PRODUCTION · SLACK BOT

"Where can we place this?" — asked in Slack, answered from the book.

Scout is a Slack bot that answers carrier-placement questions in plain English. An agent types @Scout homeowners Houston TX and gets a ranked list of the carriers we already write in that line and area — strategic partners first, sourced straight from our book of business in the data lake.

Node · Slack Bolt AWS Athena · Ennabl Staff-only · YP Slack workspace
CAPABILITIES
01 · Natural-language queries
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Internal · Slack
Ask like a human, not like a form

Type it however you'd say it. Scout extracts the line of business, city, and state from casual phrasing — @Scout workers comp near Billings Montana works as well as @Scout homeowners Houston TX. Works as a mention in any channel or as a direct DM.

Parser LLM extracts LOB · city · state · confidence
Surfaces @mentions in channels · direct messages
Lines Personal auto · home · workers comp · BOP · umbrella · more
Fallback Tells you what it heard, asks for a nudge if unclear
Internal · Slack workspace
02 · Ranked from our book
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Internal · Ennabl
Real placements, not a generic carrier list

Every recommendation is grounded in our own book of business — queried live from the Ennabl data lake, filtered by the requested line and a 50-mile radius. Ranks strategic partners first (up to four), plus one non-strategic option so the agent sees the whole picture.

Source Ennabl data lake · queried via AWS Athena
Filter Line of business · 50-mile radius from zip
Ranking Strategic partners first (≤4) · +1 non-strategic
Fallback Local carrier-tier map if warehouse is down
Internal · Slack workspace
03 · Two audiences, one query
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Internal · Role-aware
Different answers for agents and leadership

Agents see a clean placement-focused list. Leadership see the same ranking with extra context — policy counts, admitted vs E&S status, and tier — because the questions they ask of the same data are different. Every query is logged for audit and future tuning.

Agent view Ranked list with strategic-partner badges
Leadership + policy counts · tier · admitted/E&S · volume
Gating Leadership Slack ID whitelist
Audit Every query logged with user, inputs, results
Internal · Slack workspace
Platform
Node Slack Bolt
Data
AWS Athena Ennabl zipcodes
Access
Slack signing secret Leadership whitelist
Infrastructure
Railway GitHub

A staff-only bot in the YP Slack workspace. Every placement question stays inside the tools we already work in — no new dashboard to open, no separate portal to log into.