About Mentoring @ Invespire
Our mission
Good advice is often locked behind who you know or what you can pay. Mentoring @ Invespire exists to make one useful conversation with an experienced person easier to arrange, at no cost to either side.
We keep it small on purpose: find a mentor, agree a time, meet, and say how it went.
Principles
Free for everyone
There are no fees, subscriptions or paid tiers.
Quality through review
A person reads every mentor application. With no payment to deter bad actors, review is our main safety control.
Honest about limits
We say what the site does and does not do, and we do not promise outcomes from a mentoring session.
Respect for your time
Sessions have clear times, clear cancellation rules and reasons attached to every decline and cancellation.
Your tools, your call
Mentors choose the video service. Mentees choose whom to ask.
Privacy by restraint
We collect what the service needs to run: an account, bookings, messages and reviews. Other users do not see your email address.
How the platform works
Mentees search an approved directory and request a 60-minute slot from a mentor's weekly availability, shown in the viewer's time zone. The mentor accepts or declines and, on accepting, adds a Google Meet or Zoom link. The session happens outside Mentoring @ Invespire. After it ends, the mentee can leave a 1 to 5 star review and the mentor can reply once.
Bookings open a private conversation between the two people. Email and in-app notifications keep both sides informed about requests, answers, cancellations, messages and reviews.
How it is moderated
Mentoring @ Invespire has admins. They have a small set of tools, and they use them for the following jobs.
- Reviewing mentor applications and later edits to approved profiles, approving or rejecting each with a reason.
- Handling reports on reviews, mentor replies and messages, by removing the content or dismissing the report.
- Suspending accounts that break the rules. A suspended account cannot sign in, disappears from the directory, and has its upcoming sessions cancelled.
- Mentor names and photos are not part of the approval review. They can be reported like other content.
- Every report is read by a person. We acknowledge a grievance within 24 hours and resolve it within 15 days (see Report a concern or grievance). Serious safety concerns should also go to the relevant authorities.
What Mentoring @ Invespire is, and is not
What it is
- A small independent project that offers free mentoring sessions.
- A place to find approved mentors, book a time and keep a record of it.
- Built with standard, replaceable services, so it can move to different hosting later.
What it is not
- A company with a paid team or a round-the-clock support desk. It is run by a small team or person with limited time.
- An employer of mentors, or a guarantor of what mentors say.
- A video platform. Calls are on the mentor's link, and we do not host or record them.
- A payment service, a job board, or a source of qualifications or certificates.
- A replacement for professional medical, legal, financial or mental health help.
Who runs Mentoring @ Invespire
Mentoring @ Invespire is operated by Invespire Startup Management Private Limited. You can reach us at info@invespire.com.
Take part
Ask a mentor a question, or offer an hour of your own experience.