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What does Oportunly do?
Oportunly is an internship outreach platform for students. It helps you find people at your target companies, prepare personal messages from your CV, and follow up from your own accounts. You choose the search, review the drafts and decide when to start. Employers decide whether to reply or hire.
The product is currently available by invitation. Joining the waitlist is free and does not automatically grant access. You can use our free internship tracker and guides without a product account.
The outreach workflow
Find the people
Alumni, hiring managers and team leads at your target companies, mapped from LinkedIn.
Verify every email
A waterfall of checks ends in a live SMTP handshake. No verification, no email.
Write and send as you
Drafts built from your CV, sent from your own Gmail or Outlook and your own LinkedIn. You read every draft before the campaign starts.
Follow up politely
At most 30 emails and 20 LinkedIn messages a day per account, only in your working hours. One polite thread that stops the instant someone replies.
Adapt to your search
Change roles, cities or tone and the whole machine recalibrates.
Choose a target, not just a company name
Start with the work you want to learn, the locations you can consider and your availability. A company match is a starting point for research, not a confirmed vacancy or a promise that you meet an employer's requirements. For advertised roles, follow the official application process.
Recruiters, team leads and alumni can help with different questions. Our guide to finding the right person for internship outreach shows how to check the role and choose a relevant reason to write.
Review the draft before starting
A draft uses your CV and the contact context. Check the name, the company, each claim about your experience and the question you are asking. Edit anything you would not say yourself, and remove contacts you do not want to approach. The message should give the recipient one clear next step.
Hi [Name], I am a [degree] student exploring [team's area]. Your work on [verified project] caught my attention because I recently worked on [your relevant project]. What skill would you suggest I develop before applying to teams like yours?
This is an illustrative template, not a real message or a promised result.
What happens after you start?
Messages are scheduled through the accounts you connect, within the campaign settings and sending limits. You can pause a campaign. A reply or a request to stop ends follow-ups to that contact; you take over the conversation in your own inbox. Check actual replies and confirmed meetings rather than treating a sent message as progress toward an offer.
Oportunly assists with research, drafting and follow-up. It does not submit every employer's application form for you, act as a recruiter, or guarantee delivery, replies, interviews or a role.
What you keep
Every message goes out from your own address and your own LinkedIn, so replies land in your inbox and the relationships are yours. They outlast this search.
Do it yourself first
If you want to run this motion by hand before automating it, start with our full guide on how to get an internship through outreach, and steal the message structures from the cold email templates. Oportunly does the same steps for you, from your own inbox.