Q&A with John Dunavan of Scout Network, LLC

SCOUT is a pro-active and pre-emergent safety net. Others are reactive and post-acute monitoring efforts. Most mental health platforms are one-size fits all systems built for the general population - overlooking the individualized nature of stress and trauma exposure and reactivity. These general population platforms rely heavily on self-activation - expecting users to seek out support when they’re already struggling - which fails to recognize that mental health challenges interfere with an individual's awareness of their emerging condition. SCOUT is fundamentally different. It’s purpose-built for high-risk, high-stakes populations - like ACE survivors, Veterans, military personnel, and first responders - who are often practiced and trained in the suppression of emotional responses and avoid help due to stigma or culture. SCOUT's strengths-based model easily integrates into daily life, operating passively and proactively, detecting early signs of dysregulation and engaging users before they reach a crisis point. It bridges the gap between “feeling fine” and “too late” - something existing solutions simply don’t do.

For institutions, SCOUT is more than a mental health well-being tool - it’s a comprehensive risk assessment and management solution. SCOUT provides invaluable real-time insights on the efficacy, readiness, and resilience of their workforce. It stimulates awareness, builds preparedness, generates affinity, reduces attrition, improves retention, mitigates legal liability, boosts individual and team readiness, and preserves investment in trained personnel. SCOUT software tracks the volume, quality, and nature of participation, engagement, and indicators of risk in real-time, offering actionable insights without compromising individual privacy. It also operates at a fraction of the cost of clinical programs or staffing expansions, making it a scalable and sustainable solution for large organizations under budget pressure. In short: SCOUT helps organizations protect their people, achieve their mission, and maximize operational outcomes (efficiency and economics).

SCOUT delivers what works - in a SaaS model. Validated assessment and intervention models, strengths-based skill-building, peer-based knowledge-sharing and support, integration with hyper-local resources, personalized and psychologically-safe networks, accessible via an easy-to-use social media-style interface on mobile devices. SCOUT was designed from the ground up with scalability and long-term adoption in mind. It doesn’t require new hires, hardware, or intensive onboarding. It’s digital, modular, rapidly customized, instantly translatable, and low-cost to deploy across large populations. Its model is sticky - because it is intuitive, personalized, evidence-based, and easily embedded into existing routines, producing higher levels of engagement than traditional self-help apps. Financially, SCOUT has strong B2B/B2G revenue potential (government, military, healthcare systems), with clear ROI metrics based on revenue generation (engagement, affinity, presentness, productivity) and cost avoidance (disengagement, absence/abandonment, suicide, legal liability, medical separation). For investors, it’s a SaaS platform with impact, defensibility, and high-volume market fit - all while addressing a crisis that institutions are currently struggling to meet and actively seeking solutions that work.