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Record section discussion, upload the HBS case PDF, or capture a consulting recruit coffee chat. Distill extracts frameworks, maps decision trees, and stores every insight by company, industry, and framework.
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Marketing — Section B Case.mp3
1h 25m · Captured for MBA students
An MBA is a networking and pattern-recognition program. Two years of your life go into recognizing which frameworks apply to which problems, building a mental library of how Pepsi, Apple, and Disney solved their strategic inflection points, and remembering the name of the VP you met at Goldman's second-round info session.
Distill is the capture layer for all of it. During case discussion, it records your section, labels the professor and cold-called students, and extracts the frameworks each person brings up. After class, it links the discussion back to the original case PDF and builds a reusable record — by company, industry, decision, and framework — that you can search for the rest of your career.
For recruiting, it captures the coffee chats, info sessions, and interview prep sessions that stack up during Q1. When a second-year mentions that Bain's Atlanta office hired four MBAs last summer, Distill logs it against the firm, city, and year. When you sit down to write cover letters six weeks later, the detail is there.
For leadership and personal-development work, Distill is a discreet note-taker in 1:1 coaching sessions, career-switcher panels, and alumni calls. You stay present in the conversation instead of scribbling.
Real workflows. No fluff.
Record your section's 90-minute case discussion. Distill separates speakers, extracts every framework mentioned (Porter's 5, 4 Ps, value chain, BCG matrix), and tags the discussion by company, decade, and strategic decision.
Record coffee chats and info sessions. Distill ties contacts to firms, captures named projects or alumni, and produces follow-up-ready notes with the specific interesting thread to mention in a thank-you email.
Every case you read gets its own structured entry: company, industry, year, protagonist, decision, frameworks applied, class takeaway. Searchable in Q3 when a new case reminds you of something from LEAD Q1.
Record mock case interviews with your classmates. Distill critiques structure, flags where you missed hypotheses, and shows where you burned time on calculations vs framing. Excellent feedback loop for case-bash season.
Record your executive coaching or OB small-group session. Distill extracts feedback themes across sessions so you can see your leadership growth edges across the year, not just the one session you remember.
Stars mark the top 3 features for mba students.
| Feature | Distill | Generic AI tools |
|---|---|---|
| ★Framework extraction from case discussion | Porter, 4P, 7S, BCG, value chain auto-tagged | Generic summary |
| ★Multi-speaker section capture | Professor + 70 students | 1–2 speakers |
| ★Company / industry tagging | Auto-tagged by industry | Manual |
| Recruiting touchpoint CRM | Contact + firm linking | Not supported |
| Case library search | Cross-semester search | Single session |
| Mock interview feedback | Structured critique | Generic notes |
| Excel/Notion export | Native | Copy/paste |
| Confidential notes (alumni calls) | Private workspace | Shared cloud |
| Long-form capture (panels + conferences) | Up to 15 hrs | 30 min cap |
| Mobile capture in the classroom | iOS/Android | Web only |
“Case method only works if you can hold 200 cases in your head. Distill is my external library. I've searched for 'private equity carve-out' three times in recruiting and pulled the exact framework from second term.”
Carlos D.
MBA2, PE recruiter
“Every coffee chat gets logged against the firm. When I write thank-you notes the specific thread is right there. My conversion rate on second rounds doubled.”
Sana K.
MBA1, consulting bound
“OB section discussions are gold but impossible to capture in real time. Distill lets me be present in the conversation and reviews the leadership moments with me after.”
James O.
EMBA student, VP at F500
ChatGPT and generic transcribers miss the details that matter. Distill was built for your workflow.
Distill recognizes when a student cites Porter's Five Forces or the BCG matrix and tags the moment. You can query your own case library by framework six months later.
Business school sections run 70+ students and a professor. Generic tools collapse this into a single blob. Distill separates contributions so you can see whose argument won the air-time battle.
Your coffee-chat notes auto-link to firm, office, and named contact. When the firm posts the application deadline, the right context surfaces without you rebuilding it.
In Q3 you'll look at a beverage industry case and realize it echoes a Q1 case. Distill finds both in one search — ChatGPT can't remember last week.
Maya came from engineering with strong quant but limited exposure to the language of strategy. Q1 hit her fast — 15 cases a week, section participation grades, and a recruiting calendar that started before the first case discussion.
She started using Distill to record every section and tag frameworks. Within six weeks she had a personal library of 60 cases with frameworks auto-extracted. When recruiters asked behavioral questions about 'a time you applied a strategic framework,' she could pull a specific example in 15 seconds.
For case interview prep, she recorded 40 mock cases with classmates. Distill tracked which frameworks she over-relied on (she loved the value chain, used it even when it didn't fit). Her advisor said the specificity of her framework choice was what landed her MBB offers.
Outcome: Three MBB offers, 60-case searchable library, and a discipline of tagging frameworks that carried into her post-MBA role.
Plus unlocks unlimited capture and a searchable personal case library. Pro adds 15-hour sessions for conferences, treks, and full-day case-bash sessions.
Your MBA is expensive. Don't let the insight from a $4,000-per-case-discussion classroom evaporate the moment you close your laptop. Capture it, structure it, and carry it with you.