INDEPENDENT RESEARCH. FAST TURNAROUND. INFORMED CONVICTION.
SINCE 2019Look beyond the narrative. Find the evidence that matters to the investment decision.
Since 2019, Elite Consulting Global has contributed research that informs investment decisions, challenges assumptions, and sometimes reaches the market through research publishers.
EXPERT NETWORK · BEYOND THE GOOGLE SEARCH
Reach people with first-hand industry knowledge.
Our expert network reaches former employees, industry specialists, customers, distributors, competitors, and other informed sources. Carefully structured interviews can uncover highly valuable positive or negative perspectives that do not appear in filings, announcements, or ordinary web searches.
Our process is designed to avoid material non-public information (MNPI). We seek experience, perspective, and independently verifiable facts—not confidential information.
EXPERT NETWORK · MEET YOUR LIVE AI ASSISTANT
Complex science. Limited call time. Our new AI assistant helps you prepare for an expert conversation and suggests pertinent questions in real time—so you can explore the evidence behind an investment.
A promising technology. A paper full of technical detail. You need to understand which scientific claims could change the investment case—and what to ask the scientist behind them.
Upload scientific papers, related research, company presentations, your investment thesis, and questions in advance. The assistant uses this material to familiarize itself with the call’s subject, your objectives, and the evidence you want to examine.
As you speak with the scientist, the assistant draws on the conversation and your preparation materials to suggest relevant follow-up questions on your screen. You choose what to ask and where to take the discussion.
Illustrative scenario: an investor is discussing an early-stage oncology therapy with a scientist.
Scientist: “We observed tumor regression in the xenograft models.”“How does the unbound plasma exposure at the efficacious dose in your xenograft models compare with the cellular IC₅₀, and what therapeutic window does that imply relative to the dose-limiting toxicities?”
Why it matters to an investor: probes whether the exposure needed for efficacy could be achievable at a tolerable dose in humans—a key question for clinical translation.
ONE PROJECT. A GROWING UNDERSTANDING.
As your project progresses, the assistant can build on previous calls, connect new expert perspectives with earlier findings, and help you pursue unresolved questions. Your research develops across the project, with each conversation informing the next.
It is designed to learn your questioning style from your preferences and feedback: the depth you want, the way you probe assumptions, and the issues you prioritize. As that context grows, it can adapt its suggestions more closely to each client’s unique needs.
Come prepared. Follow the conversation. Ask with greater confidence.
Discuss AI-assisted expert calls ↗Illustrative workflow and suggested question. AI-generated suggestions support the client’s judgment; the client directs the interview.
EXPERT NETWORK · CLIENT TESTIMONIALS
“Our fund had concerns about a potential investment we were considering. While the company we were looking at was outwardly impressive, our investment process required us to get comfortable with the company’s financial practices. We enlisted ECG to both find and interview former employees of the company with an eye toward learning how they were implementing certain accounting and business classification rules, including their decisions about whether to classify simple activities as more complex ones for the purpose of improving their optics to investors. ECG’s investigation helped us conclude that this company was not doing what it said it was doing, and we stayed away. Less than a year later, the company’s stock collapsed in dramatic fashion when it announced it was under a regulatory investigation into some of those exact practices ECG had highlighted for us.”
PUBLIC-MARKET OUTCOME · Following the subsequent public disclosure, the company lost approximately 50% of its market capitalization in one day—a decline measured in billions of US dollars.“We rely on ECG to book expert calls and ECG has greatly exceeded our expectations. ECG is hyper responsive and tenacious at finding the best expert for the job and our budget. ECG has become our go to expert network.”
“We’ve used ECG to directly interview experts and have had great success doing so. Given a question bank and a general outline of what we wanted to achieve, ECG was able to directly speak to over a dozen experts in a week which helped built substantial conviction in our thesis. ECG saved us time and provided our fund with an increased layer of confidentiality which allowed us to get insights from experts who historically would not engage with expert networks.”
TWO WAYS TO USE THE EXPERT NETWORK
Clients can ask us to interview experts on their behalf, or we can identify the right people, coordinate availability, and arrange a direct conversation between the client and the expert.
