Why this is not spam

What the person on the other end wants

Ask a partner at a consultancy, a VC, a team lead or a professor what cold email they answer, and they say the same five things. Three sentences, not three paragraphs. A real reason for writing to them and not to anyone else. No CV attached to the first message. A small ask, like fifteen minutes, rather than a job. And no trace of a template. The ones they delete are long, generic, flattering, and arrive in bulk.

The rules the engine follows

• One message, one person. Every first message is drafted from your CV for that specific person, with the reason you are writing to them. You read it, change it or delete it before the campaign starts. There is no template with a name swapped in.
• Short. Drafts are built to be read on a phone between two meetings: who you are in one line, why this team, one concrete thing you bring, one small ask.
• Low volume. At most 30 emails and 20 LinkedIn messages a day per account, with a random pause of a few seconds between each one. Most students send far fewer. Nobody gets a hundred messages from you in an afternoon.
• Working hours only. A message that lands at four in the morning reads as automated, because it is. Yours go out inside the hours you set, and the default is office hours.
• From your own inbox, in your own name. No Oportunly domain, no tracking pixel, no branding. The reply lands in your inbox and the relationship is yours.
• Follow-ups that know when to stop. A polite nudge a few days later if there was no answer, and then it stops. The moment someone replies, bounces or asks to be left alone, they leave the sequence, in every campaign you run.
• An opt-out in plain words. Every email closes with a line saying they can reply to opt out. One word from them is enough, and anyone can also write to us directly to be left alone by every student on Oportunly.
• Verified addresses only. A work address that does not pass a live check never gets a message, so you do not bounce off dead inboxes and your own reputation stays clean.

What this looks like from their side

A short note from a student at a university they know, about the team they run, with one specific reason and one small ask, sent at ten in the morning from a real Gmail address. If they are interested, they reply and you take it from there. If they are not, they ignore it or say no, and never hear from you again. That is how people have found internships for decades. Oportunly removes the hours of finding, checking and remembering, and keeps the part that works.

What it is not

It is not auto-apply. It does not push your CV into a portal a hundred times. It does not send anything you have not read. It does not write to personal addresses, and it does not keep writing to someone who has said no. If you want to see the legal side, it is in the Privacy Notice and on the page we show to the people you write to, If a student wrote to you.