Index the tape, score each clip against the rubric your scouts wrote, and assemble the evidence behind a name — the scout of record still decides which players go forward.
Ingest match footage, fixture data and the club's rubric from supported video, tracking or recruitment sources.
02
Normalise fixture, minute and position labels, and carry each observation forward with the clip it came from.
Reason
03
Index the tape into timestamped events a scout can jump straight to.
04
Apply the evaluation rubric the club's recruitment staff wrote, criterion by criterion.
05
Bind each rubric score to the clips that support it, and mark where the tape is thin.
Decide
06
Flag inferences the tape cannot carry — intent, character, mentality, coachability.
07
Route every evaluation to the scout of record for sign-off.
Out
08
Retain the clips, the rubric scores, the scout's amendments and the sign-off on the player record.
09
Execute write actions only inside the approval boundaries agreed during implementation.
→Product statement
The agent orders evidence; the scout of record decides — and the players it passes over generate no data to correct it with.
Example workflow
One prospect, tape to sign-off
AgentHuman
1Tape receivedMatch feed, tracking export, agency footage or a scout's upload
2Evidence assembledFixture, minute, opposition, position and prior reports, each kept with its clip
3Rubric appliedCriterion scores, supporting clips, flagged lines and confidence
4Controls appliedRubric checks, the jurisdiction rules configured for the club, prohibited-inference blocks and confidence threshold
No human action required
Stages 1 to 4 run unaided, and no player is ranked or cut at any of them — the agent orders evidence, and the scout's lane opens at the confidence gate.
5DecisionDivides at the confidence threshold
High confidence
Goes to the scout of record to sign.
Low confidence
Adds a second scout's read first.
Scout sign-off
The evaluation is held with its clips, its flagged lines and the confidence.
Accept · Amend · Send to second read
Signed — added to the report▼
6Recruitment record updatedOnly where write access and approval policy allow it
7Outcome evaluatedAmend rate, flagged-line outcomes, slice coverage and post-window corrections
Amendments
Every scout amendment is counted in the evaluation.
What should not run autonomously
Human approval stays in control
Outside the boundary — human approval required8 items
Ranking talent, or placing players in order of ability.
Writing an adverse note into a recruitment record.
Anything that reaches a contract or trade decision.
Cutting or removing a name from a shortlist.
Automation boundaryAgent acts unaided
✓Index match footage into timestamped events, searchable by fixture.
✓Score each clip against the rubric the club's scouts wrote.
✓Bind each criterion score to the clips that support it.
✓Assemble the evidence pack, and hold it for the named scout of record.
Any write happens inside the boundaries agreed at implementation, never ahead of the scout.
Inferring character, mentality or coachability.
Extracting face geometry to identify a player.
Combining medical or load data into an evaluation.
Changes to the rubric, thresholds or approval rules.
Example output
One prospect report, annotated
Everything the agent scores is attached to the clip it was drawn from.
Evaluation output · single prospectIllustrative example
Prospect
Rubric line
Evidence
Source of tape
Confidence
Reported slice
U18 winger, trial
Receives on the half-turn under pressure and releases first time
Six clips
Club match footage
89%
Birth quarter and maturity noted
As receivedTaken from the club's footage and the clips cited — nothing on this side is inferred by the agent.
Evidence citedTimestamped match clipsPrior scouting reportsFixture and minute data
Why this scoreIt is what the clips show against one rubric criterion — not a view on the player.
ActionAcceptAmendSend to second read
What the score decidesBelow the configured threshold the evaluation picks up a second scout's read before sign-off.
Value
Where AI adds value
The same four claims, placed at the point in the workflow where each one applies.
Where the value landsValue 01 – 04
Every prospectFrom the club's tape
03Evaluation
Score against the rubric
Work from the clips on file and the rubric the club's recruitment staff signed.
01Approved path
Order the tape, not the verdict
Routine rubric scoring arrives already bound to its clips.
02Human review
Send the read where tape is thin
Flagged inferences and low-confidence lines are marked, so the scout's read starts where the tape will not carry it.
04Build an evidence trail
The evaluation, the footage it drew on and the scout who signed it stay on the report.
Integrations
Typical integrations
Five system groups connect to the same agent. Which of them are in scope is decided in discovery.
Video platformsHudl · Wyscout InStat · Veo · Catapult Vision
Late maturers and Q4 births are the players academy intakes under-count, and a player never signed leaves no outcome data. Nestack reports the scout-amendment rate by slice, not only in total.
