In depth on · 2026 · Studio project
Scout
Every commercial lease listing in one scored board, a retainer product for tenants hunting their next location.
Overview
Scout is a Switch Case Studio product: commercial-real-estate scouting sold as a monthly retainer. It watches the broker sites and listing feeds a tenant would otherwise check by hand, pulls every matching lease listing into one board, and scores each against the client's own profile: geography, size, use type, demographics, co-tenancy, competition. The client gets a private pipeline where every listing explains its score in plain English, and works it from first look to signed lease. The retainer runs until they find their location.
Scope
- One board, every source
- Six listing sources (broker sites plus an email inbox) polled four times a day and deduplicated into a single board. Nothing gets checked by hand twice.
- Scores, not just listings
- Every listing is scored 0–100 against the client's profile: eight weighted factors mixing hard data (demographics, growth, size fit) with AI-assessed ones (co-tenancy, visibility, competition).
- Evidence you can read
- Each score explains itself: a WHY and a WATCH-OUT in plain English, plus per-factor evidence like the trade area's median household income.
- A pipeline, not a spreadsheet
- Clients drag listings through ten stages, first look to signed lease, with notes and history on each, in their own private login.
- Tunable without re-scoring
- Factor weights re-rank a client's board instantly; raw factor scores are stored per property, so tuning one client never moves another.
- Retainer model
- Sold as a monthly retainer with a two-month minimum that runs until the client signs their location; the incentive is finding it fast.
Results
A product, not a project: Scout runs as a self-hosted service with an operator console on one side and private client boards on the other.