Whali is the cold email platform for students who refuse to wait for the careers fair. AI-personalised emails to real people at real firms, with follow-ups, replies, and interviews on autopilot.
Used by students at
LSE · Imperial · Warwick · Durham · Bath · Loughborough · Bristol · Leicester
Whali students have landed offers at
Cold email is not a hack. It is statistically the highest-leverage thing an undergraduate can do.
Every part of Whali is tuned for one job: getting an undergrad to a reply from a person who can hire them.
Whali reads their LinkedIn, recent posts, podcast appearances, and company news, then opens with a line that proves you did the work.
Hi Ben,
Listened to your September podcast on AI in healthcare M&A twice on the walk to LSE. The carve-out diligence point lined up with the case my PE society won at Bain SoutheastAsia.
Could I borrow 15 minutes next week?
91% personalisation match
Search 275M+ professionals across 70M+ companies. Filter by role, seniority, industry, and hiring activity.
Partner · Healthcare · UK
Whali sends a polite nudge if they don't reply, then a final close-the-loop. No spreadsheets. No reminders.
Initial email
Day 0 · auto-scheduled
Follow-up 1
Day 3 · auto-scheduled
Follow-up 2
Day 7 · auto-scheduled
Upload once. Whali matches your strongest credentials, projects, and society wins to each recipient automatically.
maya-chen-cv.pdf
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OAuth into Gmail or Outlook. Whali sends from your real address so replies land in your inbox, not a third-party tool.
Replies land in your real inbox.
Nothing leaves your account without your sign-off. Edit drafts in two clicks, batch-approve the rest.
3 drafts ready
Priya R. · Lazard
EMEA carve-outs panel
Ben M. · Bain
AI healthcare M&A pod
Lara K. · BCG
Your Insights piece on PE
Ordinary undergrads with ordinary CVs who emailed decision-makers directly. Quotes lightly edited for length.
I'd sent 200+ LinkedIn DMs over a year and got nothing. Three weeks on Whali and I had two coffee chats with VPs at Lazard and Houlihan Lokey. One turned into a spring week.
Sofia M.
Economics, LSE
My uni doesn't have BCG on its careers radar at all. Whali found me four consultants there who actually replied. The personalisation is the part that broke through.
Maya C.
Maths, Warwick
I'm a state-school international student. I didn't have the network. Cold email through Whali gave me one. I had three offers by April.
Daniel O.
Finance, Bath
Three options on the table. Two of them stop scaling fast.
Mailshake $69/mo, Lemlist $79/mo (entry plans, May 2026). Whali Starter £25/mo.
From CV upload to interview invitation in days, not months.
Whali extracts your education, experience, and skills to personalise every email.
Find decision-makers at companies hiring interns. Filter by industry, size, location, and hiring activity.
Each email references the recipient's career history, social media, and company news. You approve every send.
Connect Gmail or Outlook. Whali tracks opens, clicks, replies. Follow-ups send on schedule.
Each guide covers what hiring looks like in 2026, the firms that recruit students, the timeline, and how cold email gives you an edge.
Investment banking, PE, asset management. Bulge bracket through boutique.
Read guideMBB, Big 4, boutiques. Case prep and how cold email opens smaller firms.
Read guideFAANG, scale-ups, startups. Coding interview prep and outreach timing.
Read guideAgencies, in-house teams, startups. How to stand out in a creative field.
Read guideVacation schemes, mini-pupillages, paralegal internships. Smaller firms via cold email.
Read guideFree, data-backed playbooks. No signup.
The full step-by-step process: targeting, finding emails, writing, timing, and follow-ups.
15 chapters15 chapters, 10+ templates. The full workflow from finding decision-makers to landing interviews.
DataVacancies at lowest since 2012, 58:1 application ratio. Full High Fliers + HESA data.
StrategyNACE study: students who cold network are 2x more likely to land an internship. Why and how.
Data study74.7% open rate, 14.6% click rate. Subject line, send time, and follow-up data from real Whali users.
Yes. NACE/University of Virginia found students who engaged in cold networking were 2x more likely to land an internship than those who relied only on warm contacts and job boards. Internships found through cold outreach also converted to full-time offers 70% of the time, vs 40% from warm networking.
No. Most students who land internships through cold email have ordinary CVs. The leverage is in personalised outreach to the right people, not credentials. Whali's AI references the recipient's specific work and adapts your CV's strongest parts to each email.
Not if it's personalised and short. The data is clear: 43% of senior leaders say cold emails from candidates are an effective way to get noticed (Nature). Generic templates get ignored. Personalised, specific emails get replies.
Mailshake and Lemlist are built for B2B sales teams sending hundreds of emails per day. Whali is built for students sending 30-100 emails per week with deeper personalisation per email. Pricing reflects that: from £25/month vs $69+/month.
Minutes. Upload your CV, search for companies, and Whali generates ready-to-review emails immediately. Connect Gmail or Outlook via OAuth and send the same day.
That's exactly the gap Whali closes. The 70% of internships filled before posting are filled through referrals and direct outreach. Cold email lets you reach those decision-makers without going through a careers service.
Upload your CV, search a company, and Whali drafts your first three personalised emails in under 90 seconds. Try the onboarding demo before you pick a plan.
5,000+ students. From £25/month. Cancel anytime.
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