Expert network comparisons
Instant Expert vs GLG: which should you use?
GLG helps organize expert research. Instant Expert lets you find people and offer to pay for a call or reply. Compare when each approach makes sense.
GLG finds specialists for research projects and helps arrange expert interviews. Instant Expert lets you find people and offer to pay for a call or reply directly.
Choose GLG when you want help recruiting experts and organizing the research. Choose Instant Expert when you want to choose the people yourself and ask them a specific question.
When GLG makes sense
Imagine your team needs interviews with several kinds of specialists in an unfamiliar industry. Someone has to find suitable people, check their backgrounds and coordinate the calls. GLG provides expert matching, custom recruitment and support from a client team. Clients can also search its network through myGLG.
GLG offers more than calls. Its research services include surveys and expert content, and it offers AI-moderated interviews. Those options matter if you need help running a larger study.
Some organizations also require formal checks before speaking with an expert. GLG describes expert training, conflict screening and client oversight tools. If your team needs those services, include them in the conversation with GLG. Instant Expert does not provide an equivalent managed compliance program.
When Instant Expert makes sense
Suppose you are building software for warehouses and want to ask a warehouse manager how their team handles damaged deliveries. You know what you want to learn and are happy to run the conversation yourself.
You can search Instant Expert for people with that experience, review their profiles and prices, and invite a few to a paid call. If you already have a shortlist, you can import it. Use your invitation to ask whether the person has personally handled receiving problems.
For one focused question, you can request a reply instead. The recipient chooses whether to answer in text or voice. Our call-or-reply guide explains the choice.
Instant Expert also supports paid sales introductions and recruiting conversations. Say what the conversation is for so the person can decide whether to accept.
How pricing works
GLG asks prospective customers to contact its sales team. The service pages linked here do not list a fixed price for this project. Ask what the quote includes: finding experts, arranging calls and any additional research you need.
Instant Expert shows a price for each person and request before you send it. Check those prices for your shortlist, along with the payment and cancellation terms. There is no single rate that applies to every expert.
If you want someone to help organize a research project, ask GLG for a proposal. If you have a question and want to find someone who can answer it, start a search in Instant Expert.