# Scout.fm

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/scoutfm/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Scout.fm (Scout FM) was a podcast-curation startup whose iOS, Android, Alexa and CarPlay apps turned podcasts into personalized, radio-like stations using AI-driven recommendations across genres such as news, sports and true crime. Backed by Bloomberg Beta, Precursor Ventures, Advancit Capital and Samsung NEXT (roughly $1.4M raised), the company was acquired by Apple in September 2020 and subsequently shut down, with its apps pulled from every platform. The scout.fm domain no longer resolves and the company publishes no developer, API, or SDK surface. This profile is retained as a historical network record; there is nothing left to enrich.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Podcasts, Audio, Recommendations, Defunct, Acquired

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/scoutfm/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.