SCT-INTL · 41.6406°N 88.2906°W
STATUS · OPERATIONAL
NODE · ALGONQUIN-01
CYCLE · MAY.2026
FILE SI-2026-001
ISSUED MAY 13, 2026
OPERATOR M. LARA
SECTOR CHICAGOLAND, IL
BRIEF PUBLISHED · MON 06:00 CT · CHICAGOLAND INDUSTRIAL

Stop calling accounts
that aren't buying.
Scout tells you which ones are.

Scout Intelligence builds weekly intelligence briefs for MEP contractors and industrial sales reps in Chicagoland. Each brief covers which accounts have active capital projects in the next 60 days, who the decision-makers are, and which shops can actually bid — before your competitors figure it out. Application-only. $497/mo.

§ 01 / OPERATIONS

Active operations.

UNCLASSIFIED · PUBLIC

Four products currently in market. Each follows the same pattern: one specific domain, one editorial deliverable, outcome-first pricing, no SaaS subscription.

SHIPPING · CHARTER OPEN

LeadForge.

Real Estate Wholesale Intelligence
For
Chicagoland real-estate wholesalers running direct-to-seller acquisition
Delivers
Curated motivated-seller lists. Same-day Cook County pull, skip-trace verified, editorial brief + CSV
Pricing
Charter from $497 · Standard $997 · Pro $1,997

High-equity absentee owners filtered from public records, cross-verified through commercial skip-trace, ranked by composite score, and shipped as a research brief your team can work on day one. Sample pull: 89 leads, 77% avg equity, 42 dual-channel verified contacts.

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ACTIVE · FOUNDING COHORT OPEN · TERRITORY-EXCLUSIVE

Scout Briefings.

Chicagoland Industrial Sales Intelligence
For
MEP contractors and industrial sales reps working Chicagoland capital projects
Delivers
Weekly brief — active accounts, named decision-makers, union signatory status, 60-day project pipeline. Ships Monday 06:00 CT.
Pricing
$497/mo · Founding cohort · One territory per rep · Application-only

Every Monday at 6am, subscribers get a brief covering which industrial and data center accounts have active capital work in the next 60 days, who the decision-makers are, and on union jobs, which shops are eligible to bid. No cold lists. No guessing. Sourced from permit filings, PLA documents, and public construction records.

Apply for Access →
PILOT · INQUIRE

QuoteCompare.

AI Contractor Bid Analysis
For
Small-business owners reviewing multiple contractor quotes
Delivers
Side-by-side bid breakdown · red-flag detection · line-item normalization · recommendation
Pricing
Per-engagement · inquire

Drop in two or more contractor bids. AI normalizes line items across formats, flags scope mismatches, identifies hidden cost vectors, and produces a one-page recommendation. Built for owners who don't have time to forensic-audit a 14-page quote.

Request Pilot →
PILOT · INQUIRE

ContractDigest.

Vendor Contract Review
For
SMBs evaluating new vendor agreements without legal counsel on retainer
Delivers
Plain-English contract summary · obligation map · auto-renewal & termination flags · risk score
Pricing
Per-contract · inquire

Upload a vendor or service-provider contract. Get back a structured digest: who's obligated to what, when it auto-renews, what triggers termination, where the risk concentrates. Designed for owners who sign because they have to, not because they understood every page.

Request Pilot →
§ 02 / DOCTRINE

The pattern.

METHODOLOGY · v1.0

Every product Scout Intelligence ships follows the same four-step doctrine. It's why we don't build dashboards. It's why we don't sell subscriptions. It's why our customers can put a list to work the day they receive it.

i. SPECIFIC DOMAIN
One vertical. One problem.

Each product solves one narrow problem for one operator type. No "platforms." No swiss-army-knives. Depth beats breadth.

ii. EDITORIAL DELIVERABLE
A brief. Not a dashboard.

Ships as a research note plus structured data. Looks like a Wall Street trade desk brief. Reads in five minutes. Worked in fifty.

iii. OUTCOME PRICING
Per pull. Not per seat.

Pay for the deliverable. Not a monthly subscription regardless of value extracted. Volume operators get retainers. Most pay per engagement.

iv. APPLICATION INTAKE
No self-service signup.

Every customer goes through application. Filters for fit, protects existing customers' territories, and ensures we ship something you'll actually use.

§ 03 / CUSTOM BUILD

Don't see your problem?

INTAKE · OPEN

Tell us your problem.
We build the workflow.

The four products above are the off-the-shelf builds. The real work is custom intelligence and AI workflow products built for operators with a specific friction we haven't productized yet.

If you spend hours per week on a research, data-cleaning, document-review, or quote-analysis task that no SaaS solves cleanly — that's the brief. We scope, build, and ship a custom workflow tool against it. Same pattern: specific domain, deliverable that runs day one, outcome-priced.

  • Recurring research that eats your week
  • Document review without legal-hour budget
  • Cross-vendor data normalization
  • Lead-list filtering with custom criteria
  • Quote / bid comparison at scale
  • Intake routing across channels
  • Compliance scrubbing & red-flag detection
  • AI workflow integration into your stack
§ 04 / OPERATOR PROFILE

The operator.

PERSONNEL FILE · ML-001
OPERATOR ML ALGONQUIN · IL

Marco Lara

U.S. Army combat veteran (11B), Iraq and Syria deployments, separated February 2026. Founded Scout Intelligence LLC in April 2026 to productize the research, OSINT, and AI workflow work he'd been running independently for clients across real estate, B2B sales, and SMB operations.

The thesis is simple: most operators don't need another tool. They need an answer. Scout Intelligence ships answers — as briefs, as CSVs, as workflow tools — for problems where the existing market overcharges for software and underdelivers on outcome.

Entity Scout Intelligence LLC
Filed Illinois SOS · Apr 23, 2026
HQ Algonquin, IL
Sectors Cook · Kane · McHenry · Lake · DuPage
Sources Public records · commercial APIs
Compliance TCPA / DNC / IL REL Act aware
INTAKE OPEN · CHARTER COHORT

Request clearance.

Application-only intake. Reach out by email or phone — I respond within 24 hours with a short scoping conversation.

Application takes 2 minutes. If you're in industrial sales, MEP contracting, real estate wholesale, or running a small-business operation with a recurring research or workflow problem — this is built for you. I respond within 24 hours.