For trade contractors and building-supplier reps alike: Scout does the prospecting, the drafting, the tracking, and the reminding. The only thing left on your plate is the part you are actually good at, the work and the handshake.
The best lead is the one your competitors haven’t seen yet. Scout reads the permit feed so you never have to.
Every building permit pulled in your territory, read daily and matched to what you sell, labor or materials. Powered by BuildMapper.
Every permit ranked 0-100 against your trade or product line, radius, job size, and timing window. Hot ones surface, noise stays buried.
Top 3 leads in one text before you are on site, ranked with reasons. Slow days get flagged honestly, never padded.
A builder you know pulls a permit and Scout texts you within minutes, not at tomorrow’s brief.
Ask what’s near you, or drop a pin, and Scout searches by distance, not city lines. It can plan your stops and hand you a Google Maps link with the route loaded.
Ask about any builder and Scout pulls their permit history, active projects, and what it knows about your past work together.
Scout does the writing and the scheduling. Every message goes out from your phone, in your voice, with your name on it.
SMS and email versions of the pitch, written in your voice with the specifics that matter. You approve, you send.
Tap the link and your own phone opens with the message pre-filled, addressed to the builder. Send from your number, not a robot’s.
CC Scout on the pitch email. It sees the thread, catches the builder’s reply, and lines up the follow-up at the right moment.
Calls and site visits land on your Google Calendar, with a prep brief texted 30 minutes before you dial.
With BuildMapper linked, describe the job and Scout builds a branded quote with online acceptance. Contracts with digital signing too.
Not closing? Scout spots where your funnel leaks, asks the right question, and will even role-play the builder call with you.
No tabs, no dashboards to remember to check. The same thread that sends your morning brief takes your voice notes, reads your quote PDFs, and books your calls.
Everything you would scribble on a coffee cup lid, remembered, filed, and followed up on.
New, pitched, in convo, quoted, won, lost. Say the word and the lead moves. Tap a link to see the whole board.
Word-of-mouth job? Tell Scout and it goes in the pipeline like any permit lead, tracked, reminded, and synced.
Site photos, business cards, competitor quotes. Send a picture and Scout knows what it is looking at and acts on it.
Talk instead of typing. Scout transcribes, logs the update, moves the lead, sets the reminder. Perfect for the drive between sites.
PDFs, spreadsheets, contracts. Scout reads them, ties them to the job, and flags clauses worth a second look.
Every win and loss teaches Scout what a good job looks like for you specifically. Scoring gets sharper every week.
Permits are public. Your relationships aren’t. That’s your unfair advantage, and Scout works it.
The builders, GCs and developers you have worked with, cross-referenced against every new permit. Your list, your edge.
Invite the trades you work alongside. When one wins a job, every connected trade gets a warm path in.
Paste a list, type names, or share a contact card straight into the chat. No CSV wrangling required.
Nobody sees your builder list. Warm intros are anonymized until both sides say yes. Your relationships stay yours.
No new app to learn. No password to forget. And you always hold the send button.
Scout meets you on the channel you already use. Same brain, same memory, either thread.
Want screens? Link BuildMapper: the live map, your pipeline board, and every project file, on web and mobile.
Two-way link with your BuildMapper account. Tell one, the other knows, usually within seconds.
Pause anytime, STOP always works, and Scout never contacts a builder or client directly. You send everything.
Setup takes five texts. The first brief lands tomorrow at 7:30.