# Opportunity scout
Source: https://docs.aden.space/docs/help/more/opportunity-scout

From a leads board, brief an agent for one artist (shows, sessions, sync, a label, press, a brand, somewhere, sometime) and it fills a Suggested column with who to contact, why, how the artist is already connected, the channels it found published, and a drafted first message. Adding a suggestion writes a real lead with its contact, notes, draft and a dated follow-up.
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## What it is [#what-it-is]

Finding who to contact is the slow part of getting an artist booked, signed,
placed or covered. The scout does that part. On **Leads**, press **Find
opportunities**, say which artist, what you are after, where and when, and
add any constraints in your own words. A few minutes later a **Suggested**
column appears on the board.

Each suggestion is one company: a venue, a festival, a booking agency, a
studio, a label, a supervisor, a magazine or a brand. Open it to see why it
fits, how the artist is already connected to it through people on Aden, the
contact channels that were actually found published, the pages that back it
up, and a drafted first message with the artist's press kit link.

**Add lead** turns it into an ordinary lead in New, with the person on it, the
evidence in the notes, the draft on the timeline and a follow-up dated
tomorrow, so it shows up on your follow-ups the next morning. A shows brief
on an organisation also opens a show prospect on Prospecting; a sync brief
also opens a card on the sync board. **Skip** keeps that target from coming
back for the same brief.

Switch on **Every week** and the brief runs again by itself until you switch
it off. Earlier briefs stay listed in the sheet with what they produced,
so you can run one again or stop it.

With a Gmail inbox connected, a suggestion also says when you last emailed
that company. Each draft carries a score out of 100 with what to fix.

Nothing is contacted. The scout finds and drafts; you send.

## Writing a good brief [#writing-a-good-brief]

* **Where** is what the scout searches around. A country, a city or a region.
* **When** goes into the drafts as the ask. Leave it empty for "any time".
* **Constraints** are read as instructions. Capacity, fee floor, which genres
  to lean on, who not to contact.