A scout report template for venture scouts — the format that makes a scout's recommendation useful to a fund. Includes where to record Scout Score. Free to copy.
A scout report is what a venture scout sends to the fund they scout for. A good one is short, specific, and answers: what is this company, why now, what's the signal, and should the fund take a meeting.
Keep it under one page. The Scout Score field gives the fund an objective taste signal on the founder — not a guarantee, but a standardized input alongside your qualitative judgment.
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In the Scout Score of the founder field. Paste the score from signals.gitdealflow.com/receipts — it's a 0–100 measure of the founder's taste in early startups, computed from their GitHub starring history.
About this page: Published 2026-07-18. Authored by The Data Nerd (ORCID 0009-0002-2222-4112), the pseudonymous maintainer of GitDealFlow. The methodology is published as SSRN preprint 6606558 and archived on Zenodo. Third-party statistics are sourced from the Ahrefs AEO methodology. Report an error.