profFinder started from a simple, frustrating truth: the students who most deserve a reply are often the ones who don’t know who to email, how to say it, or whether it ever landed. We’re building the workspace that fixes all three.
Emailing a professor to ask about a PhD, a lab, or a first research role is one of the highest-leverage things a student can do — and one of the most intimidating. The advice is always the same: “find someone whose work fits, read their papers, and write a thoughtful, specific email.” Good advice. Almost impossible to do well across dozens of professors, in a second language, before a deadline.
So students fall back on Google scavenger hunts and templated emails that read like every other one in the professor’s inbox. The fit is guessed. The message is generic. The replies scatter across tabs and get forgotten.
profFinder exists to make the right version of that outreach achievable — discovery grounded in real research fit, drafts grounded in your actual profile, and every thread tracked in one place — while keeping you firmly in control of what gets sent.
A great email to the right professor beats fifty generic ones. We match on real research signals — topics, recent papers, your own profile — so every message has a reason to exist.
AI writes a first draft; you write the final word. Nothing is sent, and no email leaves your Gmail, without your explicit review and approval.
Your inbox is personal. Gmail access is encrypted, limited to the outreach features you ask for, never sold, and revocable in one click.
Not a CRM bolted onto academia. profFinder is shaped around how students actually find advisors, apply to labs, and follow up — from first email to reply.
“I built profFinder because I lived this problem. I want any student — wherever they’re from — to be able to send the one email that changes their path, and to send it well.”
Start free — discover, draft, and send your first outreach today.