About CapScout
capscout.ai · updated October 5, 2026
CapScout (capscout.ai) is an AI acquisition platform for investors and the firms that help them buy residential investment property on the open market: agents, brokerages and property managers with investor clients. You search a market by the return you need, such as a minimum cap rate or rent-to-price ratio, and only listings that clear it come back, with an AI underwriting of the homes you pick and a negotiation target worked out from each listing’s leverage. Firms send that analysis to clients under their own brand. It is free to start; the Team plan is $129 a month for three seats.
Is CapScout legit?
It's paid software you can try without talking to anyone first. Each line here is something you can check before you put a client's details into it.
- Try it
- A free account comes with 500 credits and needs no credit card.
- Client data
- Your firm controls its clients' data and CapScout processes it on your behalf, under the data processing terms in section 7 of our Agent & White-Label Terms.
- Where it runs
- CapScout runs on US servers. The providers we use are named in the Privacy Policy.
- Payments
- Payments run through Stripe. Monthly plans have no contract and no cancellation penalty.
- Legal
- Our Terms and Privacy Policy are published. CapScout is a sole proprietorship operating under New York law.
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- Capterra
- Support
- Write to info@capscout.ai or use the contact form. You'll get a reply within one business day.
- Domains
- Our website is capscout.ai, and our email is sent from getcapscout.com.
Who built CapScout?
CapScout is built by investors who buy, own and manage rental property themselves. It started as the tool we wanted for our own acquisitions: a search that returns only listings at or above our cap rate, with a written underwriting of each before we spend an afternoon on it.
So the search won't run without a return floor: a minimum cap rate or rent-to-price ratio, or for a flip a maximum price as a share of ARV. Each analysis gives a negotiation target and says where the evidence is thin.
What “clears” means
A 7% cap, after vacancy, maintenance, management, tax, insurance and HOA, is roughly rent at 1.0–1.1% of the price.
What does CapScout do for a property manager?
CapScout for property managers →It finds each owner their next purchase on the open market, so the new door stays under your management. You save each owner's buy box and CapScout checks every active listing against it. Each match arrives with its ScoutScore band, and one tap runs the full underwriting: rent estimate, cash flow, cap rate, risks and a negotiation target.
Before it goes to the client, you pick which sections they see and add your own take above the analysis. It goes out as a branded report or a deal room on your firm's capscout.ai subdomain.
Where do the numbers come from?
Every analysis names its sources. It's an underwriting opinion meant to speed up your own due diligence. It isn't an appraisal or investment advice.
Sources
- Values
- Nearby comparable listings, active and recently off the market, with asking prices counted for less and outliers removed
- Rents
- Nearby comparable rentals with a range, checked against HUD fair-market and Census rent levels; an outlier is flagged and its confidence lowered
- Flood
- FEMA flood zones
- Growth
- FHFA home-price appreciation
How does CapScout handle client data?
Read the Privacy Policy →- Your firm stays the controller of your clients' information; CapScout processes it on your behalf.
- We don't sell personal information or use it for targeted advertising.
- Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and access to it is restricted. The service providers we use are vetted, under contract and named in the Privacy Policy.
- Under the AI provider's terms, your data isn't used to train its public models.
- You can export or delete your account data at any time.
CapScout reviews
CapScout is new, and customer reviews will appear on our Capterra profile as they come in.
What CapScout is not
It isn't a property management system, a brokerage, or a lender, and it doesn't make offers on anyone's behalf. It covers rentals and flips on listings currently for sale. Commercial real estate and short-term-rental revenue forecasting are outside its scope.
How much does CapScout cost?
Free to start. Individual use runs on credits, with one-time packs and monthly plans. The Team plan for firms is $129 a month for three seats, then $39 for each extra seat. See pricing for the details.
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