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Attronica Financial Planning & Analysis and Private Company Valuation
Attronica Financial Planning & Analysis and Private Company Valuation
A 40-year-old IT and AV integration firm wants an honest assessment of what their business is worth. Students build a 4-page financial story using real financials, AI tools, and Excel — led by the CEO who built the company.
Project Output
Deliver a professional FP&A consulting package and company valuation for Attronica:
- Organize and analyze historical financial statements: Review Attronica’s audited financials, restructure data for clarity, and identify key trends across revenue, margins, and operating expenses.
- Build a financial forecasting model: Develop a forward-looking financial model in Excel incorporating revenue drivers, cost assumptions, and goal-seek analysis to project multiple growth scenarios.
- Conduct operational and competitive analysis: Evaluate Attronica’s market position within the IT hardware and services landscape, benchmarking against industry peers and identifying strategic advantages.
- Produce a comprehensive private company valuation: Apply DCF, comparable company, and precedent transaction methodologies to arrive at a defensible valuation range supporting strategic business decisions.
- Deliver a final strategy presentation to the CEO: Synthesize all findings into a polished slide deck presenting the FP&A assessment, valuation summary, and strategic recommendations for Attronica’s next chapter.
Skills You'll Gain
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Attronica Financial Planning & Analysis and Private Company Valuation
BeReal Product Management
BeReal Product Management
How should BeReal grow without losing what makes it... real? In this 8-week Product Innovation Externship, you’ll step into the role of a Product Manager tackling one of the most important challenges in consumer tech: how to grow MAUs, boost retention, and explore monetization—without breaking the product’s core mission of authenticity.
You’ll build real, resume-ready product skills by:
- Mapping the user journey to spot friction and drop-off
- Benchmarking competitors like TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat
- Prototyping a new feature using Replit Agent
- Running peer usability tests and analyzing feedback
- Synthesizing your work into a high-impact stakeholder pitch deck
By the end, you’ll have a portfolio project that shows off your UX, strategy, and communication skills—and a deeper understanding of how real PMs make decisions that shape products used by millions.
Project Output
Design and prototype a feature aimed at boosting BeReal's monthly active users metric (MAUs). Demo and present to BeReal leadership at the end of the externship.
Project deliverables include:
1) A visual representation of BeReal’s user behavior pattern highlighting common usage habits, motivations, and frustrations of BeReal users
2) A competitor analysis matrix highlighting engagement-driving features and gaps
3) Prototype Flow Map (photo or text storyboard) and Prototype Link (+ README with click path)
4) Focus group test summary report
5) Final feature proposal deck (5–7 slides) presenting the feature, supporting evidence, and rollout plan
Skills You'll Gain
Founded in France, BeReal is a fast-growing social app with 40M users worldwide. They’re changing the way people connect—by encouraging users to share a real, unfiltered glimpse of their lives every day. In a landscape dominated by filters and algorithms, BeReal is fighting to let us all be “real” again.. BeReal is betting big on genuine connection—and wants your help in crafting features that stay true to that mission while growing engagement and reach.
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BeReal Product Management
SQL & Database Architecture Externship with Breaking Games
SQL & Database Architecture Externship with Breaking Games
Six messy CSVs, no database, and one question nobody can answer: what’s actually working?
Picture your first week at a fast-growing game company. There’s no database, nobody who knows SQL, and the business needs to know where to spend its next marketing dollar and where to pull back. Over 8 weeks, you’ll build two skills at once: questioning data with SQL, and working alongside Claude the way real analysts do now — it does the typing, you do the thinking. You’ll design the database that makes sense of the chaos, write the SQL that connects everything, and finish with a live HTML dashboard and a real recommendation for the business. No past database or SQL experience needed — just curiosity and a willingness to learn by doing.
Project Output
Deliver a working analytics database and a clear, data-backed recommendation that tells Breaking Games where to spend and where to pull back.
- Load and explore the raw data: Get six separate data files into a database and write your first queries — feeling firsthand why messy, disconnected data is so hard to work with.
- Design a database that connects the data: Structure proper tables, link them with keys, and join them to follow one customer’s journey from first ad click to purchase.
- Find out what’s actually selling: Rank the full product catalog by what drives revenue, build summary tables, and turn the numbers into a clear restock recommendation.
- See which marketing is working: Clean hundreds of messy traffic sources into tidy channels, then calculate which ads and channels actually pay off.
- Investigate why carts get abandoned: Dig into thousands of abandoned carts, uncover which “shoppers” are bots skewing the numbers, and calculate the real abandonment rate.
- Build a dashboard and make your recommendation: Pull everything into a clean, shareable HTML dashboard and make your case to the team.
