Expert network platform connecting investors and startups with verified advisors
Office Hours operates a two-sided expert network for institutional investors, consulting firms, and startups seeking on-demand advisory access. The stack—Node.js + TypeScript + React + Next.js on AWS, backed by PostgreSQL + MongoDB for persistence and Temporal for workflow orchestration—supports a modern, API-first architecture. Hiring is broadly distributed across engineering, sales, and data roles with minimal velocity, while active projects cluster around community scaling (expert onboarding, pipeline conversion) and go-to-market efficiency (sales processes, marketing playbooks), suggesting the company is optimizing unit economics rather than pursuing aggressive headcount growth.
Notable leadership hires: Marketing Lead, Strategic Projects Lead
Office Hours is a verified expert network platform founded in 2020 and based in San Francisco. The company serves venture capital firms, consulting practices, and early-stage startups by matching them with domain experts in technology, software, and healthcare. The platform operates through two main customer surfaces—an investor/firm-facing side and a startup-focused side—along with an advisor onboarding program. With 11–50 employees, the company is engineering-heavy, with intentional distribution across sales, product, and data functions.
Node.js and TypeScript for backend; React and Next.js for frontend; PostgreSQL and MongoDB for data; Temporal for workflows; AWS with Kubernetes and Docker for infrastructure; Datadog and Sentry for observability.
Core projects include expanding the expert network, improving pipeline conversion and sales processes, scaling the user base, building top-of-funnel marketing engines, and developing go-to-market playbooks. The company is also running AI data annotation and model improvement initiatives.
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