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Expert mentoring in data and AI

A senior expert in your corner, until it clicks

A working professional guides you one-on-one. They review your code, get your projects unstuck and help you plan your next career move.

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Student or early in your career? Volunteer mentoring is free
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sales_pipeline.pySample session
11sales = pd.read_csv("sales.csv")
12df = sales.merge(customers, on="customer_id")
13revenue = df.groupby("region")["amount"].sum()

Your mentorcustomers has several rows per customer, so the join duplicates your sales. Deduplicate it before merging.

Fixed during the session
🤝 100% free · volunteer-run
Free mentoring

Nobody should have to move forward alone

Alongside expert mentoring, DataSAI runs two free programs led by experienced volunteers: a network to start your career, and a listening ear for the hard moments.

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The alumni network

Students and juniors starting their career

A working professional, a few years ahead of you, who has already walked the path. They answer your questions, open their address book and help you build your first professional relationships.

  • A senior professional chosen for your field, your city and your goal
  • 3 to 4 thirty-minute conversations over 3 months, by video or over coffee
  • CV and LinkedIn review, advice for your first interviews
  • Introductions to their network when it makes sense
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A listening ear

For those who are struggling and want to talk
"I needed it too. One day, someone took the time to listen to me, and it changed everything. Nobody should go through that alone."Sylvie, founder of DataSAI

Low mood, burnout, loneliness after moving abroad, pressure from studies or a first job: a volunteer who has been through hard times listens without judging and shares what helped them. This is not therapy; it is peer support, free and confidential.

  • A personal reply within 48 hours
  • A first 30- to 45-minute conversation, by video or phone
  • Renewable if you wish, no commitment
  • Your message is read only by the program lead
If you are in immediate danger, do not stay alone: call 3114 (France, 24/7), 112 (Europe), 911 (Canada, United States), 988 (US Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or your country's emergency services. Volunteers listen and guide; they do not replace a doctor or a psychologist.

A few years ahead? Become a volunteer mentor

One hour a month is enough to change someone's first steps in their career, or a difficult week. After a short call with Sylvie, your profile becomes active and we introduce your first mentees.

1 hour a monthNetwork or listening earKindness charterAnywhere in the world
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Expert mentoring

The paid one-to-one

Everything below concerns the paid offer: a working professional, chosen for your field, who supports you over time on your own projects. The volunteer program above stays open and free, whatever happens.

From €149 per 60-minute session · no commitment
Who is it for?

When mentoring changes everything

Mentoring does not replace a course. It accelerates it, tailors it, and connects it to your actual situation.

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You are stuck
A project that will not move, a bug nobody can explain, an architecture you doubt. One hour with an expert beats three weeks of searching.
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You are switching careers
You do not know where to start or what to prioritize. Your mentor builds a realistic plan that fits the time you actually have.
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You are aiming higher
Making senior, changing companies, negotiating a salary. A mentor who knows the market prepares you concretely.
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You are preparing for interviews
Technical mock interviews, live SQL and Python exercises, behavioral questions and honest feedback on your answers.
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You are leading a project at work
An AI use case to scope, a dashboard to design, a pipeline to take into production. An experienced outside view on your decisions.
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You are already in a bootcamp
You are progressing well but some topics are giving you trouble. Targeted sessions alongside your DataSAI program.
How it works

Getting started

From the discovery call to your first session, it rarely takes more than a week.

🚀 Four steps to begin

No fixed track. We start from your real objective and build from there.

1
Discovery call
30 minutes, free, no commitment. We pin down your goal, your level and your availability.
2
Mentor matching
We propose the mentor whose expertise and background fit your need most closely.
3
Progression plan
A first session dedicated to diagnosis and roadmap: objectives, milestones, deliverables.
4
Regular sessions
You move forward, your mentor corrects and unblocks. Written support between sessions.
Expertise

9 fields of mentoring

Every mentor works in the field they practice daily, not from theory learned for the occasion.

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Data Analyst

Complex queries, modeling, dashboards that tell a story and metrics that actually trigger decisions.

SQLPower BITableauExcelDAX
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AI Engineering

Design and ship AI applications in production: orchestration, cost, latency, evaluation and guardrails.

LLMRAGAgentsLangGraphMCP
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Data Science & ML

Turn a business problem into a question you can model, pick the right approach, and evaluate your results honestly.

Scikit-LearnPyTorchFeature Eng.Evaluation
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Data Engineering

Reliable pipelines, data modeling, orchestration and quality. What holds up when the volume grows.

AirflowdbtSparkBigQuery
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Cloud & MLOps

Productionize: containerization, CI/CD, monitoring, observability and keeping the cloud bill under control.

DockerAzureGCPAWSMLflow
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Code review

A senior eye on your code and architecture: readability, structure, tests and technical debt.