Skills You'll Gain
Breaking Games is the publishing arm of AdMagic—the powerhouse behind hits like Cards Against Humanity and Exploding Kittens. But they’re more than just a traditional publisher. They help invent, test, launch, and distribute both their own games and others’, working across the entire tabletop ecosystem. This externship offers a rare peek behind the scenes of how digital marketing powers the business side of play.
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SQL & Database Architecture Externship with Breaking Games
Health-Ade (Generous Brands) Consumer Behavior & Insights Externship with Generous Brands
Health-Ade (Generous Brands) Consumer Behavior & Insights Externship with Generous Brands
The same shopper sees all 3 bottles in the grocery store: Health-Ade. Bolthouse Farms. Evolution Fresh. Different days, completely different purchases. All are owned by the same company, and their own purchase data can't explain what actually sends a shopper toward kombucha, cold-pressed juice, or a protein smoothie instead of one of the others.They want you to help figure it out: design and run a real survey, benchmark the category's biggest competitors, and build the kind of consulting-style case real firms use to brief executives. If you want to show future hiring managers you understand how to find out what their customer is ACTUALLY thinking, then these 6 weeks are for you.
Project Output
- Design and Run a Real Survey: Deploy it online and face to face, and collect real responses from at least 20 people.
- Analyze What You Actually Collected: Turn raw survey and interview data into real, defensible patterns.
- Benchmark the Competition: Map Generous Brands against the biggest names in the category.
- Build a Consulting-Style Recommendation: Use the Pyramid Principle to argue your case and end with a real next step.
Skills You'll Gain
Generous Brands, formed in 2024, owns a portfolio of premium refrigerated beverage brands built around Bolthouse Farms, Evolution Fresh, and SAMBAZON, with Health-Ade joining as its newest addition, together nearing a billion dollars in retail sales. Health-Ade itself started as a kombucha sold at a farmers market in 2012 before growing into one of the top-selling functional beverage brands in the country.
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Health-Ade (Generous Brands) Consumer Behavior & Insights Externship with Generous Brands
Institute of Mental Health Healthcare Operations & Consulting
Institute of Mental Health Healthcare Operations & Consulting
This externship places you alongside case management leaders in acute mental healthcare to understand and improve how care coordination actually works in practice. Working with the Institute of Mental Health, you examine how case management workflows across inpatient care, emergency settings, and post-discharge follow-up shape patient experience, safety, and continuity of care. You will map real workflows, identify gaps and hidden risks, and make invisible coordination work visible through clear process diagrams and simple operational metrics. By the end, you will have created practical tools that help healthcare leaders better understand workload, risk, and care transitions, and support more patient-centered, reliable mental health care delivery.
Project Output
During the course of the externship, externs will:
- Analyze how case management workflows influence patient experience, continuity of care, and risk across inpatient, emergency, and post-discharge contexts.
- Identify process gaps, blind spots, and unaccounted risks by applying root cause analysis to real care coordination scenarios.
- Map real-world case management workflows to reveal hidden work, handoffs, delays, and intervention points.
- Quantify coordination work by defining operational metrics and prototyping a dashboard that communicates workload, risk mitigation, and value.
By the end of the externship, externs will have created a:
- Stakeholder map and scope-of-practice summary clarifying the case manager’s role in patient-centered care coordination.
- Workflow risk and root-cause analysis table highlighting gaps, risks, and invisible coordination work.
- Process maps and visual flowcharts showing how case management work actually unfolds across follow-up, default management, and escalation.
- Work-quantification dashboard prototype that translates coordination activities into measurable, communicable operational value.
Tools being used: Claude, Perplexity, Gamma
Skills You'll Gain
The Institute of Mental Health (IMH) is Singapore’s national acute psychiatric hospital, with over 1,950 beds and a mission to deliver holistic, integrative mental healthcare. It serves children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly through multidisciplinary teams that include psychologists, nurses, occupational therapists, and social workers. IMH combines evidence-based care with operational excellence to support mental health at scale.
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Institute of Mental Health Healthcare Operations & Consulting
Mangusta Capital Deal Sourcing & Startup Analysis
Mangusta Capital Deal Sourcing & Startup Analysis
Mangusta Capital was founded by a member of SoftBank Vision Fund's founding team — the $100B+ fund behind Uber, Slack, ByteDance, and NVIDIA — and backed by the Luxottica family office, the group behind Ray-Ban and Oakley. As an extern, you'll work as a venture analyst on a live fund actively deploying capital into Vertical AI — startups building AI tools for healthcare, law, finance, and education. You'll source real companies, evaluate founders and markets, run competitor analysis, and write investment memos that reflect how professional investors actually build conviction. The skills you build here — market judgment, structured research, and investment communication — are the exact ones that get people hired at VC firms, growth equity funds, and startup strategy teams
Project Output
Create a professional slide deck and present your investment thesis to Mangusta's Partners:
- Source early stage startups you want to pitch: Search for and identify early-stage startups through diverse discovery methods to uncover under-the-radar companies for further evaluation.
