SECURITY SALES INTELLIGENCE FOR MSPS
SCOUTz hands the MSP account context and defensible evidence before the first meeting. The same evidence then follows the deal through review, delivery, and verification, so the story you sold is the story you prove.
Open Beta: $0 today·$279/month list price at launch·agreed beta pricing protected for 3 years
Built by RYTHMz for MSPs that want evidence before the pitch.
THE 90-SECOND VERSION
SCOUTz puts dated company context and public evidence in front of the MSP before the meeting, sharpens the questions asked in the room, and carries every supported finding into work the team can deliver and later prove.
Open Beta is $0 until conversion. List price is $279/month. Open and Closed Beta participants can agree a preferred rate with Sales that is protected for 3 years from paid conversion.
THE PART BETWEEN A LEAD AND A DECISION
Whatever earned the meeting can keep earning meetings. Then the calendar invite lands, and the seller starts from zero: discover everything, explain everything, prove relevance in forty-five minutes.
The assessment may be excellent. The seller still spends the first meeting rebuilding context, then asks a PDF and a follow-up email to carry the decision.
The MSP arrives with a useful first look, names the unknowns, earns the next layer of evidence, and keeps the reason for the work connected through delivery.
SCOUTz reduces the guessing between finding a company and understanding why a responsible conversation matters. The MSP still owns discovery, judgment, and the relationship.
I built and sold two MSPs, and I sat through the first meeting from both sides of the table. The good ones never opened with a scary PDF. They opened with somebody who had already done the homework. SCOUTz is the homework.
Steve Copeland, Founder
MSP PROSPECT INTELLIGENCE
Your marketing company gets the prospect into the room. Your PSA and RMM earn their keep after the contract is signed. Everything between those two moments has been running on charm and a template. SCOUTz owns that middle.
MARKETING + LEAD GEN
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SCOUTz + MSP SALES
MSP OPERATIONAL STACK
It is the evidence and technical context an MSP uses to understand, evaluate, and assess a prospective client before and during the sales process. Lead generation earns attention. CRM records the relationship. SCOUTz equips the MSP to earn that relationship with account-specific evidence, better questions, visible judgment, and a responsible next step.
Read the category definition →DISCOVERY BEFORE ASSUMPTION
The PSA, RMM, and security stack each provide a valuable perspective. SCOUTz records its own observations first, preserves the unknowns, and then compares those findings with the systems the MSP already trusts.
Clients, assets, tickets, projects, contracts, configurations, and the operating history people documented.
Agents, endpoints, software, telemetry, alerts, and the conditions each connected product is designed to observe.
Company context, public evidence, authorized cloud evidence, source state, explicit unknowns, and the questions created by the difference.
Gather legitimate evidence without treating an imported inventory as reality.
Record source, time, scope, coverage, and the affected object.
Compare the observation with what the MSP and existing systems expected.
Turn differences and unknowns into better questions before conclusions.
Return after the work and determine whether the supported condition changed.
ONE WORKFLOW · FIVE STAGES
Spot a defensible reason to talk now with public events, company context, and SCOUTz-owned external evidence.
Start with an account →Start outside-in. Go deeper into Microsoft 365 only with customer consent and disclosed source coverage.
See the review boundary →Connect every conclusion to evidence, business context, an honest boundary, and the right audience.
See the client story →Move from a finding to investigation, guided remediation, a work plan, and MSP-owned delivery.
Follow the work path →Rescan the observable condition, preserve the proof, and carry progress into the next QBR.
Bring proof into Studio →BEFORE THE FIRST MEETING
SCOUTz combines its own external security observations with public company events, optional enrichment, and MSP-specific interpretation. Signals prioritize research; they never become a claim that an account is shopping for an MSP.
Filter accounts, review observable exposure, and keep source, timestamp, confidence, and signal age attached to the record.
Separate observed findings, public events, third-party context, and inference. Then build likely needs, discovery questions, objections, and a value-first outreach angle.
Captures labeled Real Product open full-size, with company-identifying details removed. Designed explanations carry an Illustrative label. AI helps with repetitive work and early drafts. People own the decisions, the evidence, the writing, and the final claims, and we publish that split on purpose.
Read our product-authenticity standard →WHY NOW · MULTI-SITE MANUFACTURER
New distribution location plus IT Manager and Microsoft 365 Administrator roles posted within 30 days.
