sales scout

Find agencies who need to buy your product, first.

Every day, government agencies express needs to buy or budget for products way before it goes out for public bid.

We can help you be first to the table, before all the competitors show up, so you can guide the purchaser in the right direction – your direction.

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We track government of all kinds

Note: We're always up for a new challenge if you have other data in mind.

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The end result: when a keyword gets triggered, your team gets a customized email report with exactly what happened.

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Every day, we import thousands of hours of new content.

We'll handle importing the exact set of channels you want, whether that's all of the city councils in the country or just a handful of legislatures.

For some larger accounts, Scout scans thousands of data sources every day.

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Scout checks for new mentions of your keywords in the transcripts.

We'll build a keyword list of things people often talk about that you want to track.

This will get used to monitor every incoming piece of information.

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You get notified.

As soon as a keyword matches, we'll check to make sure it’s relevant and send your team an alert. That alert is chock full of relevant information so you can act fast.

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Hey everyone,

If we haven't met before, I'm Stephen, founder of Simple Machine.

Every day, there are thousands of government meetings, and only a few moments that matter to you.

In those meetings, people express a need to buy all kinds of things...but most companies aren’t listening.

For example:

  1. Lycoming county needs to buy all new equipment after a big fire destroyed millions of dollars of machinery.
  2. Pittsburgh needs a dozen dump trucks and is getting significant pressure from city council to start replacing them.
  3. Haverford county wants to increase their school's security after a big push from the PTA.

We can help you find the people who want to buy what you have to sell.

Scout is optimized to do one thing – find the needle in the haystack. We search terabytes of meeting data to find your exact keywords and let you know when someone is ready to buy.

Plus, you’ll have a comprehensive, searchable record of everything, so you can have more historical context than any of your competitors by a mile.

Stephen Bateman

Stephen Bateman

Founder, Simple Machine
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