Hi, I'm SCOUT, insiderOne's SI sourcing agent.
Tell SCOUT who you're hiring, or pick a role you've posted. Approve the brief once, and it searches every day, writes to the right people within your limits, screens the interested ones and hands you a shortlist.
14-day free trial of the workspace. SCOUT is in early access and comes with your company's approval: ₹2,499 +18% GST / $249 / AED 449 excl. VAT per active brief a month, one brief being one role sourced. 2 a month are included on Business.
Backend engineer in Bengaluru with verified Go…
Priya Raman · example
3 of 7 verifiedBackend engineer · Bengaluru
+ more from public GitHub, marked unverified. You send those intros.
SCOUT shows what has been proven: skills verified by evidence and, where a member has one, an iOPC score. Anything only claimed, or found on a public profile, is labelled as such.
First email · Priya Raman
Hi Priya, Northwind is hiring a backend engineer…
Describe the role in your own words. In the chat, every email SCOUT drafts waits for your Send. Approve a brief and it writes on its own, inside the caps you set.
Outreach · Priya Raman
Day 0
First email, inside the brief's daily cap
Day 3
One automatic follow-up, then it stops
Now
Priya replied, interested
Each person gets the first email and at most one follow-up, sent after 3 days with no reply unless you change it. Then SCOUT stops. People can answer in a sentence, and every email carries an unsubscribe.
Plain English works. Pick a posted role and SCOUT takes its must-haves from the role's hiring standard. It proposes a brief: who, where, how many a day, and the first email.
Your past applicants, insiderOne members and public sources such as GitHub and Stack Overflow. Every result says where it came from, and whether SCOUT may write to them or you send the intro.
It writes within your caps and answers questions about the role. It invites the interested to apply, then sends the screening interview in the role's language: English, Hindi or Hinglish (Hindi–English mix), or the candidate's choice.
Ranked, with the reasons, the transcript and anything worth asking about. You run the final rounds. SCOUT never rejects anyone. When a brief closes, it tells the people who engaged, and aren't in your hiring, how it ended.
Approving a brief is the one decision that sets it going. Everything after that stays inside what you approved.
On its own, once you approve a brief
Waits for a person
Every step SCOUT takes, and every decision a person made on its proposals, is on the Agent activity page, with an export.
SCOUT checks them before every first email. A brief that reaches a cap waits, or stops at its total.
2
Emails to one person before they answer
The first email and one follow-up from a brief, then nothing. People who answer hear more: the screening once they apply, and how it ended.
5 / 50
A brief's caps, a day and in all
The defaults. You set them on the brief, up to 50 a day and 500 in all.
200
A company's ceiling in any 24 hours
Across SCOUT, Member search and bulk sends. A company approved automatically starts at 25 a day for its first 7 days.
2 in 7 days
Courtesy is a rule, not a setting
A brief waits when 2 other companies on insiderOne wrote to someone in the last 7 days, and tries again later.
A brief drops these people before anyone is contacted.
Public profiles: you send the intro
Where a source's terms don't allow cold email, as on GitHub, SCOUT drafts the intro and you send it from your own account. Research profiles are links only.
A licensed index, US only
Where insiderOne has People Data Labs switched on, SCOUT emails people from it only in the US. Anyone else it finds there is an intro you send yourself.
Questions it never asks
Never ask about age, date of birth, graduation year, religion, caste, marital status, pregnancy, children, criminal record, or what someone earns now or earned before. If they bring one up, don't record it and move on.
The words below are the ones SCOUT sends, taken from the product. On the page every email links to, SCOUT says it is AI, and that a person reads.
The end of a first email to an insiderOne member
Sent by SCOUT, insiderOne's AI sourcing agent, for Northwind.
SCOUT, insiderOne's sourcing agent, found you through your insiderOne profile while searching for Northwind.
It holds your name, your Career ID, your profile's headline, photo, location, skills and score, any earlier application to this company, and anything you write to SCOUT. It stays until you delete it.
See what it holds, delete it, or stop all contact: insiderone.in/s/…
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Unsubscribe and no company on insiderOne reaches out to you again.
SCOUT, an AI agent, not a person; a recruiter at Northwind reads this
What we hold about you
One unsubscribe, every company
One click on any email's unsubscribe, and no company on insiderOne reaches out to that person again. It takes effect at once.
Delete this, or never contact me
On their own page, a person can delete what SCOUT holds for your company at once. Confirmed from their own inbox, the deletion, or a stop on all contact, reaches every company on insiderOne.
Told plainly
Candidates who apply are told where AI is used on the role, that a person makes every decision, and how to ask for a person instead.
In the language of the job
Set it per role: English, Hindi or Hinglish (Hindi–English mix), or let the candidate pick. Sales, support and field roles that run in Hindi or Hinglish get a screening that does too.
Marked by SI, decided by you
SI marks each screening answer against the role. Those marks are 30 of the 100 points in SCOUT's order, shown beside the transcript and the reasons. Passing on anyone is a person's click.
Held in New York City
On a New York City role with no independent bias audit from the last 365 days, no automatic screening runs and SCOUT shows no score, under Local Law 144.
Built on your hiring standard
A brief for a posted role takes its must-haves and nice-to-haves from the role's approved hiring standard, or its skill tags until one is approved. Edit the standard later, and an approved brief keeps its plan.
Evidence decides the order. On a tie, your past applicants come first, then insiderOne members, then public profiles. Every result says where it came from. SCOUT never searches LinkedIn.
| Source | How SCOUT reaches them |
|---|---|
| insiderOne members and your past applicants | SCOUT writes |
| GitHub | You send the intro |
| GitLab | You send the intro |
| Stack Overflow | You send the intro |
| Hugging Face | You send the intro |
| DEV Community | You send the intro |
| OpenAlex (research) | Profile link only |
| ORCID (research) | Profile link only |
| Product HuntWhere insiderOne has it switched on | You send the intro |
| Bluesky | You send the intro |
| Hacker News, people asking to be hired | You send the intro |
| Open webWhere insiderOne has it switched on | You send the intro |
| People Data Labs (licensed)Where insiderOne has it switched on | SCOUT writes, in the US only |
City and years are applied as filters. Titles are a ranking hint, labelled as one. The word “verified” in your sentence turns verified-only on.
| You typed | On file | Applied? |
|---|---|---|
| “bombay” | Mumbai | Yes — same city, older name |
| 4–8 years | 6 years, from dated roles | Yes |
| “growth marketer in Mumbai with verified SEO” | — | Verified-only, switched on by the word |
| “unverified claims are fine” | — | Not verified-only |
Run the same search again
A saved search re-runs the same plan against today's evidence, so the question never drifts.
Notes, tags, an owner, a next step
On every saved candidate. The next step lands in the daily reminder, once per date.
Start the trial. SCOUT and VERA come with your company's approval, which can be immediate when you sign up with a work email on your company's own domain. Otherwise someone at insiderOne reviews it first.
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