At the gate
Almost nobody who writes to the guild is failing. They are competent adults whose hours ran out — a night shift, a second child, a promotion that arrived in week three. What they want is not encouragement. They want the course handled, and they want to still be the person who submits it.
Not a salesperson. A mentor holding a credential in your subject opens the syllabus, the rubrics and the gradebook, and decides whether this guild should touch the course at all. That reading is free, it takes about two hours, and nothing is owed for it.
Sometimes the answer is no. Where nobody in the building has trained in the field your course sits in, you hear that straight away, because the alternative is somebody improvising with money you borrowed. Arrive in week nine with two zeroes recorded and you get sums before you get a price: what is left, what fraction of the grade it carries, and whether the mark you are chasing is still mathematically available. A refusal costs you nothing and occasionally saves you a term's fees, which is why it is offered at all.
Four things go across: the syllabus, the rubrics, the course shell, and wherever the gradebook currently sits. What comes back before any drafting starts is the whole term on one page — what gets graded, the date each item lands, and how much of the final mark it decides. Students tell us that page is where the semester stops feeling endless and starts looking like a list.
There is a second request, and students underestimate it every time: send a paper you wrote yourself, from any course, at any standard. Sentence length, formality, whether you use contractions, whether you hedge or state. Work returned in a register that is not yours reads as imported, and a grader working through thirty submissions feels that long before they could point at a reason.
Work comes to you. You read it, change what you want changed, and submit it yourself under your own hand. The standards bench audits engagements to confirm that is what happened, and a mentor who tried to work around it would not stay in the guild. This is not a footnote — it is the shape of the whole service, and it is the reason the arrangement survives contact with an honest conversation.
It follows that parts of your course cannot be handed over at all. A proctored sitting, a recorded presentation, hours on a real clinical floor: those items are named in the first reading and the guild prepares you for them instead of pretending they are like everything else. Anyone willing to blur that line is selling you a different and far worse problem than the one you wrote in about.
There is no price list here, and a site quoting you before it has seen your course is guessing with your money. Courses sharing a title can demand wildly different amounts of a mentor's time. A management course assessed through weekly reflection is three credits; so is one where you build a spreadsheet model and defend its assumptions. They are not remotely the same job.
Across this market a whole course runs from a few hundred dollars at the low end into the low four figures at the high, with doctoral work above that and single papers well below. Where yours falls comes down to the credential the subject demands, how many graded items there are, how much term is left, and what the gradebook already says. Ask for the reading, and the number arrives with its reasons attached.
The course, the program, the school, and where you actually stand. Two minutes to write, and the reading that follows costs nothing.
Credentialed in your subject, matched inside a day. If the guild is wrong for the course you are told that instead, with reasons.
Work lands ahead of every deadline for you to read and submit, and the weekly note means you never log in wondering where you stand.
Twelve have a mentor working in them every week: Capella, Walden, Chamberlain, GCU, Purdue Global, WGU, Herzing, ACE, ASU Online, Phoenix, SNHU and Liberty. Many other accredited online programs have come through since 2012. Name yours even if it is missing from that list and you will hear honestly whether anyone here knows it well enough to take the work on.
No. Everything is delivered to you and submitted by you, which is guild law and also the reason this arrangement is defensible if anyone ever asks about it. It protects you in a plainer way too: handing over courseroom credentials is how students most often come unstuck, and no mentor here will ever request them.
Frequently, though whether it is worth doing is what the free reading exists to establish. Tell us where the gradebook stands when you write. Three assessments carrying sixty percent of the grade leave far more room than eight carrying twelve, so the count of what remains matters much less than the share of the mark still unspent.
Revisions are free for the first week against whatever the quote described, and anything a faculty member has sent back jumps ahead of new work in the queue. Where a delivery is late for reasons on our side and no alternative is agreed with you, that portion of the fee comes back. All of it sits in the written terms rather than resting on goodwill.
Records carry a client number rather than a name, mentors sign standing confidentiality agreements before they are shown anything, and what appears against a payment says nothing about what was bought. The guild does not contact your school or your employer for any reason, and never has.
Name the course, the program and the date it is due. A mentor credentialed in that subject reads it and replies with counsel and a figure within two hours. The reading costs nothing, and sometimes the answer is an honest no.
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At the gate