The four questions a serious family asks before booking.
Application only. ~30 private clients per year. Scope and investment are discussed only after the Diagnostic and only if there is fit. No pricing on the public site by design.
The brief is offer-engineering, not generic advice. The proof carried on file is per-firm offer letters, employer emails and outcome chains. Outcomes vary; what is on file is documented.
Most families request anonymity. Evidence is held on file and published only with explicit consent. Diligence-grade evidence is identity-protected.
Every Private ECS Diagnostic is led personally by Hassan Akram, Founder and Principal Advisor. The diligence on the firm sits with the founder, not a coordinator.
Karam Kahlon, University of Exeter
Non-target → HSBC IB Summer Internship and Blackstone Spring Week
A multi-year ECS arc started with no investment-banking interviews. Documented HSBC investment-banking summer internship and Blackstone spring week. Named on the record, evidence held on file.
Read the case →Evidence held on file. Outcomes vary. No affiliation implied.
Some families need a multi-year read.
Where a candidate's path spans university positioning, internships, applications, interviews and early career decisions, ECS may scope a longer advisory relationship after the Diagnostic.
Explore Multi-Year Family AdvisoryThree steps. Parent or sponsor present.
Application
Parent or sponsor (or candidate) completes the /start application. Three steps. Founder reviews and qualifies for the Diagnostic slot.
Diagnostic (45 min)
Parent or sponsor attends alongside the candidate. Founder-led profile assessment against the target firms. No obligation.
Scope
Scope and investment discussed only if there is fit. The engagement is offered or declined on the basis of the Diagnostic, not the form.
Parents are applying to speak to the founder, not a junior intake team.
The photos show Hassan in serious rooms: Harvard Business School context, Wellington College, MIT Sloan and Yale SOM. The family sees founder-led delivery before applying for the Diagnostic.
HBS MBA student-club context. Strong institutional rooms without implying partnership or endorsement.
Festival of Education speaking context. The trust signal is serious audiences and direct founder delivery.
Live strategy session with a graduate audience. The work is applied in front of serious candidates, not hidden behind generic advice.
Full-room teaching at Yale SOM. The point is founder-led judgement, not delegated intake or generic motivation content.
Hassan teaching the structure behind elite-firm selection. The Diagnostic applies the same thinking to one candidate profile.
A campus conversation with a Stanford student. ECS works best when the profile, target and timeline are specific.
The free work already produces offers.
Candidates have converted Magic Circle and elite-firm outcomes using the public ECS frameworks alone, with no paid engagement. If the method works in the open, the private engagement is the most de-risked decision a serious family can make: the same method, founder-led, applied to your firms, your timeline and your specific selection problem.
Clifford Chance SPARK (Queen Mary, free-content) and a Clifford Chance London Training Contract (Russell Group, free-content) were both engineered on the public frameworks.
Evidence held on file. Outcomes vary. No affiliation implied.
Apply for a Private ECS Diagnostic“Probably the best investment we have ever made.”
Father of an ECS client · Managing Director, Private Bank
Anonymised. Role-only, no name, no firm.
Apply for the Diagnostic together.
45-minute Private ECS Diagnostic. Parent or sponsor attends. No obligation. Scope discussed only if there is fit.
Apply for a Private ECS DiagnosticOutcomes vary. Evidence held on file. ECS is independent and unaffiliated.