What I've needed in the past is more like "I need someone well-versed in this technology to answer me some questions for one hour" without actually finding a co

What I've needed in the past is more like "I need someone well-versed in this technology to answer me some questions for one hour" without actually finding a consultant or the billing hassle. Basically just like joining the project's IRC channel and hoping that someone has time - but with a guaranteed best effort and quick response. How is this different? It's usually not a single question where I am able to find an answer, or the community is actually quick and correct enough with an answer - it's more like "hey we used $tech for $thing and we have a feeling we did something wrong because $weirdproblem" and just scree nsharing actual closed source code would be a better explanation than trying to find a minimal repro case. In a past company we actually tried to find someone like this for a few specific OpenStack things but had no luck. But it wasn't enough to book a consultant for an extended period of time.