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Weigh your options. Make the call.
A plan holds your options in one place — a dinner, a trip, an offsite, a shoot — so you can line them up, decide, and keep the reasons written down. For a shoot, ScoutHalo also reads each location’s fit and what still needs confirming.
Birthday dinner · Lisbon
Dinner for 12 on a Saturday in June — a view, room to stay late, somewhere we can book ahead.
3 candidates in evaluation — review to decide.
Compare your options
See the tradeoffs, not just the photos.
Put your candidates side by side. For a shoot — a production plan — Compare gives you a decision read: which one currently has the strongest case, then the tradeoffs where your options actually differ, honest about what it can’t read yet. For an everyday plan it lines the options up so you can decide; it doesn’t score fit for everyday goals yet.
Rooftop Terrace currently has the strongest case.
Illustrative Lisbon shoot shortlist (a production plan) — the decision read, the “Current lead” marker, and the Shortlist / Approve / Pass controls are the real ScoutHalo workspace. Try the decision buttons.
What the evidence can’t settle stays listed under “Needs confirmation”, and a missing read shows “Needs evidence” rather than a guess. The comparison names the questions still to answer on the ground.
From options to a decision
A shortlist, walked to a decision.
Every option is shortlisted, approved, or passed. The one you approve becomes the recommendation; the rest stay as backups, never deleted. Five stages show where the plan stands.
Say what the plan is for — who it’s for, when, what matters.
Add options to compare — from a search, your saved places, or a collection.
Review the options and shortlist the strongest.
One option is approved — settle what still needs deciding or confirming.
Approved and every option decided. For a shoot, the Scout Report is ready too.
Preserve the reasoning
The why stays with the plan.
The context that usually scatters across messages and documents lives on the plan instead — attached to the exact place it belongs to.
A free-text note on any option — the reason it caught your eye, kept with the place.
Every shortlist, approve, or pass can carry the reason it was made. A decision is never lost — even when a lead is demoted to a backup.
Reference images with a role — look, lighting, architecture, palette, composition, or avoid — that ground the fit read.
An append-only log of searches, saves, and decisions, so the plan’s history is always readable.
What people use plans for
Compare venues for a birthday or a wedding and keep the reasons with each one.
Weigh a few hotels or cabins side by side before you book.
Line up spaces with meeting rooms and pick one with the tradeoffs written down.
A production plan holds a shoot’s candidates, with readiness checks and a Scout Report for the approved location.
Questions
Plans, answered.
What belongs in a Plan?
One plan’s working set: what it’s for, the options you’re weighing, reference images, and the decision on each — whether that’s a dinner, a trip, an offsite, or a shoot. Everything lives in one place instead of scattered across chats and folders.
How are options compared?
Pick two to four options. In a production plan (a shoot), Compare gives you a decision read — which one currently has the strongest case, or that two remain close — then the key tradeoffs where they genuinely differ, leaving out what doesn’t (for a shoot, that read covers creative direction, architecture, lighting, environment, and materials). Risks and conflicts stay separate from what still needs confirmation, and missing evidence reads “Needs evidence” rather than a guess. An everyday plan shows the options side by side without a fit score — ScoutHalo doesn’t score fit for everyday goals yet.
How are decisions recorded?
Each option is shortlisted, approved, or passed, with room for the reason behind it. A decision is never lost — even when a lead is demoted to a backup — and the plan keeps an append-only record of what happened when.
What are the plan stages?
Five, derived from the plan itself: Setup (say what it’s for), Scouting (add options), Deciding (review and shortlist), Preparing (one is approved; settle what’s left), and Ready (everything decided — for a shoot, with the report ready too).
What does a plan produce?
As a plan takes shape, its overview gives a Scout Read of where the shortlist stands and names the next decision. For a shoot — a production plan — an approved location and a brief also produce a Scout Report you can save as a PDF. Plans are personal — there are no shared team workspaces today.
Where the workflow goes next.
Start the next search in Scout — or keep what you approved in a collection for next time.
What are you looking for?
Describe it in a sentence, and Scout finds real places that fit.