{ "schema": "e2m-expert-review-network/1.0", "version": "2026.09.24", "publisher": "E2M & Associates", "unit": "E2M Research", "url": "https://e2massociates.com/research/expert-review-network/", "status": "Operating standard; named reviewers are disclosed only after verified onboarding, consent and completed review", "core_specialties": [ { "id": "legal", "specialty": "Corporate & legal", "required": true, "capacity_target": "1 primary + 1 backup", "scope": "Corporate structure, shareholder/representative requirements, contracts and legal-risk claims.", "selection_gate": "Verify Brazil-specific legal practice and the professional registration relevant to the claim; regulated legal conclusions stay with qualified counsel.", "content_domains": "Company Setup · Market Entry · contracts", "review_cadence": "180 days or material legal change" }, { "id": "labor", "specialty": "Labor & employment", "required": true, "capacity_target": "1 primary + 1 backup", "scope": "CLT/PJ classification, hiring terms, termination, collective rules and employment-risk claims.", "selection_gate": "Current Brazil labor practice. Legal conclusions require appropriately qualified counsel; payroll mechanics may involve a labor/payroll specialist.", "content_domains": "Hiring · Employer Cost · HR operations", "review_cadence": "90 days or material labor change" }, { "id": "tax", "specialty": "Tax", "required": true, "capacity_target": "1 primary + 1 backup", "scope": "Corporate tax, withholding, tax reform, cross-border tax, transfer pricing and profit repatriation.", "selection_gate": "Current Brazil tax practice, ability to trace conclusions to law/official guidance and clear separation of tax fact from planning judgment.", "content_domains": "Tax & Finance · GTM pricing · cross-border", "review_cadence": "90 days or material tax change" }, { "id": "accounting", "specialty": "Accounting & reporting", "required": true, "capacity_target": "1 primary + 1 backup", "scope": "Bookkeeping, fiscal documents, payroll finance, reporting cadence and accounting treatment.", "selection_gate": "Current Brazil accounting practice; verify applicable professional registration where required and keep accounting conclusions distinct from tax/legal advice.", "content_domains": "Tax & Finance · Entity operations", "review_cadence": "180 days or reporting-rule change" }, { "id": "recruiting", "specialty": "Recruiting & talent", "required": true, "capacity_target": "1 primary + 1 backup", "scope": "Role design, salary-market interpretation, sourcing, interview process and candidate-market realities.", "selection_gate": "Recent Brazil recruiting or talent leadership experience with evidence of actual placements or team-building work.", "content_domains": "Hiring · Salary Benchmark · First Team", "review_cadence": "180 days; market-data refresh separately" }, { "id": "trade-customs", "specialty": "Trade & customs", "required": true, "capacity_target": "1 primary + 1 backup", "scope": "Import/export structure, Siscomex/DUIMP, customs workflow, NCM process and provider roles.", "selection_gate": "Recent Brazil foreign-trade/customs execution experience; classification or regulated conclusions must be reviewed at the appropriate specialist level.", "content_domains": "Sourcing & Trade · Import/Export", "review_cadence": "90 days or material customs/Siscomex change" }, { "id": "real-estate", "specialty": "Real estate & workspace", "required": true, "capacity_target": "1 primary + 1 backup", "scope": "Office/housing market execution, leases, workspace sourcing and local transaction realities.", "selection_gate": "Recent São Paulo/Brazil transaction or advisory experience; legal lease conclusions route to legal review.", "content_domains": "Office & Housing · São Paulo", "review_cadence": "180 days; market-price data quarterly" } ], "extension_specialties": [ { "specialty": "Privacy & data", "scope": "LGPD, data-processing roles, privacy notices and data-transfer issues.", "required": "triggered by content risk" }, { "specialty": "Immigration", "scope": "Visas, residence/work authorization and executive mobility.", "required": "triggered by content risk" }, { "specialty": "Product regulation", "scope": "ANVISA, ANATEL, INMETRO, MAPA or industry-specific authorization when a product is regulated.", "required": "triggered by content risk" } ], "selection": { "hard_gates": [ "Demonstrable, recent Brazil-specific practice in the exact review scope.", "Identity, current role and regulated credential verified where the claim requires one.", "Comfort working from primary sources and marking uncertainty instead of filling gaps.", "Conflict-of-interest disclosure