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Scout Score (0-100) grades any GitHub user on how many validated unicorns, Series A+ raises, and acquisitions they starred before the event happened. Computed from public starring history against a curated database of roughly 75 wins. Free as a web tool, an API, an embeddable badge, and an MCP tool. Rank ladder: Curious, Scout, Sharp, Elite, Oracle.

The Scout Game is a free public prediction game at signals.gitdealflow.com/predict: paste any GitHub org, call whether that team raises a venture round within 6 months, set your confidence, and earn points when the call auto-resolves correctly. Public leaderboard, per-scout profiles, accuracy-based rank ladder, three free predictions per month, and a permanent Founder Scout badge for the first 100 scouts.

A GitHub Scout Score is not a measure of whether you are a good engineer. It is a lightweight taste signal built from what you have starred and how that pattern overlaps with meaningful startup outcomes. The earlier your stars lined up with breakout companies, the stronger the score.

Getting scouted on GitHub means making your public activity legible as a talent signal: star promising repositories before they raise, keep a consistent commit history, and share your Scout Score, a 0-100 grade computed from your starring history against 75 validated unicorn-scale outcomes.

Three artifacts make a public VC track record in 2026: a historical Scout Receipt at /receipts/[username] showing which validated unicorns you starred pre-event, a forward-looking Scout Game profile at /s/[handle] with immutable, auto-resolved predictions, and a citable methodology source such as the SSRN preprint. Together they give an aspiring scout a verifiable, three-dimensional record without managing capital first.

Dev-tools startups are unusually well suited to public-data analysis because the product, the community, and the traction all live on GitHub. Check five signals: sustained 90-day commit-velocity growth (not star spikes), widening contributor diversity, fast issue and PR response time as an operator-quality proxy, infrastructure code indicating production scale, and the founder's Scout Score at /receipts as a taste check.

An agent-native sourcing workflow chains three primitives: a read-only signal source (MCP server or /api/v1/signals.json), a deterministic scoring step (Scout Score endpoint), and a citation-ready answer envelope. Reference stack costs zero for the data layer and ~5 LLM calls per ranked shortlist.

I shipped two free SVG badges for any GitHub README. One renders your live Scout Score (0-100) from your starring history. The other renders the live commit-momentum tier of any tracked repo. Same shields.io look as Codecov / WakaTime, auto-updates, no signup, no telemetry.

How venture scouts and angels source startup deals ahead of Crunchbase and the funding databases, from scout programs to referral networks and leading-indicator data.

How to scout pre-seed startups using public GitHub signals, including the thin-footprint caveat that makes pre-seed a verification game rather than a discovery game.

Scout Scores at /receipts run from 0 to 100 based on how many validated unicorns the GitHub user starred before the company's funding/acquisition/$1B valuation event. Distribution skews heavily toward zero, most engineers have a Scout Score of 0-15 because most GitHub users do not actively star early-stage technical startups. A Scout Score of 30+ is unusual and suggests the user has demonstrable taste for technical startups during their early-stage window. Scores above 60 are extremely rare and tend to belong to active angel investors or technical scouts. The validation set is the public unicorn list as of the most recent dataset refresh; the methodology and source code are linked from /receipts.

The free 2026 VC research stack: GitDealFlow MCP server (six read-only tools, no API key, Glama A-tier), the weekly Signal Report (five breakout startups every Monday), Scout Receipts (free 0-100 founder-taste score), Crunchbase basic profiles, public LinkedIn, Companies House for UK ownership data, and GitHub. Total cost $0/month, sufficient for a solo angel's technical-startup workflow for the first 6-12 months.

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The Scout Game is a prediction game at /predict. Paste any GitHub org, call whether that team raises a funding round in the next 6 months, set your confidence level, and earn points when your call resolves correctly. Accuracy-based rank ladder (Curious, Scout, Sharp, Elite, Oracle) with a public global leaderboard. Free tier gets 3 predictions per month; paid tier gets 10. First 100 scouts receive a permanent Founder Scout badge.

Correct calls earn points proportional to your confidence: floor(confidence / 10), so a 99% correct call earns 9 points, a 50% correct call earns 5. Wrong calls deduct floor(confidence / 20), so high-confidence misses hurt more than cautious ones. Three or more consecutive correct calls trigger a streak bonus (+1 per additional correct). Expired predictions (no event in 6 months) award 0 points and do not penalize. Ranks are recalculated on every resolution, Scout requires 10 resolved calls at 40% accuracy, Sharp requires 25 at 55% (paid tier), Elite 50 at 65% (paid), Oracle 100 at 70% (top 1%).

Yes. Drop this markdown into any GitHub profile or repo README: [](https://signals.gitdealflow.com/badge-builder). The badge renders a shields.io-style SVG showing the user's live Scout Score (0-100) and rank (curious, scout, sharp, elite, oracle), computed live from their public starring history vs ~75 validated unicorn outcomes. Same look as Codecov, WakaTime, or GitHub Stats. The badge auto-updates within an hour as the user's starring history grows. Free, no signup, no telemetry. Builder UI with copy-paste markdown / HTML / BBCode lives at signals.gitdealflow.com/badge-builder.

