About Us
Built for the Legal Profession
instruct.expert is the UK's first AI-powered expert witness matching platform — built to solve a problem that the legal profession has tolerated for far too long.
The Problem
Finding an Expert Witness Shouldn't Be This Hard
Every legal professional knows the frustration. You have a case that needs specialist expert evidence, a court deadline approaching, and your options are: trawl through outdated directories, phone around your existing contacts, or pay an agency to do the searching for you.
The current system relies overwhelmingly on who you know — not who is most suitable. Word-of-mouth referrals favour the same familiar names, while highly qualified experts with genuine court experience remain invisible simply because they lack the right connections. The result is a system where the quality of expert evidence can depend more on a legal professional's personal network than on the facts of the case.
For litigants in person, the situation is worse still. Without access to professional networks, finding a qualified expert witness can feel like an impossible task — at the very moment when getting it right matters most.
The Solution
AI That Understands Legal Context
instruct.expert takes a fundamentally different approach. Instead of browsing directories or relying on keyword searches, you describe your case in plain English. Our AI matching engine analyses your requirements — the nature of the case, the jurisdiction, the type of court, any deadlines — and recommends three expert witnesses whose specialisms, experience, and availability genuinely fit.
This is not a search engine. It is an intelligent matching system built specifically for the UK legal market. It understands the difference between a forensic psychiatrist and a clinical psychologist. It knows that a case in the Scottish courts requires an expert with experience in Scottish civil procedure. It considers availability, fee ranges, and turnaround times alongside clinical or professional expertise.
The result: better matches, found in seconds rather than days.
Who We Are
A Cliniscape Ltd Product
instruct.expert is developed and operated by Cliniscape Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 13648703). The platform was built from direct experience of the expert witness instruction process — understanding what legal professionals actually need when searching for an expert, what matters in matching clinical expertise to legal questions, and why the existing directories and agencies fall short.
Working at the intersection of clinical practice and the law — and seeing the instruction process from both sides — made the inefficiencies of the current system impossible to ignore. instruct.expert is the result.
Cliniscape Ltd is registered at 10 Harley Street, London.
Our Commitments
What We Stand For
Free for Legal Professionals — Always
instruct.expert is entirely free for legal professionals. No subscription, no commission, no hidden fees. Finding the right expert for your case should not come at a cost to the profession.
Founding Members — Free Forever
The first 100 expert witnesses to join the platform become founding members — free forever. No annual fees, no commission, no hidden costs. Founding membership is permanent, regardless of any future pricing changes for new members.
A Curated, Not Open, Network
Every expert who joins instruct.expert is manually reviewed before their profile is approved. We maintain quality standards so that legal professionals can trust the recommendations they receive — and so that experts on our platform are not competing with unqualified listings.
Privacy by Design
Case details submitted for AI matching are processed and then automatically deleted within 24 hours. They are never stored long-term, never shared with experts, and never used to train AI models. All user data is hosted in the United Kingdom.
Independence and Objectivity
instruct.expert does not interfere with the expert witness relationship. We do not negotiate fees, influence expert opinions, or take a position on the merits of any case. Our role begins and ends with the match.
The Vision
Raising the Standard of Expert Evidence Across the UK
Our ambition goes beyond matching. We want to create a platform that raises the overall standard of expert witness evidence in the UK — by making it easier to find genuinely qualified experts, by increasing transparency around expertise and experience, and by giving litigants in person the same access to quality expert evidence that well-connected law firms have always had.
The expert witness market in the UK is fragmented, opaque, and long overdue for change. instruct.expert is the beginning of that change.
For expert witnesses, instruct.expert offers something the existing market has never provided: a platform built specifically around their professional needs. Not a directory that lists them alongside thousands of others. Not an agency that takes a cut of their fees. An intelligent matching engine that understands their expertise, respects their autonomy, and connects them with the right work — directly.