The right mentor, for the right team, on the right idea.
Onement matches mentors, students and business ideas by skills, domains and stage — and explains every match. Students pick an idea proposed by a mentor or bring their own and ask for mentoring at any time. Each team then gets a workspace: discussions, documents, tasks and a mentoring log.
Mentors
Describe their domains, skills, the stages they can help with and how many teams they can take on.
Students
Note their skills and interests, then join an idea proposed by a mentor or start their own team.
Ideas
Each idea says which skills it needs. Onement looks at what the team already covers and what is missing.
Recommendations that say why
No black box: next to every score, the reasons in plain words — and the warnings.
- Direct experience in the idea's domain, or in a neighbouring one
- Skills the team is missing, covered by the mentor
- Stage fit: idea, validation, MVP, traction
- Only mentors with free places are shown first; capacity is respected automatically
- Coordinators can adjust the weights of each criterion (Pro)
Ideas proposed by mentors
A mentor publishes an idea and the skills it needs. Students see it ranked for their own profile and apply with a short motivation.
- Applicants ranked by how much they complete the team
- Live view of which skills are covered and which are still missing
- Accept into the team in one click; the contact details appear only after acceptance
- Limits on simultaneous applications, so nobody blocks every idea
Your own idea, a mentor at any time
Students who come with their own idea get the most suitable mentors and send requests asynchronously — no need to wait for a workshop.
- Several requests at once; when one mentor accepts, the others are withdrawn automatically
- Requests expire after a number of days set by the SAS
- A mentor who declines is not asked again for 30 days
- E-mail notifications for every decision
A workspace for every team
Once the team is formed, everything lives in one place — not in ten WhatsApp groups and lost Drive folders.
- Threaded discussions with @mentions and an e-mail digest every few minutes
- Documents and links: uploaded to Onement, or in your SAS's Nextcloud on Pro — team members need no Nextcloud account
- Tasks with owner, deadline and the stage they lead to (validation, MVP…)
- Mentoring log: date, notes, decisions and next steps after every meeting
- A permanent meeting link (Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Zoom) for the team
Coordinators see the whole programme
One page answers the questions that matter during a mentoring programme.
- How many students have a complete profile, how many ideas still have no mentor
- Each mentor's load, and requests left unanswered for more than 3 days
- Invitations for mentors and the team; student sign-up with a workshop code
- Access to every team's workspace, with moderation
- Full export and archiving of the organization at the end of the year (on request)
Demo Day with judges, ranking and prizes
At the end of the programme, teams pitch their ideas. Onement handles sign-ups, judges' scorecards and the ranking.
- Judges from the SAS or invited from outside (sponsors, investors), who only see their competition
- Weighted criteria and scoring from the phone, in the room
- Nobody scores their own team — conflicts of interest are blocked automatically
- Automatic ranking, with the spread between judges and CSV export
- Prizes by place and sponsor prizes; anonymous feedback for every team (Pro)
Certificates that can be verified
At the end of the programme, everyone who took part gets a PDF certificate — with a QR code anyone can scan to check it is genuine.
- Participation, completion, mentor, judge and prize certificates
- Rules propose who has earned one (e.g. 3 mentoring meetings and 3 completed tasks); the coordinator approves
- Sent by e-mail and kept in each member's account
- Public verification page; a certificate issued by mistake can be revoked
- Your SAS's or university's logo and colour, and a second signature (Pro)
Sponsors who come back next year
Keep track of every partner — from the first meeting to the thank-you — and show them, with numbers, what their support achieved.
- Sponsor register: tier (main, Gold, Silver, media…), stage from prospect to active, contact and internal notes
- Contributions in money, in kind, services or prizes — pledged, received, overdue — with CSV export
- A public partners page for your SAS, with logos, and sponsor logos on the Demo Day page
- Prizes linked to the sponsor; its logo on the winners' certificates
- Impact report for each sponsor, ready to print or save as PDF, plus a partnership certificate
From idea to traction, with proof
Teams record every step forward with evidence; mentors confirm it. The best projects go into a public showcase where sponsors and investors can write to them.
- Stages idea → validation → MVP → traction, with evidence, confirmed by the mentor
- Other milestones too: first paying customers, funding, accelerators
- Office hours: mentors publish free slots, students book them; calendar invite and a reminder the day before
- Public project showcase (Pro), approved by the coordinators, with a contact form for each team
- A review queue for mentors and coordinators: nothing waits forgotten
How it works
From the first workshop to active teams, in one afternoon.
