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// MENTORSHIP AND GUIDANCE · HANS STUDY · ONTARIO, CANADA
For practitioners learning networks, OT security, or physical security platforms. For people looking for a sounding board on a specific decision. For someone weighing a career move into this field. There is no fee and no formal engagement. Time is limited, but it gets found when the ask is specific.
Hans spent his early career being mentored by people who answered the question without sending an invoice. The list is long. Returning the favour is the entire reason this offer exists.
This is not a discounted version of the consulting practice. The consulting work pays the bills, and that work has its own scope, contract, and rate. Mentorship sits separate from that. It exists for individual practitioners and small teams who are trying to learn, sense-check a decision, or get unstuck on something specific. If the conversation grows into something where a deliverable is being produced for an organization, that is a different conversation, and it gets a proposal.
Networking, cybersecurity, or physical security. Working through a CCNA, an OT security study path, or trying to move from being the person who runs cables to being the person who designs the network. Mentorship that starts where you actually are.
You are about to commit to a vendor, a design decision, an architecture pattern, or a career step. You want a second voice that has actually done this before. Send the question.
Moving from IT to OT. Moving from physical security integration to consulting. Moving from a junior role into something more architectural. Honest read on whether the move makes sense and what it takes.
Small teams running real infrastructure without a seasoned architect on staff. Occasional sounding-board access for the design decisions that come up. Not a substitute for a paid engagement when the work is heavy, but a helpful pressure valve in between.
Send the question or the situation through the form below. A few sentences is enough. If a longer conversation makes sense, we set up a call. The format from there is whatever fits the question. A 20-minute response by email. A 45-minute call. A back-and-forth over a couple of weeks while you work through something. The structure serves the goal.
Two things to set expectations on:
A few sentences is fine. The more specific the question, the more useful the answer.
Yes. There is no fee for mentorship. Time is the constraint, not money. If you are trying to learn or thinking through a decision, send the question.
There is none. The consulting practice has a scope and a rate, and that work is the business. Mentorship sits separate. The only catch is that time is finite, so responses are best-effort and sometimes take a few days.
No. A specific question by email is fine. A 20-minute call is fine. An ongoing back-and-forth while you work through something is fine. The format follows the question, not a template.
If a question turns into "design my network" or "produce a deliverable for my organization," that is consulting work and gets a proposal. We figure out which side of the line it sits on as we go. Reach out anyway.
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