For professors and trainers

Your impact lives in other people’s work.

Set up a project once and invite up to five students or trainees. The WorkCards they write become the record of what your guidance produced.

A CV lists what you advised. Their work shows what it produced.

Where it breaks

Mentorship ends with the term. So does the record of it.

Student work ends at the grade.

The problem, the outcome and the partner fade into a letter grade.

Reference letters are rebuilt from memory.

Every recommendation season starts from a blank page.

Your guidance leaves no trace of its own.

A CV counts the projects you advised, not what they changed.

Same career · Two recordsIllustrative

On the CVCapstone advisor.

Guided Work · Example

28WorkCards by 21 students on eight projects. None written by you.

How it works

Set it up once. Every student writes their own.

01Set up

Name the project and write its Situation once, for every card.

02Invite

Invite up to five students or trainees to each project you guide.

03Compound

Each writes independently. Together, they compound into one DepthCard.

04Carry

Your Guided Work record grows with every WorkCard, term after term.

Guided projectExampleRidgeway College · Senior Capstone · Spring 2026

Enrollment Forecast for Course Scheduling

SituationWritten once by you, inherited by every card

Section counts were copied from the year before, and about 30 sections a term opened badly over- or under-filled.

ActionWritten by each student, never prefilled

Five accounts of one project: the data cleanup, the model, the registrar’s sign-off, the pilot and the handover.

OutcomeAs the students report it

Badly filled sections fell from about 30 a term to 9 in the first fall.

Invited to this project · 5 of 5

Amara Osei Forecasting model · PublishedJonah Pierce Data cleanup · PublishedSofía Marín Registrar liaison · PublishedLeo Brandt Pilot lead · WritingKiran Das Handover · Invited

Guided, not authored

You write the Situation. You never write their accounts. A contribution of yours counts only when the students’ own cards describe it.

What it does for you

Your guidance carries forward.

Letters written from evidence

Dated, specific accounts for every project you’ve guided.

Mentorship on your own record

Guided Work on your Profile: the projects, the people and what changed.

Minutes per project

Set it up once. Students do the writing. Nothing to post or maintain.

Your Croconile Profile

Your Guided Work and the cards you choose to share, behind one link. Put it in your signature, your bio or your CV.

See my work on Croconile →

From a line on a CVto a guided record

From memoryto evidence

From one termto a career