What Experts.com does

Experts.com is a privately held, founder-operated online directory founded in 1994 and headquartered in Stockton, California. The platform connects four buyer segments — attorneys and law firms, businesses, insurance companies, and media organizations — with a supply-side network of vetted expert witnesses and business consultants across categories including law enforcement, security, medical specialties, forensic accounting, engineering, construction, oil and gas, supply chain, renewable energy, and forensics. The core product is a self-serve search directory where clients browse profiles by category and geography and contact experts directly, supplemented by a staff-assisted search service priced at a flat $995 fee covering a minimum of six hours of review, candidate interviews, and reporting. The company operates a dual go-to-market: a direct-to-consumer motion through SEO, content marketing, social media (Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, YouTube), and a sales-led motion for the assisted-search and advertising products. Three revenue streams are disclosed: recurring expert membership subscriptions (required for listing), the $995 assisted-search professional service, and tiered advertising products (top placement, expertise sponsorship banners, keyword search banners, run-of-site banners). No public API, no developer-facing integrations, and no disclosed AI capabilities are present in the data. The company has no institutional capital, no subsidiaries, and no disclosed M&A activity; leadership is anchored by Nick Rishwain as the principal contact. The technology stack is described only as a web-based directory and matching platform, with no proprietary features disclosed. Partnerships are numerous but uniformly minor-tier, including cross-promotional agreements with UniCourt, Daubert Tracker, CounselUnited, LeMed, and MDEX Online, each offering member discounts or reciprocal referrals.

Name

Experts.com

Legal name

Experts.com

Website

https://experts.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Experts.com is a privately held, Stockton-based online directory founded in 1994 that connects attorneys, businesses, insurance companies, and media with vetted expert witnesses and business consultants, monetized through expert membership fees, a $995 assisted-search service, and tiered advertising.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Expert Witness and Business Consultant Directory Services

NAICS

Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (51929), Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services (5416)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Litigation Support & Expert Witness Services (BPAHALAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Technical & Scientific Expert Networks (BPAHALAH)

Keywords

• Expert witness directory
• Business consultant listings
• Litigation support services
• Expert witness search
• Professional consulting platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Stockton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Expert Membership Fees: Experts pay annual membership fees to be listed in the directory. The membership is required to be listed and provides profile visibility to prospective clients searching the database.
2. Assisted Search Service: Flat fee service where Experts.com staff conduct a search for qualified expert witnesses based on client criteria, interview candidates, and provide a report on the most qualified candidates. Covers minimum 6 hours of work.
3. Advertising and Promotional Listings: Revenue from advertising products including run-of-site banners, keyword search banners, expertise sponsorship banners, and top placement positioning for expert profiles.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Experts.com operates a web-based directory and matching platform that lists vetted expert witnesses and business consultants, allowing attorneys, businesses, insurance companies, and media to search, review, and retain experts directly. The platform is supplemented by a paid assisted search service where staff identify and vet candidates on behalf of clients, and by advertising products (banners, sponsorships, top-placement profiles) sold to listed experts for increased visibility.

Product overview

Experts.com operates a directory-as-a-service platform consisting of a core Expert Witness and Business Consultants Directory augmented by an assisted search service and tiered membership plans. The core directory enables attorneys, businesses, insurance companies, and media to directly search, review, and retain vetted experts. The platform is monetized through advertising products (run-of-site banners, keyword search banners, expertise sponsorship banners, and top placement profile advertising) and expert membership subscriptions. No API or developer-facing products are offered.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Expert Witness & Business Consultants Directory A searchable directory platform that enables attorneys, businesses, insurance companies, and media to find, review, and contact vetted expert witnesses and business consultants across diverse areas of expertise. Serves as a direct intermediary connecting clients with professionals.
• Assisted Expert Search Service A staffed search and matching service where Experts.com staff review search criteria, interview candidate expert witnesses, and deliver a written report identifying the most qualified candidates with profile links, contact details, and qualification summaries. Billed at a flat fee of $995.00 covering a minimum of 6 hours of work.
• Profile Advertising - Top Placement Premium advertising placement that elevates a member's expert profile to appear within the Top 10 Profiles for a chosen area of expertise or in response to keyword searches matching the profile's keywords.
• Expertise Sponsorship Banner A targeted banner advertisement placed within specific Expertise Category pages, appearing below the category header and above all member profiles, delivering high-visibility exposure to an audience actively browsing that area of expertise.
• Keyword Search Banner A keyword-targeted banner appearing atop search results pages corresponding to specific search terms, with options to sponsor all unsponsored-results searches or no-result searches.
• Run-of-Site Banner A standard display banner (240-460 x 60 pixels, 12K) randomly placed across unsponsored pages on the site, visible on all pages including member and user pages, providing broad exposure across the entire platform.
• Expert Membership Listings Tiered membership plans for qualified expert witnesses and business consultants providing directory listing, profile hosting, SEO tools, social media exposure, CV and document display, analytics, and access to the members-only area. Experts are required to maintain a paid membership to be listed in the directory.

