The Expert Network
Fractional, consulting, or still in the seat: you spent years building expertise inside real organizations. You shouldn't have to become a salesperson to put it to work. Join the network where the work finds you.
Free to join. Vetted experts earn the Expert badge.
Two groups of people with exactly matching problems, and no good way to find each other.
You
The pipeline is feast or famine. Referrals dry up, and every gap between engagements feels like starting over.
You hate selling. You built your career on delivery, not on cold outreach, content grinds, and follow-up sequences.
Your edge is specific. A decade in healthcare claims data, or supply chain, or a stack you know cold. Generic marketplaces flatten that into a keyword.
You want another channel. Full-time fractional, or in the seat and building a side hustle. Either way: a channel that works alongside your network, while you deliver.
The data leaders in our community
Their problems are just as specific. An insurance data leader doesn't want a generalist. They want someone who has governed insurance data.
They hate being sold to. Our community bans cold pitching. Which means when they need help, they ask us.
They're already here. Running their programs, asking questions, surfacing engagements, inside the same community you'd be joining.
The match is obvious. The channel was missing. That's what the Expert Network is.
A letter from Taylor
When I went fractional, I found out fast that the job I'd trained for my whole career was only half the job.
The other half was pipeline. Positioning. Following up with people who went quiet. I was a data leader, and suddenly I was supposed to be a marketer, a closer, and a collections department. Nobody teaches that part, and most of us quietly hate it.
Here's what I learned the expensive way: good engagements don't come from outreach. They come from rooms where trust already exists. So I built one.
Inside XenoDATA's community, in-seat data leaders run their programs every day. And every month, some of them hit a wall that needs exactly-shaped outside expertise: someone who has governed insurance data, or built analytics in energy, or survived a healthcare migration. Not a generalist firm. Someone who has actually done it.
The Expert Network is the bench they draw from. When a question or an engagement matches your edge, I make the introduction personally. No bidding wars, no RFP theater, no cold pitching. You never sell to the room; the room comes to you through me.
What it costs: nothing to join. When an engagement closes, we take a referral fee on that engagement, agreed per deal, in writing, before you start. We only make money when you do. That's the whole model.
And this isn't only for full-time fractionals. Some of the best experts I know are still in the seat, running an advisory side hustle because sharing what they've built keeps them sharp and pays better than sitting on it. If that's you, you belong here too.
The catch, and it's a real one: I say no a lot. Every expert takes a fit call with me before earning the badge. The network is only worth joining because not everyone gets in. If that sounds fair, I'd like to meet you.
Taylor Culver
Founder, XenoDATA · Fractional data leader since day one
The Expert badge means you were vetted by someone who has sat in the client's chair. Scarce on purpose. Credible because of it.
No job board, no bid queue. When a data leader's need matches your expertise, you get a warm introduction with context.
The community grows, the questions keep coming, and your profile keeps working while you deliver. Alongside your own network, not instead of it.
Free to join, free to stay. A referral fee applies only when an engagement closes, agreed per deal before you start. We win when you win.
Free to join. Write a short profile that keeps your edge specific: the industries you know, the technologies you've run, the work you want.
A short fit call with Taylor. Experts who pass earn the Expert badge, and the credibility that comes with a curated network.
No pitching, no cold outreach. When a data leader's question or engagement matches your expertise, we make the introduction.
Coaching
Either way, let's talk. Taylor built a fractional data leadership practice from zero: the first awkward pitch, the first invoice, the first anchor client, and the playbook that turned it into a business. Positioning, packaging, pricing, and landing engagements.
And this isn't theory: he works with data leaders who are actively looking for experts in financial services, energy, healthcare, consumer goods, and more. The demand side of your business is already in the room.
Book a callJoin free, get vetted, and let the community bring the questions to you.
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