Scoutside is a small, UK-based project. We're building opportunity radars - tools that quietly scan the web on your behalf and surface the local jobs, gigs, fairs and contracts that are easy to miss because nobody ever gets round to advertising them properly.
My stepson is a budding sports photographer, and finding shoot-worthy opportunities near him meant checking a dozen scattered places by hand - fixture lists, job boards, local sports pages - most of which he'd never have thought to search himself. So I built the first version of Pitchside to do that sweep automatically and hand him one list a day, from places he'd never think to look.
It worked. Within three weeks of the dashboard running, he'd picked up both voluntary and paid work he wouldn't otherwise have found. What started as a tool for one photographer is now a live dashboard and phone app that keeps growing.
We scan job boards, listings, official fixtures and open government data - sources that are meant to be found. No private logins, no scraping accounts on your behalf.
The radar checks its sources twice a day and rewrites your dashboard in place. No manual refresh, no app to babysit.
If a scan finds nothing genuine, the dashboard says so. We'd rather show an empty state than invent a lead to look busy.
Friends and family who saw what he was using started asking whether the same idea could work for them - a wedding supplier chasing fairs and enquiries, a creative chasing public contracts. That's how Aisleside and Commission came about: the same engine, pointed at a new field.
Scoutside is still early-stage - currently a waitlist, with Pitchside (sports photography) furthest along. Aisleside (weddings & events) and Commission (public-sector work) are being opened one field at a time, in the order people ask for them. There's no big company behind this: it's run directly by the person building it, and the fastest way to reach that person is the contact page. See how we handle any data you share on the privacy page.