Question 1

What does Scout actually do all day?

Accepted Answer

It watches your Upwork feeds so you don’t have to sit there hitting refresh. Jobs that clear your filters get through; the rest never reach you. When one does land, you get a ping (Chrome, Slack or WhatsApp, your call) and the cover letter is one click away.

Question 2

Am I going to get my account flagged for this?

Accepted Answer

That was the first thing we built around. Fetches go out on randomized intervals with throttling on top, so the pattern reads like a freelancer checking between tasks rather than a bot with a stopwatch. Auto-apply is the half worth thinking twice about, so it stays off until you switch it on, it sends on a spread-out schedule instead of a burst, and it stops the moment you hit your number for the day. Nobody outside Upwork can promise you how they’ll read any of it, so set a sane daily number, and there’s a kill switch that stops the lot the second you want it stopped.

Question 3

Which AI does it write with?

Accepted Answer

Claude, ChatGPT or DeepSeek, for cover letters and client replies both, and since you bring your own API key, the model choice and the bill both stay yours.

Question 4

What do the Slack and WhatsApp alerts look like?

Accepted Answer

Connect the workspace or the number in settings, and that’s the whole setup. After that a matching job shows up as one message with the budget, what we know about the client, and an Apply button. Enough to decide on a job, and apply to it, without opening Upwork.

Question 5

Do you need my Upwork password?

Accepted Answer

No, and it never asks for one. Job listings come out of Upwork’s public GraphQL API. Anything account-side (reading a client thread, sending a reply) rides on the browser session you’re already signed into, so there’s no credential to store and none to transmit.

Question 6

Where does my data end up?

Accepted Answer

Two places, and the split matters. Filters, keywords and the rest of your day-to-day settings live in Chrome’s storage on your own machine. Sign in and some of it is kept in your account on our servers as well: your jobs, clients and stats, plus the preferences that have to follow you across devices, like notification rules and saved filter presets. That is what lets them survive a reinstall or a new laptop. Either way your Upwork credentials are stored nowhere, by us or by the extension.

Question 7

Can I cancel whenever I want?

Accepted Answer

Yep. No contract, no retention call, no five-step cancellation maze. Click cancel and you keep everything until the period you already paid for runs out.

Question 8

How does the Pro trial work?

Accepted Answer

14 days, every Pro feature switched on. We ask for a card up front but nothing is charged until day 14, and if you cancel before then you just drop back to Free.