Kwolify

Everyone around me was recruiting for investment banking.

I wanted to try, but I had no finance background and quickly realized the process was mostly a messy operating system of networking, tracking contacts, sending emails, following up, preparing for interviews, and remembering when applications opened.

I did not want to manage it all through spreadsheets.

So I built Kwolify.

The idea was simple: create one place where a college student recruiting for investment banking could manage the entire process.

You enter your resume and target firms. Kwolify helps find relevant bankers, LinkedIns, emails, roles, and recent activity. It organizes everyone into a database, drafts personalized outreach, tracks responses, sets follow-up reminders, links to calendar availability, and helps keep the entire recruiting process moving.

I also built an interview preparation side of the app so recruiting was not split across notes, spreadsheets, email drafts, and random technical guides.

I used Kwolify throughout my own recruiting process and ended up landing an elite boutique investment banking internship despite starting with essentially no finance experience.

After that, I gave it to friends who were struggling with their own recruiting processes.

More than 20 students now use Kwolify, and I treat it like a personal product built with its users. Friends send suggestions, request features, and help shape the product based on the actual pain they experience while recruiting.

Kwolify started as a tool to solve my own problem, but it became one of the clearest examples of how I like to build: experience the pain directly, turn the workflow into software, use it myself, then give it to others and iterate quickly.