What KnotWise actually does
A KnotWise session is a structured, confidential conversation with a qualified guide, held before a couple marries. It is preparation, not therapy and not a verdict — we do not tell anyone whether to go ahead. The value is in the conversation, and in the questions people had not thought to ask each other.
Before a session, both partners complete a private assessment. Guides read it first, so the hour begins where the couple actually are. Afterwards you leave a short private note, so anyone who returns is not starting from the beginning again.
Two formats
A 60-minute session with one guide, or a 120-minute Master Session where a relationship, legal and financial guide sit with the couple together.
Mostly online
Sessions run over Google Meet, so you can guide from anywhere in India or abroad. In-person is arranged on request.
Your own hours
You set your availability and mark time off in your dashboard. Sessions are matched to guides by specialisation and current load — nobody is assigned a session during hours they have not opened.
Paid per session
Guides receive a share of each session fee. We go through the numbers with you on the call, and confirm them in writing before your first session.
Relationship Guide
The conversations couples have not had yet — expectations, families, conflict, and what each of them assumes the other already knows.
What the work is
- Lead 60-minute sessions with a couple or an individual, and take part in the 120-minute Master Session alongside a legal and a financial guide.
- Work from the pre-session assessment both partners complete, so the hour starts where they actually are rather than with introductions.
- Cover communication, expectations, in-laws and extended family, conflict, intimacy, and how the two of them make decisions together.
- Leave a short private note after each session, so a couple who return are not starting over.
What we look for
- A qualification in psychology, counselling, social work, or a related field, and real hours spent with couples or individuals.
- Comfort with pre-marital work specifically — this is preparation, not therapy, and not crisis intervention.
- Steadiness with interfaith, intercaste and intercultural couples, and with families who disagree.
- Fluent English, and at least one more Indian language you can hold a difficult conversation in.
Legal Guide
What the law actually says about the thing they are about to do — rights, registration, property, and the paperwork nobody reads until it matters.
What the work is
- Lead 60-minute sessions, and cover the legal portion of the Master Session.
- Explain marriage registration, personal and civil law as it applies to the couple, property and ownership, wills and nomination, and what changes legally on the day they marry.
- Set out rights and responsibilities plainly, in a way two people who are not lawyers can act on.
- Know where the line is: KnotWise offers legal awareness, not representation. Drafting, filing and formal advice are referred out.
What we look for
- An advocate enrolled with a State Bar Council, practising in family, matrimonial or property law.
- Experience explaining law to clients rather than to courts — the skill here is clarity, not advocacy.
- Familiarity with the personal laws that apply across communities in India, and with inter-faith and NRI marriages.
- The discipline to stop at guidance and refer when something needs a lawyer on record.
Financial Guide
Money, before it becomes the argument — what each of them earns, owes, expects and has never said out loud.
What the work is
- Lead 60-minute sessions, and cover the financial portion of the Master Session.
- Work through joint versus separate accounts, existing debt, financial transparency, emergency funds, insurance, and what happens if one of them stops earning.
- Raise the things couples avoid: supporting parents, a family business, one partner leaving a job, wildly different spending habits.
- Keep it practical and product-neutral. KnotWise sessions are financial awareness, not regulated investment advice, and nothing is ever sold in a session.
What we look for
- A financial planning background — CFP, SEBI-registered investment adviser, chartered accountancy, or equivalent experience advising households.
- Experience with personal and family finance rather than only corporate or markets work.
- Comfort discussing money with two people who may not agree, without taking a side.
- No commission relationships you would need to disclose mid-session.
Writer or Content Creator
The articles, guides and explainers that reach people long before they ever book a session.
What the work is
- Write for the KnotWise journal on marriage, law, money and relationships — explainers, guides, and pieces grounded in real questions couples ask.
- Work with our guides to turn specialist knowledge into something a reader can use.
- Occasionally shape video, audio or social material around the same subjects.
- Commissioned per piece. Tell us what you would want to write and we will talk about rate and scope when we speak.
What we look for
- Published writing we can read — a portfolio, a byline, a newsletter, anything.
- The ability to write about law or money without either dumbing it down or burying it.
- A feel for the subject: this is writing for people making a large decision, not lifestyle content about weddings.
- Lawyers, planners and counsellors who write well are very welcome here too.
What we expect from every guide
These apply whichever discipline you join in. They are not negotiable, and we would rather say so here than after you have filled in a form.
- Absolute confidentiality. Nothing said in a session leaves it — not to family, not to the other partner privately, not to anyone. This is the one rule that ends an association immediately.
- No judgement, and no steering. Couples come from every community, faith and arrangement. You are not there to approve of the marriage or to advise against it.
- Turn up, and turn up prepared. Read the assessment before the session. If a guide does not join within 15 minutes, the couple is refunded in full under our published policy.
- Keep your availability honest. Sessions are auto-assigned from the hours you have opened, so an out-of-date calendar becomes someone’s cancelled session.
- Stay inside your discipline. Refer rather than improvise. A legal guide does not give financial advice, and none of us does therapy.
- Nothing is ever sold in a session. No products, no commissions, no onward business of your own.
Apply
A few details is all we need to start. No CV upload, no account — if your background fits, we will ask for the rest in a conversation.