Straight answers. No vague reassurances.
ChatGPT waits for you to ask something and answers without knowing who you are. Atlas is different in three ways:
Use ChatGPT for homework and general questions. Use Atlas for everything career and market related.
Completely free during beta. No credit card, no trial that converts to paid. The goal is to keep it free or very low-cost for students. If that ever changes, existing users get advance notice.
Atlas is functional and used by real students, but still actively being developed. New features ship regularly. If something doesn't work right, tell Atlas directly — it gets flagged. Your feedback shapes what gets built next.
You already check your messages. Atlas goes where you already are — no separate app to remember to open.
And because Atlas texts you proactively (morning briefs, alerts, reminders), it needs to live somewhere with push notifications. That works in a messaging app. It doesn't work in a web app or ChatGPT-style interface.
Telegram is a free messaging app used by 900 million people worldwide. It's not owned by Meta or Google, runs no ads, and doesn't sell your data. All messages are encrypted in transit.
Atlas only sees messages you send directly to it. It has no access to your other Telegram conversations, contacts, or anything else on the app.
Download it free from the App Store or Google Play. Sign up with your phone number, same as WhatsApp. Takes about 60 seconds. Then tap "Open in Telegram" above.
No. Atlas only has permission to create drafts. It cannot read, access, or interact with anything in your inbox. When you connect Gmail, you authorize one specific scope — gmail.compose — which only allows writing drafts. Nothing else.
No. Atlas saves a draft. You read it, adjust if needed, and hit send yourself. Every email that goes out is reviewed by you first.
No. Gmail is entirely optional. Every feature (briefs, interview prep, application tracking, market data, reminders) works without it. Connecting Gmail just adds the ability to save cold email drafts directly to your inbox so you don't have to copy and paste.
Tell Atlas "disconnect my Gmail" or go to myaccount.google.com/permissions and revoke access there. Either method removes access immediately.
Atlas stores what you tell it: your name, school, major, career goal, interests, hometown, watchlist, market preferences, applications, contacts, and reminders. It also saves relevant notes from your conversations that help personalize future responses.
It does not store your Telegram messages verbatim or any data from your Gmail inbox.
No. Your data is never sold, shared with advertisers, or used to target you with ads. It exists to make Atlas more useful to you.
Tell Atlas "delete my account and all my data." It removes your profile, applications, contacts, reminders, and memory notes from the database entirely. You can also email the address in the privacy policy for confirmation.
Before 8 AM. You can also request it manually at any time by typing /brief.
Yes. Just tell Atlas. "Change my career goal to private equity," "add AAPL to my watchlist," "update my major to Finance." Natural language updates save immediately.
Tell Atlas which firm and round you're prepping for: "prep me for my Goldman first round" or "practice Blackstone case questions." It asks questions in the format expected for that firm, evaluates your answers, and gives model responses for anything you get wrong.
Yes. Applications are stored in your profile, not just in the conversation history. Say "I got a first round at Goldman," and Atlas saves it. It shows up in your morning brief the next day. Type "show my applications" anytime to see the full tracker.