I'm Tom. I worked at McKinsey myself — for full transparency, I left the firm in 2024 — and started SeaWolfSolver the same year after watching strong candidates lose offers to a 35-minute game with almost no real prep market behind it. The official practice was a 5-minute demo. Everything else was forum guesswork.

The first version was an Excel solver I built for myself and shared with a handful of candidates, drawing on what I'd seen from the inside about how the game is actually scored. The feedback loop was immediate and brutal: people didn't need theory, they needed reps against the actual mechanics. So I kept building.

To keep the simulator and content honest, I retake the live McKinsey Solve assessment every 2–3 months and update the tools whenever the format shifts. Two years in, we've delivered prep tools to 1,200+ candidates across 40+ countries. I still read the support inbox personally — that's where the patterns I publish on the research page come from. If you email us, you're emailing me.