Scouts
How points & earnings work
This is the complete reference for the scout economy — the same numbers the app uses, published so nothing is hidden. Point constants are tuned live and any change is announced in-app; the current values are below. Gig platforms tend to bury this stuff in a help center and change it quietly. We'd rather you read it here, argue with it, and know exactly what a photo is worth before you take it.
Points
The point values follow one principle: new information pays more than repeat information. Confirming a truck we already know exists is useful — it keeps the record fresh — but it's worth less than documenting an asset nobody has photographed, which is worth less than putting an entire business on the map for the first time. The multipliers and bounties push in the same direction: the system pays extra wherever the ledger is blind, whether that's a neighborhood with no coverage or a sign nobody has confirmed in weeks.
Coverage gaps light up on your map as bounty hexes worth +50–150 bonus points until someone documents them.
One accepted capture a day keeps the streak alive: +10 points daily, doubling at day 7. Streak reminders are off by default — no nagging.
Two things worth knowing about how acceptance works. First, points land only when a submission is accepted — blurry shots, unreadable branding, and anything our fraud checks flag pay zero, and the app tells you why on-device before you even upload when it can. Second, newer scouts will see some submissions sit in “pending corroboration.” That's the trust system doing its job, not a rejection; the points arrive when another source confirms the asset. If nobody's submissions needed corroborating, the points of scouts who do honest work would be worth exactly as much as a fraud ring's.
Redeeming points
The anchor, not a guarantee — offer inventory varies by city, and points have no cash value.
Points redeem for coupons funded by indexed local businesses. The offer wall in the app shows what's live in your city. Points have no cash value, are not a currency, and cannot be transferred or sold; redemption inventory varies by city.
Why coupons and not cash? Because the loop is the point. Businesses on the index fund reward offers as their marketing spend, which means the reward pool grows with the number of businesses that find the index useful — and every redemption walks a scout through the door of a business the scouts themselves documented. Redemption is simple in practice: you spend points on an offer, get a short single-use code in your wallet, and the business checks the code at the counter. No printouts, no expiring PDFs.
The real-money ladder
Cash is separate from points, and every mechanism is tied to revenue you personally cause — no proportional upload pools. We considered a pool model and rejected it on paper: at early revenue it pays everyone dust, it rewards volume spam over accuracy, and it turns every payout into an accounting argument. The three mechanisms below each trace to something specific you did.
The cash tier — trust ≥ 0.7 · Level 6 · ID verified (tap to toggle)
- Paid verification tasks — cash per commissioned ground-truth check; 14-day settlement with clawback.
- Finder's commission — 20% of first-year subscription revenue if a business you first documented claims and converts. Quarterly, KYC required, clawback on refunds.
- City prize pool — 10% of your city's monthly revenue, published on the city index page.
Exact conditions, spelled out
- Paid verification tasks — unlock at trust ≥ 0.7, Level 6, and ID verification. Cash per completed task; payouts settle on a 14-day window with clawback for failed audits. These are commissioned jobs — a client is paying for ground truth at a specific address, and you're the one holding the camera. The trust threshold exists because the client is buying your track record as much as the photo.
- Finder's commission — if a business you first documented later claims its record and converts to a paid subscription, you earn 20% of its first-year subscription revenue. Paid quarterly; KYC (identity + payout details) required before the first payout, tax slips where legally required, clawback if the subscription is refunded. A business you document may never claim or convert — then this pays nothing. The side effect we openly want: scouts who've documented a business have every reason to walk in and tell the owner they're on the index. That conversation is worth money to you.
- City prize pool — 10% of each city's monthly revenue funds that city's reward pool (leaderboard-tier prizes + subsidized coupon inventory). The amount is published on each city's index page, so you can check for yourself whether the pool matches the percentage. If the city earns nothing in a month, the pool is nothing — that's the honest flip side of a pool that scales automatically as the city grows.
The numbers, as a table
| Event | Points |
|---|---|
| Accepted observation of a known asset | 25 |
| First-ever documentation of a new asset | 100 |
| First-ever documentation of a new business | 250 + permanent “First documented by” credit |
| Coverage-gap bounty cell | +50–150 bonus |
| Stale-asset re-verification | 3× base |
| Daily streak (≥1 accepted/day) | +10/day, ×2 at a 7-day streak |
| Redemption anchor | 500 pts ≈ a $10-off coupon |
| Rejected or fraudulent submission | 0 — repeated fraud means trust loss and a ban |
One caution on reading this table: the constants are tuned live, from a server-side config, and we reserve the room to adjust them as real cities produce real data. What doesn't change: points already earned stay earned, changes are announced in-app before they take effect, and this page always shows the values currently in force.
The honest part
We publish no income projections, because we don't know what you will earn and neither does anyone else. Pre-launch and in a new city, expect points, not paycheques: cash mechanisms only pay out when real revenue exists in your city. Anyone promising you gig income from a product that hasn't launched is lying to you, and we'd rather lose a signup than start the relationship that way. Full legal terms — including points policy, payout conditions and clawbacks — are in the Terms of Service (sections 9–10).