# Institution Outreach Email Templates

Short Outreach Copy For Recruiting An Initiating Host

On most planets, a good idea is implemented when someone has it. On yours, it requires a formal letter to a person who will not read it. These are the formal letters. Copy, paste, send. The templates below are designed to get a conversation started inside an institution without triggering the immune response that kills novel ideas on contact.

## Cold Email: Short Version

**Subject options**

1.  Would \[Institution\] host a 90-day pilot to stress-test a plan for ending war and disease?
2.  A small job with a large denominator
3.  Proposal: host the first [Earth Optimization Prize](https://manual.warondisease.org/knowledge/strategy/earth-optimization-prize.html)^([1](../references.llms.md#ref-earth-optimization-prize-paper-2025)) pilot

**Email**

Hi \[Name\],

I built a public coordination system called the [Earth Optimization Prize](https://manual.warondisease.org/knowledge/strategy/earth-optimization-prize.html). It is an open contest, scoreboard, and referral mechanism for discovering better plans for redirecting humanity’s resources from destruction to medicine. Most of the software already exists publicly through [Optimitron](https://optomitron.com) and its [open-source repository](https://github.com/mikepsinn/optomitron).

There is nothing here for \[Institution\] to endorse. There is a first-host slot: a 90-day pilot that publishes the contest rules, convenes a review panel, funds red-team bounties, and launches the first public scoreboard. Would \[Institution\] take it?

The host starts the process. The host does not own it. The whole thing is designed to be forked and replaced by anyone who finds something better.

If this is worth a conversation, I can send a one-page brief and a 90-day pilot proposal, or do a short call.

Best, \[Name\]

## Longer Version (Use If You Need Context)

Hi \[Name\],

The [destructive economy](https://manual.warondisease.org/knowledge/economics/gdp-trajectories.html)^([2](../references.llms.md#ref-gdp-trajectories-paper-2025)) (military spending, cybercrime, related extraction) is [11.5%](../../knowledge/appendix/parameters-and-calculations.llms.md#sec-global_destructive_economy_pct_gdp) of GDP and growing faster than the productive economy. The modeled upside of changing course is [\$518,879 (90% CI: \$221,703-\$860,930)](../../knowledge/appendix/parameters-and-calculations.llms.md#sec-treaty_trajectory_lifetime_income_gain_per_capita) to [\$36.4 million (90% CI: \$13.5 million-\$97 million)](../../knowledge/appendix/parameters-and-calculations.llms.md#sec-wishonia_trajectory_lifetime_income_gain_per_capita) in lifetime income per person. The bottleneck is not ideas. It is the absence of any public process that can compare plans, test them, and make support countable.

I built one. It is called the [Earth Optimization Prize](https://manual.warondisease.org/knowledge/strategy/earth-optimization-prize.html): a public contest with a scoreboard, red-team bounties, and a referral mechanism. Most of the software is already live ([Optimitron](https://optomitron.com), [open source](https://github.com/mikepsinn/optomitron)).

Would \[Institution\] host a 90-day pilot? Publish the rules, convene a panel, fund red-team bounties, launch the scoreboard, admit the first submissions. Not endorsing the plan. Hosting the process that finds out whether the plan survives contact with critics.

I can send a one-page brief, the [initiating-host memo](../../knowledge/strategy/initiating-node-memo.llms.md), or the [90-day pilot proposal](../../knowledge/grant-proposal/earth-optimization-prize-90-day-pilot.llms.md).

Best, \[Name\]

## Warm Introduction Version

Hi \[Name\],

\[Mutual contact\] suggested I reach out. I built a public contest for discovering better plans to redirect resources from destruction to medicine. Live at [Optimitron](https://optomitron.com), [open source](https://github.com/mikepsinn/optomitron).

Would \[Institution\] host a 90-day pilot? Publish the contest, convene the panel, fund red-team bounties, launch the scoreboard. You start the process. You do not own it.

Short brief or quick call, your pick.

Best, \[Name\]

## Follow-Up

Hi \[Name\],

Following up. The short version: the software is already built, the job is a bounded 90-day pilot, the host starts the process but does not own it.

Two shortest background docs:

- [Why Host This](../../knowledge/strategy/initiating-node-memo.llms.md)
- [90-Day Pilot Proposal](../../knowledge/grant-proposal/earth-optimization-prize-90-day-pilot.llms.md)

Best, \[Name\]

## Attachments (In Order)

1.  [The Initiating Node Memo](../../knowledge/strategy/initiating-node-memo.llms.md)
2.  [Earth Optimization Prize 90-Day Pilot](../../knowledge/grant-proposal/earth-optimization-prize-90-day-pilot.llms.md)
3.  [The Earth Optimization Prize](https://manual.warondisease.org/knowledge/strategy/earth-optimization-prize.html)

## What You Are Hoping For

The first call produces one of three things: a request for the pilot package, a forward to someone who can say yes, or a no with specific reasons you can use to improve the next attempt. All three are useful. The only bad outcome is silence, which is why you follow up. Silence is the sound of a human choosing not to decide, which on your planet is the most popular decision.

1\.

Sinn, M. P. *The Earth Optimization Prize*. <https://manual.warondisease.org/knowledge/strategy/earth-optimization-prize.html> (2025) doi:[10.5281/zenodo.19076597](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19076597)

*Reward humanity for raising healthy life years and median income within 15 years. PRIZE keeps depositors on the failure branch, VOTE rewards recruiters on the success branch, and Earth Optimization Protocol v1 is only the current instruction manual for trying to win.*

2\.

Sinn, M. P. *Choose Your Own Earth: A World Without the Political Dysfunction Tax, or Terminal Parasitic Load in 15 Years*. <https://manual.warondisease.org/knowledge/economics/gdp-trajectories.html> (2025) doi:[10.5281/zenodo.19076850](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19076850)

*Your destructive economy (military spending plus cybercrime) is already 11.5% of GDP and growing faster than your productive economy. At current rates, it reaches the Soviet collapse threshold in 8 years and exceeds productive output in 15. This paper models two GDP trajectories: the optimized path under military-to-medical reallocation, and the default path to civilizational collapse.*