For students · before recruiting starts

You'll have something to show.And something to know.

A Day One Plan hiring managers can read — and the earned confidence that comes from working through real problems at real companies before anyone asks you to.

See how it worksStart with 2 simulations free. No credit card.
The gap you're closing

Hiring managers aren't asking if you coulddo the work. They're asking for proof you already have.

Your resume is the wrong kind of evidence. Not because it's weak — because the thing the hiring manager is actually scanning for isn't something a resume can carry.

They want to see you thinking about their problem. Weighing tradeoffs. Responding to pushback. That kind of proof doesn't fit in a bullet point — so the candidates without prior experience get filtered out before anyone reads them.

Day One Me is how you build that proof — before the hiring manager has a chance to decide they can't see it.
How Day One Me gets you there

Three beats. Two you do now.One that comes when you're ready.

Work through realistic problems at companies you're curious about. Each one becomes a Day One Plan. When recruiting starts, the plan is already there — and a hiring manager can read it as work.

01The simulation
~90 minutes · at a real company

Work a real problem with a team that pushes back.

A plausible brainstorm at a real company, with synthetic coworkers who raise constraints, disagree with each other, and pressure-test your thinking. Not a case study. Not an interview prep app. Real work, shaped for you to engage with it.
Comprehension
Key Concept Train
Vocabulary captured as it comes up, in context.
Interpretation
Lookup
Decode what a stakeholder is actually doing.
Performance
Mentor
Rehearse a response before you commit it.
02The Day One Plan
The proof, rendered

Your work becomes something you can point to.

Pick the simulation worth standing behind. It becomes a Day One Plan — an editorial dossier of the problem, your approach, and what you deliberately left out. Not a portfolio page. Not a resume line. A real piece of demonstrated work.
03What happens when recruiting starts
The later beat · deployment

Your work, read by a hiring manager.

When you're actively interviewing, a Day One Plan goes to a specific hiring manager. They read it. If they want to go deeper, they ask Day One Me follow-ups — answered only from what you actually worked through. This is the deployment phase, and it's why the learning tier is worth investing in now: you're building the artifact that does this work later.
Pricing

One subscription. Everything you need to practice.

Simulation volume, all three learning features, and Day One Plans. Deployment — outreach, hiring-manager Q&A — unlocks when you're actively interviewing.

Monthly
$99
per month · cancel anytime
  • Generous simulation volume
  • Key Concept Train, Lookup, Mentor
  • Day One Plan for each simulation
  • Accumulating record across companies
Best value
Semester
$399
4 months · paid once
  • Everything in Monthly
  • ~$100/month — built for a full recruiting season
  • Priced like serious prep, not like SaaS
  • Deployment packs available separately when you're ready
For orientation: consulting prep tools run $150–$300/month. Bootcamps run $5K–$15K. Day One Me sits below prep tools because it's an earlier-stage practice surface — and well above consumer subscriptions because this is a serious prep tool, not entertainment.
When recruiting starts — deployment, separately
Outreach, hiring-manager Q&A, and engagement tracking are purchased as deployment packs when you're actively interviewing. Standard — $60 (150 energy, 1–2 active plans) or Serious — $150 (500 energy, sustained multi-plan campaigns). You buy what your actual search needs, when your search is actually happening.
On AI, plainly
AI generates a lot of slop. Day One Me doesn't. The coworkers are AI. The pushback is real. The work is yours.

Let your work speak for you.

Two simulations free. No credit card. Start before recruiting starts — so you're pointing at real work when it does.

Start with 2 free simulationsNo credit card. Full product quality.