Why we built Scoutcast.ai

Scoutcast.ai is a personalized AI sports audio briefing for iOS. You pick your leagues, teams, and players, and every morning you get a ~2-minute audio rundown of exactly what matters to you. You can tap the mic mid-briefing to ask a follow-up question and get an instant audio answer.

This is the story of why my co-founder Trevor Mason and I built it.

The morning my son couldn’t find his guys

Every morning, my son would ask our Echo Show for sports highlights. And every morning, the same thing happened — random clips, none of them about the players he actually cared about.

He’d just sit there. Scrolling. Hoping someone he actually followed would show up.

I watched him do this one Saturday and realized: that’s me too.

The 20-minute morning sports scroll

Here’s what my morning looks like when I want to catch up on my teams:

• Open ESPN, scroll through national headlines that aren’t about any team I follow
• Switch to The Athletic — gated paywall on three of the four articles I want
• Open Twitter, dodge ads and hot takes, find one beat writer’s thread, lose it
• Open my fantasy app to check waivers
• Repeat tomorrow

Twenty minutes later I’ve consumed a lot of pixels and remember almost none of it. None of it was for me. It was for the league — and I had to do all the filtering myself.

This isn’t a sports problem. It’s a media problem. We’ve built infinite-content pipes — feeds, notifications, push alerts — and pushed all the curation work onto the reader. The job of being informed has become the job of filtering. And the filter is your time.

AI can do everything except this

We have AI that writes code, generates video, drafts legal contracts, and runs entire customer support orgs. But the morning sports check-in — the most predictable, most personal, most repeatable five minutes of my day — is still a manual scroll across four apps.

That’s the gap.

The same technology that lets a model summarize a 200-page report in 30 seconds should be able to read every game recap, every box score, every beat-writer thread overnight, and hand me a 2-minute audio rundown about my teams by the time I’m pouring coffee.

So Trevor and I built that.

What Scoutcast actually does

You install the app, pick your leagues (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS, Premier League, La Liga, Champions League, PGA, college football, NCAA basketball, college baseball, college hockey, Formula 1 — and a few more), pick your teams and players, and optionally add specific X writers whose takes you want included.

Every morning, Scoutcast generates a personalized audio briefing. Roughly two minutes. Scores from the games that mattered to you, storylines on the players you follow, what’s coming next, and trade rumors or lineup news from your custom sources.

You listen while you make coffee, drive, or work out. No screen, no scroll, no rabbit hole.

The thing nobody else does

Two features I’m proud of, neither of which exists in any other AI briefing app I’ve found:

Tap-to-ask follow-ups. Mid-briefing, tap the mic and ask a question. “What’s his stat line?” “Tell me more about that trade.” “Who’s he replacing?” You get an instant audio answer, then the briefing picks up where it left off. The same pattern works on CarPlay and from the lock screen.

Custom sources from beat writers. Plug in the X handles of the writers you actually trust — your team’s beat reporter, your favorite analyst — and Scoutcast blends their takes into your briefing alongside scores and league news. Your information diet, in your voice, not a national feed.

There are great AI briefing apps (Huxe and BriefingAM are both excellent), but they’re built for general news with sports as one tab. Scoutcast is sports-first, and these two features only make sense in a product that knows you well enough to know who your guys are.

Pricing, in one paragraph

Scoutcast is free. All leagues, all teams, the daily briefing, follow-up questions, custom sources — all free. There is one paid add-on: an NFL Fantasy Season Pass at $49.99 per season for fantasy-specific briefings (Tue/Wed/Thu/Sun, head-to-head edge, waiver picks, start/sit calls, Sunday morning final call). That’s it. No ads, ever.

What’s next

College football this fall. International soccer expansion. More languages. And we’re publicly working on live-game segments — short bursts during big moments, not just the morning recap.

We’re also live as an MCP connector — meaning if you use Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini CLI, you can plug your Scoutcast account in and ask the AI directly about your briefings. Settings → MCP Connector inside the app.

Try it

Scoutcast.ai is live on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS (Apple Silicon). Free download:

Download Scoutcast on the App Store →

If you’ve ever spent 20 minutes catching up on sports before your coffee was cool — try it. I’d love to hear what you think. You can reach me at nick@scoutcast.ai or @scoutcastAI on X.

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