Build the definitive dataset of rare-earth-free permanent magnet candidates on the Ouro platform, with references to CIF files and all existing calculated properties. Requirements Wide dataset — one row per unique compound/CIF, with file reference columns to both the unrelaxed and relaxed CIF (if a relaxed version exists). Prefer relaxed CIFs — if a relaxed version of a CIF exists on the platform, use it as the primary file reference. Keep the unrelaxed version in a separate column. Only report properties from relaxed structures when relevant. Magnetic properties — from Estimate magnetic moments and Ms from a CIF and MAE from Calculate magnetic anisotropy energy. Only from existing route executions — do NOT run new calculations. Stability — energy above the convex hull from Calculate energy above the convex hull. Dynamical stability from Calculate phonon dispersion and band structure if they exist. NO ALIGNN predictions — exclude any results from the ALIGNN route (). Only use: Estimate magnetic moments/Ms, Calculate MAE, Calculate energy above hull, Calculate phonon dispersion, Relax a crystal structure, and the new DFT routes (Ground-state SCF, Magnetic moments, Magnetic anisotropy energy, Exchange couplings TB2J, Band structure, Band gap, DOS, PDOS). Properties will be sparse — that's expected. Collect everything we already have; don't run new calculations. Source data Complete platform CIF compilation — 4,319 unique RE-free magnetic formulas from 12,291 CIF files CIF calculated properties — 88,050 rows of extracted route action results Approach Use ouro-py to: Query the CIF compilation dataset for all compounds and their CIF file IDs For each compound, identify if a relaxed version exists (filename contains "relaxed") Query the calculated properties dataset for non-ALIGNN route results on those CIFs Build the final wide dataset with: formula, compound, space group, crystal system, team, unrelaxedcifid, relaxedcifid, Ms (emu/g or A/m), magnetic moment (µB), MAE (eV/formula), energy above hull (eV/atom), phonon stability (stable/unstable), Curie temp (K), and action_id references for each property.

Goal Build a comprehensive dataset of every viable rare-earth-free permanent magnet candidate on the Ouro platform, with full property coverage: saturation magnetization (Ms), thermodynamic stability (hull distance), Curie temperature (Tc), and magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy (MAE) where available. Why An action item from the Oliynyk Lab call (July 14, 2026) was compiling a large list of candidates to send for synthesis. The first attempt (dataset:019f67f7-ff4f-7202-81db-3aa36ab7fdda) was incomplete because the Python sandbox wasn't executing ouro-py properly. This quest does it right: programmatically fetch every CIF on the platform, inspect route actions on each file, and compile a properly structured dataset. Method Use ouro-py in the Python sandbox to: Fetch all file assets across all teams (filter for CIF files). Inspect each file's actions to determine which routes were run (Orb v3 relaxation, ALIGNN property prediction, MP hull distance, DFT Ms, DFT MAE, Curie temperature). Filter for RE-free magnetic compounds — containing Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cr with no rare-earth elements. Extract property data from route action results: Ms, hull distance (stability), Tc, MAE. Flag which properties are predicted vs experimental vs missing. Publish as a dataset with clear columns and provenance. Context Previous attempt: dataset — 46 candidates, but sandbox didn't run ouro-py so property extraction was incomplete. Curated 24-candidate set for Oliynyk: dataset, summary post. @mmoderwell is investigating why the sandbox wasn't working. If SDK limitations block progress, report back so the SDK can be upgraded.

Retrospective Cycle 25 (catalysis screening) completed all four items cleanly with the standard pipeline. The PV cycle 24 is 3/4 done with the email draft in progress on its own quest (019f5df0). The sponsor outreach sprint (Sloan, Renaissance, Simons) on quest 019f62a9 remains at 0/4 and untouched. Multiple contacts are becoming due for follow-ups (Moore Foundation ~July 16, Wei Li July 15), which are tracked on existing quests and will be executed during heartbeats. The Oliynyk call took place today; any follow-up will be scoped as a new quest if needed. Focus Two tracks in this plan: Sponsor prospect: Schmidt Futures. Schmidt Futures (Eric and Wendy Schmidt's philanthropic initiative) explicitly funds AI-for-science programs, computational infrastructure, and open research tools. They are not in the CRM and not on any existing quest. They are a natural fit for Ouro's computational materials platform, and a warm, specific outreach email can advance the capital track independently of the Sloan/Renaissance/Simons items already queued on quest 019f62a9. Researcher cycle: #physics. The #physics team (019841de) has never had a dedicated paper-driven outreach cycle. A recent paper on ML-guided discovery or computational screening of quantum/topological materials, strongly correlated systems, or emergent phenomena in crystalline materials would bring the established pipeline (CIF generation, Orb v3 relaxation, MP convex hull, ALIGNN) into a domain where the cross-domain ML failure audit has limited coverage. This extends the audit into quantum materials and connects to the superconductors and permanent magnets teams' existing work. What This Plan Does Not Cover The sponsor items on quest 019f62a9 (Sloan, Renaissance, Simons) stay there. The PV email draft on quest 019f5df0 stays there. The catalysis paper-driven analysis on quest 019f6128 stays there. Follow-up waves for contacts due July 15+ stay on their respective quests. The Oliynyk call follow-up, if needed, will be a new quest. Pipeline The established four-step outreach cycle adapted for physics/quantum materials: (1) select a recent paper with 3-6 crystallographically characterized compounds, (2) generate CIFs and run them through Orb v3 relaxation with P1 collapse check, MP convex hull, and ALIGNN routes, (3) publish an analysis post in #physics comparing ML model behavior to prior cycles across all tested domains, (4) draft a personalized email to the corresponding author and log in CRM dataset 019ee292. The sponsor item runs in parallel as a standalone deliverable.

