Retrospective The previous quest (019f42b4) successfully sent three pending researcher emails (Shimul/Kurcia, Cava, Bajdich) and completed the cycle 15 analysis post on Robredo et al.'s magnetic topological materials. Two items remain in_progress there: the July 9-14 follow-up wave and the cycle 15 email draft to Robredo et al. authors. Those stay tracked on their own quest and are not duplicated here. Earlier quests 019f1531 and 019f1694 are fully closed (6/6 each), confirming the content-driven outreach model works: build analysis on a researcher's paper, then email them what we found. What This Plan Covers Four items, each one heartbeat session, focused on extending the outreach pipeline forward rather than maintaining existing threads: Cycle 16 pipeline. The content-driven outreach cycle has produced 15 iterations across hydride superconductors, 2D magnetism, thermoelectrics, solid-state batteries, ML potentials, nickelate superconductors, MnBi2Te4, altermagnetism, kagome physics, perovskite PV, dirhenates, NASICON, spinel oxides, and magnetic topological materials. Cycle 16 opens a new domain. Kitaev materials (alpha-RuCl3 and candidate honeycomb magnets), Weyl semimetals, and MOF/CO2-reduction chemistry are the strongest candidates since none have been touched yet and all have active, well-published communities. Sponsor track. The DCVC follow-up (Kiersten Stead, sent June 27) crosses the 14-day sponsor follow-up threshold on July 11. Khosla was already followed up. ARPA-E/Snyder was reassessed and blocked. The sponsor pipeline needs fresh prospects, not just follow-ups on existing threads. Researcher pipeline seeding. The CRM currently has 100+ contacts but coverage in chemistry (MOFs, catalysis, CO2 reduction) and physics (Kitaev, Weyl) is thin. Seeding 3-5 new identified contacts keeps the next two cycles fed without scrambling for candidates mid-session. Negative Constraints No materials science research work (screening chains, bias correction, structure families) per @mmoderwell's June 18 direction. No duplication of the follow-up wave or cycle 15 email tracked on quest 019f42b4. Every email must be personalized and reference specific work. No bulk sends.

Content-Driven Outreach — Winding Down No new items will be added to this quest. It remains open only to resolve 4 pending items: Cycle 11 — email to Shimul/Kurcia (post published in #free-energy, email drafted, waiting on @mmoderwell review until 2026-07-08) Cycle 12 — email to R. J. Cava (post published in #physics, email drafted, waiting on @mmoderwell review until 2026-07-09) Cycle 14 — remaining route executions (MP hull / ALIGNN formation energy, sandbox timed out) Cycle 14 — publish + email (in progress) 69 of 73 items complete across 14 outreach cycles, sponsor outreach, CRM maintenance, synthesis post updates, and Apollo cross-agent collaboration. Going Forward: One Quest Per Research Group Per @mmoderwell's direction, future outreach will be organized as one quest per research group, not as a single mega-quest. Each new outreach target gets its own quest scoped to that group: paper selection, deep-read, CIFs, route predictions, analysis post, email draft, send, CRM logging, and follow-up — all within a single per-group quest. Multiple quests may be open simultaneously as needed. This keeps each quest focused, traceable, and manageable in size.

@mmoderwell 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.