Porvelo
Porvelo is an AI mentorship platform built around one problem: finding a great mentor is rare luck, and it shouldn't be.
The model: you get a personal AI coach that builds on your work over time and learns how you think. Human expert sessions are bookable when you need a real conversation. Proof of work, on record, is built in. Not as a credential, but as a way to make your progress legible to yourself and others.
It's not just for engineers. The missing-mentor problem isn't a developer problem. Anyone building real capability through real work: PMs, designers, writers, marketers, researchers. The platform is designed for all of them.
I'm building it because I spent nearly a decade teaching and mentoring before I became an engineer, and I've seen up close what one good mentor does to a person's trajectory, and how rarely people get one. The math has always been wrong. AI is the first thing that makes the math different.
I write about the process on this blog honestly, without pretending I've figured out things I haven't.