Retrospective The previous plan (Cycle 24, photovoltaics) completed 3 of 4 items cleanly: the CRM follow-up wave went out, the Nielsen et al. paper on ZnSnP2 polymorphs was deep-read, and an analysis post was published in #photovoltaics finding Pnma collapse under Orb v3. The email draft to Nielsen/Dimitrievska remains in_progress on that quest, waiting for the next heartbeat. Meanwhile, the 019f6128 catalysis cycle (created earlier today with the improved paper-driven analysis approach) has all 4 items pending and will be worked as separate quest work. What This Plan Covers This plan shifts focus to the sponsor outreach track, which has been underdeveloped relative to the researcher pipeline. The researcher side now has over 120 CRM contacts across multiple domains and cycles. The sponsor side has 5 prospects contacted (Schmidt Sciences replied, ARPA-E/Khosla/DCVC sent, BEV blocked), but three identified prospects remain uncontacted: the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Renaissance Philanthropy / Open Source for Science Fund, and the Simons Foundation MPS Collaborations program (which has an LOI deadline of October 29). @mmoderwell directed going "all in" on outreach across both tracks on June 18. The researcher track has been running consistently; the sponsor track needs a dedicated sprint. This plan also includes a CRM follow-up audit to catch any contacts that have crossed the 7-day (researcher) or 14-day (sponsor) follow-up window since the last wave on July 13. Focus Areas Sponsor emails. Each email follows the established voice rules from Suhas Mahesh's feedback: prose not bullets, shorter sentences, no hedging, no "I hope this finds you well" filler, opens with the sponsor's mission not ours, costs rounded to nearest $5K. Each translates a specific community open question into a fundable opportunity with honest stage framing. The next step is always a conversation, not a commitment. Simons Foundation MPS. This is the highest-stakes sponsor prospect because of the October 29 LOI deadline. It needs program-specific research before drafting: what the MPS Collaborations program funds, what their LOI process looks like, and how to align Ouro's computational materials community with their priorities. This item is research-heavy relative to the cold-email items. CRM follow-up audit. Contacts sent around July 7-8 (researchers) are now past the 7-day window. Any qualifying contacts get their one allowed follow-up with a fresh angle. This is housekeeping but time-sensitive: every day a follow-up is overdue is a day we might lose a warm contact to silence. Negative Constraints No duplication of pending items on quests 019f5df0 (Cycle 24 email), 019f6128 (catalysis cycle), 019f536c (Ahlquist email, MOF sponsor draft), or 019f53a3 (Sanyal draft). No materials science research work (screening chains, bias correction, DFT/MLIP calculations) per @mmoderwell's June 18 direction. Every sponsor email personalized to one funder referencing their specific program and thesis. No templated sends. One follow-up per person, then stop. No second follow-ups. No new researcher outreach cycle in this plan. The catalysis cycle on 019f6128 covers fresh researcher outreach.

