How is Scout AI different from Dream AI?

Dream AI generates from a prompt you write, so the idea is yours. Scout AI researches what is already selling and writes the prompt itself, so the idea comes from demand. They spend the same credits, and both finish by putting designs in your Designs.

Where do the designs end up?

In the Designs folder you picked before the run. They behave like any other design from that point on, so you can edit them on the Canvas, generate mockups, and publish them in bulk.

Can I buy Scout credits without a plan?

No. Scout sits on top of the rest of MyDesigns, including mockups, stores, publishing and fulfillment. Extra credits are an add-on to Pro or Pro Plus rather than something you can buy on their own.

Will Scout get me in trouble on a marketplace?

Scout uses demand as a signal and generates original artwork rather than reproducing a listing it found. Leave trademark protection on, review what comes back, and use the bulk trademark tools before you publish. You remain responsible for what you list.

Why did a run produce fewer designs than I asked for?

Usually because trademark protection skipped one of your search terms, or the research turned up too little demand around it to be worth generating for. Each term is researched on its own, so one being skipped does not stop the others.

Scout AI - Documentation

Scout AI overview

Dream AI answers the question you bring it. Scout AI works out what the question should be: it looks for products that are already selling, then generates original designs aimed at that demand and drops them into your Designs.

Most of the work in print on demand is not drawing. It is deciding what to draw. Scout AI is an autonomous agent that takes that decision on: you give it a search term, it researches real sales demand around that term, and it comes back with finished designs you can publish with the same bulk tools you already use.

A run ends in your Designs, in the folder you picked. From there it is an ordinary design, so you can refine it on the Canvas, generate mockups for it, and publish it to any connected store.

Scout AI uses demand as a signal. It does not copy another seller's artwork. What it gives you is an original generation aimed at a proven idea, and you are still the one who reviews it and decides to list it.

Availability and credits

Scout AI is available on the Pro and Pro Plus plans. It spends the same credits as Dream AI and background removal, drawing on the monthly allowance your plan includes.

Before a run starts, the page tells you how many designs it will produce and roughly how many credits that will cost, so nothing is spent without you seeing the number first. The model you choose is the biggest factor: newer models handle lettering and fine detail better and cost more per design.

If you run Scout every day, the monthly allowance on its own will not stretch far. Extra credits can be added to Pro and Pro Plus as a block, which works out cheaper than topping up ad hoc.

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Running Scout

A run starts with your search terms. Put one term on each line: every line is researched separately and produces its own set of designs, so three lines is three runs rather than one run about three things.

Underneath the terms you can add extra instructions, which steer the artwork without changing what Scout researches. Something like "designs for dark shirts, distressed vintage feel, no bright colours" is the right level of detail. A few recommended starting points are offered if you would rather not write one from scratch.

What you set before a run

AI image model: Which model draws your designs. Newer models handle lettering and fine detail better, and cost more credits each.
Product: The product these will be printed on. This genuinely shapes the artwork, because a mug design is not a tee design.
Aspect ratio: The shape of the generated artwork, matched to the print area you have in mind.
Designs per search term: How many designs to generate for each line you typed. This is what the credit estimate multiplies.
Save to designs folder: Where the finished designs land, so a run does not scatter itself through your library.

Optional extras

Remove background: Runs background removal on each result, which saves a pass over the batch later if you are printing on garments.
Trademark protection: Screens the idea before Scout researches it and skips anything that fails, so a trademarked niche never reaches the generation step.
Write my listing copy: Hands each finished design to Vision AI, which writes the title, tags and description ready for publishing.

Trademark protection is worth leaving on. It is cheaper to have a niche skipped before the run than to find out after you have published.

Brand profiles

Left alone, Scout will follow the demand wherever it leads, and the results will look like a collection of unrelated products. A brand profile is how you stop that: it describes your style once, and every run reads from it.

You can build a profile from scratch or let Scout draft one, then edit it. Once a profile exists you pick it on the run, and choose how closely to follow it.

Loose adherence treats the profile as a hint and keeps more of the variety that demand research turns up. Strict adherence keeps the batch recognisably yours at the cost of some range. Which you want depends on whether you are filling out an established shop or still looking for what works.

Scheduled runs

Scout does not have to be driven by hand. A schedule saves a run's whole configuration under a name and repeats it for you, which is what makes it an agent rather than a generator.

Give the schedule a name, set how many runs per day it should make, and switch it on. The schedule keeps its own seed term and carries the same model, product, brand profile and extras as a manual run.

Each schedule shows how many runs it has made today and when it last ran. You can pause one, resume it, or trigger a run immediately without waiting for the next slot.

A schedule spends credits on its own. Check the credit cost of one run before setting it to repeat several times a day, and keep an eye on your balance in the first week.

Frequently asked questions

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