Designing
Mentor Tooling
Lightweight workflows for research mentorship
Why Mentorship Needs Better Tools
India is rich in research-minded students and mentors, but poor in infrastructure that helps them work side-by-side. Version control, note-taking, citation tracking, ethics approvals, and publishing support are scattered across heavyweight tools that don't adapt well to mentorship.
We're designing minimal, opinionated tooling that keeps mentors and students aligned—from hypothesis to submission—without overwhelming them.
Tooling Pillars
What we're prototyping
Shared working canvas
A unified space for literature, experiments, and reflections that surfaces open questions and suggested next actions for both mentor and mentee.
Snippets to paper
Turning annotated notes and experiment logs into structured drafts, with templates that make publication less intimidating.
Mentorship telemetry
Lightweight signals that help mentors see where mentees are blocked, and help institutions evaluate the health of programmes without surveillance.
Co-Design Partners
We're interviewing research mentors, fellowship leads, and student initiative organisers to shape the first release. The work remains self-funded while we co-design the workflows.
Get Involved
Mentorship programme leads
Design researchers
Share your mentorship context by emailing tanay@ongroundlabs.org