scout_batch
Run multiple scout queries in parallel. Perfect for competitive landscape analysis and bulk research.
Each query is: {"tool": "company|market|competitors|trends|product", "params": {...}}
Ask about a company, a market, a competitor set, a product or a trend and get a structured record back rather than a page of prose — and fan a whole landscape out in parallel in one batch.
LABSCO SUMMARY
Each tool declares the fields it returns, so scout_company, scout_market, scout_competitors, scout_product and scout_trends compose — fan a landscape out through scout_batch at max_parallel and you get rows to compare rather than paragraphs to read. Two things mark the boundary: the fields are named but their sources are not, so a funding figure or a sentiment score arrives without provenance at the call site, and scout_person sits behind the PRO tier.
A research server of 7 tools returning structured intelligence on companies, markets, competitors, products, trends and public figures, with a batch call that runs a set of those queries in parallel.
scout_company takes a name or a domain and returns industry, funding, tech stack, competitors, recent news and key people.scout_market takes a query and a depth and returns market size, growth rate, CAGR, key players, trends and risks.scout_competitors takes a company_or_product and a max and returns each competitor with positioning, pricing, strengths and weaknesses.scout_product returns category, pricing, ratings, features, alternatives and recent updates for a named product.scout_trends takes a topic and a timeframe and returns a sentiment score, trending direction, key developments and related topics.scout_person returns current role, background, social profiles, recent activity and achievements, and is documented as PRO tier only.scout_batch takes a list of queries, each naming company, market, competitors, trends or product with its own params, and runs them up to max_parallel at a time.A NewsAPI.org key in NEWS_API_KEY — the README marks it required, and one is free at newsapi.org/register. scout_person is documented as PRO tier only. The server is AGPL-3.0, which reaches you if you modify it and offer the modified version to others over a network.
One command plus a key — uvx scout-intel-mcp, then supply credentials
USE CASES
Pull the company record from a domain, see who it is measured against, and check which way sentiment has been moving.
Size the market at the depth the decision deserves, list who already holds it, and run the follow-up questions together.
Read each product's pricing, features and ratings, pull the alternatives you may have missed, and check how each is being talked about.
Track direction and key developments over a chosen window, then check whether the market numbers moved with it.
Queue the company, product and competitor lookups as a single batch instead of walking them one at a time.
Counted once with only startup setup. Other versions, modes or optional credentials may expose a different list.
scout_batchRun multiple scout queries in parallel. Perfect for competitive landscape analysis and bulk research.
Each query is: {"tool": "company|market|competitors|trends|product", "params": {...}}
scout_companyGet structured intelligence on any company.
Returns: industry, funding, tech stack, competitors, recent news, key people.
scout_competitorsFind and analyze competitors for any company or product.
Returns: list of competitors with positioning, pricing, strengths, weaknesses.
scout_marketResearch any market or industry.
Returns: market size, growth rate, CAGR, key players, trends, risks.
scout_personGet intelligence on a public figure. PRO tier only.
Returns: current role, background, social profiles, recent activity, achievements.
scout_productGet intelligence on any product.
Returns: category, pricing, ratings, features, alternatives, recent updates.
scout_trendsTrack trends and sentiment on any topic.
Returns: sentiment score, trending direction, key developments, related topics.
BEFORE YOU INSTALL
7 tools when we connected. scout_batch is undocumented. scout_person is Pro only and returns HTTP 403 on the free tier; the README's pricing table gives the free tier 5 of its 6 documented tools.
All 3 documented clients run the server on your machine.
CONTEXT COST
Rated by the size of the 7 tool definitions that ride along on every turn, not by how many there are
INSTALLATION
uvx scout-intel-mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"scout-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"scout-intel-mcp"
],
"env": {
"NEWS_API_KEY": "<YOUR_NEWS_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"scout-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"scout-intel-mcp"
],
"env": {
"NEWS_API_KEY": "<YOUR_NEWS_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}