Everything you need for getting an offer to Alvarez & Marsal as an Associate.
Practise real consulting cases, get scored on what interviewers look for, and know exactly what to fix before your interview.
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Where to start for this role
The graduate entry point at firms that count their ladder from Associate. Expect a case close to the work the team actually sells, and arithmetic you are expected to run unprompted.
Read a full case end to end
57 cases with exhibits and a worked structure, indexed by prompt type, industry and firm style.
Drill the skill that is costing you
Timed reps on one competency at a time, each scored separately.
Sit the screening simulators
Six assessment formats used across the industry, rebuilt with their real timing.
Four ways to train for your case interview
Start with a full case to see where you stand, then fix your weak spots with drills.
Guided case
Work a full case step by step with prompts, then see how a strong candidate structured the same problem.
Drills
Short timed reps on one skill at a time: math, structure, brainstorming, exhibits, synthesis.
Assessments
The screening formats firms run before interviews, rebuilt with their real timing and constraints.
Voice case
Run a live spoken interview against an AI interviewer and answer out loud, under pressure.
How you get interview-ready
Run real cases, get a detailed debrief on every answer, and drill what you got wrong.
Run a case the way it is actually run
Guided mode prompts you through a full case one step at a time. Voice mode takes the prompts away and makes you answer out loud.
Expert-level debrief
Every answer returns four weighted dimensions separately, quoting your own words, and names the one to correct first.
Drills aimed at the dimension you lose
Timed reps on arithmetic, exhibits, structuring, brainstorming, synthesis and sizing. One skill at a time, so a weakness has somewhere to show.
Learn before you practice
Learning mode covers the method first: what a structure is for, how an exhibit is read, which arithmetic shortcuts are worth having.
One offer pays for your prep hundreds of times over
Pick your target firm and level to see what the offer pays, and what your prep costs.
$134,500
Year 1 total comp as a McKinsey Business Analyst
$120
3 months of Protocol Career
0.09% of year 1 pay, about 2 hours on the job. Measured against a first-year package, the subscription is a rounding error.
Why this gets you offer-ready faster
Practise as much as you want and get feedback in seconds, for less than one hour with a coach.
Protocol Career $49/mo | Private coach $200/hr | Video course $500+ | Practice partner Free | |
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| Unlimited reps | Yes | No | Yes | Depends on them |
| Scored on every dimension | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Available at 2am | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Feedback within seconds | Yes | No | No | If they know |
| Tracks progress over time | Yes | Their notes | No | No |
| Firm-specific assessments | Yes | Sometimes | No | No |
| Reads a real exhibit with you | Yes | Yes | No | Sometimes |
They walked in ready. Here is what they say.
“I've applied to consulting roles both with and without protocol, and the difference was huge. This time I got the job (M&A at McKinsey), and I walked into the interviews feeling far better prepared and confident.”
Kim C.McKinseyI used protocol career to prepare for my EY interviews and it made a real difference.
The voice case was the most useful part for me. Answering out loud against the AI interviewer is much closer to the real thing than reading cases or practicing in your head. By the time the interview came, I was over-prepared. The actual case felt easier than what I had been doing on protocol, so nothing caught me off guard.
The hiring likelihood score also helped a lot. It gave me a clear read on where I stood and when I was ready, instead of guessing. I walked in on the day knowing my level.
If you're preparing for consulting interviews, I'd recommend it.
Juan A.EYOn top of being a great tool, they have a support team that really went out of their way to help me. Between the two, I felt fully prepared and supported.
Lisa C.PwCI used Protocol career to prepare for my interviews and landed a Manager position at Deloitte. The product is well structured and clearly built to give you every chance of succeeding. You can tell it was designed by senior consultants who have been through the process themselves. The continuous scoring was the most useful part for me: instead of guessing whether I was getting better, I could see where I was progressing and where I still had work to do. I'd recommend it to anyone preparing seriously for consulting interviews.
Amanda L.DeloitteHelped me land a senior role at BCG
Protocol helped me walk into my interviews prepared and confident. I went through the whole recruiting process calmly, without any bad surprises.
Sam T.BCGSince I started using it, I feel a lot sharper. My structure has improved a lot, especially under pressure, and I now do much better on cases.
Elijah L.BainProtocol is really well designed for making fast progress. No fluff, just what you need to work on. It puts every chance on your side to stand out and get the job. It's what made the difference for me in landing the Business Analyst role.
Larry J.McKinseyI had my interview coming up at EY and was looking for anything that could help me prepare, mostly YouTube videos. I was lucky to come across this. It really helped me get ready and feel confident going into the interview. I ended up landing the role I was preparing for.
Joshua A.EYLanded my target role at KPMG after preparing with Protocol Career. Having one well-designed way to prep beats watching dozens of YouTube videos and reading blogs full of outdated cases. Money well spent.
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Prep for your $150K+ consulting career.
Every plan is unlimited.
Monthly Unlimited
Everything, month to month. Cancel any time.
- Unlimited cases (57 cases)
- Guided case mode with model answers
- A debrief across seven weighted dimensions
- Drills without a cap, saved to your dashboard
- Voice mode against an AI interviewer
- Unlimited Coach chat
90-Day Sprint
One payment, 90 days, interview date on the calendar.
- Unlimited cases (57 cases)
- Guided case mode with model answers
- A debrief across seven weighted dimensions
- Drills without a cap, saved to your dashboard
- Voice mode against an AI interviewer
- Unlimited Coach chat
- One payment, no subscription to remember
- $40 a month over the 90 days
One payment, no renewal
Frequently asked questions
The case library is tagged by firm style and the assessment simulators reproduce the screening formats used before interviews, with their real timing. The underlying skills are identical everywhere; the formats are not. What we do not do is pretend to know Alvarez & Marsal's internal scoring . Nobody outside the firm does.
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The two things worth doing today cost nothing and need no account: read a case end to end, then work one number until it is automatic.