The Real Problem
You want to reach someone specific. A potential investor. A hiring manager at your dream company. A collaborator whose work you admire. A decision-maker who could change your career. But you don't know them. And cold outreach has a 1-2% response rate.
So what do you do? The painful, manual way:
- Spend hours searching LinkedIn, Twitter, Crunchbase for connection clues
- Try to manually map mutual connections and intermediaries
- Message loose connections asking for warm introductions
- Craft individual emails for each person in the chain
- Wait days or weeks for responses, then repeat when it fails
This is broken. It doesn't scale. It wastes weeks of your life. And the tragedy is: the connection path almost always exists -- you just can't see it.
What if, instead of searching for connections, you had an AI agent that actively worked to connect you to anyone through 6 degrees of separation?
What SixDegrees Actually Is
SixDegrees is not a search tool. It's an AI agent service that actively works to connect you to anyone through the six degrees of separation principle.
Step 1: Upload your CV and specify who you want to reach and why. Step 2: The agent researches your target, maps connection chains through intermediaries across all six degrees. Step 3: It drafts personalized outreach emails for each degree in the chain -- ready for you to review and send.
The agent doesn't just search. It thinks. It asks: "Who does my user know? Who do they know? What's the warmest path through six degrees? What shared context should each email reference? If Degree 2 doesn't respond, should we try a parallel path through Degree 3?"
How the Agent Works
1. You Upload Your CV and Define Your Target
Tell the agent who you are (your CV gives it context about your background, skills, and network), who you want to reach, and why. The "why" matters -- it shapes every email the agent writes.
2. The Agent Researches Your Target
Using public data, the agent builds a comprehensive profile of your target: their career history, interests, recent publications, talks, social media activity, and professional connections. This isn't a Google search -- it's structured intelligence gathering.
3. Mapping the Six-Degree Chain
This is the core innovation. The agent maps potential intermediaries between you and your target, identifying the shortest and warmest path. It considers shared alma maters, former colleagues, conference co-speakers, mutual investors, community memberships, and dozens of other connection signals.
4. Drafting Personalized Outreach for Each Degree
For each person in the chain, the agent drafts a personalized email that explains the connection context, makes a clear and respectful ask, and gives the intermediary a reason to help. Each email is different because each relationship is different.
A Concrete Example
Say you're a fintech engineer who wants to reach the CTO of Stripe.
The agent discovers:
- Degree 1: Your former colleague Sarah now works at a payments startup
- Degree 2: Sarah's co-founder Michael previously worked at Stripe
- Degree 3: Michael's former team lead Jennifer still reports to the CTO
The agent then drafts three emails:
- Email to Sarah: References your shared project at the previous company, mentions you're exploring payments infrastructure, asks if she'd connect you to Michael
- Email to Michael (via Sarah): Highlights your payments engineering background, references a blog post Michael wrote about API design, asks for an intro to Jennifer
- Email to Jennifer (via Michael): Mentions specific technical challenges you've solved that align with Stripe's roadmap, asks if she'd pass along a brief intro to the CTO
That's the difference between cold outreach and SixDegrees. Instead of one generic email with a 1% chance, you get a warm chain with context at every link.
Pricing: Credit-Based Service
SixDegrees charges credits, not monthly fees. The agent works for you, and each campaign costs credits.
Each campaign uses roughly 3 credits (target research + chain mapping + email drafting). So:
- Starter Pack: 3-4 campaigns. Perfect for testing.
- Growth Pack: 15-20 campaigns. For serious outreach.
- Pro Pack: 60+ campaigns. Run in parallel.
- Unlimited: As many as you want for 30 days.
Why This Works
1. Six Degrees Is Real Science
Stanley Milgram proved it in 1967. Duncan Watts confirmed it with email in 2003. Facebook's data science team found the average degree of separation on their platform is 3.57. The paths exist. You just need an agent smart enough to find them.
2. Warm Beats Cold, Every Time
A warm introduction has a 30-50% response rate. Cold outreach gets 1-2%. SixDegrees turns every cold contact into a warm chain. The math speaks for itself.
3. Personalization at Scale
Can't run 50 outreach campaigns manually? Buy the Growth Pack. The agent runs them in parallel, each one with a unique chain and tailored emails for every intermediary.
4. AI-First, Not AI-Bolted
This isn't a CRM with an AI button. The agent IS the product. It thinks, researches, maps, writes, and adapts. That's fundamentally different from a search database with a chatbot on top.
The Architecture
- Frontend: Intake form (upload CV, specify target, explain motivation) + dashboard (track campaigns, credit usage)
- Backend: Cloudflare Workers + D1 database + Claude API
- AI Agent Pipeline: 3-step process per campaign:
- Step 1: Research the target person deeply (1 credit)
- Step 2: Map the six-degree chain through intermediaries (1 credit)
- Step 3: Draft personalized outreach emails for each degree (1 credit)
What's Next for SixDegrees
Already Built (Live Now)
- Bilingual intake form (EN + 中文)
- AI agent that researches targets, maps six-degree chains, and drafts emails for each degree
- Credit tracking dashboard
- Campaign detail view showing agent work logs
- Gumroad payment integration
Coming Soon
- One-click send: Integration with Gmail API or SMTP relay so you can send the drafted emails directly from SixDegrees
- Response tracking: Email open rates, reply tracking, and conversation history for each degree in the chain
- LinkedIn integration: Real mutual connection data for even more accurate chain mapping
- Adaptive re-routing: If an intermediary at Degree 2 doesn't respond, the agent automatically finds an alternative path
- Success-based pricing: Pay only when your target actually replies or agrees to a meeting
Why SixDegrees Matters
1. Democratizing Access
The biggest career opportunities go to people with the best networks. That's not meritocracy -- it's luck of birth and geography. SixDegrees gives everyone an AI-powered network navigator, regardless of where they started.
2. AI Agent as Service
This isn't a tool with AI features bolted on. The agent IS the product. It thinks, researches, writes, and adapts. You're not buying software -- you're hiring an AI networking specialist.
3. Honest Pricing
You don't pay $99/month hoping the agent helps. You pay $5-99 for actual agent work. More credits = more research, more chains mapped, more emails drafted. That's transparent.
4. Ethical by Design
We use only public data + user-provided information. No scraping private profiles. No privacy violations. Every email is drafted for the user to review and send themselves -- the agent never sends anything without explicit approval.
— Proxima Auto Philosophy
Try SixDegrees
Start with a Single Strategy ($3, 1 credit) to see what the AI agent can do. Then scale up with credit packs.
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