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Monitors
A monitor is one search that keeps running on a schedule. It belongs to a project, watches the platforms you pick, and puts what it finds in that project's inbox.
On SignalScout Cloud
Each project has one monitor, set up with the project in four steps. There is no budget, schedule or minimum score to set: your plan decides them, and the monitor page shows the schedule. See Plans and billing.
What a monitor does on each run
Create a monitor
Open the project and press New monitor. Five steps:
| Step | You decide |
|---|---|
| Product | Name the monitor. The project's answers are filled in; edit them for this monitor if you need to. |
| Signals | Which kinds of conversation matter. Pick at least one. |
| Sources | Which platforms to watch, and whether to Include replies and comments. |
| Search plan | The searches for each platform. SignalScout writes them; you can edit every phrase. |
| Schedule & budget | How often, which days, the monthly budget, and the minimum score. |
The signals you can pick:
- Asking for recommendations
- Looking for alternatives
- Complaining about their current solution
- Describing the problem
- Comparing products
- Ready to buy
- Looking to hire someone
Replies and comments
A person who describes the problem under somebody else's post is just as good a lead. Include replies and comments reads them too. It finds more people, but the model reads more text, so it costs more.
The search plan
Keep the searches focused. A short, specific phrase that people really write finds better conversations than a broad one, and costs less. Use plain phrases of at least two words; AND and OR are not supported. On Reddit you can also name subreddits to watch.
Schedule and budget
| Setting | Choices |
|---|---|
| How often | Every hour, every 3, 6 or 12 hours, once a day, once a week |
| Which days | Every day, weekdays, weekends, or the days you choose |
| Monthly budget | Required. The most the monitor may spend in a month, in dollars. |
| When it is reached | Pause the monitor, or Keep it, and start again next month |
| Minimum score to match | A post becomes a match at this score or above. Default: 30. |
A high minimum score hides leads
A post under the minimum is scored, paid for, and never shown. Start low, and raise the number only when your inbox has too much noise.
Before you start, press Test this plan to see what a month would cost. What it costs you explains the numbers.
The monitor page
Open a monitor from Monitors to see how it is doing.
- Current activity — what the monitor is doing now.
- Recent activity — every run: what it collected, what each filter kept back, and what the model scored. A run that was skipped says why.
- Search performance — for each search: posts, matches, best score. A search that finds posts but never a match costs money on every run. Delete it.
- Lead sources — which platforms and which kinds of post bring the best leads.
- Cost — spent this month and budget left. Every amount is an estimate.
Settings you can change later
Under Monitor settings: the schedule, the monthly budget, the minimum score, and Which posts the AI reads:
- Only the promising ones — the cheap filters decide first. Cheaper, and a few real leads may be missed.
- Every post found — the model reads everything. Costs more, misses nothing.
Pause stops a monitor and keeps its matches. Resume starts it again.