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Turn expertise into meaningful support.

Build your own branded mentoring and expert platform. Connect people with the expertise they need, support their work together, and manage delivery from one place.

The people. The process. The delivery.

We are the AI-powered platform for multi-stakeholder programs and ecosystems. Bring your mentor and expert network together with the tools to recruit participants, make relevant matches, deliver support and understand what is happening.

CONNECT

Recruit mentors, experts and participants through branded profiles and registration journeys.

MATCH

Connect support needs with relevant expertise through discovery, AI-assisted recommendations and controlled assignments.

ENGAGE

Bring communication, tasks, resources and engagement activity together to support progress.

MANAGE

Manage mentoring allowances and virtual credits, track engagements and report on delivery.

Build the network your program needs.

Create a branded destination for mentors, experts and participants. Understand what each person can offer and the support they are looking for.

Recruit and onboard

Configure registration journeys and profiles for each audience. Capture expertise, experience, interests, support needs and supporting documents.

Make expertise discoverable

Give participants searchable expert directories with filters relevant to your network. Control which profiles and information each audience can see.

Select the right participants

Use applications, review stages and scorecards where participation requires selection. Configure access as people join and progress through your program.

Connect each need with relevant expertise.

Help participants discover experts and support your team with ranked recommendations based on the information that matters to your program.

AI-assisted matching, human decisions

Compare the meaning of profile and opportunity information, not just identical keywords. Configure the fields used for recommendations, review candidates and manage assignments through your chosen workflow.

Give every relationship a place to progress

Bring assigned experts, participant or project details, communication, tasks and relevant resources together. Collect updates and feedback through configured forms and linked records.

Put your mentoring resources to work.

Connect expert support with a clear allowance and a record of how it is used. Configure credit budgets, log mentoring hours or credits, and manage confirmation of activity.

Manage mentoring allowances and credits

Allocate credits, track balances, used and pending amounts, and let authorized users log hours at a configured ratio or credits directly. Apply confirmation rules and spending limits around your program.

Custom dashboards and billing checks

Create custom dashboards to track mentor engagements and, where required, verify billing amounts against your client requirements. Keep engagement records and exports connected to operational reporting.

eleonora venuti

Skipso supported us to design, develop and launch the Federated Innovation @MIND digital platform.

The digital platform has a complex organizational structure and continually updated content and flows – Skipso's strength is its flexibility and proactive support!
Eleonora Venuti
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Marketing & Business Community Manager,  MIND

From fragmented manual processes to a unified expert engagement hub.

Multiple programmes unified on one platform, replacing manual processes, with AI-powered matching between clinicians, researchers, and MedTech companies, role-based access to relevant programmes and communities, and compliance-ready data exports for finance.
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Leading US Healthcare Network

From spreadsheets and static portals to a fully auditable supplier marketplace.

100s of curated suppliers onboarded with AI-powered, profile-based opportunity matching, a structured multi-stage approval workflow for every challenge, personalised opportunity recommendations, and a single platform replacing five-plus procurement tools, spreadsheets, and manual scoring processes.
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UK Central Government Organisation

Building California's cleantech innovation community in one connected platform

350+ startups & SMEs active on the platform
550+ public and private organisations connected
900+ active ecosystem users across the cleantech community
AI-powered recommendations surfacing relevant content, opportunities, and connections for every member type
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Empower Innovation (California Energy Commission)

The Skipso team has worked incredibly hard to make the program an outstanding success.

The team’s effort as well as the high flexibility of their online awards management platform were absolutely essential for the great overall success of this program!
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Digital Promise

The Skipso team has worked incredibly hard to make the program an outstanding success.

The team’s effort as well as the high flexibility of their online awards management platform were absolutely essential for the great overall success of this program!
Arne Pingel
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Global Product Manager, Syngenta

Your brand. Your process. Your platform.

A platform shaped around you

A few practical
questions.

Can we run a standalone mentoring program?

Yes. We configure profiles, participation, matching and engagement tools around your program. Mentoring can also sit within an accelerator, advisory network or broader ecosystem.

Do participants choose experts or does our team match them?

We can configure searchable directories and connection requests, administrator-managed assignments, or a combination. AI-assisted recommendations can support your team's review.

How do mentoring allowances and virtual credits work?

Allocate a credit budget, let authorized users log hours at a configured ratio or spend credits directly, and apply confirmation rules where needed. Balance, used and pending amounts help track usage. Virtual credits are available to any client who wants them.

Can we control what different audiences see?

Yes. We configure registration, dashboards, profiles, navigation and permissions around your audiences. Access can also depend on ownership, participation status and assignments.

Can the same network support several programs?

Yes. Shared expert profiles can support multiple programs, with program-specific participation, assignments and visibility configured during setup.

Is calendar booking available if we need it?

Yes. Calendar booking is optional when your program needs session scheduling. Full mentor booking coordination and external calendar synchronization use the Cronofy add-on. Credit logging and calendar booking are separate capabilities today.