Proactively discover Israeli tech founders about to start new companies via LinkedIn signals. Syncs leads to HubSpot and tracks approach status.
Automated scouting for Israeli tech founders and operators who are about to start new companies — before they announce or raise. Uses LinkedIn browser automation exclusively to search for people, analyze profiles, and detect early signals. Syncs discovered founders to HubSpot as leads.
# Daily scan — run rotated LinkedIn searches, detect signals
founder-scout scan
# Weekly briefing — compile and email summary
founder-scout briefing
# Re-scan existing tracked people
founder-scout watchlist-update
# View current state
founder-scout status
# Manually add a person
founder-scout add "Name" "https://linkedin.com/in/username"
# Dismiss a tracked person
founder-scout dismiss <id>
# Sync all tracked people to HubSpot as lead contacts
founder-scout sync-hubspot
# Mark a person as approached (by name)
founder-scout approach "Yuval Lev"
# Mark a person as approached (by DB id)
founder-scout approach-id 42
IMPORTANT — Assistant behavior for approach tracking:
When a user says something like:
The assistant MUST:
founder-scout approach "<person name>" to mark them as approachedhs_lead_status to CONTACTED)If the person is not in the watchlist, tell the user and offer to add them first with founder-scout add.
Founder Scout syncs tracked people to HubSpot as contacts with lifecyclestage = lead.
These custom properties should exist in HubSpot (create them manually if needed):
scout_signal_tier (text) — High / Medium / Low signal tierscout_last_signal (text) — Latest signal descriptionhs_linkedinid — LinkedIn profile URLhs_lead_status — OPEN (default) or CONTACTED (approached)lifecyclestage — Set to "lead"Run founder-scout sync-hubspot after each daily scan (add to cron):
# Sync to HubSpot at 7:30 AM (after 7 AM scan completes)
30 7 * * * load-env.sh founder-scout -- scout.py sync-hubspot
Requires these keys in .env:
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY — for Claude signal analysisMATON_API_KEY — for HubSpot sync via Maton gateway# Daily scan at 7:00 AM
0 7 * * * load-env.sh founder-scout -- scout.py scan
# Sync leads to HubSpot at 7:30 AM
30 7 * * * load-env.sh founder-scout -- scout.py sync-hubspot
# Weekly briefing Sunday 8:00 AM
0 8 * * 0 load-env.sh founder-scout -- scout.py briefing
# Watchlist re-scan Wed/Sat 14:00
0 14 * * 3,6 load-env.sh founder-scout -- scout.py watchlist-update
The LinkedIn browser skill must be configured and running. The scan will abort if the browser session is unavailable.
Reports are sent to team members configured in config.yaml.