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Learning the tools and preparing for recruiting.

A real terminal to learn on, with a coach that runs mock technical interviews, grades your answers, builds stock pitches from live data, walks through models line by line, and tracks your recruiting.

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All roles

89: tools for this seat
7: specialties covered
174h: of analyst time per full pass

AIAnswers cite the filing they came from

Propose a tiered peer set for Snowflake and tell me where it trades versus the group.

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reading filings

The day, by level

Sophomore / Junior

Coffee chats, resume, technicals, a stock pitch, and a recruiting calendar that starts earlier every year.

Senior / MBA

Superdays, case interviews, modeling tests, and on-cycle private equity processes that move in days.

What it takes off your plate

Guessing at technical answers from a PDF of 400 questions
Building a stock pitch with no data source
Practicing a paper LBO with no one to grade it
Tracking deadlines and networking follow-ups in a spreadsheet

Data behind it

•Real filings and real prices to learn on
•Recent public deals to walk through in interviews
•Recruiting timelines by track
•Model answers graded against the standard

The toolkit

89 tools for students

Valuation

Peer benchmarking

Growth, margins, cash conversion, and leverage versus a peer set, with the gaps explained.

Precedent transactions from EDGAR

Real deals from merger proxies and 8-Ks: EV, multiples, premiums, and terms.

DCF valuation

Unlevered free cash flow, two terminal methods, and a WACC × growth sensitivity.

WACC

Cost of equity via CAPM, after-tax cost of debt, and the weighted rate with a beta × ERP grid.

Treasury stock method & EV bridge

Options, RSUs, warrants and converts to diluted shares, then equity value to enterprise value.

Premium analysis

Premiums to every reference price, and the multiples the offer implies.

Calendarization & LTM / NTM

Off-cycle fiscal years standardized to December, with LTM built from the stubs.

Venture method valuation

From expected exit and target multiple back to the pre-money you can pay.

Bull / bear / base with price targets

Three driver paths, three targets, probability-weighted value and skew.

Price target from multiples

Three target multiples, the EV-to-equity bridge, the blended target and the upside.

Bull / bear / base expected value

Probability-weighted target, expected return, reward-to-risk skew and the breakeven odds.

Reverse DCF: what growth is priced in

Solve for the revenue CAGR that justifies today's enterprise value.

Walk me through a DCF

The whole answer built on one real company's numbers.

EV vs equity value explainer

The bridge built on one company, including the diluted share count.

Comps explained line by line

Every row of a trading comps set, defended or thrown out.

Precedent transactions explained

Three real deals from EDGAR, taken apart field by field.

EV / equity bridge & multiples

Every bridge item, then the multiples each value legitimately supports.

Five-minute DCF

Unlevered free cash flow, mid-year discounting, and a WACC × growth grid.

WACC from peer betas

Unlever each peer, relever at your structure, then weight the costs.

Monte Carlo DCF

A DCF as a distribution: correlated inputs, P10/P50/P90 per share, and what drives the spread

Beta estimator

Raw, Blume-adjusted and Welch betas with standard errors, and the cost of equity

Modeling

NPV, IRR & payback

Capital budgeting on any cash-flow schedule with a discount-rate sensitivity.

Merger model: accretion / dilution

Offer, sources and uses, purchase accounting, pro forma EPS and the break-even synergies.

LBO: sources, uses & returns

Tranched capital structure, debt schedule with a sweep, IRR and MOIC with returns attribution.

Cap table & dilution

Price a round with SAFEs converting, the pool top-up, and ownership by holder.

SAFE-to-equity conversion table

What each SAFE actually converts into, and the effective valuation it paid.

Dilution path across rounds

Where founders, employees, the pool and each investor land after every round.

Earnings model quick

Revenue growth and margins to GAAP and non-GAAP EPS, with the bridge and a sensitivity.

Market model workbench

Top-down and bottom-up sizing, reconciled, with every input sourced and confidence-tagged.

Market sizing: top-down & bottom-up

TAM to SAM to SOM, a unit-economics bottom-up, and the 15% convergence test between them.

Timed model test generator

Randomized paper LBOs and modeling cases with a full answer key.

Model auditor

Balance, sign, circularity and sanity checks on your model's outputs.

LBO intuition explainer

Why leverage works, tested on a real company as a candidate.

Merger consequences explainer

Accretion, dilution and purchase accounting on two real tickers.

Paper LBO

Five-year debt paydown, IRR, MOIC, and where the return came from.

MOIC to IRR table

Convert between multiple and rate of return, and memorise the anchors.

CAGR & growth path

Compound annual growth, doubling time, and the gap versus straight-line.

Accretion / dilution quick

Pro forma EPS, the P/E rule check, and break-even synergies.

Research

10-K / 10-Q teardown

What changed, what management said, and what the footnotes hide.

Research brief

A sourced answer to any market, company, or deal question.

