Individualized diagnosis
Recommendations start from observed work and a stated goal, not a preselected package.
Institutional Standards
Pristone Mentorship Standards
A serious mentorship relationship needs more than subject expertise. These standards define how goals, ownership, feedback, privacy, measurement, communication, and claims should be handled.
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The Pristone Method
One capability loop across every track.
- Diagnose
- Prioritize
- Build
- Test transfer
- Measure
- Re-prioritize
The Pristone Mentorship Standards apply across academic tutoring, contest mathematics, technical coaching, projects, and research. Track-specific terms may add stricter requirements but should not weaken these principles.
Written and operationally reviewed by Edward Mabonga, founder of Pristone Academy.
Core standards
What learners and families should be able to expect
Explicit ownership
The learner remains the author, decision-maker, and person responsible for the work.
Increasing independence
Support should reduce dependency over time and make transfer visible.
Regular feedback
Feedback identifies a behavior, explains its consequence, and gives the learner a next action.
Measurable progress
The plan names what will be observed again and what would count as meaningful change.
Transparent communication
Scope, pricing, scheduling, concerns, and fit decisions are discussed plainly.
Ethical use of AI
AI may support learning and investigation, but it must not replace understanding or authorship.
No guaranteed outcomes
Pristone does not guarantee scores, admissions, publications, promotions, or jobs.
Boundaries
What Pristone will not do
Complete assessed work
Mentorship can explain, review, question, and teach. It does not impersonate the learner or complete graded work for submission.
Use confidential material carelessly
Employer, school, customer, security, and personal information must be removed or replaced with safe equivalents.
Manufacture outcomes
Testimonials, scores, case studies, projects, and research claims must be supportable and appropriately consented.
Promise uncontrollable results
No mentor can honestly guarantee admissions, publications, grades, jobs, promotions, or competition outcomes.
Shared responsibility
What the learner contributes
Prepared work
Bring attempts, questions, artifacts, or observations that make the session a working review rather than a generic conversation.
Independent application
Complete agreed work between sessions and identify where support was used.
Honest communication
Raise confusion, workload constraints, concerns, and changes in goals early.
Attribution
Disclose external help and AI assistance where academic, research, or professional rules require it.
Continue through the Pristone system
Choose mentorship with clear expectations.
Ask Edward about fit, boundaries, scheduling, ownership, or what a first diagnostic would involve before committing to a session.
Founder-led by Edward Mabonga (MIT EECS) · no guaranteed scores, admissions, publications, promotions, or jobs