GroupScout

Finds Facebook group and Nextdoor posts worth answering and drafts replies for you to approve. You always press Post.

GroupScout helps local businesses be the first good answer when their town asks for a recommendation. Every day, people in town and neighborhood Facebook groups and on Nextdoor ask "Can anyone recommend a plumber?", "Who do you use for septic?", "Need a dentist taking new patients". GroupScout watches the groups you've already joined, flags the posts worth answering, and drafts a helpful reply in your voice. You review it, edit it if you like, and post it yourself. HOW IT WORKS • Pick the Facebook groups you've joined: town, neighborhood and trade groups. On Pro and Agency, turn on Nextdoor to add your neighborhood feed and Nextdoor groups. • Click "Find Posts to Answer." GroupScout reads recent posts in your own browser, at a human pace. • Posts worth answering land in your Queue with a drafted reply and the reason they were picked. • Approve a reply and GroupScout opens the post with your reply typed in. You press Post (or Comment on Nextdoor). • Pro and Agency: schedule your scans. Get a reminder at the times you choose, or turn on auto-scan to read your groups at those times in a minimized window. It never posts. • Pro and Agency: connect your phone. Get an alert when a scan finds posts, then read the post, edit the draft and copy it on your phone. You still post every reply yourself. YOU STAY IN CONTROL • GroupScout never posts, comments, likes, joins or messages on its own. Every reply is posted by you. • Replies are honest about who you are: written as the owner, a team member, or your business Page. No fake "neighbor" recommendations. • Help first, sell second. Replies only claim what you've told GroupScout about your business, and links are added only in groups that allow them. • Daily limits and human-paced browsing are built in. MADE FOR LOCAL BUSINESSES Start from a ready-made template for your kind of business, from home services to healthcare and professional services. Each template comes with its own search terms and reply rules, and professions with extra rules, like healthcare, legal and financial, get them automatically. FOR AGENCIES Run several businesses from one browser, switch between them in one click, and set up new clients from a simple intake form. PRIVACY GroupScout never asks for your Facebook or Nextdoor password and never reads either site from our servers. They're read only in your browser: while you use it, or at the times you set if you turn on auto-scan. Nextdoor is read only if you turn it on and allow it in Chrome. Post text is sent to our service only to draft a reply and isn't stored; the poster's name is never sent. If you connect a phone, your queue is encrypted on your computer before it reaches our server, with a key only your devices have. Full details: https://groupscout.nextforgelabs.com/privacy A subscription is required. Plans and a free guide: https://groupscout.nextforgelabs.com GroupScout is a NextForge product. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Meta, Facebook or Nextdoor. Facebook's and Nextdoor's terms restrict automated collection; GroupScout is built to run only while you use it or at times you schedule, at a human pace, with you making every post, but account restrictions remain possible and are the user's responsibility.