FOCUS welcomes Super Scout
The team behind
Super Scout, the innovative software making location scouting and management easier than ever, will be at
FOCUS London 2024. Founder and CEO
Gabriel Isserlis will be joined by CTO
Dharmil Trivedi and CCO
Alan Jay to discuss how this technology can potentially work for you. Speak with the team on the show floor and come along to the
Location Work: the software powering creativity panel on 10 December to hear directly how location professionals are using the technology and much more to streamline their work.
With degrees in filmmaking and computer programming, as well as a family history rooted in the creative industry, Isserlis’ career trajectory was fairly inevitable. Earlier on in his career, still at university, the now Super Scout founder and CEO dabbled in film, photography, theatre, events, and music, but was struck when he noticed that the people surrounding him in these spaces were not reaching the levels of productivity that they should have been or desired to.
“I kept seeing my creative friends spending way too much time doing admin and boring creativity draining tasks,and not spending enough time on the things that they got into the industry to do,” comments Isserlis on early endeavours creating technology for the creative industry. “So, I thought, surely, I can help with this and build technology that saves them some time. I started by essentially building Airbnb for creative spaces.”
Now with software such as Tutti in his back pocket, fast forwarding to last December, Isserlis ventured out to explore how this software could be expanded. After some feedback and interesting conversations with location professionals and discovering there was no set database for storing their collections of locations, an idea sparked.
“At FOCUS, I told people that we’ve built this technology for Tutti, our own custom listing system in the back end,” adds Isserlis. “If we took that same technology and changed it a bit, sold it to people as software to which they can upload their own data that was entirely private to them with no shared system, would that be interesting? And the answer came back resoundingly yes.”
With this enthusiasm in mind and similar responses after speaking with a couple hundred people around the world on this, Isserlis would get his team to momentarily stop with Tutti and start working what we know now as Super Scout. In five weeks, the Tutti structure was morphed into a cohesive and accessible prototype software with a map on the right and listings on the left where professionals can upload their own private data. After receiving some feedback from their time at the Berlin International Film Festival, the team added modifications such as automatic tagging, with even further plans for user improvements in 2025.
“Location scouts, location managers, a couple of location agencies and some film commissions have been giving me regular feedback throughout the year to help us build the most effective solution for his sector,” concludes Isserlis. “We are nowhere close to being done, but what we have today is a solution that allows people to easily upload locations to a private central hub.”
Super Scout is available through their desktop software through an import system from Dropbox, or their iOS app, with Android following soon.
Meet the team behind the technology at
FOCUS 2024 being held from 10-11 December at the Business Design Centre, Islington. Reister
HERE now for your complimentary delegate pass.
