Building an Internal Mentoring Platform at Work.Life

What they built

• An internal mentoring platform called mentorship.life for Work.Life employees
• A website with:
  • A public-facing homepage explaining the programme and its connection to company values
  • A mentor application form (name, skills to share - both hard and soft skills)
  • A mentee application form (name, learning goals, time availability, confidence level, preferred mentor selection)
  • An admin dashboard for the People team to review, approve, and match mentor–mentee pairs
  • A session journal visible to both participants and the People team
  • An end-of-programme scoring system so both parties rate each other, enabling programme success tracking

Why they built it

• Quarterly engagement surveys consistently surfaced a strong employee desire to learn from colleagues
• A small two-person HR team couldn't deliver training at scale
• Managers reported wanting structured time to learn skills their colleagues already had
• Goal: give every employee access to peer knowledge without creating a heavy HR-administered process

Tools used

• Claude - used to design and prototype the platform as an artifact (including all forms and logic) before going live
• Lovable - used to turn the Claude-generated code into a live website and make detailed UI refinements
• Slack - referenced as an integration consideration during the build process

How you could build this yourself

1. Validate the need - run an engagement survey or pulse check asking employees how they prefer to learn and what skills they wish they had access to internally
2. Gather qualitative input - speak to managers and team leads; ask "what would you want to learn, and from whom?"
3. Design on paper first - sketch the user journey for both mentor and mentee before touching any tools; define what data you need to capture at each step
4. Decide your matching model - choose whether matching will be algorithmic or human-reviewed; Work.Life kept a human (the People team) in the loop for all approvals and pairings
5. Build the prototype in Claude - prompt Claude to create an artifact replicating your paper design: homepage, mentor form, mentee form, and admin view; iterate until the logic and layout match your vision
6. Export to Lovable - paste the Claude-generated code into Lovable to make it a live, hosted website; use Lovable for fine-grained visual tweaks and any integrations (e.g. Slack notifications)
7. Pilot internally - test with a small group (e.g. just the People team) to validate that forms, matching, journals, and scoring all work end-to-end
8. Launch at an all-hands - present the platform company-wide with a clear explanation of the value for both mentors and mentees
9. Collect feedback immediately - message participants after their first session; use early input to iterate quickly
10. Track success - use the end-of-programme scores and journal data to measure impact over time and report back to the business

Source

Built by Dalila Turetta, People and Talent Manager at Work.Life, and shared as part of an Open Org "Shipped by HR" session. Work.Life is a co-working space company with 15+ locations across London, Manchester, and Reading.