Our story

Scout started the way most boats get bought: badly.

Olivier — sailor, engineer, and the founder — was hunting for a trimaran. What he found instead was the used-boat market itself: eleven browser tabs, the same hull listed by three brokers at three prices, listings that vanished overnight taking their price history with them, "asking" numbers with no relationship to what anything actually sold for, and gems buried on tiny broker sites no aggregator ever visits.

He got tired of it. Tired of not knowing whether $87k was a deal or a dream. Tired of finding the right boat two weeks after it sold. Tired of markets that remember nothing — because when a listing disappears, so does the only honest data point anyone had.

So he built the thing he wished existed: a memory for the boat market. Scout reads hundreds of broker, builder and owner sources, collapses the duplicates into single real hulls, keeps every price move forever — even after the listing dies — and lets you ask for a boat the way you'd ask a friend who happens to know the whole market: "ocean-crossing trimaran under $100k, near the Gulf."

It began with trimarans (his hunt), and it's built in the open — a grassroots project shaped by the crew who use it. Crew opinions matter here: drop a scuttlebutt on a bad listing, send a link we missed, vote on what we build next — it pays in sea-shells 🐚, and it genuinely steers the boat. The crew sets the course.

“The asking price is a feeling. The last 11 sold prices are a fact.” — that's the whole company.