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Free Tools vs Scored Practice: What Ned Built
A partner's map of CoachNed's free calculators, builders, and drills—what each one actually does, when free is enough, and when the scored week is worth it.
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Free PEI Workbook: Story Bank That Survives McKinsey Probes
Ned's free PEI and fit workbook: four McKinsey signals, 12 stories, 42 prompts, STAR sheets, follow-up ladder, and a self-review rubric you can finish this week.
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CoachNed Drill Engine: Practice One Skill at a Time
How 550+ AI-graded drills isolate structure, math, charts, sizing, synthesis, and brainstorming—what deliberate practice requires, and what drills cannot train.
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CoachNed's AI Coach: Live Voice Cases and Seven Scores
What Ned's live voice case interview does: how a session runs, what the seven-score debrief covers, what it cannot replace, and how access works.
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MBB.AI Alternatives: Pick by Job, Not Feature List
Leaving MBB.AI? Match the next AI case tool to the job you are failing—diagnosis, voice mocks, drills, funnel, or assessments—with real public pricing.
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Claude for Case Prep: Projects, Context, Five Prompts
Load a casebook into Claude Projects, run a persistent interviewer, and use five prompts with anti-sycophancy rules. Honest on free limits and scoring gaps.
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ChatGPT Case Prep: 5 Prompt Sequences That Stay Strict
Five copy-ready ChatGPT sequences for cases, structure critique, math, and PEI—with settings that cut praise and invented exhibits.
Firm guides
Free McKinsey Prep: Rank the Firm's Own Stack First
A ranked free McKinsey prep list: interviewing page, practice cases, PEI, Solve, and videos first, then university sources, then honest free drills.
Firm guides
Free BCG Prep Starts With What BCG Publishes
Rank BCG's free OneDay simulations, online-case and CCA pages, and interview tips first. Then university books and CoachNed's free week. No paid lists.
Firm guides
Free Bain Prep Resources Ranked by Source Quality
Rank Bain's free practice cases, interview videos, and digital assessment pages first, then university case books and drills that move the score.
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Free AI Tools for Case Prep: What Actually Works
ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini free tiers for case interview prep: vendor limits as of today, original prompts, and CoachNed's free surfaces.
Math and quant
Free AI for Case Math: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini
Compare free ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini for timed case-math drills, force them to verify arithmetic, and use CoachNed Quick Math as one option.