How it works

ScoutFox runs one loop, continuously, per user. Every surface in the product is a view onto the same pipeline.

The loop

1. 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.
2. Interests — each focus area is an interest: a standing (or event) scout for one slice. See Interests.
3. Tags — optional free-form labels on interests; the home page can group or filter by them. See Tags.
4. Scouts — every interest carries typed signals the scout knows how to hunt: funding rounds forming, founder moves, story leads, regulatory filings.
5. Runs — on a schedule, the scout executes: gathers candidates, verifies them against primary sources, and scores them against your brief.
6. Dispatches — verified findings are filed as dispatches — the unit of value.
7. The Wire — every dispatch lands on the Wire, a single chronological feed. Filter by interest, time-sensitive flag, or full-text.

The surfaces

ScoutFox has a small surface area on purpose.

You land on the Interests list post-sign-in, not the Wire. The home is your standing setup; the Wire is the live feed off it.

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.