Prompt Library

Scout can handle many types of requests — the examples below just show the format and level of detail that tend to work well.

Copy a prompt as written, or adjust the company, metrics, period, or scope to fit your workflow.

Model section builds

Revenue schedule

Build me a detailed revenue build for GOOGL, with specific focus on the Google Services segment, including:

  • Search & Other advertising revenue
  • Cost-per-click and paid clicks growth metrics
  • YouTube Ads revenue
  • Ad impressions and pricing trends
  • Google Network revenue
  • Google Subscriptions, Platforms, and Devices revenue
  • Google Cloud revenue and growth rates
  • Other Bets revenue

Also show revenue by geography, including:

  • United States
  • EMEA
  • APAC
  • Other Americas

Include Traffic Acquisition Costs and TAC as a percentage of advertising revenue.

Operating expense analysis

Build me an operating expense analysis for CRM, including:

  • Total revenue
  • Cost of revenue
  • Gross profit
  • Subscription and support revenue
  • Professional services revenue
  • Research and development expense
  • Sales and marketing expense
  • General and administrative expense
  • Operating income

Calculate:

  • Gross margin
  • R&D as a percentage of revenue
  • Sales and marketing as a percentage of revenue
  • G&A as a percentage of revenue
  • Operating margin
Segment and KPI analysis

Build me a detailed analysis for META's Family of Apps segment, including:

  • Family of Apps revenue, split between advertising and other revenue
  • Reality Labs revenue
  • Family of Apps operating income
  • Reality Labs operating income

Also include these KPIs:

  • Family daily active people, or DAP
  • Ad impressions delivered, YoY change by region: Worldwide, US & Canada, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Rest of World
  • Average price per ad by region: Worldwide, US & Canada, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Rest of World

Industry models

Hyperscaler infrastructure comparison

Build me an industry comparison model for hyperscaler infrastructure. For MSFT, GOOGL, AMZN, and META, pull the last 8 quarters of:

  • Additions to property and equipment, or capex
  • Depreciation and amortization
  • Property and equipment, net
  • Total revenue

Calculate capex as a percentage of revenue for each company.

Cloud revenue comparison

Build me a cloud revenue comparison for MSFT, AMZN, and GOOGL.

For Microsoft, pull:

  • Intelligent Cloud segment revenue
  • Azure revenue growth in constant currency

For Amazon, pull:

  • AWS segment revenue
  • AWS operating income

For Google, pull:

  • Google Cloud revenue

Also include total company revenue for each company, and calculate cloud revenue as a percentage of total revenue.

Payments company comparison

Build me a comparison model for V and MA.

For Visa, pull:

  • Net revenue
  • Service revenues
  • Data processing revenues
  • International transaction revenues
  • Client incentives
  • Payments volume
  • Cross-border volume
  • Processed transactions

For Mastercard, pull:

  • Net revenue
  • Payment network revenue
  • Value-added services revenue
  • Rebates and incentives
  • Gross dollar volume, or GDV
  • Switched transactions


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