Retrospective Cycle 22 (MOFs) completed the paper deep-read and analysis post cleanly, but the email draft and sponsor items are stuck waiting on @mmoderwell approval — the compact four-item pipeline produces content fast but approval bottlenecks pile up at the end. Today was very productive regardless: Robredo and Zakaryan emails were sent, Okabe/Li and Yuk/Lee follow-ups went out, and the Sanyal draft was completed. The pipeline pattern (paper → analysis → email → sponsor) remains sound. What This Plan Covers This plan runs a fresh outreach cycle in the photovoltaics domain and clears the overdue follow-up wave. It does not touch pending items on other quests: the Ahlquist email approval (019f536c), the sponsor draft on that same quest, or the Sanyal draft (019f53a3, just completed and awaiting approval). Photovoltaics is the next fresh domain. Prior cycles covered permanent magnets, thermoelectrics (Fe₂VAl Heusler), MOFs (cycle 22), solid-state batteries (two cycles: Dallakyan Li₃MX₆ halides and Jun/Ceder LiMXCl₄), 2D materials (Sanyal/Ershadrad), and several others. The #photovoltaics team (019f4c4e-73f2-7dcb-a0a9-daf9840b712e) has had no outreach cycle yet. Solar absorber materials — perovskites, chalcogenides, kesterites — are an active ML/computational screening area with large recent output, and the structural variety (cubic perovskites, layered Ruddlesden-Popper phases, stannite derivatives) will test Ouro's ML model routes on yet another structure family. The cycle follows the established pipeline: deep-read a recent paper with specific structures, generate CIFs, run Orb v3 relaxation with P1 collapse check, run MP hull energy and ALIGNN formation energy routes, and publish an analysis post. The cross-cycle comparison grows richer with each domain added: dense intermetallics (Laves, Heuslers) vs. open frameworks (MOFs) vs. ionic conductors (halide electrolytes) vs. now absorber materials. The follow-up wave is the most time-sensitive item. The DCVC sponsor follow-up is 17 days overdue (sent June 26, exceeds the 14-day sponsor rule). Several researcher contacts sent in late June/early July may also have crossed the 7-day window. This plan clears those before they age further. Negative Constraints No duplication of pending items on quests 019f536c (Ahlquist email, sponsor draft) or 019f53a3 (Sanyal draft). No materials science research work (screening chains, bias correction, DFT/MLIP calculations) per @mmoderwell's June 18 direction. The analysis post is outreach-driven content creation, not open research. Every email personalized to one person referencing their specific work. No bulk sends. Sponsor follow-up targets only contacts already in the CRM with followupsent=false and past the timing window. One follow-up per person, then stop. No second follow-ups.

Retrospective The previous cycle (24, photovoltaics) shipped cleanly: paper selected, CIFs generated, routes executed, analysis post published, email drafted and CRM logged, all within a single quest lifecycle. The compact four-item pipeline works when tooling cooperates. The main recurring blocker has been the Resend MCP email tool failing intermittently, which delayed follow-up sends in two prior ticks. This plan prioritizes the single most time-sensitive collaboration over a new outreach cycle. Context Anton Oliynyk (Hunter College, CUNY) replied positively to outreach on 2026-07-02. He offered to rank synthesizability of our RE-free magnetic intermetallic candidates using his recommendation engine and try synthesizing some in his lab. He has collaborators working on RE-free boride permanent magnets. A reply was sent (email 6627ae2f) proposing a call the week of July 13, suggesting July 14 or 16, with @mmoderwell invited to join. Oliynyk's team is CC'd: [email protected], [email protected]. Before the call, we need a curated dataset of approximately 20-30 RE-free magnetic intermetallic candidates with formation energies, hull distances, magnetic properties, and CIF files. The candidates should be drawn from prior screening work in #permanent-magnets: MnB-type monoborides (Pnma): MnB, CrB, FeB, CoB screened in the FeB-type family dataset (019eb92d). MnB is ICSD-anchored (file 13407c5a). Cu₂Sb-type Mn compounds (P4/nmm): Mn₂Sb, MnAlGe, MgMnGe, KMnP. CIFs already exist for Mn₂Sb (ba60c123), MgMnGe (20a0b5e7), KMnP (c52d576a). MnAlGe was identified as top priority with Tc≈505K. MAB phases (Cmmm): Mn₂AlB₂, Fe₂AlB₂, Cr₂AlB₂. All ICSD-anchored CIFs exist (cc3a45a8, 0010b12f, e84ef414). Gate 1 confirmed E_hull=0.0 for all three. C14 Laves (Fe-Mn-Si system): Mn₂Si, Fe₂Si, MnFeSi. CIFs generated in prior cycles, though structural fragility was documented. Other candidates from the calibration anchors dataset (019ec158): tau-MnAl L1₀, MnBi, FePt L1₀, CoPt L1₀. This is not new research. It is packaging existing results into a presentable, synthesis-ready format that Oliynyk can run through his synthesizability ranking engine and select targets for lab synthesis. What This Plan Does Not Cover Pending follow-up waves (Okabe/Li due July 12, Yuk/Lee due July 14, Moore/Astera due July 16) stay on quest 019f42b4. Cycle 23 analysis pipeline and email draft stay on quest 019f53a3. The Robredo email approval stays on quest 019f42b4. The catalysis prospect research stays on quest 019f4ddc. None are copied forward.

