What is Search & Evaluate?
Scout Search & Evaluate combines company discovery with real-time evaluation. Instead of searching first and manually reviewing hundreds of results, Scout simultaneously searches and screens companies against your specific investment criteria.
Without Scout Search & Evaluate:
Use Harmonic search to find relevant companies
Get a refined list of hundreds of matches
Manually evaluate each one against your specific investment criteria
Click through profiles, compare fit, assess strength of match
Hours or days to prioritize your top opportunities
With Scout Search & Evaluate:
Describe your criteria in natural language
Scout searches and evaluates simultaneously
Get pre-screened, prioritized results with reasoning
Minutes instead of hours/days
How it works
1. Define your criteria
Tell Scout what you're looking for. The more specific, the better:
"AI agents for sales prospecting, not generic email sequencing, Series A or earlier"
"Early-stage OpenAI competitors in US with recent headcount growth"
"Series B software companies with >$10M funding focused on AML and fraud detection"
2. Scout searches and evaluates simultaneously
While searching Harmonic's database and cross-referencing web sources, Scout evaluates each company against your specific requirements in real-time.
3. Review categorized results
Companies are organized into three categories:
Strong matches - Companies that meet your key criteria
Partial matches - Companies that meet some but not all requirements
Weak matches - Companies that don't align well with your criteria
You can start reviewing results while Scout continues working in the background.
4. Understand Scout's reasoning
Hover over individual companies to see Scout's explanation for why each startup was classified as a strong, partial, or weak fit. This reasoning shows all the evaluation work Scout is doing behind the scenes.
5. Save and track
Easily save companies that match your criteria for further tracking and monitoring. Save as you scroll, or batch save all companies within a specific classification (e.g., save all strong matches at once).
Key benefits
10x faster evaluation - What takes weeks of manual work happens in minutes
Intelligent screening - Scout evaluates against your specific criteria, not just keyword matching
Transparent reasoning - See exactly why each company was categorized as a match
Continuous monitoring - Save searches to get notified as new companies match your criteria
Persistent research - All Scout sessions are automatically saved to your research history
Getting started
Access Scout Search & Evaluate in the Harmonic Console here. Questions or feedback? Contact us at support@harmonic.ai