A/B Consulting: From GLG to Inex One

On my last project, GLG couldn’t find the right experts after a week of searching, so I spun up Inex One and got 18 great experts in no time.

Jacob Reiner is a Senior Principal of A/B Consulting, an NYC-based strategy consultancy. Previously, he was the Head of Strategy & Corporate Development at Zoomo, and part of Oliver Wyman’s Private Capital team. A/B Consulting delivers growth strategy, due diligence, and value creation projects to corporate clients, private equity firms, and their portfolio companies. “The firm delivers about 25 due diligence projects and 12 growth strategy projects per year. Inex One has become my go-to expert network provider”.

Some of his favorite networks available on Inex One are founded by former employees at some of the incumbent expert networks. In particular, he likes to use Focal Fact, Northern Insights, and the Continental Exchange.

Many private equity firms have large prepaid contracts with GLG, with credits that they’re not using. This is out of habit; GLG is seen as a safe default option. But the quality has really eroded after they restructured and began offshoring.

Expert net (- work)

Using expert networks used to involve lots of emails. Experts were all over the place in different email chains and platforms, and you never knew what it would all end up costing.

With Inex One pricing is transparent and the communication is far smoother:

We can launch the project to three networks at once, and they submit all their experts on the Inex platform. Prices are shown in dollars, none of those hidden credit price multipliers.

In addition, he and his teams are able to analyze all the transcripts with AI to extract quotations, capture contradictions or subtle factual mentions. This feature of Inex One helps save 5-6 hours of work compared to when using traditional networks.

It’s like an expert network, without the tedious administrative work!

By freeing up this basic coordination work Rhino Capital is able to do the real analyses that clients are paying for.

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A/B Consulting is a boutique strategy consulting firm delivering growth strategy, due diligence, and value creation to corporate clients, private equity firms, and their portfolio companies. A/B has developed a unique business model to respond to clients' need for deep industry knowledge and expertise and the ability to address threshold issues. They have done hundreds of engagements across consumer, education, technology, business services, and industrials.

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Inex One is a market leader in B2B market research through expert interviews and surveys. The platform helps private equity, market research and corporate strategy teams access expert insights fast and flexibly, and accumulate internal knowledge repositories that are searchable with AI.

Inex One is trusted by more than 8,000 clients globally across private equity, market research and corporate strategy, and is rated the #1 expert network platform on G2. Get started today, or book a demo.