Deal team
Tests whether a candidate can read the memo, spot the risk, and make a defensible investment call.
Strong cases. Industry-checked mechanics.
Eternal is built for students who need more than interview tips. The case library is fictional, but the judgment it trains is checked against private-equity work by professionals with 30+ years of combined experience across investor relations, portfolio management, and deal-team roles.
Industry experience
30+ years
Combined reviewer experience
Professional lenses
3
Deal team, portfolio, IR
Case format
Fictional
Real mechanics, protected names
Student output
Talent Card
Recruiter-readable proof
Review bench
Portfolio management
Checks whether decisions connect to value creation, KPI movement, covenants, and post-close execution.
Investor relations
Adds the fund-level lens: LP communication, attribution, valuation marks, and how bad decisions are explained.
Case standard
Fictional companies. Real mechanics.
Names, companies, and numbers are fictionalized. The pressure is not: every case should force a choice a PE team would recognize.
Investment logic
Entry price, downside case, leverage capacity, diligence gaps, and partner objections must fit together.
Commercial reality
Customer concentration, churn, market structure, pricing power, and channel quality cannot be decorative facts.
Operating consequence
A call should change the deal record: valuation, risk rating, workplan, covenant headroom, or exit path.
Recruiter signal
Completed reps should show judgment under ambiguity, not just whether a learner clicked the right answer.
How a case becomes proof
Step 1
Write the case like a live workstream.
Each case starts from a real PE task: screen a target, defend a buy case, rescue a value-creation plan, or explain a fund problem.
Step 2
Review the mechanics with industry operators.
Private-equity professionals help pressure-test the facts, answer keys, feedback, and consequence logic.
Step 3
Turn the decision into proof.
The learner leaves with a record of completed case decisions that can support interview prep and recruiter conversations.