- Conduct comprehensive due diligence: Gather and analyze company data, including fundraising history, team composition, press coverage, and financial metrics, to build reports for investment assessment.
- Generate and refine a targeted list of key competitors: Conduct an in-depth analysis of competitive positioning and differentiation to evaluate a startup’s potential within its market.
- Analyze B2C traction data: Interpret key metrics such as user engagement and app downloads. Leverage and develop AI-driven strategies to help synthesize customer sentiment data to identify product strengths and areas for improvement.
- Complete comprehensive startup analysis on core areas: This includes Market Opportunity, Technology & Core IP, Competitive Landscape, Go-to-Market Strategy, Team Assessment, and Risk Analysis, translating due diligence findings into actionable insights.
- Produce a strategic synergy report: This report should align the startup’s potential with the VC fund’s objectives, articulating collaborative value and strategic fit.
- Design and deliver a concise 3-slide investment memo: Deliver a polished, data-driven presentation in Google Slides to communicate key findings to potential investors as you would if you were a VC associate on the team.
Skills You'll Gain
Mangusta Capital is a venture capital and growth equity firm with origins in Italy, founded by SoftBank Vision Fund’s founder and backed by the family behind Ray-Ban/Oakley. The mission is to shape the world for future generations by supporting technology innovations that move humanity forward.
They invest in audacious founders building mission-critical capabilities across AI and software. As they reach the tipping point in the advent of AGI, we see the inevitability of unlocking massive productivity gains in complex workflows across all industries.
They invest in the next generation of great consumer brands and technologies enabling delightful consumer experiences. In the past, consumers trusted brands; today, consumers trust influencers. Mangusta searches for the trendsetters changing the way we eat, play, and live.
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Mangusta Capital Deal Sourcing & Startup Analysis
ARCeH Data Analytics, Health Outcomes
ARCeH Data Analytics, Health Outcomes
Here’s what the data says: put a pin in Bangkok. Draw a five-hour flight radius around it. You just circled half the world’s population. And half of those people are kids under five, an age where survival itself isn’t guaranteed.
Five isn’t an arbitrary number: it’s the line researchers use as a proxy for a country’s overall health, because almost every preventable childhood death, driven by a bad water source, poor air quality, or an infection nobody caught in time, happens before it. Clear five, and the odds of reaching adulthood jump astronomically. Don’t, and the cause almost always traces back to poverty, healthcare access, environmental risk, or nutrition, something that could have been mapped, measured, and prevented in time.
That’s the gap this externship exists to close: turning scattered, messy public data into a specific, defensible answer about what’s actually driving that risk in a given place, and pass it to the people at ARCeH who want to know about it.
Project Output
Produce a complete, self-sourced children's environmental health findings package:
- Evaluated Dataset: a real-world public health dataset you sourced, evaluated for fitness, and cleaned for analysis
- Defended Research Question: a focused, testable question about environmental exposures and child health outcomes in a community of your choice
- Statistical Analysis: correlation and regression analysis run in Python, with method-selection rationale and honest interpretation
- Stress-Tested Finding: a revised interpretation that survives a structured pitfalls checklist covering confounders, ecological fallacy, and overclaiming
- Practitioner-Facing Presentation: a written brief, supporting chart, slide deck, and recorded presentation built for a non-technical public health audience
Skills You'll Gain
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ARCeH Data Analytics, Health Outcomes
Khan Academy Monetization Strategy & Partnerships
Khan Academy Monetization Strategy & Partnerships
Somebody pays for every free lesson you’ve ever watched. It probably never crossed your mind, and that’s the point: more than 100 million people a year learn on Khan Academy without paying, because a small team keeps finding partners who will. The College Board pays to keep free SAT practice current. Microsoft donated the cloud credits behind Khanmigo. Each deal was found, argued for, and negotiated, and in this externship you join the team that does it. The work is strategy: over seven weeks you’ll take apart Khan Academy’s real partnerships, study how Wikimedia, Coursera, Duolingo and Mozilla earn from free reach, and find the deals you believe Khan Academy should do next. Perplexity researches, Claude drafts, you decide. By the end you’ll have a portfolio piece: an executive pitch deck arguing for your deals, what each side gets, what each could earn, the risks, and which to pursue first. It’s proof of the thing employers know they can’t train into a new hire: a perspective nobody else in the room has.
