Match x Mate · Flagship product
A matching platform that carries your name.
Match x Mate is a configurable white-label platform for organisations that want to run their own matching programmes — branded, structured and governed around their own objectives.
Hello, Priya
Your Northstar matching programme.
Your suggested matches
See allAlex Morgan
London · Northstar
Helping colleagues grow in confidence and lead their first team.
Can share
Team leadershipStakeholder managementYour development objective
Leading a first teamJames Liu
Manchester · Northstar
Sharing practical experience in data and project delivery.
Can share
Data analysisProject planningLooking to develop
Presentation skills01The proposition
Not a community to join. A platform to deploy.
With Match x Mate, each organisation has its own environment. Participants, matching criteria and content belong to that programme — not to a shared network.
Your participants
A private environment for the people in your programme.
Your matching criteria
Decide which attributes and objectives determine a good match.
Your catalogue
Define your own skills, topics or areas of experience.
Your programme structure
Shape how participants join, match and progress.
Your branding
Present the platform as part of your organisation.
Your communications
Speak to participants in your own voice.
02Applications
Designed for matching programmes of many kinds — skills exchange is only one of them.
- Mentoring programmes
- Buddy systems
- Peer learning
- Skills exchange
- Knowledge sharing
- Other organisation-specific matching
03What it helps organisations do
Configurable features, in service of better programmes.
The value of Match x Mate is not the configuration itself, but what it allows an organisation to run well.
Connect people with purpose
Match participants on the objectives, skills and experience your programme is designed around, rather than by chance or availability.
Make expertise easier to find
Help people discover who holds the knowledge they need, and make sharing it a normal part of how the organisation works.
Give programmes a consistent structure
Mentoring, buddying and peer learning gain a clear, shared way to join, match and progress.
Run again without starting over
Once configured, a programme can be repeated cohort after cohort on the same foundation.
Build participation into the programme
A dedicated environment gives participants a visible place to take part, so involvement is part of how the programme runs rather than an afterthought.
Support longer-term capability
Use the same platform across further matching needs as your organisation's learning and development priorities grow.
—A clear distinction
Two platforms. Two distinct purposes.
Skill x Swap connects people across a global community to exchange skills and knowledge.
Match x Mate gives organisations their own branded, configurable matching platform, built around their people, programmes and objectives.
04Working with us
A licensing relationship, built for the long term.
Match x Mate is offered as licensed technology. We work with organisations to understand their requirements, configure their environment and support it as their programmes develop.
05Questions
Match x Mate FAQs.
What is Match x Mate?
Match x Mate is a configurable white-label matching platform developed by Motive Works Ltd. Each organisation deploys its own environment to connect its participants around the objectives, skills and experience its programme is designed for.
What types of matching programmes can it support?
Match x Mate is designed for mentoring programmes, buddy systems, peer learning, skills exchange, knowledge sharing and other organisation-specific matching programmes.
Can organisations use their own branding?
Yes. Each environment is separately branded and presented as part of the organisation, with communications to participants in the organisation's own voice.
How is Match x Mate different from Skill x Swap?
Skill x Swap connects people across a global community to exchange skills and knowledge. Match x Mate gives an organisation its own branded, configurable matching platform, with its own participants, criteria, catalogue and programme structure.
How is the platform configured for an organisation?
We work with each organisation to understand its requirements, then configure its participants, matching criteria, skills or topic catalogue, programme structure, branding and communications. We continue to support the environment as its programmes develop.
How can an organisation discuss its requirements?
Email Motive Works using the contact details on our About & Contact page. Tell us about your organisation, who you want to connect and the kind of programme you have in mind.
Next step
Tell us what you need people to be matched on.
Tell us about your participants, your objectives and how you would like matching to work. We will explain how Match x Mate could be configured to fit.