Quantifiable outcome

• Experts receive 10+ calls or emails monthly from prospective clients through the platform
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• UniCourtminorGTM or Marketing PartnerUniCourt is a leader in making court records more accessible and useful. Expert Witnesses can access state and federal court records all in one portal for business development, automated searches, case research and tracking, document downloads, legal analytics, and more. Experts.com offers members 15% off all UniCourt plans.
• CounselUnitedminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCOUNSELUNITED provides a virtual community for solo and boutique attorneys to better serve clients and benefit professionally through enhanced market presence, collaboration, referral opportunities and access to select resources.
• Daubert TrackerminorGTM or Marketing PartnerDaubert Tracker provides litigators, judges, legal researchers and testifying experts with fingertip access to information associated with reported and unreported evidentiary gatekeeping cases. The product tracks cases from both federal and state jurisdictions going back to 1993 and is updated daily.
• AttorneyGuide.comminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAttorneyGuide.com is a FREE attorney and lawyer referral directory and legal information service for the areas of Las Vegas, Nevada, Portland, Oregon and Reno Nevada. All attorney listings are ethically certified by their local bar association.
• MIMS InternationalminorGTM or Marketing PartnerMIMS International, Ltd. has been providing clients across North America with insurance that works to improve their bottom line. Based in Maryland, they specialize in designing innovative insurance programs that help clients generate, free up and save income.
• TradePub.comminorGTM or Marketing PartnerWith 9 years of online experience in the publishing industry, TradePub.com understands the challenges of maintaining and increasing circulation in an ever-changing and dynamic market. They deliver world-class partnership programs allowing partners to add robust functionality to their site and establish revenue streams.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Thomson Reuters (Find an Expert / West): Thomson Reuters owns Westlaw and adjacent legal research and expert-finding tools serving law firms. It is a broad incumbent peer because it competes at the workflow level for attorneys seeking experts and has the resources to bundle directory features into its broader legaltech stack.
• GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group): GLG is the largest expert network globally, serving primarily investment professionals and consulting firms with on-demand expert consultations. It is a broad incumbent peer because it overlaps in expert matching services and serves some of the same consultants, though its core customer (buy-side finance) differs from Experts.com's attorney-led base.
• LexisNexis: LexisNexis operates Lexis+ and adjacent legal research and litigation support products, including expert-finding capabilities within its broader platform. It is a broad incumbent peer because it can bundle expert matching into enterprise legal research subscriptions, pressuring standalone directories.
• Guidepoint: Guidepoint operates a global expert network serving investment, consulting, and corporate strategy clients. It is a broad incumbent peer because it shares the expert-matching business model, though its scale and institutional client base are substantially larger than Experts.com.
• AlphaSights: AlphaSights is a global expert network connecting professionals with experts across industries for consultations and due diligence. It is a broad incumbent peer because the underlying expert-matching mechanism overlaps with Experts.com's assisted search service.

Direct peers

• Expert Institute: Expert Institute is a leading expert witness referral and consulting firm serving attorneys with a curated expert network across many of the same verticals as Experts.com (medical, financial, technical). It is a direct peer because both monetize attorney-to-expert matching, with Expert Institute adding a more tech-enabled matching workflow.
• TASA (Technical Advisory Service for Attorneys): TASA is a long-running expert witness referral network serving attorneys with technical, medical, financial, and scientific experts. It is a direct peer because both offer curated expert directories plus staffed matching for legal professionals across overlapping expertise categories.
• JurisPro (formerly part of JurisNexus): JurisPro is an online expert witness directory connecting attorneys with expert witnesses across numerous specialties. It is a direct peer because the product — an attorney-facing searchable expert directory — is structurally identical to Experts.com's core offering.
• Round Table Group: Round Table Group operates an expert consulting network serving attorneys and legal professionals, with dedicated practice areas and a staffed expert search service. It is a direct peer because it competes head-to-head in assisted expert search and consulting retainers for litigation matters.

Emerging players

• Daubert Tracker: Daubert Tracker is a specialized database for tracking evidentiary gatekeeping cases (Daubert/Rule 702) used by litigators and expert witnesses. It is an emerging player peer because Experts.com already lists it as a partner and it serves an overlapping attorney + expert witness audience, but with a narrower, more defensible data niche.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/experts_com
• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/ExpertsCom-Expert-Witnesses-Consultants
• Facebookfacebook.com/Expertscom
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/groups/815767

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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