Connections
School-specific contact discovery and outreach drafting grounded in your narrative spine.
Connections is the engine's contact discovery and outreach layer: it helps you find the right alumni and current students for each of your target schools and drafts school-specific, spine-aligned outreach you can send from your own account.
Networking is the part of an MBA application that rewards candidates who are organized and punishes candidates who are not. Admit Architect treats it as another stage of the same orchestration loop.
How contacts show up
You bring the contacts. Two paths are supported: paste a LinkedIn URL or upload a CSV export of a list you already keep. The engine does not scrape and does not broker anonymous networking introductions. It is a tool for making the people you already have access to more useful, not a replacement for actually having a network.
Once a contact is in the system, the engine enriches what you know about them: school, graduation year, function, industry, and shared background with you where public info supports it.
Match reasoning
For each target school, the engine scores your contacts along multiple dimensions: shared school, shared employer, shared function, shared geography, shared community, and how well their career arc maps to your goals. The matches are shown with the reasoning behind them, so you can sanity-check before you spend a message on a lukewarm match.
A strong match is not the person with the most overlap. It is the person whose own path mirrors the specific next step you want to take. Ask Archer in a Mind session if you are unsure who to reach out to first.
Outreach drafting
When you open a contact, Archer can draft a personalized outreach message. The draft pulls from your narrative spine, cites specific things the contact has in common with you, and respects the short-message norms of professional outreach. Every draft is a proposal you review and edit before anything is sent. The engine never sends on your behalf.
How it fits in the engine
Connections are part of the Orchestrate stage. The engine reads your Dean Brief and Profile Memory to know what to emphasize in outreach, and the Deadlines surface to know how much networking time you actually have. It stays out of your way in a crunch week and leans in during a calm one.