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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.