Software that works whether or not you're logged in.
Scout isn't a chatbot waiting for a prompt. It's an agentic workspace that runs continuously against your Brief — nothing to host, nothing to connect — and everything it learns stays in one Project your team can pick up and direct.
You describe the decision you are trying to make. Scout takes it from there: selecting companies out of 14M+ records, investigating them one at a time, verifying who owns them where the public record allows, and comparing what it finds against your Brief. It works inside a pace, a cap on how many investigations run at once, and a spending boundary you set, and it does not wait to be asked what to do next.
Write the Brief once.
A guided conversation produces an editable Brief. Nothing runs until you have read it, because the Brief is what every later decision is measured against.
- The thesis
- Sectors and exclusions, geography, size, and the ownership and succession characteristics you are actually looking for.
- The disqualifiers
- What ends an investigation early, so a wrong company stops costing you time before it starts.
- The boundaries
- Pace, how many runs happen at once, and what may be spent per day and per month.
It tells you what it's doing while it does it.
Within seconds of activation the Project names the work in progress: which companies are being screened, and against which part of your Brief. No queue depths and no job ids.
- Screening
- Companies are pulled from the substrate and measured against the Brief across 15 classes of source.
- Investigation
- Ownership, tenure, succession indicators, and business quality, gathered per company and written up in prose.
- A thin market tells you so
- A market with little inventory comes back as a real answer: how many candidates there were and why each was ruled out. Never an empty page, and never an invented company.
Read a conclusion with its working shown.
Every completed run leaves one durable Finding: qualified, disqualified, or inconclusive — the thing your team argues with.
- What was established
- With the source and date on every fact, so a claim can be checked.
- What is still uncertain
- Named explicitly, with what it would take to settle it.
- The receipt
- What the run charged and why, written so a person can read it.
15 classes of source behind every Finding.
- Accreditation records
- Mapping and location data
- Review and reputation data
- Industrial supplier directories
- Professional networks
- Company websites
- Owner contact resolution
- Federal statistical data
- State business registries
- Trade and professional licensing
- County assessor and parcel records
- Federal payroll and loan filings
- Motor-carrier registrations
- Federal facility registries
- Canadian business registries
How teams put it to work.
A single searcher covering three sectors runs three Projects, each with its own Brief, its own budget, and its own Findings.
Point Scout at a geography you suspect is thin. A screening result with candidate counts and disqualification reasons costs a fraction of finding out over six weeks of calls.
Name it and Scout investigates it against your Brief, whether or not it was already in the substrate.
Export, Clay, Instantly, signed webhooks, or the REST and MCP interfaces — the same Projects, runs, Findings, and credits a person sees in the browser.
Questions about the work.
An agent that does finished research you can check, on a mandate you set, and hands the results to wherever you already work. You give it a Project and a Brief; it investigates companies, writes down what it found, and returns conclusions you can argue with.
Yes. A Project can be a market or a single named company. If the company is not already in the substrate it gets added from what you tell us, then investigated like any other.
A system failure is never billable. Neither is a retry we caused, a cancellation, or a run that produces no Finding.
Start with one market.
Write a Brief, activate Scout, and read the first Findings before you decide anything.
500 credits for 14 days. Card required. The plan you pick begins on day 15; cancel before then and you are not billed.