Verification.
Pass rates across each verification layer, computed against 47,632 verified experts.
Layer 01
47,632 verified
Government ID + Liveness
A passport, a national ID, or a driver’s license - paired with a real-time face capture.
ICAO-grade document scan paired with a 3D liveness check. No self-attested identity, ever.
- ICAO-compliant document parsing across 198 issuers
- Active liveness with passive anti-spoofing
- PII encrypted at rest, never shared with researchers
Layer 02
31,330 verified
LinkedIn / Professional Identity
Five years of professional history, audited against the public web.
OAuth reconciliation against LinkedIn, cross-checked against bylines, conferences, and patents.
- OAuth-grade verification - no scraping, no scraping vendors
- Tenure, seniority, and industry inferred from the graph
- B2B-tier studies require Layer 02 to be green
Layer 03
46,293 verified
Company / School Email Domain
Magic-link verification to the expert’s @company or @edu inbox.
Magic-link to a verified @company or @edu domain, with burner and proxy-mail filtering.
- Allow-list governs which domains qualify
- Burner detection across 38,000 known proxy domains
- Re-verifies on a 90-day cadence
Layer 04
26,949 verified
IP, Device & Behavioral Fingerprint
We know if you’re showing up from a residential IP in Lagos or a data-center in Frankfurt.
Datacenter IPs, headless browsers, and fraud signatures blocked at the edge. Suspect sessions get manual review.
- Residential vs. datacenter classification on every request
- Behavioral biometrics on long-horizon tasks
- Cross-account collusion detection via device graph
Coverage, country by country.
Verified expert headcount across every country represented in the network.
Top 15 by headcount
ranked by share
The remaining countries account for 5.21% of the network - roughly 2,457 experts across smaller markets.
By region
Share of the verified network.
North America
58.2%0
Densest in major metros - NYC, SF, LA, Toronto - but with deliberate over-indexing on rural Appalachia, the Mountain West, and Atlantic Canada.
Asia-Pacific
21.4%0
Largest single region. Bangalore, Manila, Jakarta, and Ho Chi Minh City lead - most likely to be qualified developers and clinical trial coordinators.
Europe
13.2%0
Strong B2B coverage across DACH and Nordics; consumer breadth across UK, France, Spain, and Italy. Deepest GDPR documentation of any region.
LatAm
4.4%0
Spanish and Portuguese moderation are first-class. The fastest-growing region for paid AI training tasks.
Africa
2.3%0
Lagos, Nairobi, Cairo, and Johannesburg lead. Highest mobile-first share - 94% of African experts complete studies on phones.
Middle East
0.2%0
UAE and Saudi Arabia anchor a high-net-worth, multilingual cohort with strong financial-services and energy-industry concentration.
Demographics.
Age, gender, education, and household income across the verified network, broken out by region.
Age distribution
Modal cohort 26-30 - old enough to have opinions, young enough to keep them.
Gender
Self-reported. Researchers can require any combination at screener time.
Education
28.4% hold a graduate or professional degree - twice the rate of the general adult internet population.
Household income, by region
USD-equivalent annual household income, banded. Useful for weighting national or regional samples.
Industry, seniority, company size.
Professional composition of the verified network.
Top 12 industries
LinkedIn V2 sector groups (NAICS-aligned). Reconciled against each expert's LinkedIn graph at onboarding.
Seniority
We track seniority bands so a CEO study and a frontline study recruit from totally different pools.
Junior professionals 0-3 years into their function.
The doers - engineers, nurses, teachers, designers, analysts.
Senior individual contributors - staff and principals across functions.
First-line and middle managers running teams of 3 to 30.
Departmental leaders with budget authority over multiple teams.
Functional leaders with budget authority and roadmap ownership.
Departmental leadership at companies of 200+ employees.
CEOs, CTOs, CFOs. Disproportionately fast responders.
Founders and bootstrapped operators.
Company size
From bootstrapped solopreneurs to FAANG. Distribution is deliberately wide so SMB and enterprise studies can both find their people.
Niche audiences.
Every job function in the verified network. Click a pill to see the headcount, verification mix, top industries, and seniority skew.
Engineering
7,241 experts in engineering across the verified network.
Top industries in engineering
Seniority skew