Project Output
- Tear Down a Flagship Partnership: Reverse-engineer the College Board deal into its value exchange, revenue logic, and why it endures.
- Benchmark the Peers: Study how Wikimedia, Coursera, Duolingo and Mozilla turn free reach into revenue, and which models fit a nonprofit.
- Source Two Real Deals: Find two partnerships you are convinced Khan Academy should do next, and build the case for each.
- Pitch the Recommendation: Build an executive pitch deck covering both deals, and name which to pursue first.
Skills You'll Gain
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Khan Academy Monetization Strategy & Partnerships
Lean Startup Co. Corporate Strategy Externship Mentored by THE Eric Ries
Lean Startup Co. Corporate Strategy Externship Mentored by THE Eric Ries
What if you could spot the next WeWork — or the next Costco — before everyone else did? This 4-week externship teaches you to trust that instinct with real analysis behind it.
You're making calls about companies all the time: where to spend your money, where to apply for jobs, where to commit years of your career. This externship gives you the lens to make those calls well. Working from Eric Ries's Incorruptible framework, you'll develop the skills to read between the lines of any organization: spotting the financial pressures that pull companies off course, evaluating governance structures that actually matter, and recognizing mission-drift before it becomes a headline.
You'll diagnose a famous corporate collapse, run real due diligence on a company you might actually want to work for, design an action plan, and share your insights with Eric Ries himself. By the end, you'll have the skills to size up any brand you buy from and every employer you consider. Whether you're evaluating job offers, considering a startup, or just trying to understand why companies you loved keep falling apart, these are the analytical skills that separate you from everyone else in the room.
Project Output
- Incorruptible Scorecard: A detailed evaluation of a real company using Eric Ries's Incorruptible framework, analyzing financial pressures, governance structures, and mission alignment.
- Action Plan: A strategic plan of action for your chosen company to become more Incorruptible, with concrete recommendations.
- Final Capstone: A polished presentation that demonstrates your analytical skills and allows you to make your case powerfully to Eric Ries himself.
Skills You'll Gain
Eric Ries is the creator of the Lean Startup method and author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup and Incorruptible. Over two decades, his ideas about continuous innovation, long-term thinking, governance, and market reform have reshaped company building and management practices worldwide.
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Lean Startup Co. Corporate Strategy Externship Mentored by THE Eric Ries
Yinan Zhao Investing & Financial Modeling
Yinan Zhao Investing & Financial Modeling
How do experienced professional investors decide which companies to back? In this externship, you’ll step into the role of an equity research analyst guided by experienced investor Yinan Zhao. Learn the fundamentals of equity investment by analyzing real small-cap value companies from the Russell 2000, dissecting financial statements, assessing market sentiment, and building valuation models. By the end, you’ll confidently draft and present an investment memo, deciding whether to buy or sell a stock just like professional analysts do.
Project Output
Present and communicate your investment thesis to an investment committee.
- Financial Statements Analysis: Analyze SEC filings and company financial reports to determine financial health and identify key risks.
- Macroeconomic & Industry Trends: Investigate macroeconomic conditions and industry-specific trends influencing stock market performance.
- Risk & Catalyst Identification: Identify potential risks and market catalysts that could impact company valuations and stock performance.
- Trading Activity & Analyst Ratings: Review insider transactions and analyst ratings to gauge investor confidence and market sentiment around the company.
- Financial Model Development: Construct robust valuation models to forecast financial performance and price targets.
- Investment Memo & Presentation: Prepare professional, detailed investment memos and present recommendations clearly to stakeholders.
Skills You'll Gain
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Yinan Zhao Investing & Financial Modeling
TikTok Social Media Content & Brand Strategy
TikTok Social Media Content & Brand Strategy
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Step into the role of a junior brand strategist in this Brand and Content Strategy Externship, a four-week program designed in collaboration with Sapphire Studios and TikTok's Head of Agency. Externs will learn to shape a brand's personality across Instagram — crafting a unique brand voice, designing social content systems, analyzing virality patterns, and pitching final campaign concepts to real clients.
What makes this externship truly special? One of your mentors is Tara Pettus, Head of Agency at TikTok and former strategic leader at Apple and Meta. Tara's deep experience leading revenue and partnerships for the world's biggest platforms brings a level of insight and industry access rarely available to early-career talent. This is your chance to build agency-level creative systems and present your work to one of the most accomplished leaders in tech and media.
Project Output
Deliver a client-ready pitch deck that showcases your Instagram designs, campaign strategy, and brand voice systems:
1) Discover How Brands Build Trust Online: Map personas, define archetypes, and design mood boards to visualize OPM Pro Crew Gear’s voice.
