proSapient

proSapient is an expert network and primary-research platform. It connects investment firms, management consultancies, and corporations with screened industry specialists for live consultations, surveys, transcripts, and AI-moderated interviews.^[1][2]

The service launched in 2017 and describes itself as technology-led, using machine learning for expert sourcing and software for scheduling, calls, recording, transcription, and follow-up.^[1] Companies House independently records PROSAPIENT LIMITED as incorporated in England and Wales on 3 April 2017, with a London registered office.^[3]

What It Does

proSapient recruits and screens people with relevant occupational or sector knowledge, then facilitates research interactions between those experts and clients.^[2] Available formats include one-to-one calls conducted by browser, telephone, or Zoom; standardized surveys; and AI-led interviews designed to gather qualitative and quantitative responses at greater scale.^[1]

The information generated is primary human-source research. It reflects the selected experts' knowledge and opinions rather than an exhaustive industry census or an independently observed transaction dataset. Research quality therefore depends on expert identification, screening, question design, response context, and the client's interpretation.

Products And Platform

Search AI is proSapient's machine-learning-assisted expert-sourcing capability. AIMI is its AI-moderated interview service, which can manage an interview workflow or supply vetted participants to another moderation platform.^[1] The company also offers surveys, an on-demand transcript library, standardized expert ratings, automated scheduling, recording, and a messenger for follow-up questions.^[1]

proSapient advertises call transcription in 48 languages and claims 99 percent accuracy after machine processing and quality review.^[1] This is a provider claim; the public page does not publish a benchmark corpus, language-by-language scores, speaker conditions, or an independent audit. Users handling technical terminology or regulated decisions should assess transcript accuracy for their own recordings.

Buyers And Use Cases

The company's stated client groups are investment funds, consultancies, and corporations seeking knowledge outside their internal expertise.^[2] Applications include commercial due diligence, market mapping, testing a hypothesis, collecting customer or practitioner perspectives, and conducting surveys of specialized professional populations.^[1]

The platform also supports clients that want to maintain an internal expert database or coordinate work across multiple expert networks.^[1] Experts participate in paid consultations through the Expert Hub. Public materials do not provide a universal fee schedule for clients or experts, so compensation and access terms cannot be generalized.

Compliance

Expert consultations can create legal and ethical risks if participants disclose confidential, privileged, or material non-public information. proSapient says experts are screened and that it offers client-specific compliance controls for primary research.^[2][4] The reviewed pages do not fully enumerate every restriction, monitoring rule, retention period, or jurisdiction-specific procedure.

Screening and platform controls reduce but do not eliminate research risk. Clients and experts remain responsible for complying with contractual duties, securities law, professional obligations, and restrictions applicable to a particular consultation.

History And Corporate Record

The company says Margo Polishchuk and Jordan founded proSapient in 2017 after observing the expert-network market from provider and client perspectives.^[2] Its own chronology reports rapid growth between 2018 and 2019, later office expansion to Toronto and Lisbon, and repeated inclusion in the Financial Times FT1000 ranking.^[2] These milestones are reported here as company statements unless separately substantiated.

proSapient also says it obtained a $10 million Series A investment from Smedvig Capital.^[2] An accessible independent transaction source was not verified during the research for this article, so no investment date or further financing detail is asserted. The Companies House record independently confirms the legal entity's incorporation date, company number 10704431, and London registration.^[3]