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Work, 06 of 06

Scout

Ten ecosystems watched. New companies found, researched against the fund's thesis, and ranked into one digest a week.

Agent. In production. Built for Coeus Collective Ventures. It runs on a schedule, not on a person.

Sources, watched
Accelerator cohort pageschanged
Venture lab rostersno change
Department announcementschanged
News mentions3 new
Ten ecosystems, on a schedule
Scout
Detecta page changed since the last run
Identifya company the fund has not seen
Researchfounders, stage, traction
Rankagainst the thesis
Unattended
Monday digest
Halden Robotics91, strong fit
Perihelion Bio84, worth a call
Casella Materials78, thin evidence
Two moreheld for a human
One email, 08:00

What it replaces.

Finding new companies by hand means opening every source, reading through it, and looking up anything promising, before a single company has been decided on. It takes hours out of every week, and it starts over on Monday.

0minutes a week, searching

Then again next Monday.

MonTueWedThuFri

Monitor, identify, brief.

Scout checks every source on a schedule, spots the companies it has not seen before, researches each one on the open web, and writes it up in the same format every time.

1. Monitor
Cohort pageschanged
Lab rostersno change
Announcementschanged
News mentions3 new
2. Identify
Mentions found5
Already seen3
New companyHalden Robotics
Possible duplicateheld
3. Brief
Founderstwo, robotics and logistics
Stagepre-seed
SignalsSBIR award, 3 roles open
Thesis fit91 of 100

One email a week.

All that monitoring becomes one quiet email on Monday morning: the new companies ranked against the current thesis, the source each one came from, and the ones held back for a human read.

ScoutNew companies worth a look, week 34
InboxNo unread
Scout08:00
New companies worth a look, week 34
4 new, 2 held for review.
Priya NatarajanFri
Re: Q3 pipeline review
Attaching the updated model.
ScoutAug 25
New companies worth a look, week 33
3 new, 1 held for review.
DocusignAug 22
Completed: Side letter, Fund II
All parties have signed.
No message selected
New companies worth a look.
Week 34. 41 pages changed, 6 researched, 4 promoted, 2 held.
01
Halden Robotics
Pick-and-place arms for mid-size logistics warehouses.
FoundersA robotics PhD and a logistics ops lead.SignalsThree roles open. SBIR Phase I award.
0strong fit
02
Perihelion Bio
Enzyme platform licensed out of a university lab.
StagePre-seed. IP licensed, not yet raised.
0worth a call
03
Casella Materials
Coatings for industrial equipment.
SignalsNone public. The brief says so.
0thin evidence

It keeps looking after everyone logs off.

Between runs Scout remembers what every source looked like, which companies it has already researched, and which names the fund has already met. Nothing is researched twice, and a run that dies halfway picks up where it stopped.

scout, unattendedSun 02:14
Sources 10 of 10Next digest Mon 08:00

How it's built

LanguagePython. httpx and selectolax for static sources, a headless browser for the JavaScript-rendered cohort pages, asyncio for concurrency.
ResearchAn LLM with web search: founders, stage, traction, funding signals, and the competitive set the company is stepping into.
MemorySQLite. Last-seen fingerprints, the canonical seen-set, and the research cache. A run killed halfway resumes without re-scraping or re-researching.
OutputAn HTML email: ranked companies, the source each one came from, and links to continue the research.