Scoutible
Founded 2015 Β· 3 employees on LinkedIn Β· 4 known investors
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Scoutible offers Hero Mode, an app that provides AI-based coaching modeled on real-world professional leaders, a 15-minute game-based strengths assessment, and gamified productivity tools such as time blocking and timers. It targets ambitious professionals seeking to set goals, build habits, and improve productivity.
Also known as Hero Mode Β· Hero Mode by Scoutible
Founders & leadership
Scoutible was founded in 2015 by Angela Antony.
Investors Β· 4
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Scoutible develops AI and game-based technology intended to measure a person's cognitive and personality strengths β traits such as creativity, curiosity and grit β through an immersive, gamified digital assessment that takes roughly 15 minutes to play. The company positions these measured traits as a more predictive and less biased signal of fit for work than resumes, degrees or work experience. Its stated mission is to let anyone, regardless of educational background or work history, identify their purpose, which the company frames as the intersection of strengths, passions and work the world needs.
The company's consumer-facing product, Hero Mode, combines the strengths-finder game with an AI coaching experience and productivity tooling. Users select an AI coach modeled on real-world professional leaders and public figures, and can call or chat with it for on-demand advice and daily check-ins to set and prioritize tasks and goals. A gamified layer called The Arena turns daily tasks into missions, and the platform embeds productivity systems including time blocking, timers and focus music. Users also create a custom avatar based on their assessment results.
Scoutible has also presented itself as an employer-facing talent product: earlier company material describes a free, predictive hiring platform built on the gamified strengths assessment, and the site maintains separate "For Employers" and "For Individuals" sections. A third-party company profile describes Scoutible as a talent intelligence company using AI and neuroscience through game-based assessments to help organizations identify candidates and predict job performance and cultural fit.
Founding story
Founder and CEO Angela Antony developed the concept while earning psychology, business and law degrees at Harvard, researching the causes of hiring failure, low work satisfaction, systemic hiring bias and lost productivity. She concluded these traced to a labor-market flaw: personality and cognitive strengths are the most accurate and unbiased predictors of fit for work but are not measured in hiring. During a visit to the White House, Mark Cuban learned of a book Antony was writing on the work and funded development of the technology; company material dates this to 2015.
Business model
Scoutible operates a software platform with two audiences: individuals, who play the assessment game and use the Hero Mode AI coaching and productivity app, and employers, addressed through a predictive hiring/talent discovery offering described on the company's site as a free predictive hiring platform powered by its gamified strengths assessment. A third-party profile characterizes the company as a SaaS provider serving client organizations.
Traction
The company reports its full consumer journey going live for the first time and is collecting waitlist and launch-invitation sign-ups; site content includes App Store reviews of the assessment game. A third-party profile lists 28 employees and active hiring. Scoutible was recognized in Fast Company's 2023 World Changing Ideas Awards.
Latest developments
The website markets Hero Mode as the company's current AI coach and productivity platform, states that the full Scoutible journey is launching for the first time with waitlist and launch-invitation sign-ups, and notes a pending announcement. A third-party profile lists leadership as of April 2025 as Angela Antony (Founder & CEO), Vijay Venkataramani (CTO) and Ellora Nasser (Head of Product), and reports no C-level hires or departures publicly announced in the prior 12 months.
βΈFull profile β market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Positions itself as offering a first-of-its-kind gamified strengths assessment and AI coaching platform that measures traits absent from conventional hiring processes. The company cites recognition including Fast Company's 2023 World Changing Ideas Awards, TechCrunch Startup Battlefield participation, Female Founders 100, and first-place placements in HR tech and Silicon Valley startup competitions.
Assessment of underlying cognitive and personality strengths through gameplay rather than resumes, degrees or self-report questionnaires; a short (about 15 minutes) play-based format requiring no gaming experience and with no wrong answers; and combination of assessment results with AI coaching personas and embedded productivity systems in a single consumer app. Research provenance at Harvard and an academic science board are emphasized.
Technology
Proprietary AI applied to an immersive, gamified digital assessment that infers cognitive and personality traits from in-game behavior over a short play session. Hero Mode layers conversational AI coaching personas modeled on real-world leaders on top of assessment results, plus behavioral-science-based gamification and productivity mechanics (missions, time blocking, timers, focus music) and avatar creation. The company describes its methods as developed with scientists in psychology and game design, and lists a science board including Adam Grant (Wharton), Daniel Gilbert (Harvard) and Mike Ambinder (Valve).
Go-to-market
Direct-to-consumer distribution via the company website and mobile app, using a launch waitlist and invitation sign-ups, supported by user testimonials and App Store reviews; an employer-facing track is presented through dedicated site sections. A 2021 investment by Workday Ventures was framed around integrating Scoutible's skills-based talent discovery into Workday's offerings for customer hiring and internal mobility.
Individuals β described as ambitious professionals and job seekers β who want to identify their strengths, set goals and improve productivity; and employer organizations seeking to assess and hire candidates and support internal mobility based on skills and traits rather than resumes.
Geography
A third-party profile lists San Francisco, California, USA as headquarters, with a correspondence address at 2261 Market Street #4031, no additional offices, a primarily US-based core team, and a platform available to clients internationally.
History
Scoutible grew out of research conducted at Harvard, at the White House and with partner organizations. After Mark Cuban's initial funding in 2015, the company assembled a team of scientists, game developers, psychologists, data scientists, economists and engineers to build a gamified strengths assessment and a predictive hiring platform. Workday Ventures invested in February 2021 to bring skills-based talent discovery to Workday customers. In 2023 the company was recognized by Fast Company's World Changing Ideas Awards. More recently the company has centered its consumer product, Hero Mode, an AI coaching and productivity platform, and signals a forthcoming announcement and full-journey launch.
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Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed β not independently audited.
Timeline Β· 4
launches, deals, and filingsScoutible markets Hero Mode, combining a 15-minute game-based strengths assessment, AI coaching personas inspired by real-world professional leaders, and gamified productivity tools such as time blocking, timers and focus music; the company states the full Scoutible journey is going live for the first time.
Scoutible was honored in Fast Company's 2023 World Changing Ideas Awards for its AI-powered talent intelligence platform.
Workday Ventures announced an investment in Scoutible intended to bring the company's skills-based talent discovery capabilities to Workday customers for external hiring and internal mobility.
Mark Cuban, described by the company as its first investor and lead investor, funded development of the technology after learning about founder Angela Antony's work during a White House visit.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Scoutible do?
- Scoutible builds game-based, AI-driven strengths assessment and coaching products, including the Hero Mode AI coaching app.
- Who founded Scoutible?
- Scoutible was founded by Angela Antony in 2015.
- Who are Scoutible's investors?
- Scoutible's investors include Mark Cuban, Mindset Venture, Learn Capital, New Enterprise Associates (NEA).