tell us who you need

    The role, the experience, the market. In plain language.

  2. 02

    We source

    Direct outreach, partners and our network, built around your question.

  3. 03

    We verify

    Identity, role and tenure checks, plus a short AI voice screen.

  4. 04

    You talk

    Human-led or AI-moderated. Transcripts and findings follow.

Your intelligence operations manager

A dedicated person for the hard-to-find.

Every engagement comes with a dedicated intelligence operations manager. They run recruiting with you, and when you need a very specific person, they headhunt.

  • Scopes the profile with you, down to named companies and roles
  • Runs targeted outreach when the network doesn’t have the match
  • Headhunts specific people at specific companies
  • Keeps your calendar full and your conflicts clean

Rachel S.

Intelligence operations manager · your team

Headhunt · target list

  • Former VP of supply chain Top-3 grocery distributor Confirmed
  • Head of procurement Target’s biggest customer In outreach
  • Plant manager, Ohio site Target’s main competitor Screening

“Found the former VP through an alumni network. She’s free Thursday at 2.”

Built for diligence

Know who you spoke to, and that it was clean.

For investment and consulting work, Arbor collects conflict and compliance attestations before a call, and every transcript carries the participant’s verification record.

  • Conflict check
  • Compliance attestation
  • Transcript record

Formats

The right conversation for the question.

  • Human-led calls

    Live conversations for high-stakes questions. Scheduled, recorded and transcribed.

  • AI-moderated interviews

    Structured interviews at scale when you need breadth across many experts.

  • Research, end to end

    Screening, interviews and packaged findings, from one partner.

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