A surgical mentoring platform with three portals and live procedure broadcast, built in three months

Utopia Studio built Mentix on Software Factory.

The building of the platform never really changed. What changed is what arrives at the start. When the people who hold the knowledge help write the requirements, and our stack goes in with them, the work order knows what matters and why. I pull it straight into Cursor and build.

James Cannan · Founding Engineer, Utopia Studio

Client

Mentix

Sector

Surgical education

Time on platform

Since March 2026

Utopia Studio co-builds with experts who have lived the problem. Mentix is the surgical mentoring platform they built with Dr. Amyn Haji on Software Factory.

0 weeks

from requirements to a prototype the surgeon could use

onboarding flows and admin dashboard

0 months

for the full clinical platform, then refinement

real sessions running by July

0 engineer

held the build end to end

Utopia Studio's founding engineer

Origin

Dr. Amyn Haji trains surgeons in advanced endoscopy at King's College Hospital.

Mentoring meant being in the room. His diary set how many trainees he could reach. Mentix connects trainees to expert mentors for live procedures and structured assessment, wherever they are. The knowledge the platform needed sat in one surgeon's head and across scattered calls.

What They Built

Requirements were written with the surgeon in the room, then Software Factory's agents turned them into Blueprints and Work Orders.

A · Mentor directory

Location no longer decides who teaches

Trainees browse and book expert mentors anywhere in the world.

B · Three portals

Trainees, mentors, and sponsors in one place

Trainees book and track sessions, mentors set availability and accept requests, sponsors allocate credits and follow the trainees they fund.

C · Mentix TV

Teaching a room of trainees from one theatre

The platform can broadcast a live procedure to a room of trainees at once. Mentix TV was used for the masterclass at King's.

Software Factory puts the expert in the requirements.

Mentix worked because the surgeon helped write what the platform had to do, and the Knowledge Graph carried that intent forward through Blueprints, Work Orders, and Feedback. Teams building in clinical and regulated settings use Software Factory to move at this pace without losing the record of why the system works the way it does.