PythonSQLArchitectureTests
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Interview preparation

Mock interviews under real conditions, timed technical exercises, and work on how you tell your story.

Live codingCase studiesNegotiation
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Portfolio & projects

Choose projects that genuinely impress, carry them through, and present them with impact.

GitHubStorytellingDemo
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Career & transition

Clarify your target, assess whether it is realistic, and build a milestone plan that fits your current life.

Career planResumeLinkedIn
Included

What your mentoring covers

Mentoring does not stop at the video call. What happens between sessions is what makes the difference.

What a session looks like

A structured hour, prepared in advance by your mentor. No time wasted re-explaining the context.

0-10
Progress checkWhat moved since last time, what got stuck.
10-40
The core of itCode review, unblocking the problem, or focused teaching depending on what the day needs.
40-55
Guided practiceYou do the work, the mentor corrects live. You are the one typing.
55-60
Next stepsConcrete objectives before the next session, written into your plan.
Our experts

Mentors who are still practicing

Our mentors are first and foremost working professionals, graduates of leading universities, shaped by the most demanding environments: the Big 4 (Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG), major telecom companies, public organizations, banks, international financial institutions and leading tech companies. They describe the job as it is practiced today.

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Big 4
Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG
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Telecom
Major international companies
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Finance
Banks and international financial institutions
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Academia
Leading schools & universities
Plans

Choose your pace

No commitment. You can switch plans or stop at any time, from one month to the next.

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Pay as you go

Single session

€149
Per 60-minute session
⚡ No subscription
  • ✓ One 60-minute session
  • ✓ Mentor prepares beforehand
  • ✓ Written recap
  • ✓ Session replay
  • − Support between sessions
  • − Progression plan
  • − In-depth code review
Most popular plan
Progression

4 sessions a month

€499
Per month, no commitment
💡 That is 125 € per session
  • ✓ 4 sessions of 60 min / month
  • ✓ Personalized progression plan
  • ✓ Code and project review
  • ✓ Written support between sessions
  • ✓ Tailored exercises
  • ✓ Private Discord community
  • ✓ Unlimited replays
Intensive

8 sessions a month

€899
Per month, no commitment
🚀 That is 112 € per session
  • ✓ Everything in Progression
  • ✓ 8 sessions of 60 min / month
  • ✓ Priority support within 24h
  • ✓ Interview preparation
  • ✓ Full portfolio audit
  • ✓ Introductions to our network
  • ✓ Career guidance

Torn between two plans? The discovery call is free and comes with no commitment. We will tell you honestly which one fits your situation.

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Is the price a barrier? Message us on WhatsApp at +1 (904) 243-7876. Installments, pricing adapted to your country, or a scholarship: we look at your situation and find a way. No motivated learner is turned away over money.
What they say

Results from our mentees

Real journeys, from very different starting points.

★★★★★
"One-on-one mentoring was a game changer for my career. In three months I pivoted from classic analytics to machine learning. My mentor knew exactly which traps to avoid."
F
Fatima Z.
ML Engineer · Casablanca 🇲🇦
★★★★★
"I had been going in circles on my pipeline for six weeks. Two sessions were enough to find the real problem, which was nowhere near where I was looking. It saved me a month of work."
T
Thomas L.
Data Engineer · Lyon 🇫🇷
★★★★★
"The mock interviews changed everything. My mentor was brutally honest about my answers, and that is exactly what I needed. I landed the job on the third interview."
A
Aminata D.
Data Analyst · Dakar 🇸🇳
Frequently asked

Everything you are wondering

Yes, but let us be honest about the best use of your budget. Starting from zero, a bootcamp gives you the foundations at far better value. Mentoring pays off once you are practicing: that is when an expert unblocks in an hour what would take you weeks. Many of our mentees combine the two.

Yes, at any time and without justification. The mentor relationship rests on trust: without it, the guidance is worthless. Just tell us and we will propose another profile within 48 hours, at no extra cost.

None. The monthly plans renew month to month and you can stop whenever you want. That said, we recommend planning for at least three months if your goal is a career change or a promotion: that is how long it takes to build something solid.

You can roll over up to two unused sessions to the following month. Beyond that they expire, which is what keeps mentors available for everyone. A session canceled more than 24 hours ahead is never counted.

That is the combination we actually recommend. The bootcamp gives you structure and content, mentoring adapts it to your situation. Learners enrolled in a DataSAI bootcamp get a preferential rate on mentoring plans: mention it during your discovery call.

By card via Stripe, or by bank transfer for larger amounts and company-funded places. You receive an invoice for every payment. For employer or training-fund financing, get in touch and we will provide the paperwork.

Let us talk about your goal

30 minutes, free, no commitment. We work out together whether mentoring is the right answer for your situation - and if it is not, we will say so.

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