Human sourcing infrastructure

We find your target people for any task

The Open Panel finds and enlists the exact experts or participants your study, task, or agent needs–however specific the criteria.

Now accepting sourcing requests for studies, tasks, and agent workflows.

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12 regulatory specialists

Class III medical devices · EU Ready to scope

Anyone, anywhere / one request

The constraint

The bottleneck is rarely the study. It is finding the right people.

Panels are efficient until the audience gets specific. Manual sourcing is precise until the request needs to scale. The Open Panel is built to bridge that gap.

What you can ask for

Specific is the point.

Start with the person your existing tools cannot reliably reach.

01Domain experts

A rare clinical perspective

Twelve pediatric neurologists who have treated a specific presentation in the last two years.

02Hard-to-reach consumers

A behavior, not a job title

People in Germany who bought limited-edition sneakers in the last 90 days after considering a competing drop.

03Robotics participants

Robotics, grounded in reality

Warehouse operators who have worked alongside autonomous mobile robots and can evaluate new interaction patterns.

04Agent escalation

A human in the loop

Verified specialists available when an AI agent encounters a task that needs real judgment.

One request, end to end

From criteria to verified people.

Know what a request will take before committing budget. Then let sourcing, screening, and outreach run as one operation.

  1. 01

    Describe the people

    Share your criteria, sample size, task length, and deadline. Demographics, firmographics, behavior, experience–or something more specific.

  2. 02

    See cost and timing

    Get a timeline estimate and cost quote before anything is spent. Speed and price stay explicit.

  3. 03

    Approve the request

    Once approved, sourcing, screening, and multi-channel outreach begin.

  4. 04

    Receive verified participants

    The right people are delivered to your study, task, pipeline, or agent.

A person in motion passing an empty city displayBehavior

The person you need is already out there.

The work is knowing where to look, how to reach them, and what it takes for them to say yes.

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Where the people come from

Existing reach, extended by active search.

Panel partnerships worldwide

Connect established recruitment and panel supply through one request, rather than managing a patchwork of providers.

Agentic sourcing

When no panel has the person, sourcing agents search professional networks, social platforms, and the open web.

Outreach that fits the request

Email, phone, and in-person outreach are available depending on who is needed and what the task requires.

Three ways in

Built for your agents. And for you.

Source people programmatically, as an agent tool call, or by hand.

For your product

API

Build human sourcing into a research workflow, data pipeline, or application.

await theOpenPanel.source({
  criteria: "...",
  count: 12,
  deadline: "..."
})

For your agents

MCP server

Let an agent enlist a person mid-run when software alone is not enough.

source_humans({
  task: "Review edge case",
  expertise: "..."
})

For you

Web app

Scope and launch a request by hand, then follow sourcing and delivery.

Criteria  →  Quote
Approval  →  Sourcing
Verified people  →  Delivered

Illustrative examples. Interfaces adapt to your workflow.

Pricing follows difficulty

A deadline is a dial, not a hidden constraint.

There is no universal rate card for a person who may be common in one market and nearly unreachable in another.

You provide the criteria and deadline. We quote the expected timeline and cost. Participant incentives adjust as needed to balance speed, buyer cost, and fair compensation.

Our vision

Making every person on earth reachable–when they choose to be.

Our goal is to let anyone share what they know, what they have done, or what they have experienced–and get paid fairly when that perspective is needed.

Work with us

Bring us the people you have struggled to find.

Customers get direct access to our team, transparent scoping, and pricing that reflects the difficulty of each request. We work closely with every customer to deliver the right people.

By The Insights Company