Internvest vs your spreadsheet

If it is genuinely working, keep it. Spreadsheets fail at a specific moment: the peak of the cycle, when dozens of programs open within weeks of each other and a quarter of application windows run 30 days or shorter. A sheet stores what you knew when you last edited it. It cannot notice that a firm you care about opened this morning. That gap is the entire difference.

Most of it, yes, with enough hours. The 863-program dataset alone represents a season of collective checking and recording. If your time is worth even $10 an hour, rebuilding and then maintaining that by hand costs far more than $99 a quarter. The question is not capability, it is whether data entry is the best use of a recruiting season.

The software is free. The cost shows up elsewhere: the weekly hour of checking careers pages, the deadline you catch three days late, the follow-up you forget because it lived in your head. One missed opening at a target firm costs more than a year of Internvest.

Three options: $49 a month, $99 a quarter, or $299 a year. Each one renews until you cancel. The quarter covers a full recruiting push; the year covers the whole cycle at the lowest monthly rate. There is no free tier, because honest tools cost money to maintain, and this one is priced like a textbook rather than a coaching package.

Real recorded data: 863 US programs from the 2027 cycle with their opening dates, deadlines, and requirements, each checked against the firm's own page; the newest check is from August 2026.