Retrospective The previous plan (quest 019f4ddc) shipped 2 of 4 items: the GGen polymorph analysis post went live in #solid-state-batteries and the sponsor email draft was completed. Two items remain blocked on infrastructure (audit post update hitting server timeouts, catalysis prospect email verification needing web search). Cycle 21 (Fe₂VAl thermoelectric Heuslers) closed clean at 4/4. Cycle 22 (MOF discovery) is freshly open with 4 pending items on quest 019f536c and will be worked by heartbeats in parallel. What This Plan Covers This plan addresses two distinct needs that are not tracked on any existing quest. Overdue follow-up wave. Eva Zurek and Ion Errea were emailed on June 30 as part of the hydride superconductors outreach cycle. Their 7-day follow-up window opened July 7. It is now July 11. They are 4 days overdue for the one allowed follow-up and no follow-up has been sent. The analysis post from their cycle ("Building on Belli, Zurek & Errea") is the fresh material to carry in the follow-up. Additionally, a CRM reply check should run to catch any responses from the broader contact list that have come in since the last audit on July 9. The July 13-14 follow-up wave (Yuk, Lee) remains tracked on quest 019f480c and is not duplicated here. Cycle 23 in a fresh domain. Outreach cycles have covered superconductors, permanent magnets, thermoelectrics, solid-state batteries, physics (magnetic topological materials, Heusler semimetals, Kitaev QSL), and ML/chemistry. Three teams remain untouched by outreach: #photovoltaics, #2d-materials, and #catalysis. This plan launches cycle 23 in one of those domains, following the established compact pipeline: paper selection and deep-read, CIF generation and route execution, analysis post publication, and email draft to the corresponding author. The domain choice will be guided by which team has the most active community and which papers have the most tractable crystallographic data for the pipeline. The cycle 22 MOF pipeline remains on its own quest and runs independently. What This Plan Does Not Cover Cycle 22 items stay on quest 019f536c. The blocked audit update and catalysis prospect research stay on quest 019f4ddc. The July 13-14 follow-up wave stays on quest 019f480c. Email approval sends (Robredo, Parzer, Zakaryan) stay on their respective quests. The Oliynyk call prep stays on quest 019f491e. None are copied forward.

Retrospective Cycle 21 ran clean end-to-end: the Fe₂VAl thermoelectric Heusler analysis post is live in #thermoelectrics with 25 route executions and a clear comparison to the Ru₂TiSi cycle, the Parzer email draft is shared for approval, and the Renaissance Philanthropy sponsor email draft is also posted. The compact four-item pipeline pattern (paper → analysis → email → sponsor) continues to work well. The main improvement this cycle: MOFs are a structurally different beast from anything we've tested so far (open frameworks, large unit cells, organic linkers), so the analysis should surface genuinely new information about how Ouro's ML models handle these systems, not just repeat the validation loop. What This Plan Covers This plan runs cycle 22 end-to-end in the MOF domain and drafts a fresh sponsor outreach email. It does not touch pending items on other quests: the Walsh email approval (019f47d5, waiting until July 12), the Zakaryan email approval (019f48e8, waiting until July 12), the July 13-14 follow-up wave (019f480c, waiting until July 13), the Parzer email approval (this quest, just closed), the blocked audit update and catalysis prospect items (019f4ddc), or the GGen polymorph post (019f4ddc). Cycle 22: ML-guided MOF discovery. This is the first outreach cycle targeting the #mofs team. MOFs are a natural test bed for Ouro's ML models because they invert most assumptions from dense intermetallic screening: open frameworks with large unit cells (>100 atoms), organic linkers that introduce chemical complexity beyond what ALIGNN and Orb v3 were trained on, and property targets (surface area, pore volume, gas adsorption) that go beyond formation energy and band gap. The cycle follows the established pipeline: deep-read a recent paper with specific MOF structures, generate CIFs, run Orb v3 relaxation with P1 collapse check, run MP hull energy and ALIGNN formation energy routes, and publish an analysis post in #mofs. The key question: do models that collapse on Laves phases and preserve symmetry on Heuslers behave yet differently on open-framework structures? Sponsor outreach email draft. Both previously identified sponsors (Sloan Foundation, Renaissance Philanthropy) have been drafted on prior quests. This plan identifies a new sponsor prospect aligned with materials ML, open science, or clean energy — likely Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (Science program, supports data-intensive discovery), Wellcome Leap (ambitious quantitative science programs), or Breakthrough Energy (climate technology). Draft a personalized email translating a specific community open question into a fundable opportunity. Negative Constraints No duplication of pending items on quests 019f47d5, 019f48e8, 019f480c, or 019f4ddc. No materials science research work (screening chains, bias correction, DFT/MLIP calculations) per @mmoderwell's June 18 direction. Cycle 22 analysis routes are outreach-driven content creation, not open research. Every email personalized to one person referencing their specific work. No bulk sends. Sponsor email must target a different sponsor than Sloan Foundation (drafted on 019f4ddc) or Renaissance Philanthropy (drafted on cycle 21). Per @mmoderwell's July 9 feedback on the agents team post: the analysis post should aim to surface something novel about model behavior on MOFs, not just validate known properties. Lead with the finding, not the pipeline.

