Emails that land you research positions
Tell Erdos your research interests. AI finds the professors whose work actually matches, writes a personalized email to each one, sends it from your own Gmail — and tells you the moment it's opened.
To: Prof. E. Chen — Stanford
Re: Research in computational bio
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From: you@gmail.com
openedProf. Chen
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Everything between "I want to do research"
and "when can you start?"
One pipeline: match, write, preview, send, track. Nothing to configure, nothing to babysit.
AI professor matching
Your interests are compared semantically against real faculty research — meaning matters, not keywords. "ML for drug discovery" finds the computational chemist, not just anyone who says "ML".
Prof. E. Chen
Computational Biology, Stanford
Prof. R. Okafor
ML for Genomics, MIT
Personalized emails
Every email is written for one professor — citing their papers, connecting them to your background. Zero templates.
Live preview
Read and edit every email before anything sends. You approve the words; AI just does the drafting.
Gmail integration
Connect once with Google OAuth. Emails send from your address, replies land in your inbox.
Bulk, but paced
Queue 50 emails at once; they go out gradually in the background so your account stays healthy.
Open tracking
Know the moment a professor opens your email — so you follow up with the ones who are actually reading, at exactly the right time.
68%
open rate
Three steps between you and a lab
No spreadsheets of professor emails. No copy-pasting the same template 80 times.
Tell us your interests
Type what you want to research — "CRISPR gene editing", "reinforcement learning", "astrophysics". That's the whole setup.
Your research interests
AI finds your professors
Semantic matching compares your interests against real faculty research profiles and surfaces the professors whose work genuinely overlaps with yours.
Personalized emails go out
Each professor gets an email written for them, referencing their work — queued and sent from your Gmail on a natural schedule, with opens tracked live.
Your Gmail. Your name. Your reputation — protected.
Professors respond to students, not platforms. That's why Erdos never sends on your behalf from some anonymous server — it works quietly inside your own Gmail account, the way you would if you had the time.
Sent from your Gmail
Every email comes from your own address, so replies land in your inbox and professors see a real student — not a mailing service.
Secure Google OAuth
You connect Gmail through Google's official OAuth flow. We never see or store your password, and you can disconnect anytime.
Paced, not blasted
Emails are queued and sent gradually in the background on a natural schedule — the opposite of spam blasting, and kind to your sender reputation.
Personal, every time
No two professors get the same email. Each message references their actual research, because generic templates get deleted.
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Erdos wants permission to:
- ✓Send email on your behalf
- ✓See when your sent emails are opened
From "no response" to "come by the lab"
What happens when your outreach actually reaches the right professors.
I sent 42 emails through Erdos over two weekends. Eleven professors opened them, four replied, and one of those replies turned into the computational neuroscience lab I've now been in for two semesters. I'd been manually cold-emailing for months before that with nothing.
Priya Raghavan
Junior, Neuroscience — now a research assistant at a systems neuro lab
"The matching is the part that shocked me. It found a professor doing exactly my niche — RL for robotic grasping — that I'd never have found scrolling department pages."
Marcus Webb
Sophomore, CS
"Because everything sends from my own Gmail, the reply just showed up in my inbox like a normal conversation. The professor had no idea a tool was involved — it was my voice."
Sofia Delgado
Senior, Bioengineering
"Open tracking changed how I follow up. I stopped guessing and only nudged professors who'd actually read my email. Two of three follow-ups got replies."
James Okonkwo
High school senior, applying to summer programs
"I'm an international student and writing 'the perfect first email' in English used to take me an hour each. Erdos drafted them, I tweaked a sentence or two, done."
Yuki Tanaka
Master's student, Materials Science
"Got my first-ever research interview 6 days after signing up. The email cited the professor's 2024 paper — which I hadn't even read yet. I read it fast."
Aisha Karim
Freshman, Chemistry
"The queue is smart — it drip-sends so it looks human. My advisor literally told me my 'consistent outreach effort' impressed the lab. It was 20 minutes of setup."
Daniel Park
Junior, Physics
Cheaper than one campus coffee run a week
Every plan sends from your own Gmail with full open tracking. Cancel anytime.
Pro
For getting your first replies
- 50 personalized emails / month
- AI professor matching
- Send from your own Gmail
- Open tracking
- Live email preview & editing
Max
For a serious outreach season
- 200 personalized emails / month
- Everything in Pro
- Smart follow-up suggestions
- Priority send queue
- Response analytics dashboard
Ultra
For power users & grad applicants
- 600 personalized emails / month
- Everything in Max
- Multiple campaigns in parallel
- Advanced targeting filters
- Early access to new features
Student on a tight budget? Start free — your first campaign is on us.
The professor who says yes is one email away
Start reaching out today. Your first campaign — matched, written, and sent from your Gmail — is free.