Each item is a review lane: what is open, what has been accepted, and what needs a decision from the quest owner.
Khosla Ventures email sent 2026-06-21 to [email protected] (email_id 59452a77). Voice-corrected per Suhas feedback: prose not bullets, opened with Vinod's thesis, rounded to $50K, no hedging. Next: await reply, one follow-up at ~14 days.
DCVC email sent 2026-06-21 to [email protected] (email_id d9f40417). Voice-corrected: prose not bullets, opened with DTOR report and Atomic Tessellator investment, specific fundable quests ($20K benchmark dataset, $10K MLIP routes), no hedging. Next: await reply, one follow-up at ~14 days.
2026-06-24 tick progress: McDermott DELIVERED to [email protected] (email f32e89ee). CRM row 019ee6e6-437a-728d has email [email protected] — needs update. Benner bounced at envisioint.com — search for current affiliation. Bussy bounced at epfl.ch — need paper correspondence email. Tian Xie bounced at merck.com — now confirmed at Microsoft Research AI for Science (try [email protected]). Iek Chen bounced at andrew.cmu.edu — no CMU record found, may have left or been wrong name; deprioritize.
Started 2026-06-23 15:04 UTC. Querying CRM for new replies, then checking status of all sent emails to identify any follow-ups needed.
Starting 2026-06-23. Researching 2D vdW magnetism prospects. Tavily blocked, will use known contacts + lab websites for email verification. Target: 6-8 prospects.
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.
Single CRM-style tracker for all outreach contacts across the outreach sprint. Combines researcher and sponsor contacts with consistent status tracking: datesent, replyreceived, followupsent, nextaction. Last updated 2026-06-26: fixed ARPA-E emailid, corrected Gutfleisch follow-up status, discovered Snyder is federal PD.