What’s new
What changed in ScoutHalo.
Improvements that are live in the product today, newest first. Only shipped changes appear here.
- Library
Projects are now Plans
A plan is one goal, a shortlist of real places and a decision: a dinner, a trip, an offsite or a shoot. A shoot is a production plan and keeps everything Projects had; plans you already made keep their tools.
- Workspace
A simpler workspace menu
The workspace now has four sections: Home, Discover (Scout and Experiences), Intelligence (Visual Intelligence) and Library (Saved, Collections and Plans — then called Projects).
- Experiences
Experiences on Home
Home’s “Where to start” includes Experiences: pick something to do, and Scout finds real places for it.
- Account
Reset your password
A dedicated page to choose a new password from a reset email. After the change, you’re signed out everywhere else.
- Account
More complete account deletion
Deleting your account now also erases your search history, your uploaded image copies and your other stored data.
- Scout
Calmer result cards
Cards lead with the name, the area, one reason it fits and up to three signals. “Strong fit” and “Worth exploring” appear only when a place earns them.
- Scout
Price limits and exclusions honoured
Scout reads the kind of place you asked for more accurately, checks limits like “under €100” against the price a listing shows, and respects what you exclude.
- Website
Use-case pages
New pages for going out, travel, work and study, experiences, and creators and production, plus a refreshed set of examples.
- Visual Intelligence
Straight from a photo to results
“Find matching locations” opens Scout’s results directly, and Back returns you to the photo’s brief.
- Visual Intelligence
Clearer visual briefs
Briefs keep what’s read from the image apart from Scout’s unconfirmed inferences, and drop confidence percentages.
- Visual Intelligence
Consistent photo search
Uploading the same photo again reopens its existing brief, and different photos never share results.
- Scout
Better follow-up searches
Follow-ups like “with a view” or “not touristy”, and plural requests like “wine bars”, are understood correctly.
- Experiences
Experiences
A new place to start in Discover, with seven categories of things to do. Each opens Scout with a starting request for your area that you can edit before searching.
- Library
Save to…
Save a place to Saved, a Collection or a Plan in one step, and turn a Collection into a Plan.
- Library
Collection links, and Scout keeps your results
Every collection has its own link, and going back to Scout returns you to your last results.
- Scout
An honest “Best overall”
“Best overall” appears only when the top result clearly leads on what you asked for.
- Library
Undo any unsave
Every unsave can be undone, and places you saved before signing in are no longer lost.
- Workspace
A Home that remembers you
Returning users see their recent searches, plans and saved places first. New users get a short introduction.
- Scout
Map and list work together
Hovering a card highlights its pin, the map preview shows the reason it fits and a Save button, and you can step through places with the map following.
- Scout
Split view on phones
On phones, results sit in a draggable sheet over the map.
- Scout
Refinements respect “exclude”
Follow-ups like “make it cheaper and exclude rooftops” now remove what you excluded.
- Scout
Map view and “Search this area”
Switch results between a grid and a map — only places with verified coordinates get a pin — and search the area you’re looking at.
Earlier
- Visual Intelligence: start a search from a photo
- Projects (now Plans): compare places and decide
- Results stream in as Scout finds them
- Voice input
- ScoutNYC becomes ScoutHalo
- ScoutNYC: a guide to New York shoot locations for creators
What are you looking for?
Describe it in a sentence, and Scout finds real places that fit.