Managing an expert network

What you'll do

This page is the reference for running an expert network on Kalivar after it's created. Use it to manage your roster, understand how physician credentialing works at the network level, see what your payout options are today, and recognize the lifecycle states a member of your network can be in.

Network dashboard

When you open your network by slug (/your-network-slug), you land on the network context. The landing surface is a simple network home; the day-to-day administration happens under Settings.

A few things to be aware of:

• The firm-only routes (Cases, Experts directory, Introductions, firm billing) are intentionally hidden for expert networks. Networks don't post cases or pay subscriptions, so those entries don't appear in your nav.
• Network-wide earnings forecasting is not a built-in dashboard today. Each physician on your roster sees their own Earnings page, and you can ask members for visibility — see Payout routing below.
• Switching between your personal context and the network context uses the same org switcher used elsewhere on the platform.

Roster management

Open Settings → Members under your network to manage the roster.

• Invite a single physician. Enter the physician's email and pick a role (member, admin, or owner). They receive an invitation link by email.
• Invite a batch. Use the Batch invite tab to paste multiple physician emails at once when standing up the network. Roles are applied uniformly; you can adjust individual roles later.
• Pending invitations. The members page shows outstanding invitations alongside accepted physicians. You can revoke an invitation from the action menu before the recipient accepts.
• Removing a physician. Use the action menu on a physician row to remove them from the network. Removal is immediate and ends their network affiliation, but their personal Kalivar account, NPI verification, opinions, and earnings history are unaffected.

Credentialing

Kalivar credentials physicians at the user level, not at the network level. There is no network-wide bulk credentialing today; each physician you invite goes through the platform's standard credentialing flow:

1. They confirm identity and contact details on the About you step.
2. They verify their NPI through NPPES — Kalivar pulls the registry record and matches the legal name they entered.
3. They list their specialties, which feed the matching engine that routes cases to their feed.
4. They complete their detailed practitioner profile (board certifications, fellowships, hospital affiliations, fee schedule) on their Profile → Extended page.

What the network can see and do:

• The network's affiliation with the physician shows on their public profile alongside the network bio you set on the network profile.
• The network does not see the physician's NPI or PII beyond what's on the members directory; credentialing data is the physician's.
• If a physician's verification is flagged or pending, that is between the physician and Kalivar's review process — the network is informed via the member's status badge but does not act on it.

Payout routing

Today, payouts settle directly to each physician's own Stripe Connect account. There is no network-level payout aggregation that intercepts physician earnings before they reach the physician — every rewarded opinion and completed paid introduction goes to the physician's connected account on the platform's standard payout cadence.

What this means in practice:

• Each physician completes Stripe Connect onboarding from their own Earnings page; the network cannot complete this on their behalf.
• The network does not need to set up its own Stripe Connect account to onboard physicians. There is nothing for the network to enable in order for payouts to flow.
• Changing a physician's payout destination is something the physician does in their own Stripe-hosted account settings. It applies going forward; transfers already initiated for prior opinions are not redirected.
• If your network's commercial agreement with a physician involves the network taking a cut, that arrangement is handled outside Kalivar — the platform pays the physician's connected account in full per their fee schedule and the firm's pricing.

The data model leaves room for additional payout methods (PayPal and cheque) and additional routing options in the future. None of those are wired up today; if and when they come online they will appear as choices on the same physician Earnings screen.

Member statuses

A physician on your network can be in one of a few states:

• Active. Accepted the invitation and completed their onboarding. They appear as a regular row on the members directory and are matched to cases by their specialties.
• Pending invitation. You sent an invitation but the physician hasn't accepted yet. The row shows under invitations rather than accepted members; you can revoke it before they accept.
• Onboarding incomplete. They accepted the invite but haven't finished credentialing (NPI step, specialties, profile). The platform won't surface them in case matching until their core profile is in place; the row stays in the directory.
• Suspended. A network owner has paused the physician's access to the network context. The member retains their Kalivar account and historical data; reactivating restores access. Note that suspension is enforced for law-firm members today — for expert networks, suspension is not the primary lifecycle tool, and removal is the typical action.
• Removed. No longer on the network. Their personal account, opinion history, and earnings are unchanged.

Tips

• Networks are not billed, so there's no plan tier or invoice to worry about — the entire Billing sub-tree is hidden for expert networks by design.
• Physicians keep their full earnings history if they leave a network. Past payouts and rewarded opinions stay on their personal account.
• Payout routing is per-physician, not per-network — once a physician is connected via Stripe, every future opinion goes to their account regardless of which networks they're affiliated with.
• A physician can be on multiple networks. Their case feed is driven by their specialties and history, not by the network's directory.

Related

• Earnings and payouts
• Glossary