About Scouq
The real estate intelligence platform we wished existed
Built on public data. No MLS required. Free to start. Designed for the investor who does their own homework.
Why
The problem with every other real estate tool
The consumer platforms (Zillow, Redfin, Realtor.com) are built for homebuyers and sellers, not investors. They hide the public data that actually matters for deal analysis: assessor records, ownership history, vacancy signals, off-market leads. That data exists. It is public. They just do not surface it because their revenue comes from agent leads, not investor tools.
The professional platforms (CoStar, PropStream) are expensive, dated, and built for brokers and institutional buyers. The pricing signals who they are designed for. A $500/month tool is not for the individual investor screening 20 leads on a Saturday afternoon.
BiggerPockets has great community but weak analysis tools. The deal calculators are basic and disconnected from live property data.
None of these are wrong exactly. They do what they were designed to do. What was missing was a tool designed for the serious individual investor: someone who does their own underwriting, wants real data fast, and should not need a brokerage account to access public information.
How
Public data, properly assembled
Every piece of data that matters for deal analysis is already public. County assessors publish parcel records, ownership history, and assessed values. OpenAddresses normalizes addresses across the country. HUD and USPS publish vacancy signals. County courts publish foreclosure notices and probate filings.
Scouq writes custom connectors for each data source, normalizes everything into a consistent schema, and runs a deal-scoring model across the result. No data licenses. No MLS scraping. Pure public record, updated continuously.
The data layer runs in Rust for speed and safety. ClickHouse handles the analytical queries (filtering 135 million properties by price, strategy, and motivation signal in under a second). Supabase handles everything user-facing: accounts, saved deals, and real-time sync. The AI analysis runs on Groq, fronted by a server-side proxy so keys never touch the client.
No build tool. No framework. Static HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, deployable in one command. The constraint forces clarity.
Who
Built by one person, for a community
Scouq was built by Miles Dirmann, a data engineer who wanted better tools for his own real estate investing and ended up building a platform.
Miles spent a decade in data engineering before turning his attention to real estate investing. He built Scouq over 15 weeks to solve the analysis problem he kept running into: too much time pulling data from disparate sources, not enough time actually analyzing deals. He lives and invests in the United States.
Press
Coverage and mentions
Press mentions
Coverage coming soon
We launched in May 2026. Press coverage and media mentions will be listed here as they appear.
Media inquiries: press@scouq.com · Full press kit
Investors
Investment information
Fundraising
Raising a pre-seed round
Scouq is currently founder-funded. We are exploring a SAFE note round to accelerate county coverage and the mobile apps. If you are an investor aligned with the OSS-first, public-data approach, we would like to talk.
Investor inquiries: invest@scouq.com
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