CiphonCohort I
Founding ·26
The first sixto buildCiphon.
Founding
Ambassador
Cohort
- Size
- 6 students
- Format
- Remote
- Duration
- 8 weeks
- Cost
- Free
- Apps close
- May 15, 11:59pm CDT
Six students. Built alongside the founders for eight weeks.
About Ciphon
A faster way for students to reach the people doing the research they care about.
Ciphon finds research professors by topic, surfaces what they actually work on, and helps you write cold emails that reference their real papers. Students use it to land research positions, internships, and mentorship. We launched it because the cold-email-to-professor process is broken for everyone involved.
See the product → ciphonai.comWhat you'll do.
Post weekly.
Two posts a week on your own socials about Ciphon. Your voice, your platforms, your style.
Show up.
A 30-minute cohort call every week. Same time, same six people.
Commit fully.
Eight weeks. ~2–3 hours weekly. We're a small enough cohort that one missing person is felt.
What you'll get.
The Founding Ambassador title.
Six people will ever hold it. Yours is permanent.
Weekly mentorship from the founders.
Direct, regular, real. Not a Slack channel and a Notion page.
Full access to Ciphon.
Full access to all the features.
Hands-on growth training.
Content marketing, audience-building, distribution. The skills that make every other thing you ever build easier to launch.
A personalized letter of recommendation.
Written by the founders, specific to what you actually did.
Contest prizes.
Contests throughout the cohort. The best work wins.
A real say in how a startup grows.
What you ship in the cohort shapes how Ciphon grows after it.
Who we’re looking for
This is for you if…
- You're a high school or college student.
- You already make content, or you've been wanting to start.
- You can commit to the full eight weeks.
Timeline
How the cohort runs.
Applications open
Applications close
Cohort 1 starts
May 1
May 15
11:59pm CDT
June 1
Cohort size
6 students
Format
Remote
Duration
8 weeks
Time / week
~2–3 hours
Cost
Free
Questions we get
Before you apply.
Opens May 1
Closes May 15, 11:59pm CDT
Ready tobuild?
Six spots. Eight weeks. We’d love to hear from you.