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# Scout, monitoring, and alerts
> Use source-grounded questions, understand portfolio monitoring, and act on public-record alerts.
Scout and Monitoring serve different jobs. Scout helps you interrogate the evidence available to RealClear; Monitoring watches public-record signals after a site has reached the relevant stage.
## Ask Scout useful questions
Scout can work from your saved portfolio, source documents, comparable outcomes, jurisdiction context, and a specific site memo when that context is available.
Try questions like:
* “Which property needs attention first?”
* “What changed in public sources for this site?”
* “Which diligence questions are still open?”
* “Compare my saved sites.”
* “What does the record say about this jurisdiction or comparable outcome?”
Scout’s answer should be treated as a route into the record. Open the cited sources and memo sections before relying on a material conclusion.
## What monitoring watches
Monitoring is portfolio-wide. It reports:
* Sites with at least one monitoring rule.
* Rules currently armed for the site’s deal stage.
* The most recent completed pass.
* New public-record alerts, including severity and timing.
Monitoring is armed automatically only when the site’s state supports it — commonly after a Site Memo is delivered and the property enters underwriting. A site can appear in the portfolio without active surveillance.
If Monitoring says “not fully active,” believe it. It means there are no watched sites, no armed rules, or no recorded pass yet; RealClear does not pretend a quiet screen means active coverage.
## Respond to an alert
1. Open the alert and identify the affected site.
2. Read the source-backed alert detail and its date.
3. Compare it with the latest memo, open questions, and active deal stage.
4. Decide whether to log a team question, change your diligence plan, or ask Scout for the relevant record.
5. Escalate to your project team or advisers when the change affects a material decision.
See when monitoring becomes relevant in the research lifecycle.
Tell us if an alert, source, or monitoring state needs attention.