For scouts
Judgment people can inspect.
You are never paid, never assigned, and never owe anyone an introduction. When something genuinely fits a person you know, you can put your judgment behind it—and the record of that judgment is inspectable, context-bound, and impossible to buy.
What a trust record looks like
Counts with their sample sizes, and who reported them. Never one big number.
- Relevant4 of 5(Demo data)rated introductions · Participant reported
- Pressure-free5 of 5(Demo data)Participant reported
- Useful outcomes3 of 4(Demo data)Builder-evaluated
Early evidence. Scout will not convert a handful of interactions into a status claim.
The decision
Would you put your judgment behind this?
You are not accepting a task. Review the campaign, decide whether it fits your context, and pass freely if it does not. Four answers, all equally available, all private.
Pass privately
No explanation, no notification to anyone, no mark on your record.
Offer a private observation
Tell the Builder something useful without introducing anyone at all.
Volunteer for this need
If the campaign describes you, use the product yourself and answer as the person it is for.
I may know someone relevant
Write one private introduction for one specific person you actually know.
A campaign card opens with the real-life trigger, who it is for, what the product promises, the single action being asked about, the time it takes, and its known limitations. It never shows how many invitations are left, because you are not filling a quota.
No compensation, ever
Never paid. Never assigned. Never owed.
Scouts and Invitees are never compensated, directly or indirectly. That is the first rule in the constitution, and everything else in the product is built to keep it true.
No money, in any form
No fees, tips, gift cards, affiliate cuts, commissions, prizes, or valuable in-kind compensation. Nothing in your record can be redeemed, transferred, or spent—it is a record of evaluated quality, not a currency.
No quotas, no streaks
There is no leaderboard, no streak, no weekly target, and no “top Scout.” Volume is not an achievement here, so nothing pushes you toward an introduction you do not believe in.
Passing is the normal answer
Passing and declining are private, frictionless, and penalty-free. “Nothing here deserves my attention right now” is a complete answer—and a healthier one than manufacturing activity.
If you do introduce someone
One thoughtful introduction, to one person you had in mind.
You write it. You send it yourself, personally, the way you would send anything else to someone you know. Scout will not message them for you.
What you confirm first
Before an invitation exists, you sign off on each of these. They are the reason the person on the other end can trust it.
- I reviewed the campaign and understand who it is for.
- This is a real relationship or legitimate context.
- I can state a specific relevance reason.
- I am not being compensated.
- I disclosed any conflict.
- I understand passing is acceptable.
- I will not broadcast this invitation.
What the link actually is
One invitation link represents one intentional person. It is built so it cannot become anything else.
- Single-use, private, and not indexable.
- Expires after seven days by default.
- Revocable by you at any time, without a reason.
- No contact upload, no broadcasting, no bulk sending.
- You never enter their contact details into Scout.
The person you introduce owes nobody a signup, test, review, or positive response— and their identity stays private unless they choose to share it.
Your record
What the trust record shows — and what it refuses to.
The record exists so your judgment is legible to people who were not there. It is built from what others independently reported, never from how busy you were.
What can move it
- Relevance and description accuracy, rated by the person you introduced.
- Their confirmation that the introduction was pressure-free.
- The Builder's rating of your evidence for usefulness, specificity, and fairness.
- A substantiated pressure, spam, or misrepresentation report — a strong negative event.
Whether the product itself succeeded is shown as outcome evidence, but it does not raise your record. You are not responsible for a Builder’s product, and nobody should be able to pressure you as if you were.
What moves nothing
- Viewing a campaign.
- Generating a link.
- Sending an invitation.
- Having an invitation opened.
- Someone declining.
- Signups, clicks, praise, or raw volume.
The display follows the same rule: counts with their sample sizes, the contexts you served, and the span of time. No streaks, no invitation-count hero, no single score standing in for a person.
Guardian
A status with published requirements.
Guardian signals sustained, independently evaluated judgment inside specific contexts. The requirements are written down so nobody has to wonder whether it was given out as a favor.
- Verified Scout
- Identity verified, consent and ethics pledge completed, context profile filled in.
- Proven Scout
- At least three evaluated, consented introductions across two different Builders, relevance at or above 4.0, and no substantiated pressure report.
- Guardian
- Sustained, independently evaluated judgment across a real span of contexts. Context-bound, never awarded from raw activity or one favorable relationship.
Guardian requires
- At least 10 evaluated, consented introductions.
- At least 5 unique people introduced, across at least 4 different Builders.
- At least 5 rated evidence submissions.
- Relevance and evidence-quality scores at or above 4.25.
- At least 40% consent among opened invitations.
- No substantiated pressure or spam report in the previous 90 days.
- A short consent-and-judgment scenario review.
Falling below the quality floor suspends the status pending review, and going quiet marks a profile inactive rather than deleting its history. Nothing here is awarded from seeded or insufficient evidence.
Attention cannot be bought. Scouts and Invitees are never paid. Nobody owes a test, review, signup, or positive response.
Start by reading one campaign.
If none of them fit anyone you know, pass. That is the answer the product is designed to make easy.