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title: "Referrals and outreach"
description: "Find people at a company for a referral or an intro, and get a short, personal note drafted for you. Claude sends it from your Gmail after you approve it, or gives you text to copy."
canonical_url: https://careermax.ai/docs/referrals-and-outreach
last_updated: 2026-10-20
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# Referrals and outreach

> For AI agents: this is the Markdown version of https://careermax.ai/docs/referrals-and-outreach. The index of every CareerMax docs page is at https://careermax.ai/llms.txt.

Find people at a company for a referral or an intro, and get a short, personal note drafted for you. Claude sends it from your Gmail after you approve it, or gives you text to copy.

New to CareerMax? [Add to Claude](https://careermax.ai/claude), then follow the [setup guide](https://careermax.ai/docs/set-up-claude.md).

## Ask for a referral after you apply

After an application is submitted, Claude offers once to find someone at the company who could refer you. If you say yes, CareerMax finds up to 10 people with work emails. It costs 1 credit, and nothing when nobody is found.

Claude picks the best one to three people and says why in a line each. People on the same team or in the same function come first, then the hiring manager's group, then a recruiter.

You can also ask at any time:

> Find someone at Ramp who could refer me

## Reach out to companies

There are two ways to find companies worth contacting.

- **Daily, in your brief.** Turn on daily outreach and your [job search brief](https://careermax.ai/docs/job-search-brief) adds 3 new companies a day, each with up to 10 people.
- **Whenever you ask.** For example:

  > Find growing fintech companies in New York worth reaching out to

  Claude agrees with you on what a good fit means, then researches with web search. It looks for recent, sourced signals, such as a funding round in the last six months, new leadership in your function, open roles near yours or a product launch. It shows 5 to 10 companies, each with its signal, a source and why you fit. You pick which to pursue. Finding people costs 1 credit per company, free when nobody is found, and Claude tells you the total before it starts.

## The note

Claude drafts a note you'd be comfortable sending:

- under 120 words, with a plain subject line such as "Referral for the Payments PM role"
- one concrete link between your real experience and the person's team
- an easy ask: a referral if they think you fit, or 15 minutes of their time
- signed with your name, and with the job link for referrals

No flattery and no filler. Claude shows you the recipient, subject and body before anything else happens.

## Sending it

- **Gmail connected to Claude:** Claude sends the note from your Gmail after you approve that exact message and recipient. If you want to edit it first, Claude saves a draft instead.
- **No Gmail:** Claude gives you the text and the email address to copy into your own email.

Nothing is sent without your approval of the specific message.