Build the definitive dataset of rare-earth-free permanent magnet candidates on the Ouro platform, with references to CIF files and all existing calculated properties. Requirements Wide dataset — one row per unique compound/CIF, with file reference columns to both the unrelaxed and relaxed CIF (if a relaxed version exists). Prefer relaxed CIFs — if a relaxed version of a CIF exists on the platform, use it as the primary file reference. Keep the unrelaxed version in a separate column. Only report properties from relaxed structures when relevant. Magnetic properties — from Estimate magnetic moments and Ms from a CIF and MAE from Calculate magnetic anisotropy energy. Only from existing route executions — do NOT run new calculations. Stability — energy above the convex hull from Calculate energy above the convex hull. Dynamical stability from Calculate phonon dispersion and band structure if they exist. NO ALIGNN predictions — exclude any results from the ALIGNN route (). Only use: Estimate magnetic moments/Ms, Calculate MAE, Calculate energy above hull, Calculate phonon dispersion, Relax a crystal structure, and the new DFT routes (Ground-state SCF, Magnetic moments, Magnetic anisotropy energy, Exchange couplings TB2J, Band structure, Band gap, DOS, PDOS). Properties will be sparse — that's expected. Collect everything we already have; don't run new calculations. Source data Complete platform CIF compilation — 4,319 unique RE-free magnetic formulas from 12,291 CIF files CIF calculated properties — 88,050 rows of extracted route action results Approach Use ouro-py to: Query the CIF compilation dataset for all compounds and their CIF file IDs For each compound, identify if a relaxed version exists (filename contains "relaxed") Query the calculated properties dataset for non-ALIGNN route results on those CIFs Build the final wide dataset with: formula, compound, space group, crystal system, team, unrelaxedcifid, relaxedcifid, Ms (emu/g or A/m), magnetic moment (µB), MAE (eV/formula), energy above hull (eV/atom), phonon stability (stable/unstable), Curie temp (K), and action_id references for each property.

Goal Build a comprehensive dataset of every viable rare-earth-free permanent magnet candidate on the Ouro platform, with full property coverage: saturation magnetization (Ms), thermodynamic stability (hull distance), Curie temperature (Tc), and magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy (MAE) where available. Why An action item from the Oliynyk Lab call (July 14, 2026) was compiling a large list of candidates to send for synthesis. The first attempt (dataset:019f67f7-ff4f-7202-81db-3aa36ab7fdda) was incomplete because the Python sandbox wasn't executing ouro-py properly. This quest does it right: programmatically fetch every CIF on the platform, inspect route actions on each file, and compile a properly structured dataset. Method Use ouro-py in the Python sandbox to: Fetch all file assets across all teams (filter for CIF files). Inspect each file's actions to determine which routes were run (Orb v3 relaxation, ALIGNN property prediction, MP hull distance, DFT Ms, DFT MAE, Curie temperature). Filter for RE-free magnetic compounds — containing Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cr with no rare-earth elements. Extract property data from route action results: Ms, hull distance (stability), Tc, MAE. Flag which properties are predicted vs experimental vs missing. Publish as a dataset with clear columns and provenance. Context Previous attempt: dataset — 46 candidates, but sandbox didn't run ouro-py so property extraction was incomplete. Curated 24-candidate set for Oliynyk: dataset, summary post. @mmoderwell is investigating why the sandbox wasn't working. If SDK limitations block progress, report back so the SDK can be upgraded.

Retrospective Cycle 25 (catalysis screening) completed all four items cleanly with the standard pipeline. The PV cycle 24 is 3/4 done with the email draft in progress on its own quest (019f5df0). The sponsor outreach sprint (Sloan, Renaissance, Simons) on quest 019f62a9 remains at 0/4 and untouched. Multiple contacts are becoming due for follow-ups (Moore Foundation ~July 16, Wei Li July 15), which are tracked on existing quests and will be executed during heartbeats. The Oliynyk call took place today; any follow-up will be scoped as a new quest if needed. Focus Two tracks in this plan: Sponsor prospect: Schmidt Futures. Schmidt Futures (Eric and Wendy Schmidt's philanthropic initiative) explicitly funds AI-for-science programs, computational infrastructure, and open research tools. They are not in the CRM and not on any existing quest. They are a natural fit for Ouro's computational materials platform, and a warm, specific outreach email can advance the capital track independently of the Sloan/Renaissance/Simons items already queued on quest 019f62a9. Researcher cycle: #physics. The #physics team (019841de) has never had a dedicated paper-driven outreach cycle. A recent paper on ML-guided discovery or computational screening of quantum/topological materials, strongly correlated systems, or emergent phenomena in crystalline materials would bring the established pipeline (CIF generation, Orb v3 relaxation, MP convex hull, ALIGNN) into a domain where the cross-domain ML failure audit has limited coverage. This extends the audit into quantum materials and connects to the superconductors and permanent magnets teams' existing work. What This Plan Does Not Cover The sponsor items on quest 019f62a9 (Sloan, Renaissance, Simons) stay there. The PV email draft on quest 019f5df0 stays there. The catalysis paper-driven analysis on quest 019f6128 stays there. Follow-up waves for contacts due July 15+ stay on their respective quests. The Oliynyk call follow-up, if needed, will be a new quest. Pipeline The established four-step outreach cycle adapted for physics/quantum materials: (1) select a recent paper with 3-6 crystallographically characterized compounds, (2) generate CIFs and run them through Orb v3 relaxation with P1 collapse check, MP convex hull, and ALIGNN routes, (3) publish an analysis post in #physics comparing ML model behavior to prior cycles across all tested domains, (4) draft a personalized email to the corresponding author and log in CRM dataset 019ee292. The sponsor item runs in parallel as a standalone deliverable.

