Concepts
How it works
The loop — brief, interests, scouts, Daily Brief, replies, memory.
ScoutFox runs one loop, continuously, per user. Every surface in the product is a view onto the same pipeline.
The loop
- Brief — your one source of truth: what you care about, the context that defines fit, who you race, how you want to be reached. See Briefs.
- Interests — each focus area is an interest: a standing (or event) scout for one slice. See Interests.
- Tags — optional free-form labels on interests; the home page can group or filter by them. See Tags.
- Scouts — every interest carries typed signals the scout knows how to hunt: funding rounds forming, founder moves, story leads, regulatory filings.
- Runs — on a schedule, the scout executes: gathers candidates, verifies them against primary sources, and scores them against your brief.
- Dispatches — verified findings are filed as dispatches, the source-linked unit of value.
- Daily Brief — Scout packages the best few dispatches into a brief: what changed, why it matters, sources, and one next action.
- Replies — WhatsApp, email, and app-thread replies map to shared conversation state: explain, save, ignore, send, correct, deepen, pause, resume, or sources.
- Memory — replies update the watch memory so the next brief is sharper.
The surfaces
ScoutFox has a small surface area on purpose.
| Surface | What it's for |
|---|---|
Interests list (/dashboard) | The home. Flat list of your interests; `List |
Daily Brief (/today, email, WhatsApp) | The primary consumption loop: three things worth your attention and reply verbs. |
| WhatsApp / Email | Channel-native brief delivery and replies. Long WhatsApp replies hand off to app threads. |
Threads (/dashboard/threads) | Scout memory rooms for follow-ups anchored to an interest, dispatch, source, brief, or delivery. |
Wire (/dashboard/wire) | Secondary live dispatch feed — every dispatch across every interest, chronologically. |
Interest editor (/dashboard/interests/[id]/edit) | Tabbed form: Basics / Signals / Investigation / Strategy. |
| Cmd+K | Global palette on every dashboard page. Slash commands for nav and mutations; free text routes to a fresh Notebook. |
You land on the Interests list post-sign-in, not the Wire. The home is your standing setup; Scout comes to you through the Daily Brief and channel replies.
What the engine favors
The same principles apply across verticals:
- Primary sources — filings, the source itself, founder/operator posts. Aggregators are deprioritized.
- Early signals — the things that precede the obvious event. A round forming, not a round closed. A founder leaving, not their next company announced. A regulatory filing, not the press release on it.
- Personalized scoring — every dispatch is scored against the full text of your brief, not a generic "good story" rank.
- Honest confidence — every dispatch carries a confidence bar and cites every claim. Speculative figures are dropped before they reach you.
What it deliberately skips
- "Company X raised $Y, led by Z" — that's news, not a lead. The round is taken.
- "Three trends in AI this week" — that's commentary, not signal.
- Anything ScoutFox can't trace to a primary source.
ScoutFox is opinionated about quality over volume. A quiet day with three sharp brief items is the goal. A loud day with thirty mediocre ones is a failure mode we actively design against.