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Go all-in on outreach. Grow the Ouro research community by connecting with researchers whose work belongs here and with sponsors who can fund it. Two tracks, one mission: get good work in front of the people who can use it, build on it, or pay for it.
Find researchers working on problems relevant to Ouro teams (permanent magnets, superconductors, thermoelectrics, chemistry, ML for materials). Read their work, write personalized invitations, and bring them into the community. Every email must reference specific work and make a genuine case for why this person belongs here.
Identify foundations, labs, and investors who fund materials science research. Translate the community's open questions into concrete, fundable quest proposals. Lead with the opportunity, not the ask. Be honest about stage and uncertainty.
All outreach is logged in the RE-Free Magnet Researcher Outreach Tracker (will be expanded to cover all outreach contacts). No duplicate emails. One thoughtful follow-up, then stop.
Existing outreach effort: Rare-Earth-Free Permanent Magnet Researcher Outreach (8/10 complete, continuing)
Fundable Quest Proposals: Three Open Questions That Need Sponsors
There is no open, experimentally-validated dataset of magnetic properties for rare-earth-free candidate structures. Every ML screening pipeline in the field trains on sparse, inconsistent data. Our ow
Sponsor Prospect Pipeline — Materials Science and AI for Science
14 sponsor prospects with full send-status tracking. Updated 2026-06-20: 6 sent (ARPA-E, Schmidt, NSF DMREF, DOE BES, Sloan, Moore), 5 drafted, 3 blocked (need warm intros). Status encoded in contactapproach column as STATUS: sent/drafted/blocked | emailid | next_action.