The RI delivery channel your program has been waiting for.
If you run a registered apprenticeship program under ApprenticeshipNC, your apprentices have a 144-hour-per-year Related Instruction requirement. Crew Rise Mentor gives you an additional RI delivery channel — voice-first, available when the apprentice is not in a classroom, and aligned to the code edition and state adoption record you already teach.
Schedule a 20-minute walkthrough.
We will show you the Mentor interface, walk through the sponsor dashboard, and answer the compliance questions specific to your program's structure under ApprenticeshipNC. No sales script — Joseph or a team member runs the call.
Email us to schedule2026 changed what a registered apprenticeship program is allowed to do.
Three regulatory actions in early 2026 reshaped the landscape. Crew Rise's architecture was designed around these provisions — because they describe exactly what Mentor is.
DOL Circular 2026-01 · March 9, 2026
Competency-based RI + SME instructors
Formally recognized competency-based Related Instruction as valid RI. Recognized licensed tradespeople as qualified RI instructors without a teaching credential. Recognized self-study and electronic media toward the 144-hour annual requirement.
TEGL 08-25 · April 10, 2026
SAEF4 funding for RI innovation
Provided formula-based SAEF4 funding to states including North Carolina to support innovation in registered apprenticeship programs. NC's allocation supports sponsors who are investing in RI infrastructure. Funding flows to sponsors, not directly to Crew Rise.
DOL Bulletin 2026-35
30-day program registration shot clock
Established a 30-day shot clock for program registration decisions, reducing friction for new sponsors. Programs moving now have a clearer path than those that moved two years ago.
Compliance-ready, not compliance-theater.
The sponsor dashboard shows what sponsors actually need to know: who is progressing, who is stuck, and whether the program has the documentation required for federal Related Instruction hour recognition under DOL Circular 2026-01.
Hours audit trail
Every lesson completed logs to an hours audit trail. Competency demonstrations write to a structured competency table — not a flat PDF. The audit trail is structured for the reporting format a DOL-registered program needs. When it is time to show a DOL or ApprenticeshipNC auditor that your RI hours were real, the data is there.
Cohort roll-ups and heatmaps
See per-cohort roll-ups, weak-area heatmaps by NEC chapter, and the specific lessons where apprentices are failing at higher-than-expected rates. The sponsor dashboard also shows a level distribution column: how many apprentices are operating at journeyman-register versus beginner-register, independent of paperwork-reported hours.
Insights Loop reports
Topic-gap reports surface which subjects apprentices are requesting outside the current curriculum. Failure-pattern reports show which lessons or question types are producing repeated wrong answers across a cohort. Sponsors can act on those signals — not just receive a grade distribution.
Your program stays your program.
Crew Rise is an RI delivery layer, not a registered apprenticeship sponsor. You keep ownership of your apprentices' records. Crew Rise does not sell that data, does not use it to train models on behalf of third parties without explicit consent, and provides full data export in a structured format on request. If a sponsor leaves Crew Rise, they take their data with them.
Because every Mentor interaction is a short, deliberate press-to-talk session — not a passive background stream — your dashboard reflects actual learning interactions, not minutes of background app activity. The engagement data you see is real.
NC's SAEF4 allocation under TEGL 08-25 is directed at supporting sponsor-side innovation in apprenticeship programs. Crew Rise positions sponsors to use those funds for RI delivery. We do not receive those funds directly — we help sponsors make the case that their investment in a modern RI system is a legitimate program expense.
Ready to see a sample MOU? Email us at admin@crewrise.app and we will send the sponsor agreement template within one business day.
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We'll reach out when pilot slots open and when the sponsor dashboard is ready for your cohort.