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Team Name : Team 4i

Title : MentorConnect

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Who is your Customer Segment: Education Institutions

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Idea/Innovation Title: Mentorconnect

Prepared By: Nishant Maurya

Problem Statement Canvas

YUKTI Proto ID: IR2025-968945

Date of Submission:

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The problem occurs during mentoring sessions and day-to-day student life when non-academic issues arise, such as personal concerns, career confusion, missing scholarship info, placement doubts, stress, or lack of guidance outside academics.

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Non-academic mentoring is unstructured, offline, and inconsistent. There is no centralized digital system for tracking student well-being, personal growth, issues, scholarships, forms, placement guidance, or mentor feedback.

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They rely on WhatsApp groups, word-of-mouth, notice boards, isolated Google Forms, or informal conversations—none of which track non-academic issues or ensure proper follow-up.

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Colleges, departments, and faculty mentoring teams who are responsible for supporting students’ personal, academic, and career development. They face heavy workload, unstructured communication, and difficulty managing large mentoring groups—creating a need for a system that simplifies mentoring, improves follow-up, and reduces faculty effort.

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They provide no structured tracking of non-academic issues, no accountability loop, no centralized information, no analytics, and no proactive guidance. Everything remains scattered, informal, and unreliable

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Students feel confused, uninformed, and stressed because they don’t know where to get clear guidance for non-academic issues.

With 500–600 students, mentors face hundreds of repeated non-academic doubts, and multiple important non-academic records are lost each semester, leading to gaps in student tracking and heavy paper usage.

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Idea/Innovation Title: MentorConnect

YUKTI Proto ID: IR2025-968945

Business model canvas

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1. The Overview

We’re Team 4i — and we’ve spent the last year observing how mentoring actually works inside colleges.

  • We realized that something meant to guide students and support faculty has a gap no one notices until it’s too late.
  • Today, we’re here to show you what that gap is — and how we turned it into an opportunity for real change.

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2. The Problem

  • Mentoring is treated as a formality, neither students nor faculty give it the attention it deserves.�
  • There is no structured way to track a student’s growth beyond academic marks.�
  • Important non-academic information (scholarships, forms, updates, support) is scattered and often missed.�
  • Mentors manage guidance through manual forms, chats and memory, leading to inconsistent follow-up and lost issues.�
  • With NEP 2020 emphasizing socio-emotional support and holistic development, colleges urgently need a better way to deliver meaningful mentoring.

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3.The Solution

MentorConnect transforms mentoring from an informal, scattered process into a structured, intelligent, institution-wide system.�It gives students clarity, mentors control, and colleges visibility - all on a single platform.

Why It’s Compelling

Because instead of adding more work, MentorConnect organizes what everyone is already doing:

  • Students get guided mentorship and timely information�
  • Mentors get an effortless way to track, evaluate, and support�
  • Colleges get reliable, holistic data and smooth mentoring operations�
  • It removes communication gaps — no more missed opportunities, forgotten guidance, or scattered updates�
  • It brings consistency and accountability across the entire mentoring ecosystem, no matter the department or mentor

It turns mentoring into a measurable, meaningful part of college life - exactly what NEP 2020 demands.

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4. The Product/Service

Mentoring session taken via Mentorconnect

Value Proposition

A complete mentoring infrastructure for colleges — digital, structured, and intelligent.� MentorConnect becomes the backbone of how institutions guide, support, and track student development.

It reduces friction, brings consistency, and gives every stakeholder a clear, reliable system to work with.

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⭐ Benefits & Impact

  • Students grow holistically: achievements, skills, internships, and personal progress are finally visible.�
  • Mentors save hours: seamless evaluations, session tracking, and organized student insights.�
  • Colleges operate smoothly: ready-to-use data for NAAC and accreditation, no paperwork, no follow-up chaos.�
  • Institution-wide improvement: mentoring becomes measurable, uniform, and aligned with NEP 2020.�
  • Data-driven decisions: aggregate insights help departments understand trends and support students better.�

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5. Market & Opportunity

  • Mentoring already happens across 46,000+ Indian institutions, but it remains offline and inconsistent – creating a massive existing market with no proper system.�
  • Within this, 12,733 NAAC/NBA/autonomous colleges are required to run structured mentoring but lack a standard way to manage sessions, student progress, or follow-ups.�
  • Our core target market – 8,401 universities, autonomous, and affiliated UG Engineering/Technical colleges – handles thousands of students each, making manual mentoring unscalable.�
  • With NEP now demanding holistic development evidence, colleges urgently need a digital backbone to support the mentoring they already practice.�
  • This creates a strong opportunity for MentorConnect: institutions that already mentor, already face pain, and are actively seeking a scalable, organized solution.

