Prompt Library
Use these sample prompts as starting points for Scout.
Scout can handle many types of requests. These examples 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.
Module builds
Revenue build
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