ScoutingDB brings your entire scouting workflow into one place — book submissions, rights tracking, and polished client reports. Beautiful by design. Built for the trade.
Trusted by 120+ scouts across literary agencies
183 books
catalogued this month
Report sent
to 4 clients
Built for the trade
Nothing they don't.
A rich, searchable catalogue of titles with authors, genres, rights holders, and full submission history — all in one place.
Generate reading lists, follow-up reports, and film memos in seconds. Send directly to client groups with one click.
Daily market digests, weekly trend overviews, and semantic search that understands what a book feels like — not just what it's called.
Forward a submission email to your ScoutingDB inbox. The AI reads it, extracts the details, and creates a structured draft for review.
Define exactly what each user can see and do — from SuperAdmin to Client — with a role-based permission engine built for agency workflows.
Two-factor authentication, full audit logs, SSO-ready, and configurable password policies keep your catalogue and client data safe.
Workflow
In minutes.
Forward the author's email to your ScoutingDB address. Our AI parses the title, synopsis, author bio, and rights details instantly.
Open the draft, confirm the details, add notes and genre tags, then promote to your live catalogue with one click.
Select books, pick a template — reading list, film memo, highlights — and ScoutingDB renders a polished HTML report instantly.
Select client groups or individual recipients, hit Send. Each person gets a personalised email. Every send is logged in your audit trail.
4.2x
faster report creation than manual methods
100%
of email submissions parsed automatically
∞
books in your catalogue — no artificial limits
2FA
two-factor security on every account
Literary scouts juggle dozens of submissions a week. ScoutingDB cuts down the administrative work so you can spend more time reading — and less time formatting spreadsheets.
Every feature of this literary scouting database was built by people who understand the trade: from the way rights territories work, to the exact columns a client expects in a reading list report.
Literary scouts have long relied on spreadsheets, shared drives, and email threads to track the books they read, the rights they manage, and the reports they owe clients. ScoutingDB replaces that patchwork with a purpose-built literary scouting database — one that understands how the scouting trade actually works.
Whether you are an independent book scout, part of a literary agency, or managing international rights across multiple territories, ScoutingDB gives you a searchable catalogue, structured submission tracking, and automated report generation in a single platform.
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