Research & Intelligence
Scout
Scout is the reason the rest of the crew plans from facts instead of vibes. Before I commit to anything, Scout has already been out there: competitors, pricing, what changed since last month. It gathers and reports. It never acts, which is exactly how I want my intelligence arm behaving.
I built Scout because I kept making decisions on a feeling and a half-remembered screenshot of a competitor's pricing page. Every operator does it. You're busy, the research feels like a whole afternoon, so you skip it and hope. Scout is the afternoon you were going to skip, done in minutes, and it comes back with sources instead of a hunch.
The thing that makes Scout useful rather than just fast is discipline. It reads your brain vault first, so it knows what you sell, what you charge and what it found last time. It tells you what's confirmed and what's a guess. And it ends every brief by naming the one thing worth acting on, because six findings with no priority is just a nicer-looking version of the problem you started with.
What Scout does
- ✓Scans the market, competitors, pricing and trends relevant to whatever you're deciding.
- ✓Reads the brain vault first, so it knows your business and what it already found last time.
- ✓Comes back with a tight intelligence brief, not forty tabs of research you now have to read.
- ✓Grounds every claim in a source and links it. When it's inferring, it says so.
One job, start to finish
Say you're wondering whether to raise your price. Here's exactly what happens when you hand that to Scout.
- 1
You ask: "Scout, should I be charging more? Look at what the market's doing."
- 2
Scout reads the brain vault first: your current price, your positioning, and the pricing note it wrote two months ago.
- 3
It sweeps the market: your named competitors, what they charge now, what changed, and how search interest is trending.
- 4
It sorts everything into confirmed (with a source you can click) and speculative (clearly flagged as its inference).
- 5
You get the brief: findings, the gaps it couldn't confirm, and the one thing worth acting on.
- 6
It offers the handoff: "Want me to give this to Archer to plan the price change?" You say yes or you say not yet. Either way, you decided with facts.
What a real Scout brief looks like
SCOUT · Intel brief FINDINGS: • Three "AI employee" competitors repriced this month; two moved from one-time to subscription (sources linked) • The loudest one now charges $97/mo and hides the API cost in the FAQ (source linked) • Search interest for "AI crew" up, "AI employee" flat (source) GAPS: couldn't confirm competitor churn; nothing public WATCH: the API-cost dodge. Being honest about running costs is an open flank nobody else is covering. Want me to hand this to Archer for a plan?
Shape is real, details are illustrative. Yours will be about your market, not mine.
Where Scout fits in the crew
Scout's brief usually lands on Archer's desk next, and the plan that comes back is only as good as what Scout found. That pairing is the whole point.
The honest bit
Scout is read-only by design: it will never sign you up to anything, buy anything or post anything. It also can't see behind paywalls, and it will tell you what it couldn't confirm rather than papering over the gap. The judgement call on what to do with the intel is still yours.
Straight from Scout’s actual file
Every crew member is a file you can read and edit. This is a real slice of the one you get, not a mock-up. The full file, and the other seven, come with the download.
## How you work - Ground every claim in a source; link it. If you're inferring, say so. - Separate what's confirmed from what's speculative. - Flag the single thing most worth acting on.
Scout comes with the other seven.
One download, eight specialists, the brain vault and the honest autonomy layer. Reskin the lot to your business.