Pocket Mentor is a mobile app delivering real, on-demand mentorship to help users gain clarity, take action, and stay accountable in their daily decisions and conversations. Unlike general AI chatbots, it remembers past commitments, tracks progress through weekly reviews, and holds users to their stated next steps. The app was built with input from elite performance coaches from AFL and Formula 1, bringing high-performance mentorship to anyone.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Traditional mentorship has always been reserved for those with the right network, financial means, or elite performance environments. As a result, most people lack access to consistent, quality guidance when facing important decisions, difficult conversations, and everyday responsibilities that demand clarity and accountability.
Solution
Pocket Mentor is a mobile application that provides real mentorship whenever users need it, replacing the need for a human coach in a user's corner. The app guides users through a structured process of sharing what is really going on, breaking it down into manageable steps, and identifying the single next step that matters most. It remembers what users commit to doing, asks about it in future sessions, and holds them accountable over time. The platform tracks weekly progress, showing what has moved and what the next step should be, all within a secure and private environment designed with zero judgment.
Target Audience
Primary users are high-performing individuals, professionals, and leaders who face daily decisions, difficult conversations, and significant responsibilities but lack access to elite-level mentorship. It also serves organisations looking to provide performance support to their people.
Features
- Session-based structure ("Bring it. Break it down. Take the next step.") that converts raw concerns into a single clear, actionable next step
- Persistent memory that recalls previous commitments and asks about them in subsequent conversations, driving accountability
- Weekly progress reviews that show what has moved and what the next step is
- Private and secure design with no data used to train public models and inbuilt guardrails
- Available on both iOS and Android platforms with over 1,658 user conversations recorded