If you searched this, you are doing exactly what you should do before paying an unknown internet company money and handing it your resume. Here is the honest, checkable answer — including the parts a sales page would leave out.
Who is behind Scout
Scout is built and operated by AgentCo, a small company based in India. It is an AI job-search agent built India-first: it searches Naukri, LinkedIn, iimjobs, Hirist, Instahyre, Indeed, Adzuna, and ATS boards like Lever, Ashby, and Greenhouse — plus international boards — scores every role against your profile, and tailors your resume per job description. Pricing is in INR, support is at hello@agentco.in, and the legal pages (terms, privacy, payment terms) are public on the site, not hidden behind a login.
Scout is not a giant venture-funded product with a support call centre. That cuts both ways: you get a product that actually understands Indian job boards and notice periods, and you get email support rather than 24/7 phone lines. We would rather you know that before paying.
How payment works
Every rupee Scout charges goes through Razorpay, an RBI-regulated Indian payment gateway. Your card or UPI details go to Razorpay, not to our servers — we never see or store your payment instrument. Subscriptions are standard Razorpay subscriptions you can cancel any time, and one-time purchases (the ₹299 web tailoring session, the ₹399 extension credit bundle) are ordinary one-off orders. Current prices are always on the pricing page.
The 7-day money-back policy
This is a real, written policy, not marketing: a first-time monthly subscription is refundable in full within 7 days of the first charge, once per customer. It is in the terms and payment terms on agentco.in. So the practical risk of trying the ₹599/month plan is one email within a week. Beyond that window, sales are final except where Scout fails to complete tailoring due to a technical error on our end — in which case we credit or correct.
What data leaves your machine — precisely, per surface
Most tools answer this question with a vague privacy-policy link. Scout ships a file called TRANSPARENCY.md inside the plugin that lists every endpoint it calls and exactly what each payload contains. Here is the summary, and the honest differences between surfaces:
| Surface | Where tailoring runs | Does your resume leave your machine? |
|---|---|---|
| Plugin on Claude Code | Locally, on your machine | No. Your resume and every tailored version stay on disk. Only run stats, application rows (company, title, URL, score, status), your digest text, and a SHA-256 hash of each tailored file sync to the server — the hash lets support match records, the file itself is never uploaded. |
| Plugin on GitHub Copilot CLI | On AgentCo’s server | Yes. Copilot CLI cannot run the tailoring model locally, so Scout sends your resume text and the job description to our server and returns the tailored files. If you do not want that, run Scout in Claude Code. |
| Scout Web | On AgentCo’s server | Yes, by design — it is a web product. You upload your resume; tailoring happens server-side. |
| Chrome extension | On AgentCo’s server (credit-based) | Yes — the extension sends the job page content and your resume for tailoring, which is what a credit pays for. |
| MCP connector (ChatGPT/Claude) | n/a — discovery and scoring only | No resume involved at all: only the search parameters and job list your chat passes in. No account, no email. |
Other things that never leave your machine on the plugin: your ATS account credentials, your Gmail contents (job-alert emails are read locally), your browser sessions and cookies, and your saved preferences file (with the Copilot remote-tailoring exception, disclosed in the same file). Candidate-facing data practices are documented at /candidate-privacy.
The limitations, stated plainly
Honesty is cheaper than churn, so here is what Scout is not:
- The plugin runs on your machine, so your laptop stays on. Overnight auto-apply means the run happens overnight and your laptop stays awake for it. Scout does not run applications from a cloud server on your behalf.
- The plugin needs Claude Pro (~₹1,700/month, paid to Anthropic) or GitHub Copilot CLI. The ₹599/month subscription alone does not auto-apply — it licenses the plugin, which runs inside one of those hosts. We disclose this everywhere prices appear, including pricing.
- The web free tier is a preview, not the product. You get two free discovery-and-score runs on Scout Web — no card required — and web signup grants no tailoring credits. Tailoring and auto-apply are paid.
- Scout applies; it does not guarantee interviews. It scores honestly (including telling you when your profile is a weak match) — no tool can promise outcomes, and any that does is lying to you.
Checks you can run yourself in five minutes
- Read the pricing page — every price, including the Claude Pro dependency, is disclosed there.
- Install the extension from the official Chrome Web Store listing rather than any sideloaded zip — the store review and signed update pipeline are your safety net.
- Try the free surfaces before paying: two discovery runs on Scout Web, or the free MCP connector for ChatGPT and Claude, which needs no signup at all (setup walkthrough in search jobs inside ChatGPT or Claude).
- Read /candidate-privacy and, after installing the plugin, open
TRANSPARENCY.mdin your skill directory and diff it against what this post claims.
The honest bottom line
Scout is a real product from a real Indian company, with regulated payments, a written 7-day money-back policy on first monthly charges, a public per-endpoint data disclosure, and free tiers you can test without a card. It is also a product with real constraints — a laptop that stays on, a Claude Pro dependency for auto-apply, and server-side tailoring on some surfaces. If those trade-offs work for you, see the full pricing breakdown or how it compares in the best AI job-search tools for India. If you were laid off recently, there is a ₹479/month cohort price too.
Frequently asked questions
Is Scout by AgentCo a legitimate company?
Yes. Scout is built and operated by AgentCo, an India-based company. Payments run through Razorpay, an RBI-regulated Indian payment gateway, and a first-time monthly subscription is refundable in full within 7 days of the first charge. The Chrome extension is published on the official Chrome Web Store, and the terms, privacy policy, and data-flow disclosures are all public on agentco.in.
Does my resume leave my computer when I use Scout?
It depends on which Scout surface you use. On the Claude Code plugin, tailoring runs entirely on your machine and your resume never leaves it. On GitHub Copilot CLI, Scout sends your resume text and the job description to the AgentCo server for tailoring. Scout Web and the Chrome extension tailor on the server by design. The full endpoint-by-endpoint disclosure ships inside the plugin as TRANSPARENCY.md.
Can I get a refund if Scout does not work for me?
A first-time monthly subscription is refundable in full within 7 days of the first charge, once per customer. Beyond that window, sales are final except where Scout fails to complete tailoring due to a technical error on our end. The policy is written into the terms and payment terms on agentco.in — it is not a support-desk favour.
Why does the Scout plugin need a Claude Pro subscription?
The plugin runs inside Claude Code (or GitHub Copilot CLI) on your own machine — Scout does not resell AI compute. Claude Pro costs roughly ₹1,700 per month and is paid to Anthropic, not to us. We disclose it on the plugin page, the checkout, and the pricing card, because your real monthly cost for auto-apply is ₹599 plus that subscription.
Is the Scout Chrome extension safe to install?
The extension is live on the Chrome Web Store, which means it passed Google’s review process and updates only through Google’s signed pipeline. It tailors your resume for the job page you are on, using a credit system, and its data handling is covered by the same public privacy policy as the rest of Scout.