We clarify the research question, the expertise required, and the compliant boundaries for the conversation.
We identify relevant specialists, communicate with them, and coordinate a workable schedule.
Before the conversation, the expert electronically signs a confidentiality and compliance agreement with Elite Consulting—including the strict prohibition on sharing MNPI. This is completed remotely.
We can conduct and report on the interview, or arrange for the client to speak directly with the selected expert.
WHY ASK US TO CONDUCT THE INTERVIEW?
A third-party interview can keep the client’s identity and interest in a company on a need-to-know basis. This reduces the chance that market-sensitive rumors about a fund’s potential investment escape before its research is complete.
When we conduct the interview, the client is not present. If an expert unexpectedly raises information that may be MNPI, we stop the discussion, isolate the information, and seek advice from legal counsel before reporting back. Information determined to be MNPI is withheld from the client, keeping it outside the client’s investment decision.
We pay experts by Venmo, PayPal, Wise, or direct bank deposit. Payment is always sent within 24 hours after the call finishes, and most experts receive their funds within hours. Clients avoid making numerous small payments to different experts: they make one consolidated project payment to Elite Consulting Global, and we handle the individual expert payments.
Representative visual reconstruction of the expert-introduction process. Engagements are structured to avoid MNPI.
EXPERT NETWORK DUE DILIGENCE · WORKING EXAMPLE
A hedge fund was assessing a publicly traded gold-mining company after hearing a rumor that the mine was not economically viable. We spoke with numerous industry experts, including one former employee, to obtain informed perspectives from people with relevant, first-hand experience.
The client asked us to look beyond the market rumor and find people qualified to assess the underlying operation. We sought independent sources with no known financial stake or other interest in the company’s outcome—people positioned to offer candid perspectives without an axe to grind for or against the company.
An industry expert discussed the available technical evidence and the assumptions behind the rumor.
A former employee provided a practical view based on relevant operating experience.
Further industry expertise added another informed perspective on the company and the rumor.
Every consulted source spoke positively about the company and disagreed with the viability rumor, giving the client a broader evidence base for its investment decision.
Sources were asked for experience and perspective—not material non-public information.
Representative visual reconstruction of an anonymized engagement. Details have been withheld or generalized for client and source confidentiality.
CLIENT TESTIMONIAL
“ECG was an absolute pleasure to work with. We needed on the ground diligence urgently done on a vital company asset & he was able to deliver within 24 hours despite being thousands of miles away from the asset. We were blown away and everyone I tell is blown away too.”
FAST-TURNAROUND BOOTS-ON-THE-GROUND DUE DILIGENCE · WORKING EXAMPLE 01
A client was assessing a company that had publicly announced a major processing plant in Africa. The presentation showed an ambitious facility, and a groundbreaking ceremony had been arranged and published in local newspapers. Our task was simple: establish what was actually there.
The company presented renderings of a large processing facility alongside photographs of the groundbreaking ceremony.
The investor called. We tracked down the location where the ceremony took place and captured the physical evidence.
The proposed location was in exactly the same state as it had been at the groundbreaking ceremony. Nothing meaningful had changed, and no plant had been built despite many months having passed.
Within 48 hours, the client had physical evidence that was highly valuable to its investment decision.
Representative visual reconstruction. Engagement details have been anonymized to protect client confidentiality.
PUBLIC-SOURCE FIELD OBSERVATION · WORKING EXAMPLE 02
A client was assessing an autonomous-driving company. Our investigators identified the company location and waited from a lawful public vantage point for its test vehicle to leave. A live video feed allowed the client to observe the road test as it happened.
After waiting outside the location, investigators documented an autonomous vehicle leaving the facility with no driver in the front seat.
The team followed at a safe distance while a passenger captured the vehicle operating on public roads. The live video feed let the client watch the autonomous road test directly from their own office.
Investigators documented the same vehicle returning to the facility after completing the route safely.
The client was able to act on lawfully obtained, publicly observable information—not MNPI—and buy the stock at a lower price before the successful run was announced. The announcement subsequently drove the stock price higher.
