🌟 Kairos

Kairos is your AI-powered platform that supercharges internship outreach.
We automate connecting with Alumni, booking more calls, and saving you hundreds of hours — so you can focus on landing your dream internship faster.


🚀 Inspiration

We have faced — and BEAT — the brutal CS Internship Market.

After:

  • Countless hours writing emails ✉️
  • Extensive research 📚
  • Numerous meetings 🤝

We finally received 10+ internship offers as 1st-year students.
BUT — it took WAYYY TOO LONG.

We want to help save ambitious people like us time and energy!


🔥 What It Does

Automates email outreach to Alumni to book more calls and spend less time landing internships!

Key features:

  • Keyword Alumni Search
  • Automatic Email Outreach
  • Agent Replies & Generative AI Calendar Invites

🛠️ How We Built It

Our process ensures an amazing outreach experience:

  • Data Sources: We pull alumni data from LinkedIn, YC X25, and enrich it with Hunter.io.
  • Architecture: Built using a microservices approach:
    • Node.js hosts our JavaScript jobs.
    • FastAPI powers our Python jobs.
  • Backend: An Express.js server handles:
    • Automatic emails
    • Smart agent replies
    • Generative AI email templates
    • Calendar integrations

Everything flows smoothly into a unified, powerful backend!


⚡ Challenges We Ran Into

We originally planned to source all of our data from one API.
However, trial and error taught us that:

  • Multiple sources were crucial for proper data enrichment.
  • Missing emails and incomplete information needed to be filled in creatively.

🏆 Accomplishments We're Proud Of

  • Built a real project that we would actually use.
  • Created a platform with a mission we believe in:
    Connecting to Alumni is fulfilling and can be a huge career booster!
    (Come to UCSB Linkd!)

📚 What We Learned

  • Working with many APIs/integrations can be complex — it’s better to start simple and focus on the essentials.
  • Good sleep is VERY important — seriously. 😴
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