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There's a niche for an email management company catering to this need for giving reliability to academic identities here, I reckon. The TAM is very big with the current economic shifts in academia.

Does anything already do it, or is it a market left on the table?

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There is https://orcid.org which is a persistent identifier for a researcher. It would be interesting if sending email to a researchers orcid handle resolved to their current institutional email address I guess?

My usual workflow is find the person on google scholar, find their uni/lab homepage, and hope they published their email there.

> The TAM is very big with the current economic shifts in academia.

How big is big?

Millions of higher ed employees in the world seeking immutable contact points for others to reach them across changes of institution. With the changes in student intake sizes as different regions respond to changes in birth rates, easily 50% of all professors are exposed to churn, so an established service could reach mid eight digits of ARR.

I have no idea if there is already a firm in this space doing this, though.

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