Northstar is the world's first gamified super-app for career prep.
Investment Banking and Corporate Law. Built for Students Worldwide.
The Problem
Investment banking: ~2% offer rate globally. US elite law firms: under 5%. The funnel is closing fast.
Human career coaches charge £200–500/hour. Out of reach for most students.
Students cobble prep together from Reddit threads and YouTube videos. No curriculum. No progress.
IB offer rate (global)
US elite law firms
Human coach cost
Gamified career apps
The Solution
Swipe headlines relevant to law or banking. Builds commercial instinct in 60 seconds.
Same question for every user. Live leaderboard. Shared competition.
Spaced repetition for firm knowledge, deal vocabulary, legal terms.
Two choices. One tap. Tests commercial judgment fast.
One real deal. Four bullet points. 50+ deals in your mental library after 3 months.
A live 0–100 score across Commercial Awareness, Technical Knowledge, Firm Knowledge, Deal Awareness, and Interview Readiness.
Built for real life
Northstar slots into the gaps in your day. The bus stop. The lecture hall queue. The minute before your seminar starts. No textbooks, no login friction — just your phone, your star, and the offer you're chasing.
Swipe through 5 deal headlines on the bus. Your brain switches into commercial mode before you've even reached campus.
One question. One leaderboard climb. One flashcard flip. By the time your coffee arrives, your streak is alive.
That's all it takes. A daily quest, a Deal of the Week bullet, and your Northstar Score ticks up another notch.
Daily commitment
Of compounding edge
Just your phone
The 8th Wonder of the World
"Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn't, pays it."
Game Types
Pick the best answer.
Two choices. One tap.
Type the missing term.
Reorder until it makes sense.
Match terms to meanings.
Decide under pressure.
Real deals, four bullets.
Spaced repetition magic.
Two Verticals
The Journey
A visual roadmap of what every Northstar student experiences — from the first onboarding tap to walking out with an offer.
Pick your vertical, target firms, geography, and timeline. We profile your starting knowledge in a 3-minute diagnostic.
A week-by-week plan built around your gaps. Commercial Awareness, Technical, Firm Knowledge, Deals, Interview Readiness.
Daily News Swipe, flashcards, This or That. Your Northstar Score climbs as your streak grows.
Switch on firm question banks. Study live deals from Goldman, Slaughters, Kirkland. Compete on the global leaderboard.
Scenario Snap drills under pressure. CV review. Cover letter polish. AI mock interviews with structured feedback.
Show up sharper than candidates who paid £500/hour coaches. Your star is at full glow. Welcome to the firm.
Glow up with Starry
The Northstar star glows brighter every time you practise. Miss a day and it starts to fade. This is your daily reminder that your career is waiting.
Full Glow
Steady Glow
Getting Dim
Fading
Almost Gone
Markets
Finance
Goldman Sachs · J.P. Morgan · Morgan Stanley · Blackstone · KKR
Law
Slaughter and May · Linklaters · Freshfields · Clifford Chance · Allen & Overy
Finance
GIC · Temasek · DBS · UBS · Goldman Sachs
Law
Allen & Gledhill · WongPartnership · Rajah & Tann · Drew & Napier
Finance
Morgan Stanley · UBS · HSBC · Citi · Goldman Sachs
Law
Linklaters · Clifford Chance · Kirkland & Ellis · Davis Polk
Finance
Goldman Sachs · J.P. Morgan · Evercore · Blackstone · Apollo
Law
Cravath · Sullivan & Cromwell · Wachtell · Kirkland & Ellis · Davis Polk
Pricing
Community & League
Real students. Real universities. Real-time XP. Every answer, streak, and Deal of the Week pushes you up the board — and pushes someone else down. Top 5 promote on Sundays.
Live · Gold League
Daily Question
Every morning at 08:00 a single question drops globally. Answer fastest with the cleanest reasoning and your name lights up the Daily Board.
Squads
Create a private squad with friends from your uni. Mini leaderboard, weekly XP race, and gentle (brutal) bragging rights.
Students
Unis
Leagues
What students say
4.8 / 5 · average across 2,400+ student reviews
"I'd been preparing for IB recruitment for months using random YouTube videos and WSO threads. Northstar gave me actual structure for the first time. The daily news swipe alone changed how I read the FT — I actually understand what I'm reading now instead of just nodding along. Got my Goldman first round last month. Can't say it's all Northstar but it definitely helped."
Aditya Sharma
NUS Business · targeting Goldman Sachs
"The firm profiles are genuinely insane. I knew Clifford Chance did capital markets but I had no idea how to articulate why that mattered until I went through the CC track on Northstar. The interviewer literally asked me why I preferred CC over Linklaters and I had a proper answer ready. Training contract offer came two weeks later."