Slice performance — reported separately, not only in aggregateIllustrative example
Slice
Failure rate
Lift
Lift vs. threshold
Status
Q4 births and late maturers
7.7%
3.6×
Review
Low-coverage competitions
4.9%
2.3×
Review
Trialists with no club record
3.4%
1.6×
Watch
Squad players on full tape
1.9%
0.9×
Normal
Bar: scout-amendment-rate lift vs. full-tape baseline · scale 0–4.0× · tick marks the 2.0× review threshold2 of 4 slices over threshold
Evidence-linked improvement
Where a missed evaluation ends up
The cycle ends when a case exists in the suite, not when the miss has been discussed. That suite is what the next report off the tape is measured against.
Improvement cycle · five stagesSwitchback — the path turns at Improve and returns at Learn
01Detect
Scout-amendment rate rises in a prospect cohort.
02Diagnose
The report is the unit — read back against the clips it cites until one cause is left.
03Improve
Changes carry a version and the reports that prompted them.
04Verify
Release is held until the affected cases pass.
05Learn
The case is kept permanently, and the evaluation rubric moves with it.
Learn → DetectThe return edge. The next miss is read against a suite one case longer.
Typical build scope
Twelve workstreams across six weeks
The build scope read against the delivery timeline. Week structure follows the six-week plan — discovery, sources, evaluation workflow, testing, integration, then production validation and handover.
WorkstreamWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6
01Scouting workflow discovery and boundary definition.
02Video, tracking and recruitment assessment.
03Evaluation rubric, slice and jurisdiction-rule mapping.
04Footage ingestion and clip normalisation.
05Rubric logic and clip-to-score binding.
06Confidence scoring and second-read routing.
07Sign-off and disclosure workflow.
08Video and recruitment-system integration.
09Rank-consistency cases.
10Guardrails and review controls.
11Evaluation-trail instrumentation.
12Deployment, documentation and Agent Care handover.
12 workstreams · 6 weeks · bar shows the weeks a workstream is active — several run in parallelFinal scope and sequence confirmed in discovery
Engagement tiers
What each tier includes
Rows are the capabilities named in each tier's scope. Higher tiers include everything below them.
Capability✓ in scope · — not at this tierPilotOne squad, one competitionProductionProduction recruitment systemsAdvancedMultiple leagues / regions
Introduced at Pilot
Scoring to your rubric and slices✓✓✓
Scout sign-off✓✓✓
Rank-consistency baseline✓✓✓
Introduced at Production
Reporting by cohort and birth quarter—✓✓
Sign-off workflow in your systems—✓✓
Approved write-back—✓✓
Recruitment-system integration—✓✓
Introduced at Advanced
Multi-jurisdiction rule sets——✓
Multi-stage recruitment approvals——✓
High tape volume——✓
Multi-competition scouting controls——✓
Build priceFrom $5,000From $8,000Custom quote
Final build priceConfirmed after discovery based on integrations, workflow complexity, transaction volume, approval controls and deployment requirements.
Separate from buildBuild pricing is separate from recurring Agent Care, which covers managed monitoring, evaluations, incidents and verified improvements after launch.
What we need from you
What you bring, and what we build with it
Each input maps to a piece of build scope and a week in the delivery timeline.
You bringWe build with it
01Your rubric and its criterion definitions→Footage ingestion and clip-to-criterion mappingWeek 1
02Representative signed evaluations→Scoring baseline, rubric extraction and clip bindingWeek 2
03Your prohibited-inference list and target jurisdictions→Rubric, slice and per-jurisdiction rule mappingWeek 1
04Access to relevant APIs, feeds or exports→Video, tracking and recruitment assessment, then integration setupWeek 2
05Evaluations that came out inconsistent→Consistency cases and failure-mode testingWeek 4
06What must reach a scout before it counts→Confidence scoring, second-read routing and per-jurisdiction controlsWeek 3
07Named scouts of record to sign evaluations→Scout sign-off workflow, then pilot and production validationWeeks 5–6
Nothing else is requiredDeployment, documentation and Agent Care handover are ours.
Delivery timeline
Four phases across six weeks
The bands follow the actual work, which is why the fifth week doubles rather than pads.
PhaseW1W2W3W4W5W6
DiscoveryW1
BuildW2 – W3
EvaluateW4 – W5
Pilot & LaunchW5 – W6
Week focusW1Scouting workflow discovery, rubric mapping and the automation boundaryW2Source integration and the scoring baselineW3Evaluation workflow, confidence logic and sign-off controlsW4Evaluation suite, prohibited-inference checks and failure-mode testingW5Recruitment integration, pilot prospects and targeted correctionsW6One scouting window evaluated under the recruitment staff, then handover
Reading the bandEach bar covers the weeks its work is named in, and no others. The fifth week really carries two.
At the end of W6The window closes validation and Agent Care owns the running agent.
DurationSix-week plan shown · typical delivery 4–6 weeks depending on scope confirmed in discovery.
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