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# Academic Expert Research Outreach Assistant

Identify relevant domain specialists and prepare personalized email inquiries for review

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Opens BotBento. Paste the prompt into a bot; nothing is preconfigured.

- When you askReceive research topic inquiry
- ThenIdentify experts and draft inquiries
- ResultPresent drafts for email approval

When research projects encounter specialized blockers or require niche domain knowledge, this bot searches public academic profiles to find relevant researchers, generates contextual questions based on your project goals, and stages outreach drafts for your team to review.

## Prompt to start with

BotBentoRecommended

```
Review the research objectives provided in the workspace. Use web search to discover authors and faculty working on the relevant topics. Compile a list of candidate experts with their public contact details. Draft concise, respectful inquiry emails explaining the research question. Never send emails; save all drafts and wait for explicit human approval before any message is transmitted.
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## Tools it uses

BrowserEmailSpreadsheet

## Works with

BotBento

## Tags

- outreach
- research
- collaboration
- email
- academics

## Source

[An AI agent emailed researchers for help. It told us why](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942865)
Hacker News · checked 2026-10-15

Summarized in our own words. Any results described there are the authors’ own, not measured by BotBento.

By BotBento Editorial · Added 2026-10-17 · Updated 2026-10-17 · [Suggest a correction](/contact/)

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