Pocket Mentor · Mentorship for deep tech founders

“I remember what we agreed on. And I won't tell you what you want to hear.”

A generic assistant forgets and flatters.Pina remembers and verifies.

Pocket Mentor keeps a live, auditable model of your progress —evidence, commitments, decisions, risks— and treats what you claim as a hypothesis to sustain. You always know where you stand and what comes next.

Let's start with where you are today

The first step is a conversational audit.

your position, nowTRL 4verified by evidence

PinaPocket Mentor

We closed sensor validation on the test bench. I'd say we're at TRL 6.

What you're showing me sustains TRL 4: it worked on a bench, not in a relevant environment. We're not closing this yet —I'm logging the gap so we can attack it.

Validation debt — demonstration in a relevant environment

Cited source — arXiv · 2406.01182

Remembers

Verifies

Measures

Cites

Doubts

Follows through

On screen

Every session leaves a measurable trace

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PinaLive · Pocket Mentor

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We closed sensor validation on the bench. I’d say we’re at TRL 6.

What you show sustains TRL 4: bench ≠ relevant environment. I’m logging the gap so we attack it.

Validation debt — demonstration in a relevant environment

Cited source — arXiv · 2406.01182

Message Pina…

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Calibrated position

Derived from your evidence, not from what you declare.

Momentum across sessions

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Compounded progress over the commitments you close.

Captured evidence

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What sustains your position, accrued session by session.

Illustrative visualizations of the product interface.

The problem

You've tried thinking through your company with a chatbot. You know the limit.

“A generic chat forgets your company between sessions. I don't.”

Every session starts from zero. It celebrates everything you say. It has no judgment about your real situation and no memory of what you agreed. Fine for chatting; not enough to accompany a deep tech company.

A generic assistant

✕Forgets everything between sessions

✕Flatters: validates whatever you declare

✕Improvises references

✕Doesn't know where you are or what's next

Pocket Mentor

Remembers: a live model of your progress

Verifies: treats your claims as hypotheses

Cites real, traceable sources

Always knows your position and your next step

What it already does

Demonstrable capabilities, not promises

Places you honestly

The first conversation is an audit: it places you where your evidence stands, not where you claim to be.

Milestone-to-milestone memory

Longitudinal mentorship: picks up what was agreed, cites evidence by origin, knows what was pending.

Talking is documenting

Extracts evidence, decisions and advances from the conversation and persists them structured.

Commitments with follow-up

Each commitment is typed by function and measured quantitatively until closed.

Cited knowledge

Searches papers and patents live —arXiv, Semantic Scholar, USPTO— citing each by origin.

Your methodology, from a PDF

An admin uploads the framework PDF and the system activates it, no code changes.

Multilingual at the root

Spanish, Portuguese and English across the whole surface, for LatAm-first founders.

Panel for human mentors

Accelerators and mentors monitor runway, momentum and position per startup.

The journey

A deep tech founder's journey

“Before advising you, I understand where you really are —not where you think you are.”

Audit

You enter the chat and Pina audits you against the active framework: she decomposes your technology and identifies your limiting module —the technical bottleneck everything depends on.

Real position

She places you on the maturity axis —TRL, for example— according to what the evidence sustains, not what you declare.

Commitments

Every conversation produces commitments aimed at reducing the uncertainty blocking you, tracked quantitatively.

Continuity

You arrive in short sessions, often from your phone, mid-task. Pina always knows how to pick up: evidence captured, literature when needed.

The engine

The mentor reads your methodology's shape and derives how to behave

“I work with your methodology, not mine.”

Autio Roadmap, TRL, Business Model Canvas, Stage-Gate: any methodology is represented as a structure of phases, validation points, evidence criteria and risks. The engine inspects that shape to decide its conduct —without a single line of code changing between one framework and another.

Your methodology's shape

Phases

Validation points

Evidence criteria

Experiments & risks

PDF→

TRL 4

If it's sequential, she advances phase by phase.

Adaptability

Any program or accelerator loads its own methodology from a PDF and the mentor adopts it. No code changes.

Stability

Each workspace freezes its framework version: the rules don't shift under your feet midway.

Trust

Grounded in evidence, not opinions

“If I lean on a paper, I tell you which one. If you can't demonstrate it, we don't call it closed.”

Verified claims vs. open debts

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Grounding in your evidence

Pina distinguishes the declared position from the one sustained by evidence, and places you at the second. Every claim is falsifiable: she classifies credibility, detects contradictions and keeps gaps as validation debts that block a milestone until settled.

Grounding in real sources

When she brings in a paper or a patent, she cites it with a traceable origin and only keeps what she actually used. She doesn't fabricate references: when she states something backed by literature, you can go check.

A mentor grounded in evidence — not in opinions, not in hallucinations.

The difference

Against a ChatGPT with a good prompt

A generic LLM

Pocket Mentor

✕Chat history that wipes or truncates

Stateful memory: claims, debts, commitments, evidence and risks persisting across sessions

✕Tends to validate whatever you say

Falsificationist judgment: classifies credibility, detects contradictions, keeps blocking debts

✕Believes you're at TRL 6 because you said so

Evidence-based calibration: derives the position you can sustain and logs the gaps as tasks

✕One method hard-wired in the prompt

Truly framework-agnostic: your methodology from a PDF drives its conduct; each workspace freezes its version

✕References that sound right and don't exist

Cited knowledge: brings literature live and persists only what it cites. Zero fabricated references

✕A demo with a good prompt

A hardened product: live streaming, strict multitenancy, rate-limiting, multilingual

For accelerators

Oversee the portfolio with the same judgment

A per-startup panel so a human mentor or an accelerator monitors the whole portfolio, read with the same judgment Pina applies in the chat.

Triage — runway, momentum and position for every startup, at a glance.

Visual roadmap — each founder's progress over the active framework.

Uncertainty focus — a reconstruction of what blocks each founder today.

Portfolio — 2026 CohortAutio Roadmap

Heliox Bio

↑TRL 5

Qantum Sense

→TRL 3

Ferrolab

↑TRL 4

Nimbus Energy

↓TRL 2

Uncertainty focus

Ferrolab: validation in a relevant environment

“We agree on something today. Next time, I remind you.”

Let's start with where you are today

The first step is the audit: a conversation that places you at your real position.

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