Invite the mentors
The coordinator sends invitations. Mentors fill in their profile in about five minutes.
Students sign up
With the code shown at the workshop: skills, interests, how many hours a week they have.
Ideas and matching
Mentors propose ideas, students bring their own. Onement recommends both ways, with reasons.
Teams get to work
Accepted requests become mentorships, and each team gets its workspace.
One platform, three roles
- Overview of students, mentors and ideas
- Invitations, sign-up code, rules for requests
- Workspace settings: Onement or Nextcloud
- Weights of the matching criteria (Pro)
- A profile with domains, skills and stages
- Proposes ideas and chooses the team
- Accepts requests within their capacity
- Keeps the mentoring log for each team
- A profile with skills and interests
- Ranked ideas and mentors, with reasons
- Applies to ideas or leads their own team
- Discussions, documents and tasks with the team
Plans
Start free with your SAS. Move to Pro when the programme grows or you want your own Nextcloud and matching weights.
Free
For a SAS validating the programme.
- Mentors15
- Students200
- Open ideas40
- SAS team members3
- Team workspaces✓
- Document storage500 MB
- Max. file size20 MB
- Documents in your Nextcloud—
- Custom matching weights—
- Your own domains and skills—
- Competitions & judging—
- Certificates with QR verification✓
- SAS logo and colour on certificates—
- Sponsors, partners and impact report—
- Progress stages and office hours✓
- Public project showcase—
Pro
For programmes running all year.
- Mentors500
- Students10,000
- Open ideas2,000
- SAS team members25
- Team workspaces✓
- Document storage10 GB
- Max. file size90 MB
- Documents in your Nextcloud✓
- Custom matching weights✓
- Your own domains and skills✓
- Competitions & judging✓
- Certificates with QR verification✓
- SAS logo and colour on certificates✓
- Sponsors, partners and impact report✓
- Progress stages and office hours✓
- Public project showcase✓
InstitutionalComing soon
Universities and networks of SAS.
- Several organizations✓
- Data processing agreement, signed✓
- Onboarding session✓
- Priority support✓
Personal data handled with care
Students and mentors share their profiles to be matched — nothing more.
- Explicit consent when a student signs up, with the SAS named as data controller
- A student's e-mail becomes visible to a mentor only after the request is accepted
- Deleting an account removes the profile; the team keeps the ideas and documents
- No tracking cookies, no analytics, no advertising — only the sign-in session cookie
- Automatic encrypted backups in the EU, kept at most 190 days
- Full export of the organization and restore into a new space
Frequently asked questions
How is the match score calculated?
For a mentor and an idea: domain experience (exact or neighbouring), the skills the idea needs — especially those the team is missing — the stage, and practical details such as language and format. For a student and an idea: interest in the domain and how much they would add to the team. Each criterion has a weight; missing information does not count against anyone.
Do we have to run everything at a workshop?
No. Workshops are a good start (students sign up with the code on the screen), but requests for mentoring can be sent at any time and mentors answer when they can.
Can a mentor be overwhelmed with requests?
Each mentor sets how many teams they take on. When the places are full, they no longer appear first in recommendations, and accepting beyond capacity is blocked.
What if our SAS already uses Nextcloud?
On Pro, the SAS administrator connects its Nextcloud with an app password. Each team gets its own folder and a sharing link visible only to its members; documents can be edited in the browser if your server has Nextcloud Office or OnlyOffice.
Does it work with Teams or Google Meet?
Each team can save a permanent meeting link and mentors can add the link to each session in the log. Automatic meeting creation from Teams / Meet is planned.
Do students need to install an app?
No. Onement runs in any modern browser, on the phone as well as on the laptop.
Who owns the data?
Your SAS is the data controller for the profiles of its students and mentors; we process data only on your instructions, under a data processing agreement (GDPR art. 28).
Where is the data stored?
In the European Union (OCI region, e.g. EU — Frankfurt (eu-frankfurt-1)), in a PostgreSQL database with encrypted backups.
Can several SAS use it independently?
Yes. Each organization has its own address (e.g. sas-utcn.onement.ro), its own members and its own data; nothing is visible across organizations.
Do you have a mentoring workshop coming up?
Fill in the short form. We create your SAS space and send the administrator invitation, usually the same working day.
Questions? Write to us at contact@onement.ro