Built inside football. For football.
A platform born from work on the ground and from the real need to organise scouting.
How it started
In 2022, during his master's thesis in Computer Engineering, we studied how scouting departments in Portugal actually operate day to day. S.C. Beira-Mar — a historic club — was the partner and the real case study.
What we found was familiar chaos: ratings scattered across Excel sheets, reports lost in email threads, no standard way to track players across age groups, and scouts working in silos with no shared structure. It wasn't a Beira-Mar problem — it was a Portuguese football problem.
The thesis became the blueprint. By the time the degree was done, there wasn't only academic research — there was a product vision. ScoutD came from that research: a platform built to solve the operational problems scouting departments face every day.
“The thesis became the blueprint. The problem was real. The solution had to be too.”
Partnership and case study: S.C. Beira-Mar.
Our mission
ScoutD is not a generic data analytics tool. It is an operational scouting management platform, built for people who observe, coordinate and decide from information collected in the field.
The goal is simple: give scouts and clubs a more organised, private and consistent way to manage athletes, matches, observations and reports.
What guides us
Built on the ground
ScoutD was born from real research with a real club — not from assumptions.
Operations first
Focus on day-to-day management — athletes, matches, reports, scouting requests and history — not vanity metrics.
Privacy and trust
Your players' and scouts' data is yours. Always. Built with GDPR in mind from day one.
The path so far
2022
Master's in Computer Engineering. Partnership with S.C. Beira-Mar. The problem identified.
2022/2023
First prototype. The thesis becomes a product.
2024
Platform in active development. First conversations with clubs and sector partners.
2025
Development and preparation: solidifying the product before a public demo.
2026
Demo ready and available. This is the year we present ScoutD to clubs, federations, agencies, and academies.
Want to be part of this story?
If you are a scout or run a scouting department and want to see whether ScoutD fits your context, get in touch.