Feature · Orty Scout

Orty Scout — find clients worth your time.

Every outreach tool starts with a lead you're supposed to already have. Scout starts one step earlier: you tell it what you sell and who you want to reach, and it hands you a plan for finding them.

It's deliberately not a lead database. Scout produces a Search Strategy — the best places to look, platform-specific hunting recipes, copy-paste queries, filters, and the signals that make a prospect worth contacting. Names only enter Orty when you capture one yourself.

The question Scout answers

“I need clients. Where do I find them, how do I know which ones are worth pursuing, and what should I look for?” That question comes before rating, before emailing, before the CRM. Scout is built around it.

Define the target fast — pick what you sell, type who you want to reach, and optionally add niche, size, location, or platform. No long form.
Get a strategy, not a wall of advice — the best platforms for your specific service and ideal client, each with why to search there, what prospects to look for, what signals matter, and what to type.
Copy, search, done — every query has one-click Copy and Search, so a strategy becomes an action in seconds.
Know what to watch for — opportunity signals (“why this lead?”) and negative signals so you eliminate bad fits instead of collecting them.

Platform-specific hunting recipes

Scout doesn't hand everyone the same generic platform list. It ranks surfaces for your target and writes a recipe for each one: search phrases, filters (audience size, activity, company size), the kinds of prospects to target, the signals of a good opportunity, the service you could sell, and an outreach angle.

Recipes cover YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Google (with real search operators), Reddit, X, and communities, directories, and job boards — selected for where your ideal clients actually gather.

Capture first, qualify fast

Found someone? Paste a URL, a profile, or a copied search result and Scout gives a fast preliminary 0–100 Opportunity Score — Fit, Need Signal, Budget Potential, Activity, and Outreach Opportunity — with a plain-English why and what's still unknown.

That score is a triage layer, not a replacement for Orty's full Client Opportunity Report. One click sends the prospect into the full analysis; another adds them to your CRM.

Why Scout never fabricates leads

Lead databases invite a specific failure: hundreds of names you never asked for, scraped together and often wrong. Scout takes the opposite position — it tells you where to look and what to look for, and leaves the finding to you until a real data source can be plugged in responsibly.

Everything Scout produces is labelled Search Strategy. It does not invent companies, creators, handles, emails, URLs, follower counts, funding, or job posts. When a real external source is used, the source is shown and facts are separated from inference.

Specs at a glance

Orty Scout — quick facts
	Detail
Output	Search Strategy — places, recipes, queries, filters, signals
Platforms	YouTube · Instagram · TikTok · LinkedIn · Google · Reddit · X · communities
Triage	Preliminary 0–100 score with Fit / Need / Budget / Activity / Outreach
Handoff	Capture → full Orty analysis → outreach → CRM
Saved profiles	Reusable ideal-client profiles
Tier	Free

Frequently asked questions

Is Orty Scout a lead database like Apollo?

No — and that's the point. Scout doesn't sell you a giant contact database or run expensive continuous scraping. It's a hunting assistant: it tells you where your ideal clients gather, what to search, and which signals make a prospect worth your time. You stay in control and nothing gets scraped or auto-messaged.

Does Scout find actual prospects for me?

Today, Scout produces search strategies — places, queries, filters, and signals — not named prospects. That's deliberate: trust matters more than looking clever, so Scout never invents companies, handles, or metrics. Future releases can plug in real data sources without changing how you use it.

What do the scores mean?

When you capture a prospect, Scout gives a fast preliminary opportunity score out of 100 with a breakdown (Fit, Need Signal, Budget Potential, Activity, Outreach Opportunity) and a plain-English why. It's a triage layer to decide what's worth a deeper look — run the full Orty analysis for the qualified Client Opportunity Report.

Do I need an API key?

Scout runs on Groq. On the web app Orty provides a server key, so it works out of the box; if you bring your own Groq key, Scout uses it. With no key at all, Scout falls back to its built-in strategy engine so you still get a usable strategy.