2) Shape the Brand’s Instagram Personality: Create a visual identity system with Canva templates, grids, highlight packs, and caption frameworks.
3) Figure Out What Makes Content Go Viral: Compare Instagram and TikTok algorithms, track analytics, and reflect on growth insights.
4) Plan a Creative Social Media Campaign: Design a cross-platform campaign plan with content calendars, KPIs, and iteration strategies for Instagram and TikTok.
5) Pitch Your Brand Playbook: Synthesize all work into a client-ready deck and present your Brand Voice & Content Playbook with Instagram + TikTok assets.
Skills You'll Gain
TikTok's mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. The platform strives to create new jobs, drive revenue for businesses of all sizes, and contribute to the growth of economies around the world.
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TikTok Social Media Content & Brand Strategy
Hydroficient Advanced: IoT Cyber Defense
Hydroficient Advanced: IoT Cyber Defense
In 2016, two college students exploited weak default passwords to hijack over 100,000 IoT devices, taking down Twitter, Netflix, Reddit, and Airbnb. The Mirai botnet proved how easily insecure connected devices can be weaponized. Nearly a decade later, the same vulnerabilities still exist—except now they control physical infrastructure. In this externship, you’ll learn to think like an attacker before becoming the defender. You’ll break into a live IoT system, intercept unprotected data streams, spoof commands to devices, and identify real security weaknesses. Then you’ll switch sides: encrypting data pipelines, locking down device access, and building AI-driven detection to flag suspicious behavior. Your target is Hydroficient’s smart water management platform, where sensors stream data every 0.1 seconds and a single breach could disrupt critical operations. By the end, you’ll deliver a Security Improvement Report designed for real-world use—and a portfolio artifact that proves you can secure production systems, not just discuss them.
Project Output
This externship places students in the role of cybersecurity engineers protecting IoT pipelines. You will deliver the following:
- AI-driven anomaly detection prototype for identifying suspicious device behavior;
- A structured security review of IoT pipelines;
- Practical playbooks and runbooks adapted for engineering teams;
- Design recommendations for securing critical water shutoff controls;
- A mock incident response report highlighting risks and mitigations.
Tools you'll be learning and using:
- Python
- Mosquitto (MQTT Broker)
- Streamlit
By the end you will deliver a Security Improvement Report to Hydroficient that provides them risk insights, documentation, and design recommendations that better protect their systems. Through this, you gain practical, portfolio-ready cybersecurity and AI skills.
Skills You'll Gain
Hydroficient is a climate technology company building automated systems to optimize water usage in commercial and industrial buildings across North America. Their research shows that up to 95% of buildings are over-serviced, meaning excess water flows every time a tap runs. Hydroficient’s IoT-enabled HydroLogic platform dynamically adjusts water delivery based on actual demand, typically reducing water consumption and sewage output by around 20%. Awarded the Canadian Federal Government’s ElevateIP Grant, Hydroficient works with major restaurant chains, hotels, gyms, schools, and other large facilities used by millions of people every day.
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Hydroficient Advanced: IoT Cyber Defense
HP Tech Ventures Deal Sourcing & Startup Analysis
HP Tech Ventures Deal Sourcing & Startup Analysis
Curious how venture capitalists spot the next big tech unicorn before it takes off? How do large companies stay ahead of competitors through strategic investments? In this externship, you'll learn how to discover, research, and evaluate innovative tech startups poised for success. Learn from an experienced investor and senior executive at HP. Master techniques to analyze market opportunities, perform due diligence, and create compelling investment memos. This program is perfect for anyone interested in startups, investing, or the fast-paced world of venture capital.
Project Output
Investment memo you’ll have a chance to present to the Investment Partner for investment consideration.
- Startup Sourcing: Learn how to find new, innovative tech startups using online tools.
- Company Research: Conduct research on potential startups, looking at things like their market and finances.
- Competitor Analysis: Research competitors in the same market to see how the startups compare.
- Investment Memo: Summarize your findings in reports that highlight key insights and recommendations.
Skills You'll Gain
HP Tech Ventures is the venture capital arm of HP Inc. Operating across teams in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv, HP Tech Ventures is fostering an ecosystem of innovation and reinvention that will define tomorrow’s world and experiences.
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HP Tech Ventures Deal Sourcing & Startup Analysis
Amazon Fulfillment Center Operational Strategy & People Analytics
Amazon Fulfillment Center Operational Strategy & People Analytics
Imagine if your ideas could actually help shape how one of the biggest companies in the world — yes, AMAZON — welcomes and keeps its workforce.
Now stop imagining, because that's exactly what this project is about.
Every year, Amazon spends billions (yep, with a B) because employees leave before they even hit Day 90.
You're going to change that.