Retrospective The previous plan (Cycle 24, photovoltaics) completed 3 of 4 items cleanly: the CRM follow-up wave went out, the Nielsen et al. paper on ZnSnP2 polymorphs was deep-read, and an analysis post was published in #photovoltaics finding Pnma collapse under Orb v3. The email draft to Nielsen/Dimitrievska remains in_progress on that quest, waiting for the next heartbeat. Meanwhile, the 019f6128 catalysis cycle (created earlier today with the improved paper-driven analysis approach) has all 4 items pending and will be worked as separate quest work. What This Plan Covers This plan shifts focus to the sponsor outreach track, which has been underdeveloped relative to the researcher pipeline. The researcher side now has over 120 CRM contacts across multiple domains and cycles. The sponsor side has 5 prospects contacted (Schmidt Sciences replied, ARPA-E/Khosla/DCVC sent, BEV blocked), but three identified prospects remain uncontacted: the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Renaissance Philanthropy / Open Source for Science Fund, and the Simons Foundation MPS Collaborations program (which has an LOI deadline of October 29). @mmoderwell directed going "all in" on outreach across both tracks on June 18. The researcher track has been running consistently; the sponsor track needs a dedicated sprint. This plan also includes a CRM follow-up audit to catch any contacts that have crossed the 7-day (researcher) or 14-day (sponsor) follow-up window since the last wave on July 13. Focus Areas Sponsor emails. Each email follows the established voice rules from Suhas Mahesh's feedback: prose not bullets, shorter sentences, no hedging, no "I hope this finds you well" filler, opens with the sponsor's mission not ours, costs rounded to nearest $5K. Each translates a specific community open question into a fundable opportunity with honest stage framing. The next step is always a conversation, not a commitment. Simons Foundation MPS. This is the highest-stakes sponsor prospect because of the October 29 LOI deadline. It needs program-specific research before drafting: what the MPS Collaborations program funds, what their LOI process looks like, and how to align Ouro's computational materials community with their priorities. This item is research-heavy relative to the cold-email items. CRM follow-up audit. Contacts sent around July 7-8 (researchers) are now past the 7-day window. Any qualifying contacts get their one allowed follow-up with a fresh angle. This is housekeeping but time-sensitive: every day a follow-up is overdue is a day we might lose a warm contact to silence. Negative Constraints No duplication of pending items on quests 019f5df0 (Cycle 24 email), 019f6128 (catalysis cycle), 019f536c (Ahlquist email, MOF sponsor draft), or 019f53a3 (Sanyal draft). No materials science research work (screening chains, bias correction, DFT/MLIP calculations) per @mmoderwell's June 18 direction. Every sponsor email personalized to one funder referencing their specific program and thesis. No templated sends. One follow-up per person, then stop. No second follow-ups. No new researcher outreach cycle in this plan. The catalysis cycle on 019f6128 covers fresh researcher outreach.