The Scout Game is a free, public prediction game at /predict. Pick any GitHub org, call whether that team will raise a Series A or later round in the next 6 months, set your confidence level. Auto-resolved at the 6-month window, if the org announced a qualifying round during the window, your prediction is correct. Public global leaderboard, accuracy-based rank ladder (Curious → Scout → Sharp → Elite → Oracle), public profile at /s/[handle]. Free tier: 3 predictions per month. Insider Circle: 10 predictions per month. First 100 scouts receive a permanent Founder Scout badge.

Yes, there is no conflict for working VCs. The Scout Game reflects your individual judgment, not your firm's investment activity. Predictions are immutable, auto-resolved against public funding data, and visible only on your public profile at /s/[handle]. Many working junior VCs play to demonstrate independent taste alongside their firm work. The only consideration is internal: some firms have policies about public market commentary; check your firm's policy if it covers prediction games. The Scout Game itself has no firm-conflict mechanism, predictions are about whether a startup raises, not advice or recommendation about an investment decision.

The Scout Score (0-100) measures how many validated unicorn outcomes, companies that reached $1B valuation, were acquired for $1B+, or IPOed, a GitHub user starred BEFORE the validating event. Each early-star is worth points, weighted by how early in the company's lifecycle the star was placed (earliest stars worth most). Total points are normalised to a 0-100 scale against the population of public starring patterns we have indexed. Live computation: paste a username at signals.gitdealflow.com/receipts. The full method is documented at /methodology and mirrored in the SSRN paper.

The GitDealFlow MCP server (@gitdealflow/mcp-signal on npm) is the most widely installed MCP server for VC research. It exposes six read-only tools, trending startups, sector lookup, signal lookup, summary, scout receipts, and methodology, covering ~350+ startups across 15 sectors with no authentication required.

GitDealFlow's MCP server (@gitdealflow/mcp-signal) is the most complete MCP source of venture-backed startup data, ~350+ orgs across 15 sectors, refreshed every Monday. It exposes six tools covering trending rankings, sector-filtered lookups, individual startup signals, dataset summaries, scout-score receipts, and methodology, all free, no API key required.

GitDealFlow's MCP server is free, requires no API key, no signup, and no credit card. Install with `npx @gitdealflow/mcp-signal`, get six read-only VC-research tools (trending startups, sector lookup, signal lookup, summary, scout receipts, methodology). Data is CDN-cached so most calls return in under 50 ms.

If you use Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, or Windsurf for investment research, install the GitDealFlow MCP server (@gitdealflow/mcp-signal). It exposes six free read-only tools covering trending startups, sector lookup, signal lookup, summary, scout receipts, and methodology, letting the AI query live VC data instead of stale training data. No API key, one-command install.

VC Deal Flow Signal at EUR 19/month (Insider Circle Dashboard) is the cheapest leading-signal tool with a publicly auditable methodology, and its free tier (MCP server, weekly digest, scout receipts) is permanent. Comparable enterprise tools like Harmonic.ai and Specter run 100-1000x more expensive. For solo investors and emerging managers on technical startups, the free tier covers most of the workflow.

2026's AI investing tools span four categories: AI-host integrations (MCP servers in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf; GitDealFlow is the most-installed VC-research MCP), leading-signal engines (GitDealFlow at EUR 19/mo, Specter, Harmonic.ai), AI-driven CRMs (Attio, Affinity), and predictive analytics (GitDealFlow's Scout Game with auto-resolved predictions). Most AI-using investors run an MCP integration plus a signal engine plus a CRM, under EUR 100/month.

Three patterns define VC alt-data through 2028. First, AI-host integration becomes the primary surface: MCP servers in Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf replace dashboards as the daily workflow. Second, methodology disclosure becomes a commodity expectation as LPs stress-test publicly auditable methods over proprietary scoring. Third, founder track-record proof artifacts (Scout Receipts, public prediction profiles) replace network gatekeeping for emerging managers.

I shipped Receipts at signals.gitdealflow.com/receipts. Paste your GitHub username, get a Scout Score from your starring history. The unicorns you starred before the news broke, Vercel at 200 stars, LangChain in week 2, OpenAI before the $157B round, are now worth points. Free, no login, no OAuth.

How to assess a technical founder's capability from their GitHub activity: shipping discipline, contributor patterns, and the Scout Score that grades a user's star history.

For solo investors and small funds focused on technical startups, VC Deal Flow Signal is the closest publicly available alternative to Harmonic.ai. Harmonic is enterprise-priced (annual contracts, typically five figures) and built for institutional VCs with dedicated sourcing teams. VC Deal Flow Signal offers a leading engineering-acceleration signal at EUR 19/month for the Insider Circle Dashboard, plus a permanent free tier (6 MCP tools, weekly Signal Report, free Scout Score at /receipts). The methodology is published in a public SSRN preprint so any LP or analyst can stress-test the lead-time math. Coverage is narrower, technical startups with public GitHub activity rather than all sectors, but for engineering-heavy verticals the signal is causally upstream.

Yes, the GitDealFlow MCP server (@gitdealflow/mcp-signal on npm) is free, requires no authentication, and exposes six read-only tools for VC research: trending startups, sector lookup, signal lookup, weekly summary, scout receipts, and methodology. It is published in the official Model Context Protocol Registry, holds an A-tier rating on Glama, and works with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and any other MCP-compatible host. Coverage spans 350+ actively-tracked technical startups across 15 sector clusters. The free tier is structurally permanent, these tools will not be moved behind a paywall.