DMARC remains in monitoring mode and remote-access infrastructure is externally reachable.
Microsoft 365 and Entra hardening, email security, new-site deployment, co-managed operations, and quarterly governance.
Offer a 20-minute risk-and-growth readiness review before the new location goes live.
Public events and observed findings support research and discovery. They do not prove the company is shopping for an MSP.
REVIEW WITH THE RIGHT BOUNDARY
DOMAIN · NO CUSTOMER ACCESS
Review public DNS, email authentication, certificates, browser protections, subdomains, and exposed services. These signals can justify a question; they cannot prove internal controls.
See the domain review →MICROSOFT 365 · CUSTOMER APPROVED
With customer approval, review available identity, application, consent, security, and managed-device context. SCOUTz does not read mail, documents, files, chats, or prompts.
See application governance →Distinct check types with an authored explanation and next step.
Collector engines; each can execute multiple atomic checks.
Permission, license, provider, source, and readability limits remain part of the result.
PROGRESSIVE TRUST
The access model should match the question. SCOUTz starts with legitimate public evidence, names the unknowns, and asks the customer before a deeper source enters the review.
Use bounded public and approved company evidence without changing the prospect environment.
Show what the evidence supports, what it does not, and why the next question matters.
Describe the requested source, purpose, read-only boundary, and remaining limits.
Use customer-approved configuration and metadata while excluding content by default.
Return only where a supported source can establish whether the condition changed.
This is both a better buying experience and a more defensible evidence model. Authorization strengthens the available source; it does not erase permission, license, provider, or readability limits.
EVIDENCE BEFORE FEAR
Give the MSP something relevant to say about the account. Every claim should stay within the limits of its source.
SCOUTz keeps the historical association, evidence type, current unknowns, and discovery question separate. Sellers can simplify the explanation while preserving the source’s actual level of certainty.
FROM FINDING TO VERIFIED WORK
What deserves attention
Why SCOUTz raised it
What the MSP validates next
Safe steps, cautions, and checks
Owner, sequence, and delivery path
What changed on rescan
A broad permission grant deserves an owner, business purpose, and activity review before any change is recommended.
Generic application · illustrative evidence states · no customer data
Generic work plan · MSP validates scope, change control, and rollback
CLOUD, APPLICATION, AND AI CONTEXT
Review identity, permissions, applications, licensing, managed devices, sharing, and AI-governance evidence where the connected source supports it.
Connect publisher, permissions, owners, users, activity, credentials, risk, and history when the source exposes them.
Surface coverage-dependent app, consent, assignment, and activity clues. SCOUTz does not monitor prompts or employee content.
Keep Microsoft’s tenant-native score in view while adding SCOUTz evidence provenance, MSP workflow, and audience-ready delivery.
THE OPERATING SYSTEM AROUND THE SCAN
SCOUTz keeps the commercial question, review boundary, delivery plan, and later verification connected to the same evidence record.
Expansion and identity administration may justify a risk-and-growth readiness review.
Sources and inference remain distinct · never a claim of purchase intent
Keep public events, SCOUTz findings, match confidence, signal expiry, discovery questions, and opportunity hypotheses separate and reviewable.
Explore Forge →Presence of a backup product does not prove recovery readiness
Connect observable controls with monitoring, escalation, recovery ownership, restoration tests, and the evidence required to show readiness.
Explore Cyber Resilience →PRESENT, DELIVER, PROVE
Verification is limited to the source and condition actually checked
Select the right output for the operator, seller, executive, technical lead, insurer, or client.
Review the narrative, preserve the boundary, and present it under the MSP’s brand and relationship.
Rescan, show movement, carry open work forward, and make the next QBR evidence-led.
TRUST IS PART OF THE PRODUCT
SCOUTz preserves the source, timestamp, coverage, confidence, and expiry behind a finding. Unknown, unreadable, permission-limited, and license-limited never become a silent pass.
Dated evidence that can support a specific question or conclusion.
A dated company event that may explain why a conversation matters now.
Useful interpretation that stays visibly separate from the underlying facts.
The available source cannot establish the condition, and the gap remains visible.
LEARN FROM THE EVIDENCE
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Read the play →SCOUTz OPEN BETA
Choose prospecting, an outside-in domain review, a customer-approved Microsoft 365 review, a reporting problem, or a QBR workflow. We will scope the evidence boundary and evaluate the useful next move together.