One good email beats a hundred applications.
Paste a company website and Footwork finds the people at it, then writes to each one in your own words. Ten minutes a night gets you further than a weekend of job board forms.
Free plan, no card, no trial clock · 3 emails a week, forever
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Everything the career center tells you to do, actually done.
Three things kill student outreach: you don't know who to write to, you freeze on what to say, and you never follow up. Footwork takes all three, and hands every one of them back to you before anything sends.
Skip the careers page. Find the humans.
Paste a company website and Footwork reads their own team page for the people on it, with whatever titles they publish. Founders at a ten person startup, the whole engineering page at a bigger one. You pick who is worth writing to. No list to buy, no CSV to upload.
- ✓Addresses come with how they were found, printed on the site or built from the pattern the team uses
- ✓A guessed address says so on the row and in the draft, before you send to it
- ✓Tick the alumni you recognise and they sort to the top of the list
- ✓Five companies a week on free, twenty on Pro, all added by you
An email that sounds like you, not like a template.
Fill in your profile once: how you write, the projects you would point at, what you are looking for. Every draft after that is built from it. You review them one at a time, and nothing leaves without a press.
- ✓Your voice set as rules the drafter follows: plain and dry, no exclamation marks, contractions
- ✓One opener per person, from the school link, their own work, or what just changed there
- ✓Checked before you send: length, whether the subject survives a phone screen, how many links
- ✓Send, edit, rewrite, or skip. Five drafts is a ten minute session.
Subject: Berkeley student: quick question about Lumen Labs
I saw you also went to Berkeley, class of ’14. That's mostly why I felt comfortable writing cold.
Last term I built a flight-delay predictor end to end, and that's the work I'd point you at first. Would you be open to fifteen minutes?, Alex Rivera · github.com/alexrivera
The follow-up you'd never get around to sending.
A nudge at three days, one more at seven, a last note at fourteen, then Footwork stops. Every nudge carries something the first email did not. Follow-ups are the Pro plan; on free you send the first email and read what comes back.
- ✓Three rungs, then it ends. You never have to remember to stop.
- ✓A reply cancels the rest of the ladder on its own
- ✓Change the days if three, seven and fourteen are not your pace
- ✓Replies are sorted and your answer is drafted for you, on every plan
Ten minutes to set up. First email the same night.
Fill in your profile
One project you would point at first, the skills behind it, and how you write. Ten minutes, and every draft after that is built from it.
Add somewhere you want to work
Paste a company website. Footwork reads their team page for the people on it and works out the addresses, telling you how sure it is about each one.
Review the drafts and send
One draft at a time, with the reason it was written and the checks it passed. Send, edit, or skip. Replies land back in your own inbox.
They stopped applying and started emailing.
Cheaper than one textbook.
The free plan is the whole loop at a smaller size, and it stays free. Pro is what turns a few good emails into a search. Cancel any time.
Free
- ✓3 emails a week, every week
- ✓5 companies a week, added by you
- ✓Find the people at any of them
- ✓Read every reply, with your answer drafted
- ✓A small "Sent with Footwork" line under what you send
Pro
- ✓40 emails a week, 20 companies
- ✓Nothing under your emails but your own name
- ✓Follow-ups at day 3, 7 and 14
- ✓Footwork picks companies for you
- ✓Reply rates, and which openings earn them
- ✓Templates of your own, and drafts saved for later
Fair questions.
Does it send from my real email?
Yes. You connect your Gmail or Outlook and everything sends from your own address, so replies land in your inbox and the thread looks completely normal. Footwork reads the replies to threads it started, so it can tell you who answered, and it labels those threads. It does not read the rest of your mailbox, and it never archives or deletes anything. You can disconnect any time.
Isn't this just spam?
No, and the shape of the product fights it. Three emails a week on free and forty on Pro, all of them waiting on you to press send. Two emails off the same template share a strategy and no sentences. Spam is five hundred identical emails. This is a handful of good ones.
Will it sound like a robot wrote it?
Your voice is set as constraints the drafter can act on: plain and dry, no exclamation marks, contractions, never open with a compliment, plus anything you want to add in your own words. Drafts come back in that register, and you can edit or rewrite any of them before sending.
Where do the email addresses come from?
Company websites, team pages, and public code. When an address is printed somewhere we can point at, the row says so. When it is built from the pattern the rest of the team uses, the row says that instead, and the draft repeats it before you send. A guess is never dressed up as a fact.
Does it tell me who opened my email?
No, deliberately. An open can only be measured with a tracking pixel, and Apple and Gmail now fetch those on delivery whether or not anyone read the message, so the number is wrong in both directions. Worse, a tracking pixel is itself a spam signal. Footwork records replies and elapsed silence, and both are facts.
What does the free plan actually give me?
The whole loop, every week, forever: add a company, find someone there, have an email written, send it from your own address, read the reply and have your answer drafted. What it does not give you is volume, follow-ups, analytics, or templates of your own, and it puts one quiet line under the emails you send.
I have no experience. Does this still work?
It works better, honestly. Footwork builds the email around a class project, a side project, or something you are curious about, which is exactly what small teams respond to. The people who benefit most are the ones with no network to lean on.
Stop filling in forms.
Write to a person instead.
Set up in ten minutes. Send your first email tonight.
Free plan, no card, no trial clock · 3 emails a week, forever