Services
Four ways to engage an Expert.
Each runs on the same structure: we contract with each side separately, screen before work begins, and pay the Expert from funds already collected. What changes is the shape and the length.
| A single Expert | A panel review | A scientific or medical advisory board | A fractional role | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | One clinician or researcher on a defined question: a protocol read, a regulatory question, a clinical opinion, a literature or data review, input on product development or educational material. | Work prepared in-house or by a third party (a dossier, a protocol, a safety assessment) reviewed by people who had no part in preparing it. | Standing or one-off, with a defined scope. | A senior Expert over a longer period on a defined scope: fractional medical director, clinical advisor, regulatory lead. |
| How it runs | You state the need. We document it, select and screen, contract and pay, and manage the engagement. The conclusion is the Expert's own. | We assemble the panel against a documented need. The Experts may discuss the work among themselves. Each gives their own conclusion, in their own words, and none is asked to agree with the others. | Same structure, same screening. The four lines apply to every session, and a session that approaches one is stopped. | Still contracted through us, still screened for each engagement, still inside the four lines. Funded monthly in advance. |
| What you get | Each Expert's conclusion, attributed only as they have consented, and the engagement file. | |||
| What it is not | A channel for promotion. You undertake not to use any Expert, deliverable or engagement for promotion, for unlicensed medical claims, or to present content as independent where you have controlled its scientific content. The Expert undertakes not to lend their name or standing to promotional activity presented as independent advice. | Employment or secondment. Nothing in either agreement creates an introduction, placement, employment or agency relationship between you and any Expert. The Expert may decline any assignment without giving reasons. | ||
Our Client Agreement, clauses 4.3 and 5.1(d) · Our Expert Agreement, clauses 3.3, 4.4 and 12.4 | Our Client Agreement, clause 6.1(d) · Our Expert Agreement, clauses 8.1(c) and 8.3 | Our Client Agreement, clauses 2.2 and 8.1(b) · Our Expert Agreement, clause 3.2(c) |
What it is
A single Expert
One clinician or researcher on a defined question: a protocol read, a regulatory question, a clinical opinion, a literature or data review, input on product development or educational material.
A panel review
Work prepared in-house or by a third party (a dossier, a protocol, a safety assessment) reviewed by people who had no part in preparing it.
A scientific or medical advisory board
Standing or one-off, with a defined scope.
A fractional role
A senior Expert over a longer period on a defined scope: fractional medical director, clinical advisor, regulatory lead.
How it runs
A single Expert
You state the need. We document it, select and screen, contract and pay, and manage the engagement. The conclusion is the Expert's own.
A panel review
We assemble the panel against a documented need. The Experts may discuss the work among themselves. Each gives their own conclusion, in their own words, and none is asked to agree with the others.
A scientific or medical advisory board
Same structure, same screening. The four lines apply to every session, and a session that approaches one is stopped.
A fractional role
Still contracted through us, still screened for each engagement, still inside the four lines. Funded monthly in advance.
What you get
A panel review
Each Expert's conclusion, attributed only as they have consented, and the engagement file.
What it is not
A scientific or medical advisory board
A channel for promotion. You undertake not to use any Expert, deliverable or engagement for promotion, for unlicensed medical claims, or to present content as independent where you have controlled its scientific content. The Expert undertakes not to lend their name or standing to promotional activity presented as independent advice.
A fractional role
Employment or secondment. Nothing in either agreement creates an introduction, placement, employment or agency relationship between you and any Expert. The Expert may decline any assignment without giving reasons.
The clauses
A single Expert
A panel review
Our Client Agreement, clauses 4.3 and 5.1(d) · Our Expert Agreement, clauses 3.3, 4.4 and 12.4
A scientific or medical advisory board
Our Client Agreement, clause 6.1(d) · Our Expert Agreement, clauses 8.1(c) and 8.3
A fractional role
Our Client Agreement, clauses 2.2 and 8.1(b) · Our Expert Agreement, clause 3.2(c)
What it costs.
The consideration for an engagement has four parts. Each is named in your agreement and each is stated in your statement of work. No figures appear on this page; figures are in the statement of work.
| Part | What it covers | Clause |
|---|---|---|
| Honoraria | What the Experts are paid. Billed to you at cost, one to one, with no margin or mark-up to us. | |
| Admin Fee | A percentage of the Honoraria, stated in the statement of work. | |
| Engagement Fee | A Base Fee plus a Per-Seat Component for each seat. | |
| Screening and Verification Fees | A Screening Fee for each seat we identify. A Verification Fee for each seat you identify and we screen, contract and pay. |
Honoraria are fixed before work begins, collected before the work they pay for begins, and never contingent on what an Expert concludes. The rate falls within a documented fair-market-value band, and the basis is recorded for each engagement.
If you cancel.
You may cancel an engagement at any time, in writing.
What comes back is the balance of what you paid in advance, after three things are taken out of it: work the Expert has already done and deliverables already completed; time the Expert had already set aside for you, which we are committed to pay them for whether or not it is used; and any session halted on compliance grounds, which is paid to the Expert in full.
The Engagement Fee and the Screening and Verification Fees remain payable, because that work (the screening, the fair-market-value documentation and the contracting) is done before the engagement starts.
Reading further.
- How the two agreements work, in plain wordsthe structure
- What our system refuses to dothe controls
There is no non-circumvention clause in our terms. Why it came out of the first draft is on the structure page.