Everything on the thread.

The six things a recruiting cycle asks of you, in the order it asks for them. One app, from first application to signed offer.

Your path

A route, not a reading list.

Tell Ariadne your track, school and timeline and it sets milestones dated to your cycle's application windows. Each week brings five to-dos across practice, networking, applications and firm knowledge. Whatever you miss rolls into next week.

Home in the app for the demo student Alex: readiness 56 out of 100, what is up next (a BofA campus evening tomorrow), a 12-day streak and a quick practice question on WACC.

Practice

Practice that remembers.

Technical questions by track and firm, ten at a time, and a review queue that brings back what you missed until it sticks. Behavioural answers you type or record, up to three minutes, kept in your story bank. Mental math as a daily set and an adaptive drill. Practice works offline and syncs when you are back.

Practice in the app: level 2, a Practice 10 button, mock interviews marked Pro, and progress by topic such as Capital markets at 86 percent.

Firms

Firms, decoded.

Track the firms you are applying to. Each one gets news from press wires and its own newsroom, deal briefings to read before the call, key dates where we have them, and your notes.

A firm's page in the app: how they hire (a Spring Week 2027 deadline to add), a day in the life by division, practice for the firm and your networking there.

People

People, remembered.

Log every coffee chat, call and email against the person and the firm. Ariadne works out when to follow up and reminds you. Outreach templates fill in your name, school and year, ready to edit and send.

Networking in the app: 5 contacts, 2 coffee chats and 2 follow-ups due, each with Log touch and Snooze buttons, then contacts by firm.

Calendar

No deadline slips.

Application windows for the firms you track, the events you add and your interviews, in one calendar that syncs to your phone's. Reminders come before every deadline and in the days before an interview.

The October 2026 calendar in the app, today circled, with a BofA campus evening on Tuesday 6 October.

Readiness

Know how ready you are.

A score out of 100 across six skills, built from what you do: answers, coffee chats, applications. It names your weakest skill, so you know where this week goes.

Your preparedness in the app: a six-axis chart across technicals, behavioural, mental math, firm knowledge, networking and applications, and a score of 56 out of 100.

Built for six tracks.

Pick a main track and add a second if you are keeping options open. Questions, firms and milestones follow your choice, and you can change it later.

Investment Banking
M&A, ECM, DCM and leveraged finance advisory.
Sales & Trading
Market-making and risk-taking across asset classes.
Private Equity
Buyouts and growth investing.
Asset Management
Long-only investing at scale.
Hedge Funds
Multi-strategy, L/S equity, macro and credit.
Quant Trading
Systematic and discretionary quantitative trading.

On your home screen.

Four widgets: your streak, today's to-dos, what's up next and your readiness. Tick a to-do or snooze a follow-up without opening the app.

The Streak widget with sample data: a 12-day streak and 3 questions left today.The Today widget with sample data: practice done, weekly to-dos all done, no follow-ups due.The Preparedness widget with sample data: 64 out of 100.

Widget designs shown with sample data

After the interview.

Report how it went

An hour after the interview Ariadne asks how it went. Note the round, how hard it felt and the questions you got. Share it anonymously, if you like, and the questions join the bank after review.

The Wall of Fame

Got the offer? Add yourself to the Wall of Fame: school, role and firm, shown to other Ariadne users once it is approved.

The firms we cover.

114 firms across banking, private equity, hedge funds, asset management and quant trading.

The logos of the firms Ariadne covers. Their names are listed below.

Ariadne is not affiliated with the firms named.

See all 114 firms

Bulge brackets

  • Goldman Sachs
  • Morgan Stanley
  • J.P. Morgan
  • Bank of America
  • Citi
  • Barclays
  • Deutsche Bank
  • UBS
  • BNP Paribas
  • HSBC
  • Société Générale
  • Nomura
  • Wells Fargo
  • RBC Capital Markets
  • Jefferies

Elite boutiques

  • Lazard
  • Evercore
  • Centerview
  • Moelis
  • PJT Partners
  • Perella Weinberg
  • Rothschild & Co
  • Guggenheim
  • Houlihan Lokey
  • Greenhill
  • Qatalyst
  • LionTree
  • Robey Warshaw

Middle market

  • William Blair
  • Baird
  • Lincoln International
  • Harris Williams
  • Piper Sandler
  • Stifel
  • Raymond James
  • Macquarie Capital

Private equity

  • Blackstone
  • KKR
  • Apollo
  • Carlyle
  • CVC
  • EQT
  • Advent
  • Permira
  • Cinven
  • Bridgepoint
  • Warburg Pincus
  • BC Partners
  • Hellman & Friedman
  • Vista Equity
  • Silver Lake
  • General Atlantic
  • L Catterton
  • Bain Capital
  • TPG
  • Thoma Bravo
  • Ardian
  • PAI Partners
  • Hg
  • Apax
  • Nordic Capital
  • Brookfield

Hedge funds

  • Citadel
  • Millennium
  • Point72
  • Balyasny
  • Bridgewater
  • Man Group
  • Marshall Wace
  • Brevan Howard
  • Elliott
  • D.E. Shaw
  • Two Sigma
  • AQR
  • Capula
  • Rokos
  • ExodusPoint
  • Eisler Capital
  • Qube Research & Technologies

Asset managers

  • BlackRock
  • Vanguard
  • Fidelity
  • PIMCO
  • Capital Group
  • T. Rowe Price
  • Wellington
  • Schroders
  • Amundi
  • UBS Asset Management
  • Pictet
  • Baillie Gifford
  • Invesco
  • Franklin Templeton
  • Nuveen
  • Legal & General IM
  • Janus Henderson
  • M&G

Quant and prop trading

  • Jane Street
  • Citadel Securities
  • Hudson River Trading
  • Optiver
  • IMC
  • Flow Traders
  • Jump Trading
  • DRW
  • SIG
  • Five Rings
  • Tower Research
  • XTX Markets
  • Maven Securities
  • G-Research
  • Da Vinci
  • Virtu
  • Akuna Capital

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