GradScout

GradScoutFunding helps Master's and PhD applicants skip the scholarship lottery by going directly to the people who actually control funding decisions: individual professors. Instead of competing with thousands of applicants for a handful of scholarship spots, users search for professors in their exact field and country, filtered to those actively publishing and likely taking students, then get a personalized cold email drafted for them, grounded in that professor's real recent research, not a generic template with the name swapped in. Key features: professor search by field, country, and institution type; verified email discovery; AI-generated outreach emails referencing the professor's actual published work; a review-and-send flow so users stay in control of every email sent (nothing goes out automatically); CSV/Excel export; and one-time credit packs that never expire, no subscription required. What makes it different: most tools either help you find professors or help you write emails, not both. GradScoutFunding does the research and the writing in one flow, so applicants can realistically reach the volume of professors (20-30+) that actually correlates with funded outcomes, instead of stalling out after 5-10 manually-written emails. Try it free: the first 2 credits (one professor match, one generated email) require no card, so you can see real output before paying anything.