Founder fit, explained

How your profile turns into the colored number on every card.

The profile

The fit quiz builds your founder profile across seven dimensions: your sharpest craft plus the other crafts you can cover (engineering, design, marketing, sales, operations), weekly hours, budget, risk appetite, interests, audience preference and how you feel about selling. It takes about three minutes and Scout runs it conversationally. You can edit any answer later in settings.

The math, in plain words

Every idea carries a demand vector: how much of each craft it asks of its founder, how capital hungry it is, how long revenue takes, how regulated the space is, how much outbound selling the audience requires and whether it sells to businesses or consumers. For researched ideas that vector is derived from the same measured sub-metrics behind the Opportunity Score - not asserted by hand.

Fit measures the distance between that vector and you, weighted by what actually blocks founders: skill coverage weighs most, then capital, then time - an interest mismatch costs you the least. The result is 0 to 100, colored green above 70, amber above 45, red below. Next to the number you see the factors that drive it, strongest match and widest gaps first.

Anti-fit is a feature

Scout will also show you your worst matches on request. Reading why an idea does not fit you is often the fastest way to understand your own constraints. Honesty here is deliberate: a database that only ever says yes is an ad, not an advisor.