Not open to everyone.
Class26 is a curated platform where professionals learn from experts with real-world experience. We’re currently selecting the first group of Early Experts ahead of launch.
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Everyone calls themselves a coach these days.
Scroll through LinkedIn or Instagram for five minutes and you’ll see them everywhere. Coaches with professional branding, persuasive content and thousands of followers. Some are excellent. Some are mostly good at marketing. Meanwhile, there are experts with years of real-world experience who remain invisible online. That is the gap we want to close.
A platform where expertise is found based on evidence.
Class26 is a curated marketplace for coaches, trainers, and experts. Professionals don’t need another endless marketplace. They need a reliable way to find experts with real experience, a clear track record and proven results.
No algorithm that puts the most popular at the top. No paid positions. No follower numbers as a measure of quality.
Who are you, what have you demonstrably achieved, and what do people who have worked with you say?
I wasn’t looking for someone who went viral. I was looking for someone with real experience.
Murat Gümüş
Co-Founder Class26
Meet the founders
Ayse Gümüş
Co-Founder
With a legal background and years of experience as a director in healthcare and chair of an industry association, I have seen firsthand how hard it is to find the right expertise at the right level. Class26 is my answer to that. A platform where real professionals connect with real experts, not to collect certificates, but to actually grow.
Murat Gümüş
Co-Founder
After 10 years in financial services, optimizing processes, building systems, and coaching colleagues, I started noticing something that bothered me. Expertise was becoming invisible. Everywhere you look, new coaches appear overnight. Class26 exists to change that. To give the experts who have truly earned their place the platform they deserve.
Why Eounding Experts matter
The first group of experts helps shape the quality, direction and reputation of Class26 from day one.
What Early Partners receive
Early Experts keep a permanent 10% commission rate.
Standard rate after launch: 17%.
You decide which categories we open first
Your field of expertise will be given priority at the launch.
Prominent visibility at launch
The Early Experts are shown to new users first.
Influence on product development
Your feedback helps determine which features we build first.
Direct access to the founders
The first group of experts will have direct communication with the founders.
Class26 is not for everyone and that's exactly the point.
We work with a small, selected group. Not as a marketing technique, but because quality control is at the core of what we build. You qualify as:
You have a proven track record - Not only years of experience, but demonstrable results with clients that you can name.
Your name stands for something in your field - You have developed your own approach, methodology, or perspective through years of practice.
You want to structure your offer beyond 1-on-1 - You are thinking about programs, group courses, or other ways to reach more people without simply working more hours.
You understand that quality and positioning are not a side issue - You would rather build something that is right than something that is fast.
We’re starting small on purpose.
Leave your name and email to hear when expert onboarding officially opens.
We’ll invite you to complete the full onboarding once the platform officially launches.
Real expertise deserves better positioning
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