Earnings preview

The pre-print note: modeled drivers, the debates, guidance on the record, and the setup.

Earnings recap & guidance delta

What was reported, what changed in the guide, and the estimate revisions that follow.

Initiation-style teardown

The long-form first look: business, unit economics, moat, model, valuation, rating.

Competitive moat assessment

Which advantages are real, tested against disclosures and returns on capital.

Sector note / industry primer

Structure, drivers, KPIs, unit economics and the debates, built from the filings.

Five forces from filings

Porter's five forces scored 1-5 with the filing language that justifies each score.

Interview guide & synthesis

Guides by respondent type, then transcripts coded into a theme by source grid with quotes.

Stock pitch builder

A defensible long or short from live filings, with a consensus-vs-you table.

Firm research brief

Groups, real mandates and culture, so 'why this firm' lands.

Deal walkthrough builder

A real public deal turned into your 30-second and 3-minute answers.

Coverage group industry primer

The metrics, multiples and questions for one sector, on real names.

First-time 10-K reading guide

A guided path through a real 10-K in the time you have.

Learning

Accelerator & program finder

Which programs, batches and fellowships fit a company or a founder profile.

How operators get equity

Advisor shares, angel cheques, syndicates, scouts and rolling funds, with the numbers.

PM pushback & thesis stress test

A skeptical PM checks your facts, then asks the questions that break the thesis.

Technical drill engine

Graded question sets by topic and difficulty, with a weak-topic map.

Mock interviewer

A full interview with escalating pushback, a scored rubric, and three fixes.

Recruiting calendar & tracker

Dated deadlines for your class year and track, plus a pipeline board.

Learning path generator

A week-by-week syllabus for the hours you actually have.

Case interview partner

A full practice case with exhibits, the math, and a scored synthesis.

Brain teaser & mental math drills

Timed sets with the technique, not just the answer.

CFA / CPA topic quiz

Exam-format questions on the topics you pick, with the windows and fees.

Accounting & audit

ASC 606 revenue memo

The five-step analysis of a real contract, with codification cites and the entries.

IFRS vs US GAAP difference register

The differences that actually hit your accounts, quantified where the filings allow.

Materiality and thresholds

Overall, performance and clearly-trivial thresholds with every benchmark compared.

ASC 606 price allocation

Relative standalone-selling-price allocation with the discount test.

ASC 842 lease schedule

Classification, present value, and the liability and right-of-use rollforward.

Basic and diluted EPS

Treasury stock method, if-converted, and the antidilution ordering.

Accounting concept explainer

Any accounting concept, taught on a real company's actual footnote.

Three-statement impact

Any transaction walked through the income statement, cash flow and balance sheet.

Earnings-quality check

Beneish M-score with its probability, and accruals, from two years of statements

Deliverables

Company one-pager

A pitch-ready profile of any US-listed company, every number cited.

Thesis & variant-perception memo

Call, falsifiable thesis, the consensus assumption that is wrong, catalyst, risks, sizing.

Hypothesis-driven storyline

Governing thought, key lines and support: the pyramid before anyone builds a chart.

Ghost deck generator

Action titles in SCQA order with the exhibit each slide needs, before anyone opens PowerPoint.

Screening

Ownership & positioning monitor

Form 4 clusters, 13D/G activity, holder concentration, and days to cover.

Idea screener over a ticker list

Rank a universe on fundamentals, valuation against its own history, and insider flow.

Short interest & borrow cost drag

Percent of float, days to cover, and what the borrow costs you while you wait.

Communication

Networking email & coffee-chat prep

A five-sentence cold email, ten questions, and the follow-up cadence.

Resume bullet & story coach

Quantified bullets against the one-page conventions, plus your walk-through script.

Behavioral question bank (STAR)

Your stories mapped to the nine usual questions, scored.

Portfolio

Catalyst calendar

Every dated event across the book for the next quarter, with what each one resolves.

Value at risk with a backtest

One-day VaR and expected shortfall three ways, a GARCH forecast, and a Kupiec test

Planning & forecasting

Issue tree & workplan studio

A MECE decomposition of the client question, with an owner, source and date on every leaf.

Forecast with honest intervals

Paste a series, get the M4-style forecast and conformal 80%/95% bands with a backtest

Diligence

Merger proxy miner

Background of the merger, fairness ranges, adviser fees and projections out of a DEFM14A.

Capital markets

Bond math: yield, duration & make-whole

Yield to maturity and worst, duration, DV01, convexity and the make-whole redemption price.

Reporting

Post-earnings post-mortem

Expectation against outcome, the error classified, the lesson written as a rule.

Credit & restructuring

Credit scorecard

Altman Z and Z'', Ohlson O-score and Merton distance to default, as one implied rating

Set up your student desk

The survey asks your group, level and sectors, then wires the watchlists, function keys and tools to match.