i used to spend 1-2 hours every day cold mailing for internships. now it takes me 15 minutes.
Before i started my masters for internships my old workflow: open linkedin, find someone, guess their email, tweak a mail for their company, attach resume, send, log in a sheet. repeat. 1-2 hours a day, easy. now i scroll linkedin, send names + company to a whatsapp ai i set up, and it does the rest.
Figures out the email format from the company domain, drafts the mail with my master template, attaches my resume, sends, logs it in a tracker sheet. also tracks who replied and pings me to follow up.
i just forward profiles in between classes now. 2 replies in the first week, more than i got in a month of doing it the manual way. if you're a student grinding summer apps, set up something like this. genuinely the one thing i've stuck with.