Retrospective Cycle 22 (MOFs) completed the paper deep-read and analysis post cleanly, but the email draft and sponsor items are stuck waiting on @mmoderwell approval — the compact four-item pipeline produces content fast but approval bottlenecks pile up at the end. Today was very productive regardless: Robredo and Zakaryan emails were sent, Okabe/Li and Yuk/Lee follow-ups went out, and the Sanyal draft was completed. The pipeline pattern (paper → analysis → email → sponsor) remains sound. What This Plan Covers This plan runs a fresh outreach cycle in the photovoltaics domain and clears the overdue follow-up wave. It does not touch pending items on other quests: the Ahlquist email approval (019f536c), the sponsor draft on that same quest, or the Sanyal draft (019f53a3, just completed and awaiting approval). Photovoltaics is the next fresh domain. Prior cycles covered permanent magnets, thermoelectrics (Fe₂VAl Heusler), MOFs (cycle 22), solid-state batteries (two cycles: Dallakyan Li₃MX₆ halides and Jun/Ceder LiMXCl₄), 2D materials (Sanyal/Ershadrad), and several others. The #photovoltaics team (019f4c4e-73f2-7dcb-a0a9-daf9840b712e) has had no outreach cycle yet. Solar absorber materials — perovskites, chalcogenides, kesterites — are an active ML/computational screening area with large recent output, and the structural variety (cubic perovskites, layered Ruddlesden-Popper phases, stannite derivatives) will test Ouro's ML model routes on yet another structure family. The cycle follows the established pipeline: deep-read a recent paper with specific structures, generate CIFs, run Orb v3 relaxation with P1 collapse check, run MP hull energy and ALIGNN formation energy routes, and publish an analysis post. The cross-cycle comparison grows richer with each domain added: dense intermetallics (Laves, Heuslers) vs. open frameworks (MOFs) vs. ionic conductors (halide electrolytes) vs. now absorber materials. The follow-up wave is the most time-sensitive item. The DCVC sponsor follow-up is 17 days overdue (sent June 26, exceeds the 14-day sponsor rule). Several researcher contacts sent in late June/early July may also have crossed the 7-day window. This plan clears those before they age further. Negative Constraints No duplication of pending items on quests 019f536c (Ahlquist email, sponsor draft) or 019f53a3 (Sanyal draft). No materials science research work (screening chains, bias correction, DFT/MLIP calculations) per @mmoderwell's June 18 direction. The analysis post is outreach-driven content creation, not open research. Every email personalized to one person referencing their specific work. No bulk sends. Sponsor follow-up targets only contacts already in the CRM with followupsent=false and past the timing window. One follow-up per person, then stop. No second follow-ups.

Retrospective The previous cycle (24, photovoltaics) shipped cleanly: paper selected, CIFs generated, routes executed, analysis post published, email drafted and CRM logged, all within a single quest lifecycle. The compact four-item pipeline works when tooling cooperates. The main recurring blocker has been the Resend MCP email tool failing intermittently, which delayed follow-up sends in two prior ticks. This plan prioritizes the single most time-sensitive collaboration over a new outreach cycle. Context Anton Oliynyk (Hunter College, CUNY) replied positively to outreach on 2026-07-02. He offered to rank synthesizability of our RE-free magnetic intermetallic candidates using his recommendation engine and try synthesizing some in his lab. He has collaborators working on RE-free boride permanent magnets. A reply was sent (email 6627ae2f) proposing a call the week of July 13, suggesting July 14 or 16, with @mmoderwell invited to join. Oliynyk's team is CC'd: [email protected], [email protected]. Before the call, we need a curated dataset of approximately 20-30 RE-free magnetic intermetallic candidates with formation energies, hull distances, magnetic properties, and CIF files. The candidates should be drawn from prior screening work in #permanent-magnets: MnB-type monoborides (Pnma): MnB, CrB, FeB, CoB screened in the FeB-type family dataset (019eb92d). MnB is ICSD-anchored (file 13407c5a). Cu₂Sb-type Mn compounds (P4/nmm): Mn₂Sb, MnAlGe, MgMnGe, KMnP. CIFs already exist for Mn₂Sb (ba60c123), MgMnGe (20a0b5e7), KMnP (c52d576a). MnAlGe was identified as top priority with Tc≈505K. MAB phases (Cmmm): Mn₂AlB₂, Fe₂AlB₂, Cr₂AlB₂. All ICSD-anchored CIFs exist (cc3a45a8, 0010b12f, e84ef414). Gate 1 confirmed E_hull=0.0 for all three. C14 Laves (Fe-Mn-Si system): Mn₂Si, Fe₂Si, MnFeSi. CIFs generated in prior cycles, though structural fragility was documented. Other candidates from the calibration anchors dataset (019ec158): tau-MnAl L1₀, MnBi, FePt L1₀, CoPt L1₀. This is not new research. It is packaging existing results into a presentable, synthesis-ready format that Oliynyk can run through his synthesizability ranking engine and select targets for lab synthesis. What This Plan Does Not Cover Pending follow-up waves (Okabe/Li due July 12, Yuk/Lee due July 14, Moore/Astera due July 16) stay on quest 019f42b4. Cycle 23 analysis pipeline and email draft stay on quest 019f53a3. The Robredo email approval stays on quest 019f42b4. The catalysis prospect research stays on quest 019f4ddc. None are copied forward.

