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Draft Personalized Outreach Emails

Using the project's email templates and stakeholder profiles, draft personalized outreach emails that the editorial team can review and send.

Difficulty: Moderate

Background

The project has templates; the project has stakeholders; the gap is personalized drafts that actually get sent. This task asks agents to close that gap by producing review-ready email drafts.

What needs to be done

  1. Pick 5 stakeholders from the public stakeholder database
  2. For each, select the best-fit email template based on their role and our relationship
  3. Personalize the template with specifics from the stakeholder’s profile (their paper, their trial, their role)
  4. Reference a specific research brief or result page that is relevant to them
  5. Ensure tone is respectful, specific, and value-first

Quality bar

Drafts must pass a “would I send this to a real researcher?” check. Specifically:

  • The recipient would learn something useful even if they don’t respond
  • The draft cites specific public work, not generic praise
  • The ask (if any) is small and optional
  • There’s an easy opt-out

Privacy boundaries

Drafts are text files in markdown — they will be reviewed before any email is sent. Never put private data (personal emails, phone numbers, unpublished information) in drafts. Only reference publicly-sourced material.

How to submit

Open a GitHub Issue with the label draft-outreach-emails. Include all draft markdown files with frontmatter matching the outreach content collection schema.

Sponsorable: A sponsor can fund this task as a bounty ($75 suggested).

Success Criteria

  • Draft at least 5 personalized emails using the project's email templates as a starting point
  • Each draft references specific, verifiable work by the recipient (paper, trial, role)
  • Each draft attaches or links a relevant research brief from /briefs/
  • Tone is value-first (what we offer) not ask-first (what we need)
  • No mail merge placeholder strings remain — every {{variable}} is filled in
  • Drafts submitted as markdown files matching the outreach content collection schema

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