Choose Your Mentor

Together, the three Metalsmith Mentor™ apps create a specialized AI mentoring system for jewelers and metalsmiths—supporting the technical, creative, and business decisions that shape a sustainable studio practice.

One practice. Three different kinds of questions.

Some problems happen at the bench.

Some happen before the piece is made.

Some happen after you decide to sell the work.

That is why the Metalsmith Mentor™ ecosystem includes three distinct mentors—each built for a different part of a metalsmith’s practice.

Choose the mentor that matches the question in front of you.

Or use all three as your work, ideas, and business grow.

Launching October 6, 2026

Which Mentor Do You Need?

Metalsmith Mentor™

For the question:

“How do I make this work?”

Metalsmith Mentor™ is your fabrication and bench-practice mentor.

Use it when you need help with:

• soldering

• stone setting

• fabrication

• tools

• process

• troubleshooting

• bench technique

• skill development

• technical decision-making

• figuring out what went wrong

• deciding what to learn next

If the problem is happening in the metal, at the bench, or inside the process, start here.

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Metalsmith Design Mentor™

For the question:

“How do I make this idea stronger?”

Metalsmith Design Mentor™ is your creative and design-thinking mentor.

Use it when you want help with:

• sketch development

• composition

• proportion

• scale

• visual balance

• design critique

• works in progress

• finished-piece reflection

• series development

• personal design language

• narrative or conceptual work

• deciding what to explore next

Upload sketches, works in progress, and finished pieces to examine not just what you made, but why the design works—or why it may not yet.

If the problem is about the idea, the form, the visual decision, or the meaning behind the work, start here.

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Metalsmith Business Mentor™

For the question:

“How do I make the business around this work?”

Metalsmith Business Mentor™ is your business decision-making mentor.

Use it when you need help with:

• pricing

• profitability

• commissions

• products

• customer decisions

• marketing

• positioning

• websites

• sales channels

• business planning

• launch strategy

• evaluating opportunities

• deciding what deserves your time

• building sustainable growth

If the problem is about selling the work, pricing the work, planning the business, or deciding what to do next, start here.

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Still Not Sure?

Here is the simplest way to choose.

If your question sounds like:

“Why won’t this solder flow?”
Choose Metalsmith Mentor™.

“Does this proportion feel right?”
Choose Metalsmith Design Mentor™.

“What should I charge for this piece?”
Choose Metalsmith Business Mentor™.

One Maker Can Need All Three

Your practice does not stay in one category.

You may begin with an idea.

Then struggle to fabricate it.

Then finish the piece and wonder how to price it.

That could mean using:

Metalsmith Design Mentor™
to strengthen the concept,

then

Metalsmith Mentor™
to work through the fabrication,

then

Metalsmith Business Mentor™
to price, position, and sell the finished work.

The mentors are separate because the questions are different. But the practice is connected.

Start With the Problem You Have Today

You do not need to master everything at once.

You do not need to subscribe to every mentor immediately.

Start with the area where you need the most support.

Choose Metalsmith Mentor™ if you want to become more confident at the bench.

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Choose Metalsmith Design Mentor™ if you want to become more confident in your design decisions.

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Choose Metalsmith Business Mentor™ if you want to become more confident in your business decisions.

Explore Metalsmith Business Mentor™

Better Questions. Better Decisions. Better Work.

The purpose of each mentor is not to hand you one correct answer. It is to help you build better judgment over time.

Better technical judgment.

Better design judgment.

Better business judgment.

That is how a practice grows. Not through collecting more information. Through learning how to make stronger decisions.

Choose the Mentor That Meets You Where You Are

At the bench.
In the sketchbook.
Inside the business.

Wherever the question begins, there is a mentor built for that part of the work.

Metalsmith Mentor™
Fabrication, troubleshooting, tools, technique, and skill development.

Metalsmith Design Mentor™
Critique, composition, sketches, series development, and design language.

Metalsmith Business Mentor™
Pricing, profitability, marketing, positioning, and sustainable business growth.

Launching October 6, 2026