// about scoutrival

Marketing software is built
for marketing teams. Most businesses don’t have one.

ScoutRival watches your competitors, tells you what to do each morning, and writes it — so a plumber, a dentist or a two-person agency can market like they have a team, without hiring one.

// why this exists

Every tool in this category hands you a dashboard.

Traffic down 12%. Share of voice 4%. Three competitors published this week. Every one of those sentences assumes somebody is going to do something about it.

That somebody is a marketer, and they cost roughly $82,000 a year fully loaded — before a single tool. So the software gets sold to a plumber, priced for a plumber, and designed for an employee the plumber doesn’t have. The dashboard isn’t wrong. It’s just talking to a person who isn’t in the room.

Fig. 1 — Every other tool. 47 metrics, no verdict.
7:04 AM · Today’s brief

“Oak St. Dental just published pricing. Publish a price-transparency post by 2pm — you’re the only one in the postcode who hasn’t.”

Write it →
Fig. 2 — ScoutRival. One decision, and the work attached.

An example brief line. Yours is generated from your own competitors.

ScoutRival is built for the room as it actually is. It reads six channels of every competitor you name and at 7am tells you what moved, what it means, and the three things worth doing. Then it does them — the article drafted, the posts written, the publish button right there.

Not another place to look at numbers. The thing that closes the gap between knowing and doing, which is where small businesses quietly lose.

// the cost of not having it

There are only three ways to get this work done.

Buy a stack of tools. Hire an agency. Hire a person. Here’s what each actually costs — and what ScoutRival costs instead.

Five tools that don’t talk to each other.

What most owners actually end up with: an SEO suite, a separate AI-visibility add-on, a social tracker, a writing tool, and something to watch the competition. Four bills, four logins, four dashboards — and the job of stitching them together lands on you.

Prices from each vendor’s own public pricing page, July 2026.

The DIY stackto cover the same jobs
Semrush One · StarterSEO audit + AI visibility $199.00
Traffic & Marketto see what rivals publish $289.00
Social Toolkitcompetitor social tracking $20.00
Content Toolkit5 AI articles / month $60.00
Total / month$568.00
ScoutRival Pro — all of it$89

Someone else does it — and owns it.

An agency is the honest alternative, and for some businesses it’s the right one. But the SMB entry point is $1,500–$4,000 a month, you’re on a retainer, and the content, the site and the logins frequently live on their side of the fence. Everything ScoutRival makes is yours, on your WordPress, on your domain — cancel and you keep all of it.

Retainer band per published 2026 agency-pricing surveys.

The agencytypical SMB retainer, 2026
Monthly retainercontent + social + light SEO $1,500+
Onboarding / setupcommonly one-off $500+
Notice periodyou keep paying through it 30–90d
Who owns the worksite, content, logins Often them
Year one, from$18,500
ScoutRival Pro — a year$1,068

The cheapest marketing hire in America.

A marketing coordinator — the most junior person who could plausibly do this — earns about $57,000. But wages are only 69.9% of what an employer actually pays (BLS, March 2026), so the real cost is $81,748 a year — before a laptop or a single tool. And the median US role takes 44 days just to fill (SHRM, 2025), before anyone has done a day’s work.

Base: Indeed, Jul 2026. Loaded cost: BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, Mar 2026.

The hiremarketing coordinator · fully loaded
Base salaryIndeed, Jul 2026 $57,142
Benefits & payroll30.1% of total comp · BLS ECEC $24,606
Tools they’ll still needSEO suite, writer, scheduler $3,600
Time just to fill itmedian, SHRM 2025 44 days
Year one, from$85,348
ScoutRival Pro — a year$1,068
// how we decide

Three rules. No exceptions.

Not poster words — how every product, copy and pricing call actually gets made. Flip the column and see the difference.

What we say What the category says
01Sharp

One verdict, not seventeen “insights”.

We make the call so you don’t have to. A brief you can read in ninety seconds and act on before lunch.

“Synergize cross-functional alignment”
“Ship a price-transparency post by 2pm”
See what a brief actually says →
02Honest

We tell you when to buy a competitor.

Every comparison page names where the rival beats us and ends by saying when to buy them instead. It’s enforced in code — a page that can’t name a loss will not build.

A comparison table we win 14–0
“At one location, BrightLocal is cheaper than us.”
Read all 35 comparisons →
03Useful

If it doesn’t save you an hour, it doesn’t ship.

Beautiful dashboards that produce nothing are the enemy. Every feature has to end in work that’s actually done.

“Real-time analytics dashboard”
“Today’s brief — the article’s underneath.”
Everything we’ve shipped, dated →
// who builds it

ScoutRival is a product of Webefo LLC.

A small product studio. Not a team pretending to be big, and not a big team pretending to be small.

[email protected] A real person reads every message.
Every release we’ve shipped 16 in 6 weeks · no empty weeks · last shipped 12 days ago
today
13 Jun 13 Jul
What we refuse to build — and why
Review monitoring & management BrightLocal →
Citations, Google Business Profile, map-pack rank BrightLocal →
Sales battlecards & win-loss Klue →
CRM, invoicing, booking, payments Thryv →
See all 6, with the reasons →
// ready to try it?

Stop wondering what to post.

Add your competitors in five minutes. Your first brief lands tomorrow morning — even on the free plan. No card, no call, no commitment.