Priya Nair
LSE Economics · targeting Magic Circle
"What I didn't expect was how much the leaderboard would bother me. My flatmate is also on it and watching him sit above me in the Associate League was genuinely motivating in a way no amount of 'you should prepare more' ever was. The competitive element is subtle but really effective. Knocked him off top spot in week three."
James Whitfield
Warwick · targeting JPMorgan
"I started using this six months before applications opened because a friend recommended it. By the time I sat my Freshfields interview I'd done over 200 deal flashcards and could discuss recent M&A transactions without even thinking. The interviewer said I had 'unusually strong commercial awareness for a second year.' That's Northstar."
Sophie Beaumont
HKU · targeting Freshfields
"The fading star actually stresses me out and I think that's the point. I missed three days during exam week and watched it go from full glow to almost grey. Opened the app immediately. Five minutes of practice while eating breakfast and it was back. Sounds ridiculous but it works better than any reminder or alarm I've ever set."
Marcus Tan
NTU · targeting Barclays IB
"As someone preparing for Wall Street recruitment the US content is exactly what I needed. The technical stages are genuinely difficult — the accounting flow-through questions in Stage 11 humbled me quite a bit — but that's the point. By the time I sat my Morgan Stanley Superday the technical questions felt easy by comparison. Four stars only because I want more US-specific content. Otherwise brilliant."
Olivia Chen
Columbia University · targeting Morgan Stanley NYC
"I was sceptical about a gamified app for something as serious as law firm applications. Felt gimmicky. But the content is genuinely rigorous — the M&A legal track taught me things about SPAs and conditions precedent that my law degree hadn't covered yet. The This or That format sounds simple but I've learned more about deal structures through those quick questions than through hours of reading. Linklaters offer came through last Friday."
Rajan Pillai
King's College London · targeting Linklaters
"I'd been preparing for IB recruitment for months using random YouTube videos and WSO threads. Northstar gave me actual structure for the first time. The daily news swipe alone changed how I read the FT — I actually understand what I'm reading now instead of just nodding along. Got my Goldman first round last month. Can't say it's all Northstar but it definitely helped."
Aditya Sharma
NUS Business · targeting Goldman Sachs
"The firm profiles are genuinely insane. I knew Clifford Chance did capital markets but I had no idea how to articulate why that mattered until I went through the CC track on Northstar. The interviewer literally asked me why I preferred CC over Linklaters and I had a proper answer ready. Training contract offer came two weeks later."
Priya Nair
LSE Economics · targeting Magic Circle
"What I didn't expect was how much the leaderboard would bother me. My flatmate is also on it and watching him sit above me in the Associate League was genuinely motivating in a way no amount of 'you should prepare more' ever was. The competitive element is subtle but really effective. Knocked him off top spot in week three."
James Whitfield
Warwick · targeting JPMorgan
"I started using this six months before applications opened because a friend recommended it. By the time I sat my Freshfields interview I'd done over 200 deal flashcards and could discuss recent M&A transactions without even thinking. The interviewer said I had 'unusually strong commercial awareness for a second year.' That's Northstar."
Sophie Beaumont
HKU · targeting Freshfields
"The fading star actually stresses me out and I think that's the point. I missed three days during exam week and watched it go from full glow to almost grey. Opened the app immediately. Five minutes of practice while eating breakfast and it was back. Sounds ridiculous but it works better than any reminder or alarm I've ever set."
Marcus Tan
NTU · targeting Barclays IB
"As someone preparing for Wall Street recruitment the US content is exactly what I needed. The technical stages are genuinely difficult — the accounting flow-through questions in Stage 11 humbled me quite a bit — but that's the point. By the time I sat my Morgan Stanley Superday the technical questions felt easy by comparison. Four stars only because I want more US-specific content. Otherwise brilliant."
Olivia Chen
Columbia University · targeting Morgan Stanley NYC
"I was sceptical about a gamified app for something as serious as law firm applications. Felt gimmicky. But the content is genuinely rigorous — the M&A legal track taught me things about SPAs and conditions precedent that my law degree hadn't covered yet. The This or That format sounds simple but I've learned more about deal structures through those quick questions than through hours of reading. Linklaters offer came through last Friday."
Rajan Pillai
King's College London · targeting Linklaters
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"The firm profiles are genuinely insane. I knew Clifford Chance did capital markets but I had no idea how to articulate why that mattered until I went through the CC track on Norths…"
Priya Nair
LSE Economics · Magic Circle
"I started using this six months before applications opened because a friend recommended it. By the time I sat my Freshfields interview I'd done over 200 deal flashcards and could d…"
Sophie Beaumont
HKU · Freshfields
"I was sceptical about a gamified app for something as serious as law firm applications. Felt gimmicky. But the content is genuinely rigorous — the M&A legal track taught me things …"
Rajan Pillai
King's College London · Linklaters
The Data Flywheel
Every question answered. Every offer logged. Every outcome recorded. The more students use Northstar, the more accurately it predicts who gets the offer — and why. After three years this dataset becomes permanently unbeatable.
