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Scout by Arbor · For contractors and trades

Stop Spending Hours Calling Suppliers for Pricing and Lead Times

Text your material list to Scout. It handles the outreach to local yards, regional distributors, and direct manufacturers, delivering real quotes, firm delivery dates, and purchase paperwork straight back to your phone.

Give Scout your first job

Tell Scout what you need. You'll text it once to confirm your number, then every update comes to your phone.

Free trial: one job, up to 3 supplier calls. Scout calls suppliers anonymously and never orders or pays.

See it work

Scout handles it.

  1. 01

    Text your material list.

    Type it, snap a photo of the takeoff, or forward a quote. No app, no dashboard.

  2. 02

    Scout gets to work.

    It reads the list, finds the suppliers who actually carry it, and checks stock.

  3. 03

    It works the phone.

    Scout calls yards, distributors and manufacturers anonymously. It never orders or pays in your name.

  4. 04

    Quotes back on your phone.

    Real prices, firm delivery dates and the paperwork, with where every number came from.

Scout

iMessage

You: Handwritten material list on a legal pad

Can you get this delivered to 95112 by Thursday?

Scout:

On it. 220 sheets of 5/8 Type X, 12 boxes of screws, 40 pails of mud. Checking yards near the job.

Later

Scout:

Called four yards. Two have all 220 and can deliver Thursday. One needs until Monday.

Scout: Drywall stock at the yard

Best: Valley Building Supply, $16.40 a sheet, $95 delivery, Thursday AM. They sent a photo of the stock.

Valley Building Supply quote.pdfPDF document
You:

Perfect. I’ll call them to lock it in.

Illustrative conversation
  1. 01

    Sign in with your work email.

    Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 on your company domain.

  2. 02

    Add your mobile number.

    Text the 6-digit code to Scout to connect your phone.

  3. 03

    Text Scout your first job.

    A quote, a list, a photo. Start with one task.

Ready to get it handled?

Create your Scout account with your work email.

Work email only. Personal Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo and iCloud addresses are not accepted.

Scout asks to read and send email from that mailbox so it can find your business contacts and, only with your consent, act for you. By continuing you agree to the Terms and Privacy policy.