Through the Voice of the Associate externship, you'll dive into real employee reviews, uncover what's actually causing new hires to burn out or bounce, and design smart, persona-driven solutions that help Amazon's Learning Ambassadors connect better, faster, and more humanely with every new team member.
Saving Amazon millions?
Helping real people feel more seen, supported, and successful at one of the world's largest companies?
Yeah...no pressure.
Project Output
Externs will analyze publicly available reviews and testimonials from Amazon Fulfillment Center employees (via Glassdoor, Indeed, Reddit, and YouTube) to identify common workplace pain points—such as communication gaps, lack of recognition, or burnout.
After identifying a key theme, each extern will select a key employee persona and explore how that issue uniquely affects them. You'll thendesign a persona-specific solution that a team leader could use to improve the associate experience.
- User insight synthesis
- Qualitative analysis and data-backed storytelling
- Operational problem framing
- Business-ready recommendation design
- Presentation to Amazon
Skills You'll Gain
Amazon Fulfillment Centers are the backbone of Amazon’s logistics network, serving as massive, high-tech warehouses where customer orders are received, stored, picked, packed, and shipped. These facilities are integral to Amazon's ability to offer rapid delivery services, including same-day and two-day shipping.
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Amazon Fulfillment Center Operational Strategy & People Analytics
Wayfair n8n AI Agent Engineering
Wayfair n8n AI Agent Engineering
What happens when you mix AI agents with thousands of products and real-time trends? In this externship, you'll step into the role of an AI Agent Developer at one of the world's largest home retailers. You'll build multiple AI agents using n8n that track trending rug styles, monitor competitor launches, and suggest marketing content ideas — all before the trends hit the homepage. Your final project? A live dashboard powered by your AI agents, built to surface trends, benchmarks, and content suggestions that Wayfair's category team can actually use.
Project Output
A live dashboard powered by your AI agents, built to surface trends, benchmarks, and content suggestions that Wayfair's category team can actually use.
Project Breakdown:
1. Build a Moodboard Agent: Create a simple AI tool that transforms style prompts into curated visual outputs.
2. Discover Market Trends: Build agents that collect and analyze product data, blogs, and social media to uncover design trends.
3. Monitor Competitors: Develop AI agents to track competitor launches, pricing updates, and marketing campaigns.
4. Generate AI Insights: Turn raw trend signals into summaries, draft blog ideas, and campaign captions.
5. Build the Dashboard: Combine datasets and insights into a live, auto-updating Google Sheets tool for managers.
Tools Used:
n8n - a workflow automation software tool
Google Gemini
Mistral AI
Skills You'll Gain
Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for home furnishings and is known for its data-driven approach. Behind the 30M+ products you see online are teams using AI to move faster and smarter. This is your backstage pass to see — and build — how that happens.
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Wayfair n8n AI Agent Engineering
Breaking Games E-Commerce Data Analysis & Strategy
Breaking Games E-Commerce Data Analysis & Strategy
What makes one shopper click "buy now" while another abandons their cart? In this externship, you'll work with Breaking Games to decode the customer journey behind e‑commerce sales. You'll dig into real marketing data from Google Analytics, Meta Ads, and Shopify to uncover what drives clicks, conversions, and repeat purchases. Learn how to connect the dots from ad spend to sales, spot drop‑offs in the funnel, and turn insights into strategies that boost revenue. Whether you're into marketing, data, or just fascinated by online shopping trends, this externship will give you the tools—and the portfolio—to stand out in the digital marketplace.
Project Output
Provide Breaking Games with clear, actionable strategies based on the data analysis, such as optimizing ad targeting, improving website flow, and/or tailoring promotional efforts to enhance sales.
- E-Commerce Sales Funnel Report: A summary of key metrics and marketing channel performance.
- Visitor Behavior Dashboard: Analysis of traffic sources and engagement with actionable improvement suggestions.
- Paid Campaign Performance Report: Identification of top-performing ads with ROI-based budget reallocation strategies.
- Conversion Funnel Analysis: Detailed breakdown of drop-off points and product performance insights.
- Cross-Channel Attribution Report: Evaluation of how various marketing efforts directly drive Shopify sales.
- Visual Customer Journey Map: Diagnosis of funnel bottlenecks from initial ad exposure to final purchase.
- Customer Segmentation Plan: Data-driven marketing strategies for high-value upselling and retargeting.
- Final Strategic Action Plan: A professional presentation synthesizing all insights into a comprehensive growth roadmap with defined KPIs.
Skills You'll Gain
Breaking Games is the publishing arm of AdMagic—the powerhouse behind hits like Cards Against Humanity and Exploding Kittens. But they’re more than just a traditional publisher. They help invent, test, launch, and distribute both their own games and others’, working across the entire tabletop ecosystem. This externship offers a rare peek behind the scenes of how digital marketing powers the business side of play.
