About LetsConnectIn

LetsConnectIn is a lightweight mentoring platform for organizations that want mentorship to actually happen — without spreadsheets, chasing people by email, or enterprise pricing. It matches mentors and mentees on shared goals, keeps pairs meeting with automatic nudges, and gives program admins real visibility. Alongside mentoring, it includes connection programs: 1:1 networking roulette, topic-based water-cooler groups, and a personal follow-up tracker.

Watch the demo

A 45-second narrated walk-through (captions included) — the member enrollment wizard, then the admin matching round, through to a tracked mentorship.

The complete how-to guide

Everything below takes most teams under ten minutes to set up.

1. Getting started

Create an account from the sign-up page — all you need is a name, email, and password. If you're joining an existing program, ask your admin for the 8-character join code, then enter it under “Join a program” on your dashboard. If you're starting a program, click “New program”, name it, and you'll get a join code to share. Programs can be open (anyone with the code joins instantly) or restricted (the admin approves each member).

2. For program admins

Becoming an admin. Whoever creates a program is its owner and first admin — there's no separate admin signup. To add co-admins: they join with the program code like any member, and once they're approved, the owner promotes them — either with the “Make admin” button next to their name in the member list, or by adding their email in the “Program admins” card on the program page. Co-admins get the full mentoring console (approvals, matching, publishing, reports); only the owner can add or remove admins. Owners can also demote a co-admin at any time with the Remove button.

Enrollment. Members open your program and choose a role: mentor, mentee, or both. Mentors set how many mentees they can take (1–5) and pick their areas of expertise; mentees pick the areas they want to grow in — leadership, career growth, technical skills, communication, industry knowledge, or work-life balance.

Matching. In the Mentoring console, click “Run matching round”. Every viable mentor–mentee pairing is scored: three points per shared area, a bonus for cross-department pairs (so mentees get perspective from outside their team), and mentor capacity is always respected. The same two people are never paired twice. Nothing is sent yet — matches land in a proposed list.

Review & publish. Look over each proposal with its score. Discard any pair that doesn't feel right, or use manual match to pair specific people. When you're happy, click “Publish & notify” — both people in every pair get an intro email with a first-meeting kit: ice-breakers, a goal-setting template, and cadence suggestions.

Monitoring. The console shows enrolled counts, active pairs, unmatched mentees, and average satisfaction. Pairs that haven't logged a session within your cadence (default: every two weeks) are flagged “no recent session”. You also get a weekly email digest, and after two missed cadence periods a pair is escalated to you directly.

Reporting. “Export CSV” downloads every match with status, score, start date, session counts, and end reasons — ready for your leadership deck or HR compliance.

Plans. You pay only for active mentoring participants: Free covers 10, Growth ($149/mo) covers 50, Business ($449/mo) covers 250, and Scale ($999/mo) is unlimited. Limits apply when you publish matches, and connection programs never count toward them. See the pricing page for annual and nonprofit discounts.

3. For mentors

Enroll as a mentor, set your capacity, and pick your expertise areas. You'll be matched in the next round — or mentees may request you directly from the mentor directory, which you can accept or decline from “My mentorships”.

After each conversation, log a quick session note with next steps — it takes thirty seconds and it's what keeps the program visible to your admin and the nudges off your back. Help your mentee set 1–3 goals early and mark them done as they land.

4. For mentees

Enroll as a mentee and choose the areas you want to grow in — these drive the matching, so be honest rather than exhaustive. Prefer to choose your own mentor? Open “Browse mentors”, see each mentor's areas (shared ones are highlighted) and availability, and send a request.

Once matched, open your mentorship page: set your goals, log sessions, and keep next steps written down. When the mentorship wraps up, mark it completed and leave a 1–5 rating with feedback — admins use this to make the next round better.

5. Connection programs (beyond mentoring)

Networking roulette pairs members 1:1 on a weekly, bi-monthly, or monthly cadence — never the same pair twice, up to three new pairs per run.

Virtual water cooler forms small groups of about four around shared interests (sports, food, pets, tech…) on the days you choose, avoiding repeat groups.

Connects is a personal relationship tracker: save people you meet, log meetings, and get reminder emails at the frequency you choose.

6. Email & notifications summary

Members receive: a match intro email (with the first-meeting kit), session-cadence nudges, and water-cooler/roulette introductions. Admins additionally receive: the weekly program digest and stale-pair escalations. Every email links straight to the relevant page — there's nothing to install.

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