Scout Program is designed to find the world's best early-stage pickers and give them a public arena to prove it. The program makes venture investing competitive and social by creating a transparent platform where investors can demonstrate their skills with real capital.

Each season, 10 scouts receive $100K each to deploy into startups while building their thesis in public. Scouts create their own scout fund, name it, and nominate their investment thesis. They deploy capital across founders they believe in, with each investment representing a pick on their roster. Performance, portfolios, and outcomes are tracked transparently on a public leaderboard.

The program operates like Fantasy Sports for early-stage investing but with real money. Scouts compete solo or as trusted investing partnerships, placing high-conviction bets and climbing the leaderboard based on their investment performance. The system includes mentorship from top investors, limited partners, and operators who sharpen scouts' judgment.

Scouts keep 100% of the upside on their deals (20% of total profits) and build a track record that opens doors as investors and operators. Chapter One backs scouts' best deals alongside them, and investments, follow-ons, and Chapter One participation all update the season standings.

The program targets operators, angels, and investors with differentiated taste, access, and conviction. Ideal candidates are first believers rather than fast followers - founders or operators with deep founder empathy, product/engineering leaders with consumer intuition, investors championing non-consensus deals, connectors with access to outlier talent, or people embedded in niche internet corners.