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Breaking Games E-Commerce Data Analysis & Strategy
Pfizer Advanced: AI-Powered Document Insights & Data Extraction
Pfizer Advanced: AI-Powered Document Insights & Data Extraction
Right now, reviewing non-GMP clinical supply documents at Pfizer often means opening PDFs in Adobe and hunting for information with Ctrl+F—and this project asks, what if AI did that work for us instead? Externs will build a working AI-powered prototype that can read scanned and digital documents, extract key fields, classify files, and make everything searchable using modern AI tools. The focus is on real-world, messy documents and fast experimentation—not production polish—so we can see how much manual effort AI could realistically eliminate. By the end, Pfizer will have a concrete proof-of-concept that helps them evaluate where document automation creates real value and whether it's worth scaling across the business.
Project Output
During this Externship, externs will:
- Ingest and parse scanned documents
- Extract and structure key data fields from multiple document types
- Implement intelligent search using RAG pipelines and metadata filters
- Build and test modular routing and classification logic
- (Optional) Deploy a lightweight user interface for search and querying
Technologies used:
- Python (scripting, data processing)
- PyMuPDF, pdfplumber (PDF parsing)
- OpenCV, PIL (image preprocessing)
- OCR Engines: Tesseract, PaddleOCR, EasyOCR
- Vector Search: LlamaIndex, FAISS, Chroma
- LLMs: Gemini API or open-source models (e.g., Mistral, Phi-2)
- UI Tools: Streamlit, Gradio (optional)
Final project outputs:
- Python pipeline to process document files
- Structured JSON output with field-level data and coordinates
- Functional RAG pipeline (Gemini or open-source)
- Searchable UI using Streamlit or Gradio
- Final report, system documentation, and demo
Why should you care? Here's what you'll get out of this Externship:
- Develop a portfolio-worthy AI/ML project
- Gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge tools and models
- Learn to build robust, production-level systems
- Improve data parsing, extraction, and visualization skills
- Tackle a real-world, high-impact business use case
Skills You'll Gain
Pfizer is one of the world's largest publicly traded pharmaceutical companies, developing and manufacturing medicines and vaccines that reach hundreds of millions of people globally. They partnered with BioNTech to create the first FDA-authorized COVID-19 vaccine. In 2024, Pfizer reported $63 billion in revenue and products reaching 414 million patients worldwide—massive scale. Their clinical supply operations ensure that the right drugs get to the right patients at the right time—a process that depends on flawless documentation across shipping, logistics, and regulatory compliance.
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Pfizer Advanced: AI-Powered Document Insights & Data Extraction
TruBridge Healthcare Data Analytics
TruBridge Healthcare Data Analytics
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What if the real drivers of health have nothing to do with doctors or medicine? In this externship with TruBridge—a tech-forward healthcare company helping hospitals turn data into smarter decisions—you’ll dig into the real-world impact of factors like income, education, housing, and access to care. Using public datasets, you’ll define your own research question, clean and analyze data in Python (Google Colab), and visualize insights with Gamma and ChatGPT. It’s hands-on, high-impact work that builds real skills in data, storytelling, and public health.
Project Output
- Get Familiar with the Data: Learn the fundamentals of data analytics and its applications in healthcare. Use AI tools to refine research questions and explore public datasets.
- Data Collection & Pre-processing: Gather infection-related data from public sources, clean and structure it for analysis, and address missing values.
- Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA): Perform statistical and correlational analyses to identify patterns and trends in infection rates. Create visual representations of findings.
- Presentation Development: Develop structured presentations using AI-generated reports and visualization techniques. Use Gamma.app and Google Slides for final presentations.
Skills You'll Gain
TruBridge has over four decades of experience in connecting providers, patients and communities with innovative solutions that create real value by supporting both the financial and clinical side of healthcare delivery.
We are a trusted partner to healthcare organizations with a broad range of technology offerings that address the unique needs and challenges of diverse communities, promoting equitable access to quality care and fostering positive outcomes.
Our industry leading HFMA Peer Reviewed® suite of revenue cycle management (RCM) offerings combine unparalleled visibility and transparency to enhance productivity and support the financial health of healthcare organizations across all care settings.
Our solutions champion end-to-end, data-driven patient journeys that support value-based care, improve outcomes, and increase patient satisfaction. We support efficient patient care with electronic health record (EHR) product offerings that successfully integrate data between care settings.
Above all, we believe in the power of community and encourage collaboration, connection, and empowerment with our customers. We clear the way for care.
