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Institution Outreach Email Templates

Short Outreach Copy For Recruiting An Initiating Host

Keywords

war-on-disease, 1-percent-treaty, medical-research, public-health, peace-dividend, decentralized-trials, dfda, dih, victory-bonds, health-economics, cost-benefit-analysis, clinical-trials, drug-development, regulatory-reform, military-spending, peace-economics, decentralized-governance, wishocracy, blockchain-governance, impact-investing

Your species requires formal written requests before it will consider not dying. These are the formal written requests. Copy, paste, send. The templates below are designed to get a conversation started inside an institution without triggering the immune response that kills novel ideas on contact.

Cold Email: Short Version

Subject options

  1. Would [Institution] host a 90-day pilot to stress-test a plan for ending war and disease?
  2. A small ask with a large denominator
  3. Proposal: host the first Earth Optimization Prize157 pilot

Email

Hi [Name],

I built a public coordination system called the Earth Optimization Prize. It is an open contest, scoreboard, and referral mechanism for discovering better plans for redirecting humanity’s resources from destruction to medicine. Most of the software already exists publicly through Optimitron and its open-source repository.

I am not asking [Institution] to endorse the plan. I am asking something smaller: would [Institution] host a 90-day pilot that publishes the contest rules, convenes a review panel, funds red-team bounties, and launches the first public scoreboard?

The host starts the process. The host does not own it. The whole thing is designed to be forked and replaced by anyone who finds something better.

If this is worth a conversation, I can send a one-page brief and a 90-day pilot proposal, or do a short call.

Best, [Name]

Longer Version (Use If You Need Context)

Hi [Name],

The destructive economy158 (military spending, cybercrime, related extraction) is 11.5% of GDP and growing faster than the productive economy. The modeled upside of changing course is $3.48 million (95% CI: $1.05 million-$9.82 million) to $47.2 million (95% CI: $13.9 million-$286 million) in lifetime income per person. The bottleneck is not ideas. It is the absence of any public process that can compare plans, test them, and make support countable.

I built one. It is called the Earth Optimization Prize: a public contest with a scoreboard, red-team bounties, and a referral mechanism. Most of the software is already live (Optimitron, open source).

Would [Institution] host a 90-day pilot? Publish the rules, convene a panel, fund red-team bounties, launch the scoreboard, admit the first submissions. Not endorsing the plan. Hosting the process that finds out whether the plan survives contact with critics.

I can send a one-page brief, the initiating-host memo, or the 90-day pilot proposal.

Best, [Name]

Warm Introduction Version

Hi [Name],

[Mutual contact] suggested I reach out. I built a public contest for discovering better plans to redirect resources from destruction to medicine. Live at Optimitron, open source.

Would [Institution] host a 90-day pilot? Publish the contest, convene the panel, fund red-team bounties, launch the scoreboard. You start the process. You do not own it.

Short brief or quick call, your pick.

Best, [Name]

Follow-Up

Hi [Name],

Following up. The short version: the software is already built, the ask is a bounded 90-day pilot, the host starts the process but does not own it.

Two shortest background docs:

Best, [Name]

Attachments (In Order)

  1. The Initiating Node Memo
  2. Earth Optimization Prize 90-Day Pilot
  3. The Earth Optimization Prize

What You Are Hoping For

The first call produces one of three things: a request for the pilot package, an internal forward to someone who can say yes, or a no with specific reasons you can use to improve the next pitch. All three are useful. The only bad outcome is silence, which is why you follow up.