Get paid to notice your city

Photograph branded trucks, storefronts, and signs through the StreetProof app, build your scout reputation, earn points you redeem for real rewards at local businesses — and once you're trusted, take paid verification jobs. You're building the public record of which businesses are actually real.

What scouting actually looks like

No shifts, no quotas, no territory you have to defend. You walk to the coffee shop and pass a plumber's van you've never seen in the app. You open the camera, frame the wrap, shoot. The app checks blur and exposure on the spot and tells you if the shot is usable before you walk away. That's the whole job.

Behind that one photo, our pipeline blurs any faces and plates, reads the branding, matches it to a business, and — if it holds up — mints a permanent observation in the public ledger. You get points the moment it's accepted. If you were the first person ever to document that business, your handle goes on its public record. Permanently. Someone looking that business up in five years will see your name on it.

Most scouts don't go out “scouting” at all. They shoot what crosses their path — the commute, the dog walk, the school run — and check the bounty map when a glowing cell happens to be nearby. Bounty cells are neighborhoods where our coverage is thin, and they pay extra precisely because nobody's been there. Stale-asset pins work the same way: a sign we haven't seen in 47 days is worth 3× to whoever confirms it still exists. The map literally tells you where your camera is worth the most.

How earning works

Points turn into things you actually want. Local businesses on the index fund coupon offers as their marketing spend, and you buy those offers with points — 500 points is roughly a $10-off coupon at a business in your city. Your redemption wallet holds the codes; the business checks the code at the counter and sees a green check with your handle. Points are not a currency and never convert to cash — cash is a separate track with its own rules, and it's always tied to revenue you personally caused. A business you documented first claims its record and subscribes? You get 20% of its first year. One photo of the right unclaimed storefront can pay you for twelve months.

How earning works — the full points & cash reference →

See who's leading in your city on the scout leaderboards.

The trust ladder

StreetProof runs on trust that's earned, measured, and slow to give. Every scout has a trust standing the system computes from their track record — how often their submissions get accepted, and how often other sources later confirm what they photographed. It rises slowly. It falls fast. One confirmed fabrication costs more trust than months of good work built, and triggers a review of everything you submitted in the prior 90 days.

Notice what this means in practice: your camera becomes more valuable the longer your track record holds up. A trusted scout's observation can itself corroborate a newer scout's — you become part of the verification machinery, and the paid work follows from that, not from seniority or luck.

The rules that keep it honest

Some of our rules will feel strict. They are, on purpose. If cheating StreetProof were easy, your points would be worth nothing — anyone with a script and a photo folder could out-earn every real scout in the city. The rules below exist so that an accepted observation actually means something, which is the only reason businesses fund rewards and clients pay for verification in the first place.

The blunt version: every one of these rules makes a specific scam expensive. That expense is your moat. Scouts on platforms without anti-fraud discover the same thing eventually — the rewards get devalued because half the “work” was fake. Ours won't be, and this is how.

StreetProof anywhere

You can join from any city in the world. If your city isn't indexed yet, it runs in waitlist mode: you can browse the map and the globe, and your signup reserves a Founding Scout spot. Cities launch when local demand and coverage economics line up — and waitlist signups are literally the launch-priority signal. When your city launches, waitlisted scouts get first access and Founding Scout status. We don't promise launch dates; the queue is honest and demand-driven.

Waitlist FAQ

Why join before launch

Straight answer: because the earliest scouts get the most durable advantages, and we're honest about which those are. Founding Scouts keep a permanent 1.25× points multiplier — not for a season, for the life of the account. They get a Founding Scout badge, early app access, and a name credit in the launch study, the report we put in front of press when the index goes live.

There's also a first-mover fact baked into the economy itself. The 250-point first-documentation credit and the 20% finder's commission both go to whoever gets there first, and at launch, everything is undocumented. The scout who photographs a city's main commercial strips in week one claims first-documented credits that everyone after them can never get. We won't dress this up as a job — pre-launch there are no paycheques, and we publish no income projections because nobody honest can. But the land grab is real, and it only happens once per city.

The app launches with the index. Until then, join the Founding Scouts to reserve your spot and a permanent 1.25× points multiplier.