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TruBridge Healthcare Data Analytics
Pinterest Gen Z Consumer Behavior
Pinterest Gen Z Consumer Behavior
Pinterest users run more than 80 BILLION searches a month, and Gen Z is using the app in ways nobody saw coming! That’s exactly the kind of information advertisers will pay for. Brands don’t just want more eyeballs; they want to know what’s pulling Gen Z in so it can show up there first.
In this externship, you go looking for patterns: real, unobvious insights into how Gen Z actually uses Pinterest, built for Pinterest’s own sales team to bring to advertisers. Over 6 weeks, you’ll design a real survey using the Jobs-to-be-Done framework (one of the foundational frameworks in product and consumer research), deploy it to at least 30 Gen Z users in your own network, and analyze what comes back for the story nobody expected.
You’ll leave with one sharp, evidence-backed insight built into an advertiser pitch and delivered on video like the real thing. Do strong enough work, and you can pitch it live to Pinterest’s VP of Sales.
Project Output
During this Externship, externs will:
- Design a Real Survey: Build a structured survey to uncover what Pinterest is genuinely "hired" to do in a Gen Z user's life, applying a Jobs-to-be-Done framework to write focused, unbiased questions.
- Collect Real Data: Identify respondents in their own network, write outreach messages, deploy the survey and collect at least 30 real responses.
- Synthesize Insights: Turn raw response data into one or more honest, defensible behavioral insights, using manual descriptive statistics and qualitative coding verified with AI.
- Build an Ad Opportunity Recommendation: Synthesize everything with the What/So What/Now What framework, stress-test it with AI, and deliver it in a polished deck and recorded video.
Final deliverables:
- Custom survey designed to uncover Gen Z Pinterest usage behavior and jobs-to-be-done
- Set of real survey responses (30+), collected through personal outreach
- One or more evidence-backed behavioral insights from manual and AI-verified analysis
- Evidence-backed advertising opportunity recommendation for Pinterest
- Polished, presentation-ready slide deck
- Recorded video presentation delivering the final recommendation
Skills You'll Gain
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Pinterest Gen Z Consumer Behavior
Beats by Dre Creative Advertising Strategy Externship
Beats by Dre Creative Advertising Strategy Externship
Step into the role of a junior creative strategist for Beats by Dre. You’ll analyze video ads across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, conduct consumer research, and build a creative strategy framework grounded in real platform best practices.
By the end, you’ll develop an original creative concept—walking away with a portfolio-ready deliverable that shows you can turn research into strategy.
Project Output
Develop a comprehensive creative strategy framework for Beats by Dre video advertising, then demonstrate its application through an original creative concept.
- Catalog and analyze 20-30 video ads across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube into a structured, insight-ready repository.
- Design and execute a consumer survey to capture real reactions to advertising content, combined with social listening insights.
- Build a Creative Strategy Framework including platform best practices, brand creative standards, effectiveness rubric, competitive analysis, and strategic recommendations.
- Develop an original creative concept with a creative brief, framework compliance evaluation, and a 5-minute strategic presentation.
By the end of this Externship, externs will have created:
- Ad Repository Database (20-30 tagged ads)
- Consumer Feedback Report
- Creative Strategy Framework Package
- Creative Concept Presentation
Skills You'll Gain
Beats by Dre, founded in 2006, is a leading audio brand known for its premium headphones, earphones, and speakers. As a company focused on innovation and customer satisfaction, Beats by Dre uses data-driven insights to ensure its products stay ahead of market trends and meet the needs of its global audience.
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Beats by Dre Creative Advertising Strategy Externship
vCISO Security Risk Assessment
vCISO Security Risk Assessment
Step into the role of a junior security consultant at a veteran-owned cybersecurity firm — running real vulnerability scans, thinking like an attacker, and delivering a client-ready findings report using the same tools and frameworks pros use every day.
No cyber experience required; you'll finish with a portfolio piece that maps directly to what entry-level security jobs actually ask for.
Project Output
This externship places students in the role of a junior security consultant at vCISO Services. You will deliver the following:
- A ten-slide audit readout, re-sequenced to open with the conclusion a client's leadership needs to hear;
- A one-page executive summary: conclusion first, method second;
- A completed 27-question customer security questionnaire, answered only with evidence you produced and mapped to NIST CSF 2.0;
- An assessment workbook with the engagement charter, asset inventory, findings register, and a consolidated, ranked risk picture.
Skills You'll Gain
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vCISO Security Risk Assessment
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For every 5 college students, there’s only 1 internship available. And if you're lucky enough to get an internship, there's no guarantee you're in for a meaningful experience when it comes to training and support. Externships were designed as accessible, high-quality experiences to bridge the divide between academia and the workforce.
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