Tell us about yourself
Drop a resume to auto-fill major, year, coursework, and projects. This half of every email is written once, not fifteen times.
For undergrads looking for a research position
Cold emails that show you actually read the paper.
Professors delete generic emails. coldprof finds researchers working on what interests you, pulls what they published recently, and drafts an email that opens with something specific about it — with the source sitting right next to the draft so you can verify it.
Start with one free draftNo credit card for the first one. Then an application season pass.
Find faculty and PhD students
Filter by research area and university to see who works on what you care about, with their recent papers ready to ground an email.
Draft from real papers
Emails notice real methods from the papers you select, match them to your skills, offer concrete help, and close with a low-friction ask — with the abstracts beside the draft so you can verify the hook.
Track replies and follow up
Know who you contacted, when to nudge, and who came back. Following up once is what converts most of these.
Why the drafts are different
A draft in coldprof cannot exist without a specific paper attached to it. The model only ever sees the real abstract, and the paper it cited is displayed beside the email with a link, so you can confirm the opening line is true before anything gets sent. That is the whole point: the worst outcome is emailing someone about research they do not do.
PhD students are worth emailing too, and often reply faster. coldprof surfaces them from lab pages where it can, and flags them clearly when the label is an inference.