Mentor is Phase 1. Here's the rest.
One company. Two product surfaces. One data loop that gets better with every apprentice who uses it. What you see in Phase 1 is the foundation — every data structure in Mentor is designed to be read by Office, and every job event in Office feeds back into Mentor's curriculum.
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Phase 1
Mentor — Voice-First AI Tutor
Mentor is a voice-first AI tutor that lives in the Crew Rise app. An apprentice can ask a code question mid-pull, describe what they are looking at, or request a quick drill before a task. It talks back — the same voice across every interaction, tuned to cut through background noise. It knows the apprentice's tier (helper through master electrician) and adjusts what it explains and how.
Mentor has three reference tools it calls mid-conversation: Ask Code (NEC retrieval), Vision (photo analysis), and Learn drills (quick check-your-understanding quizzes). Single-press on a Bluetooth earbud starts a short conversation; silence auto-ends it. The phone stays in the pocket. This is not a design flourish — it is the reason apprentices use it mid-task instead of waiting until they are off the clock.
Before Mentor says its first word, it runs a 60-to-90-second voice handshake at sign-up — three questions about the kind of work the apprentice does, not about how long they have been doing it. From that conversation, Mentor sets a register: beginner, intermediate, journeyman, or code_mastery. Drift detection runs in the background, watching how the apprentice engages with harder material and adjusting register over time.
- Voice-first AI tutor, one earbud
- 200 NC electrical lessons, NEC Ch. 1–9
- NC state code adoption record
- SME-signed curriculum (Joseph Torrance)
- Ask Code — NEC retrieval mid-conversation
- Vision — photo analysis
- Learn drills — quick competency checks
- Sponsor dashboard with cohort roll-ups
- Hours audit trail (DOL RI documentation)
- Competency demonstration table
- Insights Loop reports (topic gaps + failure patterns)
- DOL Circular 2026-01 aligned
- ApprenticeshipNC compatible
Phase 2
Office — Operations Layer for Contractors
Office is the operations layer for the contractors whose apprentices are in Mentor. It is not a separate product that happens to share a name — it is the other half of the same data loop. Built for the contractor who employs the apprentice.
Office tracks labor costs at the job level. Time entries connect to jobs, job types, and the apprentice tier of the worker logging time — so a contractor knows what their actual blended labor rate is on a given project. T&M work gets its own log structure: parts, hours, and markup in one place. No more reconstructing T&M invoices from text messages and memory.
The cross-pollination between Mentor and Office is what makes both worth more. From Mentor to Office: every apprentice's mastery record is visible to the contractor. From Office to Mentor: jobsite events — a code violation corrected, an OSHA incident logged, a specific job type completed — generate signals that feed back into the curriculum. The panel your apprentice wired wrong on Tuesday becomes Wednesday's lesson.
- Jobcost and time tracking (job-level)
- T&M ticket log (parts + hours + markup)
- OSHA forms, daily reports, safety sign-offs
- Purchase orders and vendor management
- Plans and projects across all active work
- Brady label printing
- Google Drive sync
- Owner dashboards (margin by job type, open POs)
- Apprentice mastery record visible in Office
- Jobsite events feed Mentor curriculum
Phase 3
National — Multi-Trade, Multi-State
Phase 3 is not a product announcement. It is the reason the architecture of Phases 1 and 2 was built the way it was. The State Code Adoption Engine already tracks 50 states for electrical. Extending it to plumbing, HVAC/mechanical, carpentry, and sheet metal is a matter of data, not a rebuild. The Mentor voice layer, the competency table structure, and the sponsor dashboard work for any trade that has an apprenticeship program with a Related Instruction requirement.
Geographic expansion follows trade expansion: NC to SC, VA, GA, and FL — states with active registered apprenticeship programs and existing contractor relationships that are already in conversations with Crew Rise. The federal recognition pathway — once established in NC through ApprenticeshipNC — becomes the template for replication in additional states.
Hardware as a service is on the horizon too. ANSI-rated PPE and OSHA-compliant audio gear, sourced through an affiliate program and recommended at the point in Mentor's curriculum where it is relevant — not a merchandise store, but a recommendation engine that knows when an apprentice is doing work that requires a specific piece of gear.
- Plumbing, HVAC/mechanical, carpentry, sheet metal
- NC → SC → VA → GA → FL expansion
- Multi-state code adoption engine (204 rows, 50 states)
- Federal RI recognition replication — ApprenticeshipNC as template
- ANSI-rated earbud + audio gear recommendation engine
- State Apprenticeship Agency partnerships
This is not two products bolted together.
Crew Rise is one company with a master plan. What you see in Phase 1 is not a standalone training app that will be retired when Office ships. It is the foundation. The competency data structures in Mentor are designed to be read by Office. The job type and incident data structures in Office are designed to feed back into Mentor. The same voice that teaches an apprentice in Phase 1 will, in Phase 3, be the voice that tells a sheet metal apprentice in South Carolina what the code says about duct leakage rates.
Every phase is meaningful alone. Every phase is more valuable because the others exist.
- Phase 1 Mentor builds the apprentice record and the sponsor's compliance foundation
- Phase 2 Office builds the operational layer that reads and feeds that record
- Phase 3 National expansion replicates the loop across trades and states
- The data flywheel means the curriculum improves faster than any static content library can match
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