Bring your First Tutors reviews onto Tutorperch
First Tutors closed in 2026. We've indexed every profile Common Crawl and the Wayback Machine captured before it went dark — so the reviews you worked years for don't disappear. If your old profile is in our archive, you can claim it, attest ownership, and have the reviews appear on your Tutorperch profile in a clearly-labelled "Reviews from First Tutors" block.
How it works
- Search. Sign in, verify your identity (£3 Stripe Identity check), then go to Find your First Tutors profile. Search by name, slug, or town.
- Preview. Pick your old profile from the results. You'll see the bio you wrote, your qualifications, pricing, badges, and every review we have. If it looks like you, click "Yes, this is me".
- Prove it. Two paths:
- Path A — photo match. Your First Tutors avatar matches your identity-verified Tutorperch photo. Admin confirms visually. This is the cheapest happy path and works for most tutors.
- Path B — alternative evidence. Either upload an original First Tutors email (.eml file — we cryptographically verify the DKIM signature and the embedded tutor ID), or upload a photo of you holding a printed First Tutors page next to your face. Both demand real effort, and forgery is impractical at scale.
- Admin reviews + decides. Most claims clear within a few working days. You'll get an email either way.
What "verified" means here
We verify that you own the First Tutors profile — the avatar matches your identity-verified photo, or a cryptographically-signed First Tutors email proves the tutor ID is yours. We don't verify the truth of each individual reviewer's words; those are the reviewer's own assessment, quoted as-is from the archive. On your profile they're labelled "Imported from First Tutors", not "verified".
Imported reviews appear in a separate block beneath your native Tutorperch reviews. They don't count toward your Tutorperch star rating or your search ranking — those come from reviews accumulated here. The imported block is about continuity of reputation, not a backdoor to ranking.
FAQs
What if my profile isn't in your archive?
We've indexed every First Tutors page Common Crawl and the Wayback Machine ever captured — but coverage drops for low-traffic profiles, especially niche subjects. If yours is missing, you can still recover it by filing a Data Subject Access Request directly with First Tutors while their legal entity exists. We've put a walkthrough here.
How does the cryptographic email check actually work?
Every email First Tutors sent through SendGrid carries a DKIM
signature from sendgrid.info covering the body and the X-Feedback-ID header (which contains the FT tutor ID).
We verify that signature against SendGrid's still-live signing key,
then check the tutor ID matches the profile you claimed. Faking this
would require compromising SendGrid's signing infrastructure, which
is well beyond what's practical.
Why isn't this free for everyone? Why the identity check?
The £3 identity check applies to every published Tutorperch tutor — not just to the importer. It's there to stop one person from creating multiple fake tutor accounts and weaponising the archive for competitive scraping. The check is one-off, covers Stripe Identity and our manual review, and unlocks every Tutorperch feature including the importer.
What if one of my reviewers wants their review removed?
Every imported review has a "Report this review" link next to it on your profile. The original reviewer can use that to invoke their right-to-erasure under UK GDPR Article 17 — we honour those by default. Reports from anyone else go through a fairness check; admin considers the tutor's side too.