James Halloran
Ex-McKinsey · 6 years · London
About
We coached on Saturdays for years
Two ex-MBB interviewers, one rubric, an AI built in the voice we used in the room
For most of the last decade, between us, we sat on the other side of MBB case interviews. Screening, second round, partnering. On weekends we coached friends of friends for a flat fee, marking them the way we'd mark a real candidate on Monday
We stopped, because we built something that does it on the same rubric, in MBB voice
MBB Ready is that thing. The coaches you'll meet on the next page are AI personas, designed and trained by us against the 2026 MBB scoring rubric. They mark the way we mark. That's the whole product
The two of us
Peter Vandermeer
Ex-Bain · 5 years · Boston
What we won't change
- 01
Same scoring anchors as a real first round
Three dimensions, fourteen sub-dimensions, five-point scale. Each score on your report links to the literal anchor an EM would have on their scoring sheet at the firm. Read the full rubric on the rubric page
- 02
Mira pushes back. Twice if needed
No "great question." No padding weak answers. If your structure is missing a bucket, she names the gap once. If you stick to it, she names it harder. On the third try she moves on, and the marker notes you didn't recover
- 03
We don't grade on effort
Long pauses, false starts, and nervous rambling are normal and not penalised, but they don't earn points either. A 1.8 is a 1.8. You see exactly which sub-dimensions cost you and which moment did it, with timestamps