Spend Less Time Hunting,
More Time Applying.
Finding the right research supervisor is one of the most consequential decisions in an academic career. Most applicants spend 10–20 hours combing through department pages — only to find dead links and inactive labs. We're building a better way.
“I have a master's in mechatronics engineering, and I lived this problem myself — weeks of opening tabs, guessing which professors were still active, and second-guessing every cold email. It was exhausting and demoralizing. I built Corresponda because if a tool had solved this for me, it would have changed how I applied. My hope is that it does exactly that for you.”
Why we built this
Corresponda reads five years of published research and hands you a shortlist: who is running a lab, whose group is growing, and how to reach them. AI ranks the candidates against your background and explains the fit — it never supplies the facts. Every name links to the papers behind it, and every result says what we checked and when.
It comes from a real frustration shared by applicants everywhere: days of opening browser tabs, only to email professors who'd moved institutions, retired, or stopped taking students. We're building the tool we wish we'd had.
The problems we set out to solve
Generic AI tools hallucinate. Ask a free chatbot for supervisors or an SOP and it invents professor names, dead emails, and facts about labs — then the document it writes is generic and needs heavy rewriting before it’s usable.
Corresponda checks every professor against their real published work, then uses AI to rank them for you and to write an SOP and cold email grounded in your actual CV and that specific professor — personal, not a template you have to fix.
Agencies charge a lot. A single custom SOP or cold-email package from an application consultant can cost more than a whole season of searching — and you still don’t control the process.
You get tailored SOPs and cold emails for a fraction of that price, on demand, for every professor you want to reach — with the shortlist to send them to.
Applicants lose track. Once you’re emailing dozens of professors, it’s easy to forget who you contacted, who needs a follow-up, who declined, and who invited you to interview.
A built-in outreach tracker keeps every professor in one board — from first email to follow-up to interview or decision — so nothing slips through the cracks.
The old way vs. Corresponda
The old way
- ✕Dozens of browser tabs, department by department
- ✕Emailing professors who’ve moved or retired
- ✕Rewriting a generic SOP for every application
- ✕Losing track of who you contacted and when
✓ With Corresponda
- A shortlist you can defend, in about a minute
- Only researchers who are publishing now
- SOPs & cold emails tailored from your CV
- An outreach tracker that remembers everything
Evidence behind every name
Names, institutions, papers and links come from the published research record, never generated. AI only judges how closely each professor's work fits yours — and every name links to the papers behind it, so you can check.
Degree-level intelligence
Every fit judgement knows whether you're applying for a PhD or a postdoc, and each result says how reachable the professor is likely to be — career stage, and whether they supervise students.
Structured output
Results come as a clean PDF you can act on — profile links, why each professor fits, recent papers and the routes to reach them, in one place.
Who is this for?
PhD applicants — a cold email is worth reading when the work behind it matches. Corresponda shortlists professors whose recent publications sit closest to your interests, with the papers behind every name, so your time goes into writing rather than hunting.
Postdoc applicants — the postdoc market runs on relationships, not job boards — a large share of positions are never formally advertised and are filled by reaching the right professor directly. Corresponda surfaces researchers whose groups are publishing and visibly growing, drafts a tailored cold email for each, and helps you track your outreach — turning a hidden market into a concrete, workable list.
Start with the people worth writing to.
Your first search is free — real supervisors for your field, read from published records, in about a minute. No credit card.