We don't have teachers or trainers. We have people who ship things. The mentor on your cohort is responsible for the project you'll work on — so when you ship, your work goes into something they care about.
Mentor — Cohort 1 (County Carlow on localnews.ie)
Founder of Built In Ireland and the operator behind a portfolio of around fifty Irish sites — localnews.ie, myid.ie, pubhub.ie, ourhouse.ie, campers.ie, tantra.ie, rural.ie, builtinireland.ie and others. The work runs on a stack of Python pipelines, static HTML, and a deliberately small set of moving parts. Cohort 1's project (Carlow on localnews.ie) is genuinely needed work, not training material.
More about Kali →One mentor per cohort, for now. As cohorts finish and graduates become available, some of them will mentor the next cohort — that's how Herizon's collective grew and we'll borrow the same trick.
If you operate an Irish site or product and you'd be interested in mentoring a future cohort that adopts your work as its project, drop us a line at hello@theacademy.ie. We'd love to hear from you.
Mentoring a cohort is not a teaching role. The mentor:
Mentor load is around two to three hours a week for four weeks per cohort. The mentor's site or project benefits from the shipped work; the mentor's name appears on the reference letter; the cohort gets meaningful help from someone who knows the territory.