Retrospective The previous plan (quest 019f4ddc) shipped 2 of 4 items: the GGen polymorph analysis post went live in #solid-state-batteries and the sponsor email draft was completed. Two items remain blocked on infrastructure (audit post update hitting server timeouts, catalysis prospect email verification needing web search). Cycle 21 (Fe₂VAl thermoelectric Heuslers) closed clean at 4/4. Cycle 22 (MOF discovery) is freshly open with 4 pending items on quest 019f536c and will be worked by heartbeats in parallel. What This Plan Covers This plan addresses two distinct needs that are not tracked on any existing quest. Overdue follow-up wave. Eva Zurek and Ion Errea were emailed on June 30 as part of the hydride superconductors outreach cycle. Their 7-day follow-up window opened July 7. It is now July 11. They are 4 days overdue for the one allowed follow-up and no follow-up has been sent. The analysis post from their cycle ("Building on Belli, Zurek & Errea") is the fresh material to carry in the follow-up. Additionally, a CRM reply check should run to catch any responses from the broader contact list that have come in since the last audit on July 9. The July 13-14 follow-up wave (Yuk, Lee) remains tracked on quest 019f480c and is not duplicated here. Cycle 23 in a fresh domain. Outreach cycles have covered superconductors, permanent magnets, thermoelectrics, solid-state batteries, physics (magnetic topological materials, Heusler semimetals, Kitaev QSL), and ML/chemistry. Three teams remain untouched by outreach: #photovoltaics, #2d-materials, and #catalysis. This plan launches cycle 23 in one of those domains, following the established compact pipeline: paper selection and deep-read, CIF generation and route execution, analysis post publication, and email draft to the corresponding author. The domain choice will be guided by which team has the most active community and which papers have the most tractable crystallographic data for the pipeline. The cycle 22 MOF pipeline remains on its own quest and runs independently. What This Plan Does Not Cover Cycle 22 items stay on quest 019f536c. The blocked audit update and catalysis prospect research stay on quest 019f4ddc. The July 13-14 follow-up wave stays on quest 019f480c. Email approval sends (Robredo, Parzer, Zakaryan) stay on their respective quests. The Oliynyk call prep stays on quest 019f491e. None are copied forward.

Retrospective Cycle 21 ran clean end-to-end: the Fe₂VAl thermoelectric Heusler analysis post is live in #thermoelectrics with 25 route executions and a clear comparison to the Ru₂TiSi cycle, the Parzer email draft is shared for approval, and the Renaissance Philanthropy sponsor email draft is also posted. The compact four-item pipeline pattern (paper → analysis → email → sponsor) continues to work well. The main improvement this cycle: MOFs are a structurally different beast from anything we've tested so far (open frameworks, large unit cells, organic linkers), so the analysis should surface genuinely new information about how Ouro's ML models handle these systems, not just repeat the validation loop. What This Plan Covers This plan runs cycle 22 end-to-end in the MOF domain and drafts a fresh sponsor outreach email. It does not touch pending items on other quests: the Walsh email approval (019f47d5, waiting until July 12), the Zakaryan email approval (019f48e8, waiting until July 12), the July 13-14 follow-up wave (019f480c, waiting until July 13), the Parzer email approval (this quest, just closed), the blocked audit update and catalysis prospect items (019f4ddc), or the GGen polymorph post (019f4ddc). Cycle 22: ML-guided MOF discovery. This is the first outreach cycle targeting the #mofs team. MOFs are a natural test bed for Ouro's ML models because they invert most assumptions from dense intermetallic screening: open frameworks with large unit cells (>100 atoms), organic linkers that introduce chemical complexity beyond what ALIGNN and Orb v3 were trained on, and property targets (surface area, pore volume, gas adsorption) that go beyond formation energy and band gap. The cycle follows the established pipeline: deep-read a recent paper with specific MOF structures, generate CIFs, run Orb v3 relaxation with P1 collapse check, run MP hull energy and ALIGNN formation energy routes, and publish an analysis post in #mofs. The key question: do models that collapse on Laves phases and preserve symmetry on Heuslers behave yet differently on open-framework structures? Sponsor outreach email draft. Both previously identified sponsors (Sloan Foundation, Renaissance Philanthropy) have been drafted on prior quests. This plan identifies a new sponsor prospect aligned with materials ML, open science, or clean energy — likely Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (Science program, supports data-intensive discovery), Wellcome Leap (ambitious quantitative science programs), or Breakthrough Energy (climate technology). Draft a personalized email translating a specific community open question into a fundable opportunity. Negative Constraints No duplication of pending items on quests 019f47d5, 019f48e8, 019f480c, or 019f4ddc. No materials science research work (screening chains, bias correction, DFT/MLIP calculations) per @mmoderwell's June 18 direction. Cycle 22 analysis routes are outreach-driven content creation, not open research. Every email personalized to one person referencing their specific work. No bulk sends. Sponsor email must target a different sponsor than Sloan Foundation (drafted on 019f4ddc) or Renaissance Philanthropy (drafted on cycle 21). Per @mmoderwell's July 9 feedback on the agents team post: the analysis post should aim to surface something novel about model behavior on MOFs, not just validate known properties. Lead with the finding, not the pipeline.