No blank pages
Open the system, and you already have a draft. The AI writes a short, human note for each person so you are never starting from a cursor.
Warm contacts first
The system ranks people by real ties—shared school, a past employer, a hometown—and leads with the ones most likely to reply.
You stay in control
Nothing auto-sends. You review every word, then copy, paste, and send from your own account. LinkedIn is never logged into or touched by a bot.
How it works
A toolkit you install once, then run like a daily habit. 1. Set up the system (about an hour). Paste the master prompt into the AI you already use—ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, or Grok Bot. Add your target roles, your background, and a list of people (LinkedIn’s official export works well). That’s the install. 2. Run it in 10 minutes a day. Ask for today’s three. You get three people, why each one was chosen, and a ready-to-send note or email. No staring at LinkedIn wondering who to message. 3. You send. The system remembers. Copy, paste, and send it yourself. Log a one-line outcome in the tracker. It flags thank-yous, 2-week touches, and 2-month check-ins, and drafts those too. Built on the Argus method: Target roles → Map the people → Start conversations → Convert to referrals.
Who it’s for
Students and new grads. You have a small network and no idea who to ask. The system helps you build a list—alumni, Handshake, event speakers, searches you can run yourself—and writes the first messages. Career changers. You need to meet people in a field where you don’t know anyone yet. It finds the bridges: people who made the same move, alumni, and folks from your old employers. Mid-career job seekers. You have hundreds of connections you haven’t talked to in years. It ranks them and writes the “it’s been a while” note so you don’t have to. Anyone who hates networking. If you’d rather do almost anything than write a cold message, this was built for you.
What’s inside
This is a product kit, plus short lessons that show you how to install and run it. • Master AI prompt. Paste it once into ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, or Grok Bot. That’s the engine: it picks people and drafts messages. • Networking tracker (Excel or Google Sheets). Follow-up dates calculate themselves. Overdue rows turn red. • Worked example. A full sample day, so you can see a run before you start your own. • Setup guide. Checklists for the first-hour install and the 10-minute daily routine. • 19 short lessons. Self-paced walkthroughs for install, daily use, follow-ups, and referrals. No live sessions required.
About Argus Academy
Argus Academy builds practical AI tools for people who are looking for work and don’t want networking to be a second job. Built by a former White House, Deloitte & Salesforce leader.
Curriculum
FAQ
Is this coaching? No. This is a self-serve system you set up and run yourself. The “coach” is the AI inside the prompt—not a person on a call. There is no required meeting. Will this get my LinkedIn banned? The system is designed to avoid the things that get accounts restricted. It never logs into LinkedIn, never sends anything there, and never scrapes profiles. Your data comes from LinkedIn’s official export and from pages you paste. You send every message by hand. One honest caveat: LinkedIn can still limit any account if lots of invitations go unanswered or get marked “I don’t know this person.” That’s why it suggests only a few well-matched, warm contacts a day. Does it send messages for me? No. Nothing goes out automatically. You copy, paste, and send from your own account. Where your AI app supports it, email can land in your Gmail or Outlook Drafts for you to approve. Do I need a paid AI subscription? No. The core system works on free ChatGPT by pasting text, and on Claude, Grok, and Grok Bot. Some extras, like drafts saved to your inbox, depend on what your app offers. There’s always a free fallback. I barely have any connections. Will this work? Yes. That’s common for students and career changers. The system writes searches you can run and points you to alumni directories, Handshake, and event lists. You paste in a handful of profiles, and it does the rest. How long does it take? About an hour to set up, once. Then about 10 minutes a day: read three drafts, send them, and log one line in the tracker. Will the messages sound like a robot? They’re short, specific, and built around a real shared tie. You can ask the AI to make any draft more casual, shorter, or more like you. You’re always the editor. Does it ask people for jobs? No. First messages ask for advice or a 15-minute conversation. A referral ask only comes after a real conversation, for a specific posting, and always with an easy out. What happens to my data? Your contacts stay in your own AI app and your own spreadsheet. Argus Academy never sees them. Turn off model training in your AI app’s settings, and paste only what the system needs (name, company, title). Is there a guarantee I’ll get a job? No one can honestly promise that. What this does is make it easy to have more, better conversations every week, which is how referrals happen.
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