A fair question
Is this legitimate?
Being contacted out of the blue about paid consulting can feel unusual if you have not encountered an expert network before. That reaction is reasonable. Here is exactly who we are and how to check.
Watch: are expert networks legitimate?
Point one
We never charge experts. Money flows one way.
Silverlight is paid by institutional clients — investment firms, consultancies, corporates — for the research we organise. We pay you for your time on a call. You will never be asked for an upfront payment, a placement fee, a subscription, a deposit, or any financial detail beyond the bank account we transfer your fee into.
If anyone claiming to represent us ever asks you for money, it is not us. Tell us immediately.
Point two
A registered UK company on the public record.
Silverlight Research Ltd is a private limited company incorporated in England and Wales on 27 December 2017. The registration is visible on the Companies House public register.
The registered details
Silverlight Research Ltd
Company Registration 11124869
78 York Street, London W1H 1DP
ICO data protection registration ZA760718
You can verify all of the above independently. The company number on Companies House and the ICO number on the Information Commissioner's Office register both return our entry.
Point three
Professionally run, properly governed.
We are not a survey site, a recruitment agency, a referral scheme, or an MLM. Every engagement runs under formal expert terms governed by English law, with a written brief and a pre-agreed topic. Each brief is prepared by our compliance team before it reaches you.
It is the same structured approach used across the established expert-network industry. The detailed framework is in the Expert Terms.
Point four
How to verify us.
Every item on this page is checkable on an independent public record. The checks below take about two minutes in total.
Founder & CEO
James Cartwright founded Silverlight Research in 2017. He previously spent his career at Morgan Stanley across the Investment Management and Investment Banking divisions. James Cartwright on LinkedIn →
Verify the company
Silverlight Research Ltd, company number 11124869, is on the UK Companies House public register. Check us on the public Companies House register →
Verify our data registration
We are registered with the UK Information Commissioner's Office under registration ZA760718. Check the ICO register →
Verify someone works here
To confirm someone who has contacted you genuinely works at Silverlight Research, email expert-support@silverlightgroup.com and we will reply directly.
Verify outreach is genuine
Genuine contact from us comes from a Silverlight corporate email address, references a specific research brief, and never requests payment from you. Anything that fails one of those three is not us.
Point five
How to know it's really us.
Genuine contact from Silverlight comes from our corporate domains. We never request any upfront payment from experts.
- silverlightresearch.com
- silverlightgroup.com
- silverlightprojects.com
- silverlightconsultancy.com
Our team may sometimes contact you from other Silverlight project domains as well. If you ever receive a message you're not sure about, you're welcome to confirm it's genuinely from us before replying — message us on WhatsApp or email expert-support@silverlightgroup.com and we'll verify it for you.
Point six
Run due diligence on our parent site.
If you want a wider picture before applying, the parent firm website explains the business, the team, the offices, and the client base. silverlightresearch.com is the right place to look. We link out to it rather than recreate the same content here.