Representative visual reconstruction of a company-reported, anonymized engagement. Observation was conducted from public vantage points; engagement details have been withheld for confidentiality.
IN-SERVICE TECHNOLOGY VERIFICATION · WORKING EXAMPLE 03
A client wanted to know whether a company’s autonomous-driving technology was genuinely being used in Asia. We sent an investigator to the area where the taxis were reported to operate and verified the service first-hand.
The question was practical: was the technology operating in a real, publicly accessible service?
At the reported service area, the investigator used a phone to request a ride and documented the autonomous taxi arriving.
During the short ride, the investigator photographed the empty driver’s seat, operating display, and safety barrier around the controls.
The investigator sent photographs of the taxi approaching, the verified interior, and the taxi departing after the ride.
We reported that the technology had been observed working and in service, giving the client verified evidence for a better informed investment decision.
The client received direct, decision-useful evidence that the reported service was genuinely operating.
Representative visual reconstruction of an anonymized engagement. Details have been withheld or generalized for client and company confidentiality.
SAME-DAY MULTI-CITY OBSERVATION · WORKING EXAMPLE 04
A client wanted to understand the volume and apparent health of business across a large national retail chain. We organized all-day observation of multiple locations in multiple cities, with every team operating from a lawful public vantage point.
The client needed direct evidence of how busy the retailer’s locations were—not another broad market estimate.
Field observers were mobilized across multiple cities to lawfully log customer traffic and visible transaction activity throughout the day from public vantage points.
From their own office, the client could view simultaneous location feeds while the day’s observations were logged and aggregated.
The client received decision-useful data without leaving their own office.
Representative visual reconstruction of an anonymized engagement. Observation focused on aggregate activity from public vantage points and did not identify individual customers.
WORKING EXAMPLE 05 · ASIA
A company represented that it maintained a location on the eighth floor of a building in Asia. Local verification found that the building itself had only four floors—a simple physical fact that desk research had not resolved.
OUR TRACK RECORD · ESTIMATED & OBSERVED
Our contribution extends beyond the research itself—to investment outcomes and the way the market sees a company.
Research, interviews, and on-the-ground verification for investment decisions.
We estimate that our research has contributed to client investment profits in the region of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Some research to which we contributed has been published through external research outlets. The companies covered experienced publicly observable market-capitalization changes totaling billions of dollars.
Our contribution to client investment profits is an estimate based on the scope of our work and observed outcomes. Market-capitalization changes are calculated from publicly observable market prices following publication. Those market movements are factual, but reflect multiple factors and should not be attributed solely to our research.
RESEARCH CAPABILITIES
Investment due diligence
Investigate the commercial reality behind a company’s narrative through research, interviews, and local verification.
Channel checks & interviews
Build a clearer view through channel checks, expert perspectives, and former-employee interviews.
Market & company research
Examine markets, competitors, partners, and industry dynamics to understand what supports—or challenges—the opportunity.
On-the-ground verification
Bring local knowledge, language capability, and practical investigation to questions that desk research alone cannot answer.
WHEN RESEARCH IS PUBLISHED
Some of our research has been published through external research outlets. On some publication days, companies covered experienced stock-price movements exceeding 20%.
Many engagements remain private and confidential. For research intended for publication, we contribute the underlying investigation: company and market research, interviews, channel checks, and local verification.
OUR APPROACH
Identify the assumptions, information gaps, and commercial questions that matter to the investment view.
Connect market research with interviews, channel checks, and on-the-ground observations.
Compare the company’s story with the evidence and examine where the two diverge.
Our research approach avoids material non-public information and emphasizes careful investigation, clear communication, and local understanding.
In many cases, we can mobilize quickly and return decision-useful information on highly compressed timelines.
SUPPORTING MARKET INTEGRITY
Elite Consulting Global has had the privilege of attending meetings with representatives of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to answer questions about research to which ECG contributed.
Research to which ECG contributed has also supported SEC investigations that resulted in convictions and financial penalties. We are proud to have assisted government agencies in their efforts to protect the integrity of U.S. markets.
Agency names and links are provided for reference. Elite Consulting Global is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the SEC or FBI.
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