Meet SCOUT Assistant, your conversational shortcut to innovation insights

We are thrilled to announce the Beta release of SCOUT Assistant, a brand-new conversational interface designed to change how you interact with our Innovation Graph.

Finding critical market insights, mapping competitive landscapes, and tracking emerging technologies no longer requires building complex search queries. Now, you can surface deep, actionable intelligence simply by asking.

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What can SCOUT Assistant do?

SCOUT Assistant acts as an on-demand strategy partner, delivering information through dynamic panels, rankings, text, and structured tables. It is designed to accelerate your workflow across dozens of use cases, including:

• Deep-dive competitor analysis: Map key competitors, their strengths, products, and strategic direction.
• White spot & trend identification: Surface technological gaps outside your current portfolio and track macro/micro trends across industries (e.g., energy, digitalization, materials).
• Rapid market snapshots: Generate quick, up-to-date reports on recent funding, grants, or niche research topics like the repurposing of EV batteries.
• External forces (PESTLE/STEEP): Instantly analyze the macro-environmental factors and risks impacting your business strategy.
• Get SCOUT support. Ask questions about platform features, get usage tips, and learn how to navigate tools like the radar or matrix directly within the interface.

Learn more about use cases here.

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Key features to explore

Seamless project creation

Turn conversations into structured projects. You can ask the assistant to build a project or click the "Create Project" action button below a response. A quick pop-up lets you choose where to save it, and a blue shortcut button will instantly redirect you to your new project space.

Dive deeper with SCOUT Hub

Need a broader view? Click on the query at the very top of any assistant message to launch the data directly into the SCOUT Hub for panel exploration

Contextual action buttons

Below each response, SCOUT Assistant suggests the most logical next steps for your research via clickable action buttons, though you can always type in any follow-up question you like.

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We need your feedback!

As this is a Beta release, your real-world experience is what shapes our final product. Notice something awesome? Think something could be tweaked?

Let us know directly by clicking the Send feedback link located right below the assistant's message box. Happy scouting!

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