Mastering Coldraft
Follow these essential steps to maximize your chances of securing a research position. Our system works best when you provide precise, high-context inputs.
Complete Profile & Upload Resume
Fill your name, degree, university, and portfolio links. Upload a PDF/DOCX resume or paste a public URL. The system extracts your technical background to weight search results and draft emails. Missing this step guarantees generic outputs.
Paste Faculty Directory URL Only
Do not use the main university homepage. Paste the exact page listing professors (usually /faculty, /people, or /departments). The scraper starts here to find individual profile links. Pasting the wrong URL returns zero results.
Define Interests & Projects
Enter specific research areas and a short project description. These feed directly into the matching algorithm. Vague terms like 'machine learning' get diluted. Use exact topics like 'graph neural networks for drug discovery'.
Review Ranked Matches & Drafts
Results sort by relevance score (0-100). Each entry shows why it matched, a research snippet, and a pre-written cold email. Higher scores mean stronger overlap between your resume/project and the professor's published work.
Verify Contact Info Before Sending
Extracted emails are scraped from static HTML and often outdated. Always open the linked faculty profile, find the official current email, verify it, then send the draft. Never bulk send without verification.
Pro-Tip for Research Enthusiasts
Faculty members receive hundreds of emails. Use the generated drafts as a strong foundation, and add one personal sentence about a specific paper they wrote to instantly stand out from the noise.