Asking Scout the right questions
Scout, your AI assistant, reads your live, scored permits. Ask the right way and you get a permit table you can act on, not a paragraph.
Scout, your AI assistant, is connected to your scored permits, your pipeline, and your contacts. It is not a general chatbot. Ask it work questions and it answers with live permit tables, ranked shortlists, and drafted emails.
- 1Lead with the job"Show roofing-heavy permits filed in Burnaby this week" returns a ranked table. "Any leads?" returns a paragraph. Name the trade, the place, and the time frame and Scout has everything it needs.
- 2Narrow by value or typeAdd a floor or ceiling ("over $1M", "SFR only" for single-family homes, "multifamily") and Scout filters the live permits on the spot. No menus.
- 3Work one area at a time"SFR permits in North Van, last 30 days" gets a ranked table for that area. Follow with "same for West Van" and compare the two lists. Scout remembers your filter, so the second question is four words.
- 4Chain your follow-upsScout remembers your last filter. Follow up with "now just the multifamily ones" or "draft an intro to the top three" without repeating everything.
Two places to ask
The Scout tab keeps your full chat history. The same assistant is also in a side panel on the map (reopen it from the green tab on the right edge). Tap the mic to talk instead of type, or use the suggested questions if you are not sure where to begin.
Let it write the email too
From any lead, Draft email opens Scout's email writer with six templates for where the deal is: first contact, booking a meeting, following up on a quote, project start, check-in, and thank-you. Give it a line of context ("mention we did their neighbour's re-roof") and it works that in. You read the draft and send it yourself. Every draft is saved on the lead's history.