The next vendor call should pay you.
Vendors pay for an honest read on their product. You set the rate, stay anonymous and get an early look at tools that might actually make your job easier.
The same problem, from both ends
If you work in finance
You've run the selections, turned most of them down and lived with the implementation. Consultants get paid for this and you give it away for free, in a meeting you never asked for.
If you sell to finance teams
They took the meeting, nodded along, said it looked interesting and never replied. You still don't know whether the product is wrong, the price is wrong, or you were pitching the wrong person. Half a roadmap now rests on that guess.
The maths today
Why a vendor will pay for your view
This is what it already costs to reach one finance professional, mostly spent on interruption and mostly wasted. Pointed at people who actually agreed to talk, the same budget buys something far better for both sides.
| Channel | Cost | What you actually get |
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| Industry conference per target-customer conversation | €500+ | A badge scan, and a follow-up nobody answers. |
| Outbound SDR per discovery call booked | €300+ | A call they took to be polite. Polite tells you nothing. |
| Paid lead gen per discovery call | €200+ | A PDF download and a phone number. |
| Expert network per hour | €400+ | Investor diligence, priced for funds. Not your buyer. |
| OutsideThread per task, at their rate | They set it | A verified finance buyer who agreed to talk. |
Rough figures, and yours will be different. What a conversation actually costs you is the number we'd most like to hear.
How it works
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Apply and get verified
A human checks your identity, your role and your employer before you list. Nobody gets on the platform unverified, and that is exactly why a vendor will pay for an anonymous opinion.
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Set your profile and rate
The figures that matter: sector, company scale, region, and where your judgement is strongest. Then your hourly rate and what you'd rather not touch. Your name and employer stay with us.
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Get paid for your opinion
A vendor pays up front for your time and your candour. We handle the money so neither side has to negotiate. Decline anything, for any reason, without explaining yourself.
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Decide what happens next
Once it's done and you've been paid, you choose: stay anonymous, or open the door and let them contact you directly. Most conversations end at step three. The good ones don't have to.
Control
Anonymous by default. Yours to lift.
You can say what you think because nothing you say is attached to your name. The introduction, if there ever is one, happens on your terms and after the fact.
- You are never named during an engagement. Vendors see a role, a sector, a company size band and a region. Enough to know your view is relevant, not enough to work out who you are.
- The introduction is a separate decision. When it's over and you've been paid, you can choose to let them reach out. Nobody can buy that choice, because the money is already settled and the answer costs them nothing either way.
- We verify before you list. Every profile is checked by a human. That vetting is what makes an anonymous profile worth paying for.
- Opinion, not inside information. This is for how you evaluate tools and where products fall short. Never anything confidential or market-sensitive about your employer.
For finance teams
Get paid for your time
Treasury, finance and payments professionals. Get paid for your expertise, learn what's being built before anyone pitches it to you, and stay anonymous unless you decide otherwise.
For vendors
Honest feedback from people who agreed to talk
Reach vetted treasury and finance professionals who have opted in and named their price. The candid read on your product that no amount of outbound will buy you.
Questions people ask first
Am I allowed to do this?
That depends on your employment contract, and you should read it. Many have something to say about outside work and confidentiality. OutsideThread is built for professional opinion: how you run an evaluation, what a category gets wrong, where a product disappointed you. It is not a channel for confidential or market-sensitive information about your employer, and any question heading that way should be declined.
How anonymous am I, exactly?
During an engagement, completely. We verify your identity and employment so your profile carries weight, but that stays with us. The vendor sees your role, sector, company scale and region. Afterwards you can choose to let them contact you directly. That choice is yours alone, it comes after payment, and declining costs you nothing.
Can a vendor pay more to find out who I am?
No. The introduction isn't for sale. It isn't priced, it isn't negotiable, and it's only ever offered once the engagement is complete and settled. A vendor's only route to a real relationship with you is to have been worth talking to.
What does it pay?
You set an hourly rate, and every request carries a time commitment set by the task: ten minutes for a survey, twenty for a pitch deck, half an hour for a demo and your reaction to it. The fee is your rate against that time, so at €300 an hour the survey is priced at €50 and the demo at €150. You see the figure before you accept, and the vendor has already paid it.
Are there fees?
We take 15% on each engagement, split evenly between the two sides: 7.5% comes off what you're paid, and 7.5% goes on top of what the vendor pays. On that €150 demo, you receive €138.75 and the vendor is charged €161.25. No listing fee, no subscription, and nothing at all for declining work.
What am I actually buying, as a vendor?
Time and candour from someone who fits your buyer profile and has agreed to engage. Not a lead, not a pipeline commitment, and not a sales meeting in disguise. Most vendors come here for the feedback rather than the deal. If the conversation goes well, they may choose to open a direct line afterwards, but that is their call and not something you can purchase.