We train your staff on your own workflows
Bring your models and your process. We teach your team to run them faster with AI, and to catch what it gets wrong, on the work they actually do.
For companies and hiring teams
Train the team you have. Hire the talent you don't.
AI now does the model-building that junior analysts used to. That flips what your desk needs: people who can direct AI, catch its mistakes, and defend the result. AlphaForge builds exactly that skill, so you can upskill your current team, or hire candidates who have already proven it on real briefs.
Created by a Maastricht University finance lecturer and an RSM M&A practitioner.
The situation
You already know AI is rewriting finance work.
The question is no longer whether your desk adopts AI. It is whether your people can use it with judgment, and whether the ones you hire actually can.
The problem
AI moves faster than your training or your hiring can.
The tools change monthly. Your team improvises its own AI guidance, some avoiding it, some trusting it blindly. And when you hire, a CV or a degree does not show whether a candidate can direct AI and catch where it is confidently wrong.
Why it matters to the firm
A desk is trusted to produce work it can defend. Ungoverned AI erodes that trust.
/Work you cannot defend reaches the client.
An analyst who trusts an AI figure they cannot check puts your name, and your liability, on the line.
/Your best people waste the speed.
Untrained, they either avoid AI or accept whatever it returns. Either way the hours AI could save go unclaimed.
/Every hire is a gamble.
A degree proves someone passed exams. It does not prove they can build a model with AI and know when it is confidently wrong.
/The firms that train first pull ahead.
AI leverage compounds on real skill. A team that learns it now outpaces one that waits, and the gap widens each quarter.
The solution
Train the team you have, or hire the team you need.
AlphaForge teaches the fundamentals-first, AI-on-top method that makes finance work defensible. Use it to upskill your staff, to hire from a proven pool, or both.
Fundamentals first, AI on top
Your people learn to build by hand before they let an agent scaffold, so they can defend every number, not just generate it.
Hire candidates proven on real briefs
Our graduates arrive with real models, ranked Arena performance, and platform-issued certificates. You see the work before you meet the person.
A pipeline, not a one-off
New cohorts finish every term, and your trained staff keep their skills current as the tools shift. The relationship compounds.
How hiring works
See the work before you meet the person.
Every AlphaForge candidate carries proof, not just a claim. You review what they built, then meet the ones who fit.
Real artifacts, not CV lines.
Candidates share full models they built, a DCF, an LBO, a comps set, so you judge the work, not a bullet point.
Ranked on real briefs.
Arena performance shows how they scoped and defended a live bank, private equity, or FinTech case against other teams.
Verified, not self-reported.
Certificates are earned through an AI-tracked interview and a timed simulation, so the skill is tested, not claimed.
They arrive already trained.
You hire someone who can direct AI on day one, not someone you must first teach how.
Beyond the first hire
A relationship that keeps paying off.
Keep training your team as the tools change, and keep meeting new candidates as each cohort finishes. AlphaForge stays the layer that keeps your desk current, for the length of a strategy, not a single hire.
The questions we will explore together
Four questions for your hiring and L&D team.
Bring these to the call. They are the conversation we want to have with you.
01Situation
How do your analysts learn to use AI on live deals today, and who actually owns that training?
02Problem
Where does your team avoid AI or trust it without the judgment to catch it, and how do you screen for that when you hire?
03Implication
If AI-assisted work ships without someone who can defend it, what does that cost you in rework, in client trust, and in liability?
04Need-payoff
What would it be worth to have a team trained on your own workflows, and a pipeline of candidates already proven on real briefs, this year?
Built inside the academy
AlphaForge is built by a Maastricht University finance lecturer and an RSM M&A practitioner, on a hard line: AI is a force-multiplier on real understanding, never a shortcut around it. We are selecting a small number of launch company partners to co-design training and hiring with, in the open.
Sources: Knowledge / AI Capability Assessment 2026
Straight answers
What firms ask first.
How does staff training work?
We adapt to your models and process, train your team on the work they actually do, and measure it by whether they can defend AI-assisted output, not by hours watched.
How does hiring work?
You get access to candidates with portfolio-backed proof: real models, ranked Arena results, and verified certificates. You review the work first, then meet the people who fit.
Do you replace our L&D or our recruiters?
No. We are a layer on top. Your L&D keeps its programme and your recruiters keep their process; we add the AI craft and the verified signal that a candidate can do the work.
Are the certificates accredited?
Certificates are platform-issued and portfolio-backed. We make no external-accreditation claim; they show demonstrated, tested skill, they do not stand in for a formal qualification.
What does it cost?
Staff training is scoped to your team size and workflows; hiring access is a partnership. Launch partners help shape the roadmap and get founder terms. We put the specifics in writing before anything starts.
What is the commitment to start?
One team or one cohort. We co-design it, you evaluate the result, then you decide. There is no long lock-in to explore it.
Become a launch partner
Be the firm that trains the AI generation. Build it with us.
We are choosing a few company partners to design this with, with a real say in the roadmap. No cost to explore. You leave the call with a concrete plan to train your team and hire proven talent, whether or not we work together.