Set up your newsroom
A few minutes from sign-in to scoop-shaped Daily Briefs and follow-up threads.
Setup is three inputs about your beat. Everything ScoutFox surfaces is shaped by them.
1. Name your beats
The areas you cover — markets, India tech, climate policy, crypto infrastructure, enterprise AI, whatever your desk owns. Beats are free-form: name as many as you like.
Each beat becomes a live interest — a standing scout for one stream of stories.
2. Write your editorial angle
A paragraph, in plain language. What you cover, what you don't, the angle and voice that differentiate your desk from a wire service.
This text is the lens — every scoop-shaped dispatch is scored against it. "Markets + regulatory angle, India-first, no celebrity-CEO fluff" produces a very different Wire from a generic "markets" subscription.
3. Add the rival outlets you track
The desks you don't want to be scooped by. ScoutFox checks every story candidate against their public coverage. The scoop-shaped dispatch flags which rivals have covered it — and, more importantly, which haven't.
4. Read the Daily Brief
Your beats run on a schedule. Scoop-shaped dispatches arrive on the Daily Brief ranked by editorial fit + how under-covered they are. The Wire remains available when an editor wants to scan the live feed, but the brief is the default morning output.
Reply explain, save, ignore, send, or dig deeper. Corrections like
"less rewrite coverage, more regulatory primary sources" update the watch
memory for future briefs.
The instant-push gate (when active) is intentionally strict: high confidence + at least 2 rival outlets uncovered + primary source verified. Web-Intel fetch flakes don't count as "uncovered" — the gate refuses to page an editor on bad data.
What you get
A focused Daily Brief of scoop-shaped signals — each one a single development on your beats, with the primary source, who else has covered it (and who hasn't), and an editorial angle. Read the scoop-shaped dispatch anatomy next.