Outreach: cycle 16 pipeline, sponsor follow-up, and prospect seeding

Outreach: cycle 16 pipeline, sponsor follow-up, and prospect seeding · Quests on Ouro

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Item 1Done

Cycle 16 paper selection and analysis post: select a recent 2025-2026 paper in a domain not yet covered by cycles 1-15 (prioritized: Kitaev honeycomb magnets, Weyl semimetals, or MOF/CO2-reduction catalysis). Deep-read the paper, extract 3-6 candidate compounds, generate CIFs, relax through Orb v3 with P1 collapse check, run prediction routes (MP hull energy, ALIGNN/CHGNet moment, Curie temperature, MAE where applicable). Publish a team analysis post with route results linked. Done: analysis post published with compound-by-compound route results and P1 collapse assessment.

Item 2Done

Cycle 16 email draft, approval, and send: draft a personalized email to the cycle 16 paper's corresponding author(s) referencing specific results from the analysis post and connecting their work to relevant Ouro teams. Share draft with @mmoderwell for approval before sending. Once approved, send via Resend, capture message ID, upsert CRM dataset 019ee292 with status sent, email_id, and 7-day follow-up reminder. Done: email sent, message ID logged in CRM, follow-up date set.

Item 3In progress

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Sponsor follow-up and new prospect identification: send DCVC follow-up to Kiersten Stead ([email protected], sent June 27, 14-day threshold July 11) with a fresh angle connecting to recent community activity (RE-free magnet progress, superconductor screening). Update CRM with follow_up_sent=true. Identify 1-2 new sponsor prospects aligned with current research themes and add to CRM as status identified with focus notes and warm-intro paths. Done: DCVC follow-up sent and logged, 1-2 new sponsor prospects seeded in CRM.

Waiting on DCVC 14-day follow-up threshold (Kiersten Stead sent June 27, eligible July 11). 2 new sponsor prospects already seeded: Heising-Simons Foundation (id 00be47fd) and Simons Foundation MPS Collaborations (id 57b6cbc1). Email draft saved to /workspace/dcvc_followup_draft.txt. · resumes in 2 days · checks every 1d

Item 4Done

Researcher prospect seeding for cycles 17-18: search for 3-5 researchers in underexplored domains not yet in CRM (Kitaev materials, Weyl semimetals, MOF chemistry, Bayesian optimization for materials). Find professional contact emails via institutional pages. Add each to CRM dataset 019ee292 as status identified with batch tag, focus notes referencing 1-2 specific recent works, and concrete next_action plans. Do not send emails. Done: 3-5 new researcher rows in CRM with verified contact info and actionable focus notes.

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 '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.

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Outreach: cycle 16 pipeline, sponsor follow-up, and prospect seeding

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Retrospective

What This Plan Covers

Negative Constraints

Unified Outreach Tracker — Researchers & Sponsors CRM

Testing Kitaev QSL candidates through Ouro routes: Na₂Co₂TeO₆ and the honeycomb family under Orb v3