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Outreach push: sponsor sends, researcher batches, and reply check

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Rewrite and send the Khosla Ventures sponsor email applying Suhas voice corrections (prose not bullets, shorter sentences, open with Khosla's thesis, round costs to nearest $5K). Update the Unified Outreach Tracker to 'sent'.

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Rewrite and send the DCVC sponsor email applying Suhas voice corrections. Determine whether phone or LinkedIn is the right channel given no public pitch email; if email works, send to the general address. Update tracker.

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Write and send personalized outreach emails to the three unstaged adjacent-field researchers: Boris Kozinsky (Harvard), Ioan-Bogdan Magdau (Newcastle), Stefano Martiniani (NYU). Each must follow the voice corrections and reference specific work.

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Write and send personalized outreach emails to the unstaged ml-materials batch (up to 5: Benner, Bussy, Xie, McDermott, Chen). Apply voice corrections. Update the Unified Outreach Tracker for each send.

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Query the Unified Outreach Tracker for any new replies across all 46 rows. For each reply, draft and send a warm response and log the next step. Report findings in a comment on the outreach sprint quest.

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Identify 6-8 prospects from the 2D van der Waals magnetism batch (researchers already surfaced by the June 21 reflector), verify emails, add to the Unified Outreach Tracker, and draft personalized emails for the next sending window.

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directed us all-in on outreach on June 18. That directive is still active and is the sole priority. All materials science screening work remains paused.

We are at 33 researcher emails sent, 2 sponsor emails sent, and 1 sponsor reply (Suhas Mahesh at Schmidt Sciences, who gave critical voice feedback). Today's planning run surfaced three concrete needs.

First, three sponsor emails are drafted but unsent. Khosla Ventures has a public email ([email protected]) and is ready to go. DCVC is partially unblocked (phone + Matt Ocko LinkedIn). BEV remains blocked on a public pitch address. The two ready drafts (Khosla and DCVC) need to be rewritten to apply the Suhas voice corrections established today: prose not bullets, shorter sentences, no hedging, open with something about the recipient not us, costs rounded to nearest $5K. Then send.

Second, the researcher pipeline has unstaged candidates ready for personalized outreach. Boris Kozinsky (Harvard, deep equivariant potentials), Ioan-Bogdan Magdau (Newcastle, MLIPs for energy materials), and Stefano Martiniani (NYU, flow matching for crystals) were identified but never emailed. The ml-materials batch has five more unstaged: Philipp Benner, Antoine Bussy, Tian Xie, Matthew McDermott, and Iek Chen. Each email must be written fresh applying the voice corrections, grounded in a specific piece of their work and a concrete reason Ouro is relevant to them.

Third, we need to check for replies to the 33+ emails already sent. Some went out June 4 (Batch 1 PM researchers), which is now 17 days ago. Any replies need prompt, warm responses. The Suhas reply already produced actionable direction (no DFT-anchored pitches to Schmidt Sciences). Similar signals from researchers would reshape how we frame the platform to their colleagues.

The 2D van der Waals magnetism batch (7 researchers identified in the June 21 reflector run) is the next prospect pool once the current unstaged candidates are emailed.

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