For organizers filling the slots a call for papers did not
Speaker ScoutFill the program gaps your call for papers left, with a shortlist that says why.
Name the gaps, list the people you are considering with the evidence you hold, and get - free in your browser, in the order the skill sets - the trigger (a supplement to a live call, or the replacement of a deleted one), a slot brief per gap before any name, the sourcing channels your deadline allows, every claim held to a source link and a date seen, each candidate scored Hot, Warm, Cold or Skip against its slot with the travel gates, and the ranking within each slot. A run writes the shortlist with the why behind each name, or the handoff packet. It qualifies what you enter and never searches the web. It never writes the invitation - that is the next step, Speaker Ask. It never invents a speaker fee or a long-list multiplier (the two numbers the skill says not to invent), never reads anyone's identity from a name, and labels every number of its own self-set.
The event free
Blank means today.
The interview free
The skill's nine questions, the slots and the people in the next two cards. Each answer re-ranks the menus below; every move names the answer behind it.
Self-set; blank means 24.
Only your own; blank means unknown.
The gaps, as slot briefs free
For example: Opening keynote | keynote | Platform teams after year two | 30 min talk | senior practitioners | a shared vocabulary for the rest of the day. Gaps before names: nothing is ranked without a brief. Spreadsheet rows paste as they are.
The people you are considering free
Rows copied from a spreadsheet paste as they are - a tab works as the separator. A claim with no source link or no date seen is not evidence. The page never reads anyone's identity from a name; reach goals are met through directories whose members opted in.
The shortlist, worked out free
What the page flags
Why you were called (Q1) and who owns the event (Q2)
The gaps, as slot briefs - named before any person
The two menus - re-ranked for your answers, deleted rungs struck
Every candidate, qualified - a source link and a date seen for every claim
The shortlist - ranked within each slot, never across the program
Dropped - Skip, unqualified, or no slot brief
The travel gates - lead time, visa and entry, the budget
The long list against the slots - a ratio, never a target
The handoff - the review lane, the budget line, the referral asks
The files free
The shortlist as a spreadsheet, the handoff packet in the shape cold outreach reads it, and everything the page worked out.
The shortlist metered
Pricing as soon as the session is ready...
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Caveats
Next: write each invitation in Speaker Ask - this page never writes it.
The page's check of this reply
Saved scouts
How it works - and what is sourced
The order is the skill's: the trigger first (a supplement to a live call re-checks its gaps after the call closes; a replacement - the event closer than roughly ten weeks, or the call closing inside six weeks of it - goes fully invited, where vouched, fast-answering channels beat thorough ones); who owns the event (a community conference trades on its audience and a sponsor never buys a slot; a vendor conference invites by design); every gap written as a slot brief before any person; the sourcing channel menu re-ranked for the trigger, the deadline, the mandate, the effort ceiling, the reach requirement and the assets you already hold, with at least two channels used, one reaching outside your circle, and paid bureau booking deleted unless a fee is confirmed; the qualification depth menu, with follower counts deleted from the rubric; every claim held to a source link and a date seen; Hot, Warm, Cold or Skip per candidate, Skip dropped, the survivors ranked within each slot; the why held to evidence, never adjectives; the travel lead-time floor of four to six weeks and the visa question checked, never assumed; the invited-review lane decided and written into the packet.
Sourced from the skill's references: the two triggers and their dates, the four channels and their rankings, the directories that publish region and language filters (CNCF Ambassadors) and the one whose members opted in to being found as women+ speakers (speakerinnen.org), the four-band scale (a sorting shape borrowed from sales lead scoring, not a speaker benchmark), the worked failure behind the fame flag, the travel floor, and the handoff packet's shape. Self-set, and said so wherever used: the evidence freshness window, the low effort ceiling, the adjective list, the theme-word fit test, and the word caps. Never set at all: a speaker fee and a long-list multiplier - the conversion rate is unknown, so the page reports your ratio and never a target.