Quick start: signup to your first pitch

This is the fastest path from signing up to having your first pitch in the queue. The whole thing takes a few minutes, and the agents do most of the work.

1. Sign up and meet Scout

After you create your account, Scout opens a short chat to learn about you. It takes about two minutes. Scout asks for your name, then asks about your creative work, who you want to work with, and what you charge. Most questions come with tappable suggested replies, and you can always type your own answer instead.

2. Review your pitch profile

When the chat wraps up, Scout turns your answers into a profile and shows it on the Your pitch profile screen. Check and edit any field — Name, Creator type, Gender, Portfolio link, Bio, Content specialties, Target brands & industries, and Collaboration goals — then press Find my brands. Penny uses this profile in every pitch she writes for you, so it is worth a quick read.

Scout searches the brand database while you answer one last question: how many deals you want to land and your rate per deal. Press I'm ready to see the brands that match you, then Continue.

3. Pick a plan

You will be taken to choose a plan so your agents can start working — see Verified contacts & plans.

4. Connect your email

Before anything sends, connect the inbox you want to send from. Open Settings, go to the Mailbox tab, and pick Gmail, Outlook, or Other Email (IMAP). Full steps are in Connecting your email.

5. Send your first pitch

On Overview, Scout recommends contacts at brands that match your profile. Hit Pitch on any of them to write and send one right now, or Add to outreach to queue it. The Outreach page holds your queue in the Queued tab, where you can review, edit, reorder, or skip pitches before they go out. When outreach is turned on, emails send automatically throughout the day, spaced out to protect your sender reputation. Once sent, they move to In Progress, and replies show up in your Inbox.

Tip: On plans with Autopilot, the queue fills itself with matched brands and Penny-written pitches, so you do not have to top it up by hand.