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Spend Your Hours on the Teams, Not the Diary

Matched to the companies that need you, booked into the slots you offer, with notes turned into action items in a minute.

A mentor points with a pen at an action-item list on a laptop while three team members at a round table take notes, with a shared calendar on the wall behind them.

A Mentor's Month

How your time with a programme runs once IdeaScore keeps the diary.

  1. Joining

    Your expertise and hours

    The programme records what you know and the hours you can give, and flags it if you are booked past them.

  2. Matched

    The right companies

    Matching suggests mentors for each company by expertise and load.

  3. Every week

    Office hours

    Your slots open to every company in the programme, as a weekly series made in one go.

  4. After a session

    Notes to action items

    Three to five action items and a follow-up message, ready for you to send.

  5. Every month

    Your digest

    A monthly digest for every mentor, and ratings that come back both ways.

What IdeaScore Does for a Mentor

Mentoring

A directory that knows what you are good at

Your expertise, hours and ratings in the programme's directory, with a flag if you are booked past the hours you gave.

  • Sessions held and hours logged for every mentor
  • Fields the programme defines for its mentors
  • Go to any mentor from search
Seed Fund 2026 · Cohort III

Mentors

10 sessions this quarter

MentorSessions

Priya Raman

Go-to-market

4

Daniel Osei

Hardware scale-up

2

Meera Iyer

Regulatory and IP

3

Tom Whitfield

Fundraising

1

Sessions are logged against the company. Counts reset each quarter; the log does not.

Matching

Matched by expertise and load

Suggestions by expertise and load, so you meet the companies that need what you know, not whoever asked first.

  • Cohorts selected in IdeaScore or elsewhere
  • Milestones on track, at risk, blocked or done
  • Demo days, masterclasses and investor connects alongside
The Cohorts overview: one cohort with 12 members, members by cohort and milestone status.
Members, milestones and upcoming events for every cohort.
Office hours

Office hours the whole programme can book

Your slots open to every company, a weekly series made in one go, and a join link and calendar buttons on every session.

  • Cancel a session with a note both sides see
  • A cancelled slot can be booked again
  • Add to Google Calendar or Outlook
Seed Fund 2026 · Cohort III
Office hours · Priya RamanIndia time (IST)

Every Thursday, 16:00 to 18:00 · 30-minute slots · 6 weeks

Open to every company in the programme

Thu 23 Oct

  • 16:00Halcyon GridBooked
  • 16:30Quorum BioBooked
  • 17:00OpenFree
  • 17:30Orrin HealthBooked

Thu 16 Oct · attendance marked, 3 of 4 came

IdeaScore AI

Your notes become action items

Three to five action items from your notes, with who and by when, and a follow-up message you send yourself.

  • Reads that session's notes only
  • Names are swapped and contact details removed first
  • Free, within fair use
Seed Fund 2026 · Cohort III· Sessions

Notes to action items

Halcyon Grid · Go-to-market session · 14 Oct

  • Shortlist three feeder operators for the second pilotFounders · by 28 Oct
  • Share the tariff model with the mentor before the next callFounders · by 21 Oct
  • Introduce the team to the state discom's innovation cellMentor · by 4 Nov
  • Revisit pricing for sub-1 MW feedersBoth · by 18 Nov · Skipped

Nothing is sent for you. Names and contact details are removed first.

Ratings

Ratings both ways, after every session

Ratings both ways after every session, one overview of sessions and hours, and a monthly digest for every mentor.

  • Sessions by mentor and the rating spread
  • A monthly digest for every mentor
  • Cancelled sessions keep their note
The Mentors overview: six mentors, 15 sessions held, sessions by mentor and the rating spread.
Mentors, sessions held, hours logged and how founders rated them.
For founders

What founders see when they book you

Founders book your slots, rate sessions and report on milestones from a member space on their phone.

  • The same magic link they applied with
  • Demo days, masterclasses and investor connects with RSVPs
  • Quarterly KPIs that feed the programme's impact report

Halcyon Grid

Seed Fund 2026 · Cohort III

Needs you now

  • Q2 KPIs

    Due 15 Oct

    Jobs, revenue and follow-on funding

  • Utilisation certificate

    Due 31 Oct

    Tranche 2 · with the expense sheet

  • Milestone report

    Due 7 Nov

    First pilot on two feeders

Coming up

Office hours with Priya Raman

Thu 23 Oct · 16:00

  • Agreement
  • Checklist
  • Tranches
  • Milestones
  • Events
  • Mentoring
IdeaScore AI

What IdeaScore AI Does for You Here

One helper, after each session. It drafts; you decide what is kept and what is sent.

For the session's own mentor, once their mentor profile is linked to their IdeaScore account, and for programme admins. Another mentor cannot open a session that is not theirs.

  • Notes to action items

    Three to five action items, with who does each and by when, from one session's notes.

    Free · reads that session's notes only

  • A follow-up message

    A short note for the founders, shown as they would read it, with the kept items under it.

    Never sent by IdeaScore; you copy it

  • Names stay with you

    People's names are swapped for labels and contact details removed before anything is read.

    IdeaScore puts the names back itself

What It Takes Off Your Plate

  • Back-and-forth over times

    Availability slots and office hours that members book themselves.

  • Writing up a session

    Action items from your notes, saved to the session.

  • Drafting the follow-up

    A message for the founders, ready to copy.

  • Overcommitting

    A flag when you are booked past the hours you gave.

  • Time zone arithmetic

    The programme's time, with your own alongside when you are elsewhere.

  • Hunting for the meeting link

    A join link and Add to calendar on every session.

  • Cancelling politely

    One note, seen by both sides, and the slot opens again.

  • Wondering how it went

    Ratings that come back both ways after every session.

  • Keeping track

    A monthly digest for every mentor.

Questions Mentors Ask

No. The programme offers your availability slots, or your office hours to every company in the programme, and members book them themselves. Each session carries its join link and Add to Google Calendar or Outlook.
No. Notes to action items drafts the items and the message; you save the items to the session and copy the message to send from your own email or chat. Nothing is ever sent for you.
The session's own mentor and the programme's admins. Another mentor cannot open a session that is not theirs.
The programme sees it: mentors booked past the hours they committed are flagged, so the load can be moved before it becomes a problem.
Matching suggests mentors for each cohort member by expertise and load. The programme team reviews the suggestions and schedules the sessions.
The session is cancelled with a note for both sides. Both are told, the note stays on the session, and the slot can be booked again.

Give Your Mentors Their Hours Back

A 30-minute walkthrough with a product specialist, from matching and office hours to the monthly digest.

A mentor points with a pen at an action-item list on a laptop while three team members at a round table take notes, with a shared calendar on the wall behind them.

A Mentor's Month

  1. JoiningYour expertise and hours

  2. MatchedThe right companies

  3. Every weekOffice hours

  4. After a sessionNotes to action items

  5. Every monthYour digest

What IdeaScore Does for a Mentor

A directory that knows what you are good at

Your expertise, hours and ratings in the programme's directory, with a flag if you are booked past the hours you gave.

  • Sessions held and hours logged for every mentor
  • Fields the programme defines for its mentors
Seed Fund 2026 · Cohort III

Mentors

10 sessions this quarter

MentorSessions

Priya Raman

Go-to-market

4

Daniel Osei

Hardware scale-up

2

Meera Iyer

Regulatory and IP

3

Tom Whitfield

Fundraising

1

Sessions are logged against the company. Counts reset each quarter; the log does not.

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