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Scouting searches over 300 million professional profiles to find people who match a description you provide in plain English. You describe who you’re looking for, and Slant returns a list of matching profiles with contact information that you can import directly as prospects. Each result includes a match score showing how well the person fits your criteria, along with their current role, education, and location. When you import a result, Slant creates a new prospect record with their name, job title, LinkedIn profile, email, and phone number.
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Open Scouting

Click Scouting in the sidebar under Platform.
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Describe who you're looking for

Type a natural language description in the search field. Be specific about the type of person you want to find — include details like profession, location, age range, industry, or interests.
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Start the search

Click the search button or press Enter to begin. You can also click the microphone button to dictate your search using voice input. The search typically takes a few minutes to analyze profiles and return up to 30 matches.
Your search runs in the background. You can leave the page and come back — click any report in the Recent scouting reports list to check on progress or view results.
If you’re not sure what to search for, try one of the Suggested searches shown below the search field. These example queries demonstrate the kind of natural language descriptions that work well.

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Writing effective searches

Scouting works best with specific, descriptive queries. Include details that narrow down your ideal prospect:
  • Demographics — age range, marital status, family situation
  • Location — city, state, metro area, or region
  • Profession — job title, industry, employer type
  • Education — school, degree, field of study
  • Interests — hobbies, affiliations, community involvement
For example, “University of Texas faculty in their 40s and 50s” or “Blue-collar business owners in northern Georgia” are more effective than broad queries like “wealthy people.”

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Understand your results

When a search completes, the results page shows each matching profile in a table with four columns:
  • Prospect — name, location, and professional headline. Click the name to open their LinkedIn profile.
  • Current role — job title, company, and dates.
  • Education — school, degree, and years attended.
  • Criteria match — a visual score showing how well the person matches your search.

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Search progress

While a search is running, a progress banner shows the current stage:
  • Searching — converting your query into search filters
  • Filtering — refining results to find the best matches
Results appear as they are found, so you can start reviewing profiles before the search finishes. The progress banner disappears once the search is complete.

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Match scores

Each result includes a match score displayed as a circular chart. The score shows how many of the search criteria the person matched, displayed as a fraction (for example, 4/5 means four out of five criteria matched). Hover over the match score to see the full breakdown. Each criterion shows:
  • A green checkmark for criteria the person meets
  • A yellow question mark for uncertain matches
  • A red X for criteria the person does not meet
Each criterion includes a brief explanation of why the person did or did not match.

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Import a prospect

When you find someone you’d like to add to your book, click Add as prospect on their row. Slant enriches the profile with email and phone data, then creates a new prospect record with:
  • First and last name
  • Job title
  • LinkedIn profile link
  • Email address (when available)
  • Phone number (when available)
The new prospect is automatically tagged “From Scouting Report” so you can find all prospects that came from scouting.
If someone with the same LinkedIn profile or email address already exists in your book, the import is flagged as a duplicate and the profile is not imported again.

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Import status

After clicking Add as prospect, the profile goes through a brief enrichment process. The status updates in real time on the profile row:
  • Enriching email and phone — Slant is looking up contact information for the profile
  • Already added to Slant — the prospect was successfully imported. Click the name to open their record.
  • If a matching person already exists in your book, the import is skipped and a message explains why
  • If the import fails for another reason, an error message appears on the row

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Import credits

Each book has a monthly limit on how many scouting profiles can be imported. One credit is used each time you import a prospect. Credits reset at the beginning of each calendar month. The number of remaining credits is displayed at the top of the results page. When you run out of credits, the Add as prospect button is disabled and shows “Out of credits.”
Credits are only used when you import a profile. Running searches does not use any credits.

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FAQ

Scouting searches across over 300 million professional profiles, primarily sourced from LinkedIn and other public professional data. The search is powered by AI to match your natural language description against these profiles.
Each search returns up to 30 matching profiles. If you need more results, try running a new search with a slightly different description.
Each search query must be unique. If you enter a query you’ve already used, Slant won’t create a new search — open the existing report from the Recent scouting reports list instead.
You can still run searches and view results, but you won’t be able to import new prospects until your credits reset at the start of the next month. Contact your admin if you need your credit limit increased.

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Next steps

Prospects

Learn how to manage the prospects you’ve imported from scouting.

Sequences

Set up automated outreach to engage your new prospects.