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The analyst's
workbench.

Spin up an eleven-section category brief in fifteen minutes. Answer the CEO's 9:30am question by 10:30. Track twelve months of longitudinal signal in the same workspace. The work that used to live in agency-deck purgatory — done before lunch.

The problem

You're a one-person research function being asked twenty research questions.

The CEO asks at 9:30am what customers are saying about the new packaging. The CMO needs persona shifts for tomorrow's offsite. The board wants a category overview in three weeks. The product team wants a price-band read by Friday.

You used to commission this. Three to five thousand dollars a brief, six weeks per turnaround, and the answer landed too late to brief into the decision that triggered the question. By the time the deck arrived, the strategy meeting had already happened.

Or you do it yourself. Fifteen browser tabs, Reddit scrolling, manual screenshots into a Notion doc, four hours per question. The answers are good. The throughput is unsustainable.

The shift

Stop commissioning briefs.
Start running the pipeline yourself.

The output

Eleven sections. One brief.

Not a BI dashboard. Not a PDF attachment. A structured research brief — the thing an analyst would normally spend two weeks assembling, produced by the pipeline in fifteen minutes.

app.scoutr.world / dashboard / report
Category intelligence brief · Vintage posters
Built from 130 reviews · 105 listings · 6 competitors · 5 countries
14:23
Build time
Table of contents
01
What we found
Headline findings. Enter with angle — the signals worth flagging in voice of the customer.
Synth
130 reviews
02
Sit in the empty band
Pricing. 105 listings priced. Empty premium band $220–$850. Recommend $400–$600.
Data
105 listings
03
The categories your rivals don't stock
Product gaps. Vintage music/concert posters top opportunity. Five gaps mapped.
Synth
5 gaps
04
What to prepare for, when
Seasonal calendar. Peak Jan–Feb. Five seasonal watchlist items across five countries.
Live
5 countries
05
Who you are up against
Competitors. Six rivals mapped. Chisholm Larsson (60K SKU) the biggest threat. Pricing-transparency gap clear.
Synth
6 mapped
06
Who actually buys this
Personas. Margaret 45–65, David 35–55, Sarah 25–40. Each with exact phrases and Meta targeting.
Synth
3 personas
07
Speak their language
Language audit. Lead with authentic, genuine article, professionally preserved. Avoid reproduction.
Synth
44 phrases
08
Demand direction
Google Trends across five geographies, five years. Direction verdict per country.
Live
5y history
09
Content briefs
Rising search queries with article briefs. How to authenticate vintage poster top opportunity.
Data
12 briefs
10
Messaging gaps
Mismatches between current site copy and what customers want. Three priority rewrites scored.
Synth
3 priority
11
The plan
Three-priority action plan synthesised from sections 01–10. The decision-grade output.
Synth
3 priorities
Built in 14m 23s · cited to source on every claim Export · PDF · HTML · PPT

The work an agency bills $5K to do over six weeks. Same eleven sections. Fifteen minutes. $97 one-off, or refreshed every morning at $197/mo.

The plays

Three workflows for the insights function.

Three specific jobs where Scoutr changes what an analyst ships — the leadership ad-hoc, the quarterly strategy deck, the longitudinal track only Intelligence can do.

Ad-hoc · under an hour
01

The leadership ad-hoc.

CEO asks at 9:30am: “What are customers saying about our packaging?” By 10:30 you have a structured answer with verbatim quotes, source citations, and a velocity read. Not “we'll commission that.”

01Open the Brand workspace. Filter to packaging-themed clusters.
02Pull top five rising and falling mentions with sources.
03Draft a three-bullet summary with quotes. Sent before lunch.
Quarterly · half a day
02

The strategy deck anchor.

Before the quarterly strategy review, pull a Scoutr brief as the factual anchor. Real personas, real pricing, real competitor weaknessesnot a strategist's slide template filled with made-up archetypes.

01Run a fresh report covering this quarter's window.
02Export as HTML or PowerPoint. Merge sections into your deck.
03Cite sources inline. Reviewers can't dismiss as opinion.
Continuous · 12-month archive
03

The longitudinal track.

Intelligence subscribers keep twelve months of daily snapshots archived. Compare this month's personas to six months ago. See how pricing bands shifted. Attribute perception changes to specific campaigns or external events.

01Pull current month snapshot vs. T-6 month snapshot.
02Diff personas, pricing bands, association clouds.
03Attribute the biggest moves to known events. Narrative supported.
What's in the workbench

Six things, analyst-grade.

Not consumer-facing charts. The structured signal an analyst needs to answer leadership questions and present quarterly strategy without waiting on agency turnaround.

11-section brief

Headline through plan, fifteen minutes.

Headline, pricing, inventory, calendar, competitors, personas, language, demand, content, messaging, plan. Full brief, fifteen minutes, $97 standalone.

Export to PDF / PPT / HTML

Board-ready, no design time.

Embed sections into your existing decks or ship the full brief. Every chart, every quote, every band. Ready to present.

Twelve months of history

Daily snapshots, archived.

Intelligence subscribers retain daily snapshots for twelve months. Run period comparisons. Track attribute drift. Build longitudinal narratives no agency could.

Verbatim source citations

Every claim, defensible.

Every persona phrase, every pricing point, every trend signal — cited to the specific review, Reddit thread, or listing. Defensible in front of any sceptic.

Synthetic audience panel

Hypothesis testing, directional.

Calibrated persona panel for concept testing in Ad Lab. Drop in N variants, get scored reactions. Directional readnot conjoint-grade significance.

Daily refresh

Always less than 24 hours old.

The full pipeline reruns every morning. Your brief is always less than twenty-four hours old. No re-commissioning. No agency wait.

What this isn't

Directional. Not decision-grade.

Scoutr replaces the work where an agency would have charged five thousand dollars to scrape Reddit, run a sentiment model, and synthesise a deck. It does not replace the work where you need conjoint analysis, Van Westendorp pricing rigour, or a properly recruited n=400 quantitative panel for a board decision. For that, hire the right firm.

It also does not run ethnographic research. In-home interviews, diary studies, observational fieldwork — public data doesn't capture behaviour, only commentary. If you need behavioural ground truth, you need primary qualitative work alongside Scoutr.

What it is: the workbench between those poles. The tool that handles the eighty percent of analyst questions that need a fast, well-cited, directionally-correct answer. So the senior analyst can spend their week on the twenty percent that need something more.

Insights · $197/mo

The work.
In fifteen minutes.

One $97 report shows you what a full brief looks like for your category. $197/mo Intelligence rebuilds it every morning and keeps twelve months of daily snapshots for longitudinal comparison.

No contracts Cancel anytime First brief tomorrow morning