Cold emails worth reading.
Inquiry: Real-time LiDAR segmentation for micro-UAV flight controllers — Aiden
Prof. Helena Marchetti,
Prof. Marchetti,
Cited methodology · Distributed SLAM under bounded error growth · IEEE T-RO 2025 · Example from a fictional research group
Reachout turns your hands-on technical projects - the robotics builds, the IoT rigs, the ML pipelines, the lab work you have actually shipped - into a list of university research labs worth cold-emailing. We scan Local University Databases near you, read the lab's last 18 months of papers, and draft a message that opens with the professor's own work. Free during open beta.
Three steps, one inbox.
Reachout is built around the same moves every ambitious high schooler makes when reaching out to a university research lab - find a professor whose work fits, write an email worth opening, and keep track of who has not replied yet.
Tell us what you have built.
Paste a 6–10 bullet summary of your hands-on engineering, lab, or coding projects. Reachout reads them locally — nothing leaves your browser.
Match to local university labs.
We scan Local University Databases near you and score each professor's last 18 months of papers against the work you have actually shipped.
Draft a cold email worth opening.
Reachout writes a cold email that opens with the professor's own paper, names your specific project, and offers a low-friction next step. You approve the wording before anything sends.
Six concrete capabilities.
No mystery, no upsell, no premium feature hiding behind a paywall - just the pieces an ambitious high schooler needs to land a research internship at a university lab. Each is on every run.
Local University Database scan
Public faculty pages filtered by the actual courses and projects you have taken — not by a generic keyword list.
Paper-level analysis
Last 18 months of each professor's work, scored against your stack and your methods. Fit score on every match.
Citation-anchored drafts
Every generated email opens with the professor's own paper and names a method they actually used. No flattery.
Follow-up sequence
Drafts a short follow-up if there is no reply by day five — adding fresh context, not re-pitching.
Local-first dashboard
The whole app runs on your machine's localStorage. There is no cloud account to sign up for. Sign in, paste, draft.
Honest about what it cannot do
We will not promise an acceptance letter. We promise an email that does not embarrass you in front of a working scientist.
Reachout is free. For now.
We are still figuring out what a real outreach tool should cost, so during open beta the whole thing stays free. No card. No upsell. No premium tier. When we set a price, we will email you first.
- Unlimited professor matches during beta
- Drafts cite specific papers and methods
- Peer tone by default — formal or curious on request
- Auto-citations with linked references
- Day-five follow-up drafts
- Outreach tracker across the school year