How listings are chosen
Published so the answer to any question about this library is a lookup, not an argument.
Nobody pays to be listed
Listing is free and stays free. No tool has paid to be listed, no tool has paid for its place in the order, and no tool can. Entry and order are the only two things a reader has reason to trust, so neither is for sale.
Ordering is alphabetical inside each category, and it is sorted by the build. If that ever changes, it changes here first.
Every application is judged against the same criteria below. A free application is reviewed in the order it arrived. There is no time promise, and the queue can be long, so it can take a while.
Two paid options are coming, and neither is live yet. This page will give the date when each one is.
Express review gets a decision within 3 business days of payment. If the tool is not approved on that first attempt, you get written feedback on what would need to change. The fee is not refundable once paid; the terms page has the details. It never buys entry, a position, a rating, or a softer standard. The same criteria apply, and a tool that fails them is not listed. A listing that used express review says so where you read it. The note reads "Express review."
A paid placement is either a sponsored label on a listing that is already in the library, or a separate featured slot above the directory. It is not a listing. Either way it carries the word sponsored where you read it, and its outbound link carries rel="sponsored". That is Google's requirement for a paid link and the Federal Trade Commission's for a material connection. A placement never changes entry to the library or the alphabetical order inside a category.
Every outbound link on a listing also carries rel="nofollow", including listings that used express review. That meets Google's rule for paid links.
What a listing is, and is not
A listing summarizes what a provider publishes about its own product, on a date recorded with the entry. It is not a review, not a test, and not an endorsement. Nobody here has run a mentoring program on all twelve platforms, and a page that implied otherwise would be lying.
There are no ratings, no scores, and no testimonials, because there is no honest way to produce them at this size. There are no prices either. Pricing changes faster than any directory updates, so each entry links to the provider's own pricing page instead.
What gets a tool listed
- It is a real, live product with a public product or pricing page.
- It serves coaching, mentoring, course, or community work.
- The company behind it can be identified.
- It is not a white-label resale of something already listed.
- Its claims can be checked against its own public pages.
What does not get listed
- Dead or parked sites.
- Multi-level marketing and get-rich programs.
- Lead generation shells with no product behind them.
- Anything that cannot be verified from its own public pages.
What gets a tool removed
- The site is dead, or the company was acquired and the product retired.
- The product pivoted away from this work.
- It was misrepresented at application.
- It has gone twelve months without a successful recheck.
Corrections
Every entry records the date its provider pages were checked. If something is wrong, say so and it gets fixed, whether you work there or not. Write to hello@mentr.me, or submit a tool that is missing.