Hypatia

Inspiration

Emailing sucks a lot. From begging for sponsorships while organizing events, to asking for research opportunities at labs, cold emails are a crucial part of life (and your identity).

So from my experiences (as someone who's cold emailled a TON) here's the three things that suck most about emailling:

Finding the right people (a lot of gruntwork) -> usually felt like a waste of time
The dread of sending emails (fear of rejection makes it scary to cold-email on mass) -> I hate the process of emailling
Picking up on leads fast (60% of all inbound is gotten by replying to the sender in 2 minutes) -> if you're not there, theres a good chance you won't get what you want.

What it does

Hypatia (not the math contest) aims to solve all of this. We built a gmail-native app that automates the full cold-email process, so you get your desired internship/sponsorship money/research position easily. Our system learns from and with you, picking up on your mannerisms, who you prefer to contact, and your preferred templating.

We use 10+ agents through our different modular systems:

Email templates are generated through a multi-agent debate network, consisting of two rounds.
People found are gotten through 4 agents that extract, and eventually call a DSL query on Aviato.
Previous emails are gotten through 5 sub-agents that learn user writing styles, call-to-action, and people contacted.

Just describe:

Who you want to contact
What your preferred call-to-action is
A description of stuff you've done that's relevant to the email

We automate the rest.

How we built it

Amplitude to track events -> learning from user actions
LangGraph -> More sophisticated managing of leads, templates, and email-sequencing
Canva -> Graphed out all of my LLM management
Openrouter -> Gemeni API
Groq -> Fast API calls
Aviato for People database -> preform search queries on 800m people
Google Extension -> gmail-native
Google API -> email monitoring and sending
Supabase -> all data storage
FastApi -> Backend