You ran the programme and you marked the homework.
Completion rates, satisfaction scores, a certificate with your logo on it. All of it produced by the same organisation that was paid to deliver the training. Everyone downstream knows this, which is why none of it survives contact with a hiring manager, a funder or a board.
The only credential that travels is one signed by someone with nothing to gain from signing it.
The programme spec.
What varies between organisations is the outcome. What never varies is the mechanism. So the outcome becomes a structured document rather than a long conversation — six fields, written once, and every party is held to it afterwards.
From a written outcome to a funded cohort.
Every step has a clock on it, written into the spec and visible to everyone. Without the clocks, a cohort start slips by a month and nobody can say whose fault it was.
With your account lead, or on your own if you're running a light programme. It takes one working session.
The spec, the terms and the rate go to matched mentors — an opportunity, never a contract. Open for 72 hours.
About fifteen minutes each: availability, rate, three lines of approach, matching experience. Nobody writes a programme for free.
Your account lead curates and recommends — they never just forward. Shortlist within 48 hours of the round closing.
The contract is created on selection. You decide within five working days, so a cohort start doesn't slip a month.
Now, inside the contract, as paid work. Checkpoints and what gets reviewed at each. You approve it before it reaches your people.
You fund a pool of the mentor's hours and are invoiced for it. Sessions draw down against the pool as they're delivered.
If nobody on the platform fits, we recruit to the spec. Your account lead sources a named mentor externally against your written outcome and fast-tracks verification. It's time-boxed, and we tell you the mentor is newly onboarded rather than letting you find out.
Two artifacts, deliberately separate.
You legitimately define what competence means on your own stack. If that definition flowed into the portable credential, the first sponsor with a soft bar would devalue every credential on the platform. So there are two.
Yours. Your standard, your branding.
Asserts that this person completed this programme and delivered these things, against the criteria in your spec. Issued on completion, org-branded, public and labelled as programme completion.
Ours. Fixed standard, signed by the mentor alone.
Asserts that this person can do X. The mentor can mark your programme complete and still withhold it. That veto is not a bug in the arrangement — it is the entire reason the record is credible outside your organisation.
Who sets the assessment bar.
It depends on what you're actually buying. If you're buying credibility your own reporting can't provide, you can't be the one defining competence — that would sell you nothing.
| If you are | Sets the bar | What you're buying |
|---|---|---|
| In-house L&D, or an agency | You do | Capability on your own stack, to your own definition of good. |
| Accelerator or NGO | Usually mixed | Capability for founders or beneficiaries — often advisory rather than mentorship. |
| Bootcamp or university | We do | Third-party credibility your own self-reported outcomes can't provide. |
| Government or sponsored programme | We do, plus your reporting fields | Defensible evidence of what the spend produced. |
Two ways to run it.
Under about 25 people. You run it.
A programme admin on your side, learner import, cohorts, self-serve sourcing and booking from mentors already on the platform. No assigned account lead, and no waiting on one.
Bigger cohorts. We run the loop.
An assigned account lead, a written Programme Spec, the full sourcing loop with recruit-to-spec, cohort outcome reporting and a substitution path if a mentor becomes unavailable mid-programme.
An account lead is a real person and a real cost, so managed programmes are reserved for contracts large enough to pay for that attention. We'd rather say that than sell you a manager you don't need.
You buy the reporting. The learner owns the record.
You receive exportable cohort outcome data for your own governance — participation, what was delivered, and how it landed against your spec. The person keeps the original, portable, after the contract ends. We don't sell it to anyone, and neither do you.
The mentor is accountable for delivering the approved plan, not for guaranteeing an outcome. We never promise a date or a result we don't control.
Start with the outcome you can't currently evidence.
Tell us who the group is and what they should be able to do at the end. We'll tell you honestly whether this is the right shape for it.