before assignment, including commercial interests in the conclusion.", "Agreement that E2M may publish the exact review scope, date and approved credential wording.", "Ability to review the final corrected version, not only an early draft." ], "preferred_signals": [ "Recent casework, transactions, filings, placements or operational execution in the topic.", "Ability to work in Portuguese plus English or Spanish when cross-border context matters.", "Evidence of teaching, publishing or explaining the domain clearly without overselling certainty.", "Responsiveness compatible with content refreshes and material regulatory-change triggers." ], "disqualifiers": [ "Credentials or employment claims that cannot be verified.", "A prestige signal used as a substitute for subject-matter scope.", "Refusal to disclose a material conflict or a commercial stake in the conclusion.", "Compensation contingent on a positive conclusion, sales outcome or CTA.", "A generalist reviewing regulated conclusions outside their actual practice.", "Requests to remove valid caveats or primary-source contradictions for marketing reasons." ] }, "collaboration_models": [ { "model": "Asset-by-asset review", "rule": "Default model. Fixed scope, fixed fee when compensated, one content asset and one final confirmation." }, { "model": "Recurring domain reviewer", "rule": "For high-volatility areas such as tax, labor or trade/customs. Retainer or pre-agreed review blocks; scope is still documented per asset." }, { "model": "Joint research collaborator", "rule": "Used when the expert materially shapes methodology, analysis or conclusions. Credit should reflect contribution and may become co-authorship under the later authorship standard." }, { "model": "Expert quote / interview", "rule": "A quote, interview or source conversation does not make someone the reviewer. It is attributed only to the statement they supplied." } ], "review_levels": [ { "label": "Source-checked", "definition": "Editorial verification that citations resolve and claims match the cited evidence. No expert byline." }, { "label": "Technical review — scoped", "definition": "A specialist reviewed a defined section or issue. Display the scope; do not imply whole-page review." }, { "label": "Expert reviewed", "definition": "The specialist reviewed all material claims within the agreed page-level scope and confirmed the corrected final version. This is the only level that earns a whole-page “Reviewed by” label." } ], "workflow": [ { "step": 1, "instruction": "Risk triage: classify the page and identify consequential claims." }, { "step": 2, "instruction": "Scope: define exactly what the reviewer is and is not being asked to review." }, { "step": 3, "instruction": "Match: assign a specialist whose current practice fits that scope." }, { "step": 4, "instruction": "Evidence pack: provide draft, primary sources, assumptions and disputed points." }, { "step": 5, "instruction": "Review: reviewer annotates errors, caveats, missing evidence and decision risk." }, { "step": 6, "instruction": "Resolve: E2M answers comments, corrects the draft and records disposition." }, { "step": 7, "instruction": "Final confirmation: reviewer checks the corrected material within the agreed scope." }, { "step": 8, "instruction": "Publish & refresh: record scope/date/disclosure and set a change trigger or review cadence." } ], "public_disclosure_rules": [ "Use the reviewer’s current title and only credentials relevant to the review scope.", "State the scope and review date. If only one section was reviewed, say so.", "Do not imply the reviewer is an E2M employee, partner or firm endorser unless that relationship is true and disclosed.", "Do not use employer logos or imply employer endorsement without permission.", "Former employers or prestige brands appear only when verified, relevant and explicitly approved by the reviewer.", "Never use “approved”, “certified” or “verified by” when the person only performed editorial/technical review.", "Paid review may be disclosed as “independent technical review commissioned by E2M”; compensation cannot depend on the conclusion.", "A reviewer may require a caveat, narrow the scope, or decline attribution. E2M retains editorial responsibility for the published page." ], "compensation_rule": "Fixed-fee or recurring compensation may pay for time/expertise but never depends on a favorable conclusion, sales outcome or CTA.", "roster_rule": "Do not publish a person as a reviewer until identity/credentials are verified where relevant, conflicts are disclosed, the final corrected scope is reviewed and public wording is approved by that person.", "updated": "2026-09-24" }