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€1 micro-tripwire
Most tweets praising "an incredible engineering team" or "crushing distribution" carry zero evidence. We extract the GitHub org being named or implied, run the seven-signal Scout methodology against it, and reply with three short paragraphs plus a frozen Scout Score card. One tweet per purchase. Refund if we can't match the org.
First 50 buyers locked at €1. After that, €5 per teardown.
The core claim
If you can extract one verifiable engineering signal from a viral tweet in under five minutes, you can read the next round 21 to 47 days before the deck circulates. Every part of that sentence is already a product on this site — the teardown is just the cheapest entry point.
What every €1 teardown includes
The org match
We read the tweet, identify the company / engineering team being discussed, and confirm the GitHub org. If the tweet is too vague to match, refund — no questions, no judgment.
The Scout Score card
Live composite of seven signals (commit velocity, contributor influx, infra buildout, star detachment, issue cadence, dependency adoption, founding-team visibility) over a 14-day window. Same card our €9.97/mo subscribers see, frozen for the day you bought.
The 3-paragraph written teardown
What the tweet's claim is, what the data actually shows, and where the gap is. No filler. No hedging. Written by a human, not a model — it carries our name.
The replication breadcrumb
Every claim links to a public GitHub URL or SSRN reference. You can re-derive the score in 10 minutes if you want to. The methodology is open-source CC BY 4.0 either way.
The 4-hour reply window
Drop the tweet at checkout, get the teardown back in your inbox within four business hours. Slower hours of the week (Friday evening UTC, weekends) may push to next-business-morning — never longer.
Sample teardown · format only, real org name redacted
Tweet: "the team at @[redacted] is shipping faster than any infra startup I've seen in years" Org match: github.com/[redacted-org] (verified — repo is the one named in their pinned tweet, README rewritten 2026-04-29). Scout Score (rolling 14d): 4 / 7 ✓ Commit velocity (+217% over 90d baseline) ✓ Contributor influx (5 new humans, bot-filtered) ✓ Infra buildout (3 new repos, pattern: terraform → CLI → demo) ✓ README freshness (substantive rewrite, "funded by" line added) ✗ Star detachment (stars tracking commits 1:1 — no viral spike) ✗ Issue cadence (close-time drifting up, not down) ✗ Dependency adoption (zero external dependents on flagship repo) Teardown: The shipping-velocity claim survives the data. The four signals above all fire in the same 14-day window, and the contributor list grew by a senior engineer who left a public Series-B fintech six weeks ago. The README rewrite added a "funded by" section, which usually means a round closes inside 21-47 days. The "any infra startup" framing is harder to defend. The issue- cadence drift suggests the team is shipping faster than they can absorb feedback — that's healthy at pre-seed and worrying at A. Stars-to-commits 1:1 means the velocity is real but unannounced (no Show HN, no Product Hunt). They'll either announce or they're staffing up for an enterprise close. Highest-leverage next move: pull the founder's email from the git log of [redacted-repo] (it's there) and send three lines referencing the new contributor's recent commit on [redacted- file]. Reply rate on that template is ~4× the rate on a deck- ask. The window is the next 14 days.
Risk reversal
If we can't match the tweet to a real GitHub org, instant refund. No questions, no judgment, no human in the loop required — reply "REFUND" to the receipt email and the €1 hits your card back inside an hour. Worst case you pay a euro for a sentence and we eat the Stripe fee.
Methodology
SSRN paper, n=219
Scout panel
4,200 venture-backed orgs
Free signal digest
Every Sunday
Honest objections, taken in order
Three short paragraphs of plain text. Paragraph one names the org and shows the live Scout Score. Paragraph two takes the tweet's specific claim ("shipping fast," "crushing distribution," "team of legends") and grades it against the seven-signal data. Paragraph three flags the highest-leverage thing to verify next — usually a public GitHub URL or a recent commit pattern.
Because the goal isn't revenue. €1 is the smallest amount Stripe will charge a card for. Payment friction is the filter. Anyone who pays €1 has signaled real intent — that's the audience we want to deliver to.
Refund. We refund any teardown where the org isn't traceable to a real public GitHub presence. We have a small backlog buffer to absorb the occasional vague tweet, but at €1 we'd rather refund than guess.
One tweet per €1 purchase. If you want a sweep of a sector or a Dream-100 batch, that's the €1,997 Sector Sweep — a different product entirely.
Private — sent only to the email used at checkout. We never publish a teardown without explicit permission. The aggregate Scout Score data IS public on the Dashboard, but the written teardown stays yours.
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€1 Tweet Teardown · €7 First Look Pass · €9.97/mo Dashboard · €97/mo Insider Circle · €1,997 Custom Sector Sweep