Set up your newsroom
A few minutes from sign-in to scoop-shaped dispatches on the Wire.
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. Watch the Wire
Your beats run on a schedule. Scoop-shaped dispatches arrive on the Wire ranked by editorial fit + how under-covered they are. High-confidence, primary-source-verified, rival-uncovered scoops can get an instant push to external channels once that quality bar is consistently met; until then, every external channel is digest-only. The Wire itself is always real-time.
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 continuously refreshed Wire of dispatches — 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.