A plain answer for mentors: what’s structurally different, so you can judge it yourself.
A specialist runs the layer around your mentoring — the offer, the page, the matching, the session tracking — on our platform. You approve everything. It ships under your name. That’s the whole model: not an agency that builds and disappears, not one more app that hands you another login and leaves the admin yours.
The gap it closes is administrative, not philosophical. Matching by hand takes ten minutes a pair. Manually run programs strain past 50 participants. And the number worth having — mentees stay at 72%, against 49% for non-participants — can only be claimed by a program that tracks its sessions. Agencies won’t track them. Software waits for you to. We do both, as one team that answers for the result. If you find another company doing that whole job, we’d genuinely like to know.
The AI question, answered before your mentees ask it: AI makes our specialists faster. It never makes the decisions. A founder recently wrote about firing her agency — “They weren’t using AI as a tool. They were outsourcing their taste to it… I want AI to make talented people faster. I don’t want it to make mediocre work cheaper.” She’s right, and the numbers agree: content people merely suspect is machine-written rates 48% less trustworthy, 57% less authentic, with 60% lower emotional connection — suspicion alone does the damage. That’s why every deliverable here carries a named specialist’s sign-off. AI drafts. A specialist reviews. You approve. It ships as you.
And the harder question — will we exist next year? Platforms in this space have shut down and stranded their customers; Practice.do and Profi are both gone. Our answer: independent, revenue-funded, flat pricing, and your data exportable from day one. If we ever part ways, you leave with everything — your page, your pairs, your records. How switching works →
Want the receipts — named competitors, public prices, linked sources? The full case is here.
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