Welcome — particularly if you're coming from First Tutors.

The single biggest unfairness for a tutor moving directories is leaving years of reviews behind. We're working on a way to import them — from First Tutors via the Wayback Machine, from Tutorful, Superprof, Tutor Hunt, anywhere you've earned them.

It isn't live yet — there are a few things to get right before we put it in front of students. Some tutors may understandably be inclined to import only their five-star reviews, which would skew profile averages if mixed with native ones. Screenshots can be hard to verify on a platform that's no longer online. The review text technically belongs to the original reviewer, not the tutor. And imported reviews shouldn't outrank reviews earned natively on Tutorperch.

We're working through how to handle each of these fairly. Exactly what the import flow ends up looking like is still to be decided — we'd rather take a little longer and get it right than ship something that quietly damages the meaning of a Tutorperch review.

While we figure it out, your verification badge, subjects, and profile depth all carry weight in how you're surfaced — so there's still a reason to set up well before the import flow lands.

Today is the day — and the whole thing went from zero to live in just over a week. The site is up, the verification flow works, the messaging works, the payment works. There's plenty we want to refine, and improvements will keep landing as we hear from the tutors and students using it.

What we don't have yet is the thing that takes the longest to build: visibility. Search engines need time to index us, parents need time to find us, and the platform needs a critical mass of tutors before it feels like a real alternative.

If you list today, the first wave of enquiries won't be instant — it usually takes a little while for new tutoring directories to gather meaningful traffic. The reason to list now is to be there when it does, with a head start over profiles that arrive later.

Tutorperch is built by a UK tutor who's been on the tutor side of the commission platforms for years, and her partner — a software engineer. There's no agency behind us, no investor pushing for a take rate, no growth team optimising the funnel against you. Just two people trying to make the part of tutoring nobody enjoys — finding clients — work better for everyone in it.

The hope is that Tutorperch grows into the place tutors and students default to: a fair directory where the tutor keeps what they earn, the student pays a fair price, and the platform earns honestly on the introduction without sitting on top of the relationship forever. We won't get there in a week, and we won't get there alone.

Feedback is genuinely welcome — every reply lands directly in our inbox.