Weekly Recap: Febuary 21, 2025

This week, we've introduced several exciting updates to enhance your experience with Scout. From new integrations to improved user experiences, these changes are designed to streamline your workflows and provide more powerful tools at your fingertips.

Improved Monitoring & Security

• Enhanced monitoring and observability features to ensure better system performance and reliability.
• Implemented penetration testing improvements to bolster security measures.

Added Hubspot Integration

• Introduced Hubspot integration with three new blocks:
  • Get contact with activities.
  • Query contacts with filters.
  • Create contact.
• This integration allows AI developers to manage Hubspot data, enrich information, and build AI-enhanced Slack channels.

Added Exa.ai Integration

• Users can now leverage Exa.ai search results within their workflows.
• Enables AI agents and workflows to access powerful internet search capabilities with live crawling and cached results.
• Check out our template for generating expert stock analysis reports using AI: AI Stock Analysis Template.

Simplified Onboarding

• Refactored the onboarding experience by removing unnecessary steps to help users get started with Scout more quickly.

Improved Initial Workflow State

• Added a button to browse templates or pick a trigger in the blank workflow design.
• Provides a more intuitive first experience when building a workflow.

New Tutorial: Web Scraping with LLMs using GPT-4o, Deno & Scout SDK

• Learn how to automate web scraping with LLMs using Deno, Scout SDK, and GPT-4o.
• Scrape entire sitemaps, extract structured JSON, and process web content efficiently.
• Perfect for AI and data pipeline workflows. Read the tutorial.

Stay tuned for upcoming improvements in collections performance, onboarding experiences, and the integration of Copilot configuration into the workflow builder.