Why it helps your students
The graduate schemes your students already know about take thousands of applicants for a handful of places, decided by online tests before a human reads a word. Meanwhile thousands of small local firms would happily take on a sharp student for the summer. They just never advertise it, and nobody thinks to ask.
Nearside closes that gap. It finds the small, local companies worth working for, researches each one, and helps a student send a genuinely personal email, the kind that lands with a founder who reads their own inbox and can simply say yes. The person who built Nearside landed a summer internship this way before Nearside existed, by hand.
What we offer societies
Free access for your members, sized to when they need it, typically around spring week and summer application season. No seat licences, no per student pricing, no minimum. You tell us who your members are and we comp them properly so they get the full product, not a trial.
- Free for members. Your students get Nearside at no cost for the period you agree with us.
- Nothing to install or administer. Students sign up with their email and start; there is no portal for you to manage.
- A real tool, not a webinar. They walk away having actually sent good emails to real local firms, not with a slide deck.
Who it is for
Careers services and departments who want their students reaching beyond the advertised schemes, and student societies, finance, law, consulting, tech, whichever, who want a genuinely useful member perk. If your students are chasing internships, it fits.
How it works
It is a conversation, not a checkout. We do not yet have a bulk admin dashboard or seat billing, and we would rather not pretend otherwise, so we set societies up by hand. Tell us who you are, roughly how many students, and when they will use it, and we will sort the access out with you directly.