Scout Agent
Conducts competitive analysis and market research.
What it does
Scout scans your market and surfaces opportunities — unmet needs, emerging trends, and gaps competitors have left open. It turns a fuzzy "where should we look?" into concrete, evidence-grounded leads to investigate.
When to use it
Start here at the very beginning of discovery, when you have a problem space but not yet a sharp problem. Run Scout to map the territory before you commit to a direction.
Finding the wedge in a crowded market
A founder exploring a new vertical
The situation. The team wants to enter project-management software — famously crowded — and has no idea where an opening might be.
What they do
- 1They run Scout with the focus set to “PM tools for agencies.”
- 2Scout surfaces opportunity cards: underserved billing workflows, weak client-facing views, no good retainer tracking.
- 3The team picks retainer tracking as the sharpest gap and sends it to Research for a deeper look.
The result. Instead of building a generic clone, they start from a specific, under-served need — a defensible wedge, grounded in what the market is actually missing.
What it can do
- Competitive analysis
- Market research
- Trend identification
- Benchmark analysis
What you give it
When you run this agent you can tune it with these settings (sensible defaults are provided):
What you get back
- opportunity cards highlighting gaps and openings
Every output lands on your canvas as a node you can edit, connect, and trace back to its source.
Examples
- Analyze competitors
- Research market trends
- Benchmark features
Lesson: start wide, then narrow
- What it is
- Scout is deliberately broad — it maps opportunities rather than picking one. It’s the first step, not the answer.
- Why it matters
- Committing to a direction too early is how teams end up solving a problem nobody has. A wide scan first means the direction you eventually pick is chosen against real alternatives.
Use Scout to generate options, then hand the best one to Research or Synthesis to go deep.
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Definition Agent
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Empathy Map Agent
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