AI cold email for students

Skip the applications.
Email the person who hires.

Sesame finds the person in charge, reads up on them, and writes a cold email worth sending, straight from your own mailbox.

Students have landed roles at

  • Commonwealth Bank
  • Macquarie
  • Atlassian
  • Canva
  • Deloitte
  • BHP

The problem

Why the application form isn't working

The graduate pipeline is built to filter you out at speed. Going direct is the only reliable way around it.

Your CV is screened by software

Applications are ranked and cut automatically before a person reads them. A strong candidate with the wrong keywords never reaches the desk that matters.

The best roles are never posted

Teams hire from inbound interest and referrals long before a listing goes up. If you only apply to what you can see, you're competing for what's left.

You find out too late

Deadlines land months before you'd think to look, and rejections arrive without a reason. By the time the cycle closes, there's nothing to act on.

See it work

Watch a real email get built

From a company name to a researched, personalised draft — the whole loop, unedited.

Sesame

Success stories

Students who broke through

I sent 30 personalised emails in one afternoon. Got 12 replies and 4 interviews. Landed my summer internship at a top consulting firm.
James R. · Economics, UNSW · McKinsey & Co.
Cold emailing felt impossible before this. The AI actually writes emails that sound like me — not a robot. My reply rate went from 2% to 28%.
Sarah L. · Computer Science, Melbourne · Google

How it works

Three steps, and you own every one of them

01

Find the person

Name a company, or describe the kind of team you want in a sentence. Sesame searches, surfaces the people who actually own the hiring, and reveals a work address for the one you pick — not a scrape of everyone there.

02

Get a draft, not a template

Each draft is built from what Sesame found about that person and their team, then written out in full. It opens in an editor, because the last read before it sends should be yours.

03

Send from your own mailbox

Connect Gmail or Outlook and the email goes out from your address, in a thread you can reply in. Opens and replies come back into Sesame, and anyone who answers stops receiving follow-ups.

Features

What you actually get

Search in plain English

Describe the role and the sort of place you want it at. Sesame turns that into a search and comes back with named people at real companies, not a list of firms to work through yourself.

Contacts, revealed one at a time

You pick the person, then spend 5 credits only when Sesame reveals an address. No buying a list of two hundred to write to four of them.

Drafts you can edit

Every draft lands in a normal editor with the research it was written from. Change the tone, cut a paragraph, rewrite the opener. Nothing sends until you send it.

Replies in one place

Sent mail and replies thread back into Sesame against the lead they belong to, so a week of outreach is one screen instead of a search through your inbox.

Follow-ups with predictable cost

Most replies come from the second email. Sesame reserves 1 credit for each follow-up, cancels it when someone replies, and refunds unused reservations before delivery.

Opens and replies, tracked

See what was opened and what came back. It's the signal that tells you which companies to keep working and which list to stop rewriting.

Pricing

Allowances by the week, because that's how applying goes

Start with a one-time 7-day, 50-credit trial — no card required. Paid plans carry weekly credits, outbound-message and reveal limits that reset every Monday UTC without rollover.

Starter

A$33.99per month

For a focused search: find the right people and work a shortlist properly.

  • 150 credits a week
  • 75 campaign messages a week
  • 30 successful reveals a week
  • Follow-ups reserve 1 credit and 1 message each
  • Send from your own Gmail or Outlook
Start free

Pro

Most Popular
A$67.99per month

For a term of applications — one target list, worked properly.

  • 300 credits a week
  • 150 campaign messages a week
  • 60 successful reveals a week
  • Follow-ups reserve 1 credit and 1 message each
  • Send from your own Gmail or Outlook
Start free

Max

A$99.99per month

For running a full cycle: more companies, more sends, same week.

  • 450 credits a week
  • 225 campaign messages a week
  • 90 successful reveals a week
  • Follow-ups reserve 1 credit and 1 message each
  • Send from your own Gmail or Outlook
Start free

Team

Let's talk

For a careers office or a society wrapping a whole cohort in one coordinated push — outreach that runs itself while you run the room.

  • A shared workspace for the whole committee
  • Finite credits, messages, and reveals sized to your cohort
  • Coordinated sends across every applicant
  • Reserved follow-ups included in the quoted allowance
  • Set up together with a real human
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What a credit buys

New company search results5 credits
Successful email reveal5 credits
Company enrichment5 credits
Initial AI draft, reply draft, or regeneration5 credits
Immediate or scheduled initial send2 credits
Whole-email rewrite2 credits
Reserved follow-up1 credit
Selection rewrite1 credit

Cached and zero-result searches cost zero. Follow-up credits are reserved before the initial send and refunded if the follow-up is canceled before delivery.

Careers office or a student society? Email me and we'll work out what a cohort needs.

Deliverability

Built so your mailbox survives

Cold email fails when it burns the sender. Every send runs through the same safety path — no way to opt out of it, including by accident.

Gradual warm-up

New mailboxes start at 8 sends a day and step up weekly — to 15, 30, 50, then 100 — only while your bounce and complaint rates stay clean.

Encrypted mailbox access

You connect Gmail or Outlook over OAuth — we never hold your password. Tokens are sealed with AES-256-GCM and your data sits behind row-level isolation.

Automatic circuit breaker

If complaints or bounces cross a safe threshold, sending pauses itself before the damage compounds. It resumes on its own once the signals age out.

Pre-send screening

Every draft is screened before it leaves, ahead of any credit being charged. Anything that reads as deceptive or unsafe is held rather than sent.

One-click unsubscribe

Standards-compliant List-Unsubscribe headers on every message, so recipients opt out in one click instead of reaching for the spam button.

Suppression that sticks

Unsubscribes, bounces and complaints are recorded per account and enforced on every future send. Once someone opts out, they stay out.

FAQ

Common questions

Is this spam?

No. Each email goes from your own mailbox to one person you chose, and every message carries a working one-click unsubscribe. Sending starts at 8 a day and only steps up while your bounce and complaint rates stay clean — the limit isn't optional, and there's no setting that turns it off.

Do I need connections to use this?

No, and that's the point. Sesame finds the person and their work address for you. A company name is enough to start; a sentence about the kind of team you want works too.

What does a credit buy?

A delivered company search, successful email reveal, company enrichment, or AI draft costs 5 credits. An initial send or whole-email rewrite costs 2. A reserved follow-up or selection rewrite costs 1. Cached and zero-result searches are free, and failed operations are refunded when no usable result was delivered. Paid allowances reset every Monday UTC and do not roll over.

Will they know it was written by AI?

You're the last edit before anything sends. Drafts are built from real detail about the person and their team rather than a template with the company name swapped in, but they open in an editor for a reason — read it, cut what doesn't sound like you, then send.

Which mailbox can I connect?

Gmail or Outlook, over OAuth. We never see your password. Tokens are encrypted at rest, and you can disconnect the account whenever you want.

Stop applying into the void. Start conversations that matter.

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