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A new VC analyst goes from sign-up to Daily Brief to first follow-up.

Meet Maya. She's an analyst at a seed-stage fund focused on Indian defense and dual-use tech. She's tired of finding out about rounds from LinkedIn the morning after they close. A colleague sends her a ScoutFox invite.

This is what her first day looks like.

1. Sign-up and onboarding

Maya signs in with Google. Onboarding is a short conversation, not a form — ScoutFox asks what she watches, why, and who she serves.

Sign-in screen. Google button, short tagline, no marketing chrome.

She answers three questions: what space she covers (Indian defense + dual-use), her fund's thesis paragraph, and the funds she races to deals.

Onboarding step — focus areas, thesis paragraph, competitor funds input.

Next, ScoutFox asks how she wants to be reached. She picks Telegram and email; WhatsApp stays off for now.

Delivery channels step — Telegram, WhatsApp, and Email options with toggles.

A quick recap of her brief and channels, and she lands in the app.

2. Interests list and first prompt

Maya lands on her Interests list at /dashboard. The focus areas from onboarding are already there as standing interests — none have run yet, so the dispatch feed at /dashboard/wire is still empty.

Interests list home with the onboarding-seeded interests, List | By tag toggle visible, cmd+k bar at the bottom.

She opens cmd+k and types her own: "early-stage Indian drone startups raising seed."

cmd+k palette open mid-typing, with a free-text prompt and suggested slash-commands underneath.

ScoutFox spins this into an interest under her brief, schedules it, and sends her back to the Interests list — the new row sits at the top.

3. First Daily Brief arrives

A couple of hours later Scout sends the first Daily Brief. It contains three things worth attention, with what changed, why it matters, sources, and one next action. If Maya wants to scan the raw feed, the Wire has the same dispatches.

Wire with one dispatch card at the top — kicker, headline, why-it-matters, sources.

The card is dense. Top to bottom: a kicker (the interest), the headline (what happened), why it matters to her brief, primary sources, and the actions — Brief me, Ask scout, Save.

Same dispatch card, annotated with callouts for kicker, headline, why-it-matters, sources, actions.

4. Brief me · PDF

Maya clicks Brief me. A PDF opens in a new tab — one page, no fluff, written for someone who already knows her thesis.

Single-page dispatch PDF — headline, sources, why-it-matters, suggested next step.

5. Ask scout

She wants to dig further. Ask scout opens a Scout thread, scoped to this dispatch. If she had replied in WhatsApp with dig deeper, the long answer would have landed in the same kind of app thread. She asks: "who else has the same founders touched before?" The scout streams an answer with citations.

Notebook view — dispatch pinned at top, scout reply streaming with inline citations.

She follows up: "any common investors across those?" The thread continues.

Notebook follow-up turn — second question, second answer, growing thread.

6. Organize with tags

Maya wants to group the defense-flavoured interests together. She opens the drone interest, clicks Edit, and on the Basics tab adds tags defense, india. Save.

Interest edit page, Basics tab — name, query, and a tags input with defense and india chips entered.

She could have done the same in one shot from cmd+k — /tag defense india with the interest in focus — but she likes the visual confirmation.

Back on the Interests list she flips the view toggle to By tag (/dashboard?view=by-tag). The drone interest now appears under both defense and india; uncovered interests fall into Untagged at the bottom. Clicking a tag chip also filters the flat list down to that tag, with a removable filter chip above the results.

Interests list in By tag view — interests grouped under defense and india headers, Untagged bucket at the bottom.

7. Daily digest

Next morning Maya gets the Daily Brief again by email/WhatsApp and sees the same edition in the app.

Sidebar with a Latest Brief item dated today, unread indicator.

She opens it and the Daily Brief loads — last 24 hours of signals, grouped by interest, with a one-line "what to do" under each. Reply verbs let her explain, save, ignore, send, or dig deeper without hunting through a dashboard.

What just happened

Maya wrote a brief once. ScoutFox turned a prompt into an interest, she labelled it with tags, the scout ran against it, filed dispatches, sent a Daily Brief, let her continue in a Scout thread, and used replies to sharpen future filtering. That's the loop: brief → interests → Daily Brief → reply → memory. Every screen above is a step in that loop.

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