Whali is the cold email platform built for students who want internships at companies that aren't recruiting through their university. AI personalisation, 275M+ profiles, automated follow-ups.
Trusted by students from LSE, Durham, Bath, Loughborough, Leicester and more
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.
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.
Try the onboarding demo with your CV. See real companies and AI-generated emails before you pick a plan.