In this talk we emphasise the importance of vector-like quarks (VLQs) and their potential to solve some of the open questions of the Standard Model. These are, in some sense minimal extensions of the Standard Model, that can be probed in the next round of experiments.
We also make an analogy between vector-like quarks(VLQs) and right-handed neutrinos, emphasising that in both cases some of the flavour dogmas of the SM are violated in a controlled way.