SOURCE: AISHE, NAAC, NBA, UGC

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6. The Technology/Innovation

  • MentorConnect’s Phase 1 system is fully built, deployed, and tested with real students and faculty – not just a prototype.�
  • The platform operates at TRL 6–7, meaning it’s a validated solution proven in an actual college environment.�
  • Our structured mentoring architecture, session lifecycle, and semester drag-update model are proprietary workflows designed specifically for Indian mentoring practices.�
  • Phase 2 introduces a RAG-powered AI assistant that provides proactive guidance, answers doubts, and centralizes all institutional information.�
  • The combination of validated systems + protected workflows + intelligent AI expansion forms the core innovation that makes MentorConnect institution-ready and scalable.

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  • And with a clear roadmap ahead – scaling across departments, enabling AI-driven insights, and integrating with institutional systems – MentorConnect is positioned for long-term growth and wide adoption.

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7. Competitive Landscape

Potential Competitors

  • Vidyalaya ERP: Strong campus administration suite but no structured mentoring workflow.�
  • eSkooly: Free/basic ERP focusing on records, not mentoring or student development.�
  • Edunext ERP: Comprehensive admin automation but limited support for mentorship cycles.

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Barriers to Entry

  • Deep understanding of real mentoring workflows�
  • Proprietary structured mentoring lifecycle + action-tracking�
  • AI-driven knowledge assistant requiring curated institutional data

Opportunities for Collaboration

  • Integrations with existing ERPs as a dedicated mentoring module�
  • Co-creation with universities & departments for custom mentoring models

MentorConnect’s Advantage Over Competitors

  • Adds the missing mentoring layer that ERPs lack.�
  • Tracks non-academic growth (skills, goals, achievements, behavior).�
  • Offers an AI RAG assistant for instant answers, reminders & opportunities.�
  • Provides action-tracking & accountability, not just data storage.�
  • Gives real visibility & context, unlike static ERP records.

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8. Business Model

How MentorConnect Generates Revenue

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9. Traction

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  • Phase 1 successfully implemented in Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues College of Engineering (Fr. CRCE).�
  • 475 students in the department, and 330 mentoring forms filled till now through MentorConnect.�
  • Strong adoption in the Computer Engineering department.�
  • Other departments ECS, CSE, Mechanical have requested software after seeing results.�
  • Department has collected valuable non-academic data (internships, courses, higher-studies interest, skill development, etc.)�
  • Clear college-level validation and demand for expansion across departments.

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10. Resource Mobilisation Plan

Production Plan

  • Continue improving MentorConnect based on feedback from pilot users�
  • Complete Phase 2 features (AI assistant + student mobile app)�
  • Prepare a stable, scalable version for onboarding multiple colleges�
  • Use cloud-based deployment for easy maintenance and updates

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Resource Requirement (Human, Technology, Infrastructure)

  • Human Resources:� Small team of 2 developers, and 2 support/onboarding member.�
  • Technology:� Cloud hosting, database management, AI model integration, analytics tools�
  • Infrastructure:� Basic workspace, testing environment, and access to college partners for pilot implementation�

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Financial / Funding Sources

  • Currently bootstrapped (self-funded) with support from early mentors�
  • Planning to apply for incubation support and government grants�
  • Short-term goal: secure small seed funding for scaling pilots�
  • Long-term goal: explore partnerships or institutional funding for wider rollout

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11. Way forward Strategy

  • Join an incubation or entrepreneurship cell for support�
  • Convert MentorConnect into a registered startup.�
  • Complete Phase 2 development (AI assistant + student app)�
  • Expand pilot testing to more departments within our college

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  • Full product launch for external colleges
  • Onboard 5–10 colleges through demos and partnerships
  • Begin revenue through annual subscription model
  • Strengthen product with feedback-based improvements
  • Apply for seed grants or small-scale incubation funding

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  • Scale to 100+ institutions and expand to other states
  • Explore angel/VC funding for large-scale expansion
  • Position MentorConnect as a national-level student mentoring platform
  • Upscale our other products under same theme.

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Short Term (0–2 months)

Mid Term (2–6 months)

Long Term (6-12 months)

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12. The Team

  • Nishant Maurya (Project Lead) - Oversees both technical and strategic aspects of the project. Also handles business strategy along with Yash.

Core strength: Vision, leadership, and problem-solving.

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  • Vinish Rexson (Tech & Deployment Lead) - Focuses on backend development and deployment.

Core strength: Building reliable, scalable systems and handling deployments.

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  • Yash Punmiya(Frontend Developer) - Leads frontend development and ensures seamless user experience. Plays a key role in company-wide strategy with Nishant.

Core strength: UI/UX, product flow, and execution

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  • Sangeeta Parshionikar(Mentor) - Helped identify the core problem and shape the initial idea of the software, guided the development of Phase 1, and played a key role in bringing the first users from the college and supporting the pilot deployment.

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College - Fr.Conceicao Rodrigues College of engineering, Bandra(W), Mumbai.

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13. Contact

Leave your contact details and let people know how to reach you quickly

Nishant Maurya - +91 9653215070 - mauryanishant2005@gmail.com

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Yash Punmiya - +91 86574 08052 - yyash0379@gmail.com

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Vinish Rexson - +91 9137796495 - vinishrexson2005@gmail.com

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Company email - work@4istudios.in

Company website - 4istudios.in

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