OpenConsultantDraft 0.1.0

Your consultants. At the source. Publish profiles, skills and availability on your own website, and let the market find them there.

An open standard for consulting companies. Free to use, with nothing to sign up for.

See what it solvesDocumentation for developers

The problem

The same consultant is described in a dozen places. Most of them are out of date.

  • Recreated everywhere

    A profile is written once, then retyped into every portal and system that asks for it.

  • Quickly out of date

    Availability changes with you. The copies stay as they were.

  • Unclear origin

    Nobody can tell which version is current, or where it came from.

  • Missed matches

    Clients and consultants who would suit each other never find out.

The idea

Your people. Your expertise. Your information.

Consultant profiles should not have to be recreated in every system where someone might look for them.

OpenConsultant lets consulting companies publish structured profiles on their own websites. Skills, experience and availability remain current at the source and can be used by any compatible service.

Clients and intermediaries can discover and match consultants without maintaining separate versions of their CVs.

How it works

Publish once. Stay current everywhere.

  1. Describe

    Keep each consultant's profile, skills and availability in one place: your own.

  2. Publish

    Add a feed to your website. Your developer sets it up once, and the documentation covers the rest.

  3. Connect

    Clients, agencies and matching services read from your site and always link back to you.

  4. Update

    When someone becomes available, you change it in one place and everyone sees it.

How to set it up

What others see

Always the current version. Always from you.

This is how a consultant you publish can be presented by any service that reads your feed. Every detail comes straight from your website, with a link back to the source. The company and the consultant are fictional.

Anna Andersson

Senior Frontend Developer, Example Consulting

Available from 1 February 2027

Works in
Stockholm, SE · Uppsala, SE
Way of working
Hybrid
Engagement
Full-time, Part-time
Contact
Example Consulting, sales, consultants@example.com

Frontend developer with twelve years of experience building accessible web applications and design systems for retail and the public sector. This is a fictional profile used to demonstrate OpenConsultant.

Skills

  • Frontend development · TypeScript, Vue, React, Astro
  • Design systems · Storybook, Design tokens, Component libraries
  • Accessibility · WCAG 2.2, Assistive technology testing

Experience

  • Senior Frontend Developer, Example Consulting · Mar 2019 to present
  • Frontend Developer, Example Retail Group · Aug 2014 to Feb 2019

Reference projects

  • Design system for a national retailer · Component library and design tokens shared by web and app teams.

Education and certificates

  • Bachelor, Computer Science, Example University
  • Certified Professional in Web Accessibility, Example Accessibility Board

Languages

  • Swedish (Native speaker)
  • English (Fluent)

Published by Example Consulting. Updated 1 October 2026.
Source: https://openconsultant.io/examples/profile.json

See the same profile as data

Agencies and platforms

A better foundation for everyone.

Open standards don't remove the need for expertise in sourcing, matching or procurement.

They remove the need to maintain the same information in multiple places.

Agencies and platforms remain free to build services around the information: helping companies discover talent, evaluating candidates, coordinating assignments and managing relationships.

The difference is that the original information stays with the company that owns it.

Who does what

A decision for the business. A small task for a developer.

For the business

Decide which consultants to publish and what to say about them, and make sure each of them knows. After that, you keep the information current in one place.

Why we are doing this

For the developer

A feed on your website: a few files in an open format, generated from the system where your profiles already live. The documentation explains every step.

Read the documentation

The other half

You publish who can do the work. Your clients publish what they need.

OpenAssignment is the sister standard for companies that need expertise. They publish their consulting assignments on their own websites in the same open way.

The two standards bring consultants and assignments closer together, but neither depends on the other.

Visit OpenAssignment

Make your consultants discoverable.

Publish at the source. Connect across the market.

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