Talent search for founders

Hire people at the top of their game — and open to a move.

Skip the stale keyword database. Describe the role in plain English and get a short list of people with real, recent proof of work — who are open to a move right now.

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No seat license · 115M-profile live index · Real emails sent from your own Gmail

The problem with sourcing

Everyone sells you scale. You need the opposite.

A bigger database doesn’t help when the people in it haven’t updated their profile in a year. Scout trades reach for relevance: fewer results, all of them real, recent, and reachable.

The old way
500
profiles that match a job title.
  • ▪ Most haven’t been touched in 12+ months.
  • ▪ No signal on who’s actually good.
  • ▪ No idea who’d even reply.
  • ▪ You do the reading. All 500 of it.
With Scout
8
people who matter — ranked, with the reason.
  • Each shipped real work this month.
  • Each open to a move today.
  • A personal first draft, written for you.
Why Scout is different

We rank on evidence, not keywords.

Three ideas do the work. Together they turn “who matches this title” into “who’s genuinely worth your next email.”

Proof of work, not keywords

We rank on what someone actually did — shipped code, owned a revenue number, launched real work — not whether their bio happens to contain the right buzzwords.

// evidence > adjectives

Intent-first, always

Every result leads with a live signal — shipped this week, actively looking, recently moved. You reach people who are open, not oblivious.

// reach the reachable

Verified fresh

Every profile carries a last-verified date. No 18-month-old title dressed up as current — what you see is true today, not last year.

// last verified: today

Sales leaders, marketers, designers, engineers, ops — the sharpest proof lives somewhere different for every role, and Scout knows where to look.

Live LinkedIn index115M profiles · every role
GitHub activityshipped recently
Hacker News“want to be hired”
SCOUT · RANKED
From shortlist to sent

Found them? Now actually reach them.

Scout drafts a personal first touch and follow-ups for each person — grounded in what they really did, not a mail-merge. Review, tweak, send. In one flow.

See a sample sequence
DAY 0 — first touchpersonalized
Maya — your Series-A growth playbook
Saw you took Ramp’s self-serve funnel from 2% to 6% — we’re at that exact inflection and hiring our first growth lead. Worth a reply? Happy to send the details in writing.
DAY 3 — follow-updrafted ahead
One more thing
No worries if the timing’s off — figured the 0→1 demand-gen problem might be the kind of thing you’d want to own end-to-end.
DAY 7 — easy outdrafted ahead
Last note
I’ll stop here — but if you’re ever open to a move, the door’s open. Either way, big fan of the Ramp work.
After you hit send

Scout watches for replies — and drafts the next move.

Outreach is only half the job. When someone answers, Scout reads the reply, tells you what it means, and drafts the response — pausing their sequence automatically.

mail.google.com9:41
Search mailT
Compose
Inbox 1StarredSentDrafts
1–3 of 3
Maya ReyesRe: Senior growth engineer — Lumen — Interested — when works for a quick call? Also curious whether this is a player-coach…9:41 AM
Daniel KohRe: Quick intro — Thanks for reaching out — let me think on timing and circle back next week…Jul 31
NetlifyDeploy succeeded — Your site lumen-careers is live. View the deploy log for details…Jul 30
LinkedInYou have 4 new invitations — See who wants to connect with you this week…Jul 30
Re: Senior growth engineer — LumenInboxInterested · wants a callsequence paused
TYou — “Saw your growth-loops write-up — we’re building exactly that at Lumen…”Jul 29
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Maya Reyes ‹maya@ramp.com›
to me ▾
9:41 AM
Interested — when works for a quick call? Also curious whether this is a player-coach role, or pure IC to start.
Scout is reading…
ReplyForward
Maya Reyes ‹maya@ramp.com›Scout is drafting…
Maya Reyes
Interested — when works for a quick call?…
now
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live profiles, across every role
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independent sourcing signals
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flow from search to sent
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