About Mentor Explorer

That information exists, but it’s scattered: a detail in an interview, the price on a sales page that expires, the company in a public registry, the track record in a forum thread. Researching it properly takes half an hour per person, and half of what turns up are pages trying to sell you the very same course.

Mentor Explorer does that work once and organizes it: who they are, what they sell, at what price when it’s public, where they post, and what people who tried it say. Nothing more. The decision is still yours.

What you’ll find in a profile

• Who they are and what they do, in plain prose, without promotional adjectives.
• Their public companies and projects.
• The programs they sell, with the published price when there is one, and a clear note when there isn’t.
• Their official channels, so you can check for yourself.
• The sources behind every fact and the date it was checked.
• Reviews from other users, kept apart from the editorial text and labeled for what they are.

How we decide who to include

We don’t publish everyone, and that’s deliberate. Before creating a profile we check whether people are actually looking for it, using search engine autocomplete suggestions: if typing a name brings up questions about reviews, a course or a price, there’s a real question a profile can answer. If nobody is searching, the profile adds nothing and isn’t published.

The result is a smaller directory than it could be, and that’s the point. We’d rather have thirty profiles that answer a real question than three thousand mass-produced ones.

Where each fact comes from

From public sources: the person’s official website, their channels, the platforms where they sell and, when available, the press. Every profile lists its sources at the end and shows the date of the last check, because prices and offers change.

When a figure comes from the person’s own promotional material, such as revenue or student results, we say so explicitly. We never present as verified fact something only the seller claims.

What we don’t do

• We don’t rank the best mentors or recommend some over others.
• We don’t charge to be listed, to be removed or to improve a profile. There is no way to pay for that.
• We don’t sell the courses we describe or earn commissions on them.
• We don’t label anyone with accusatory terms. If there’s a controversy documented by the press, we cite the outlet and the date, without adjectives.
• We don’t summarize reviews collected by other websites. We only publish reviews written here, and they go through a moderation filter.

If you’re listed in the directory

Profiles are built from public professional information and stay within that sphere. If something is wrong or outdated, the “Are you this person, or is something wrong?” link on your profile goes straight to the people who maintain it. Corrections are made unconditionally and free of charge.

You can also write to info@mentorexplorer.com to provide official information, authorize the use of a photo of yourself or exercise your data rights. The details are in the legal notice and the privacy policy.

How it’s funded

For now, it isn’t. The project has no advertising, sells nothing and earns no commissions, so its costs are covered by the person who runs it. Advertising is planned once traffic justifies it, and when that happens it will be announced on this page and in the privacy policy.

What won’t change is the separation between what gets published and what gets earned: the people in the directory don’t pay, aren’t clients and have no way to influence their profile beyond providing accurate information. That rule is written into our editorial policy.

How it grows

Profiles are added by hand, one by one, based on public channels and on suggestions sent by users. If someone is missing, that’s the fastest way to get them looked at.