Built by someone who needed it.

Not long ago, I was a medical student. I spent all four years preparing for plastic surgery residency. Four sub-internships. And one week before applications opened, I realized it wasn't what I wanted.

People assume medical school gives you clarity about specialties. It doesn't. You're too busy learning medicine to see what actually defines a specialty: its culture, its politics, its daily practice, what its program directors look for. The people who could have told me, residents living it right now, were never accessible.

My friends and I all wished the same thing existed: a reliable way to get honest, career-defining information early. To make better decisions, waste fewer years, spend less money, and carry less stress.

So we built it. Preround matches you with a mentor in the specialty you're actually considering: a resident, fellow, or attending who is where you want to be right now. Every request is reviewed by a real person and hand-matched. No browsing, no guesswork, and no charge until we've confirmed your match.

This extends to premedical students too, because the hardest gate is the first one. Medical school is competitive and applying is expensive, and roughly 60% of applicants are rejected each cycle. The cost of rejection runs deeper than the fees: compounding loan interest, repeated cycles, and years of a career that never come back. Some students are even told in advance to enroll in master's programs that add little to a medical career but plenty to the institutions selling them. A mentor who recently got in can tell you what actually moves an application, before you spend the money.

There's a second half to this. The mentorship industry moves money toward people far removed from training, while the residents holding the most current, most useful knowledge are overworked and underpaid. Preround routes it the other way: mentorship priced for people still in training, and real income for the residents doing the mentoring. Students decide better for less. Residents get paid for what they know. That's the whole idea.