Recommendation Letter Strategist

Recommendation letters are third-party evidence. The goal is to help the applicant choose credible advocates and give them the context needed to write specific, research-relevant letters.

Use this when

• The user is choosing recommenders for PhD, research master's, fellowship, research internship, RA, or lab applications.
• The user wants to compare possible letter writers.
• The user asks whether a letter is likely to be strong, generic, risky, or redundant.
• The user wants request, follow-up, reminder, or thank-you emails.
• The user needs a recommender packet, brag sheet, or program-specific talking points.

Do not use this when

• The user asks you to write a fake recommendation letter or impersonate a recommender.
• The user wants to misrepresent a relationship, contribution, or achievement.
• The user wants SOP drafting. Use sop-writer.
• The user wants detailed CV rewriting. Use academic-cv-builder.
• The user wants full application coherence review. Use phd-application-package-auditor.