Amazon market
intelligence for sellers, brands, and agencies.

Where We Came From
Built on real-world Amazon experience, SmartScout grew out of the systems Scott Needham and the BuyBoxer team used to analyze markets, brands, and competitors at scale.
BuyBoxer is a top 100 all time Amazon Seller with over $400m in sales on Amazon. It had amassed the largest catalog of FBA products in the world."
2011
BuyBoxer origin
2019
Year founded
10K+
Operators using SmartScout
$1B+
GMV analyzed monthly
Capabilities

What SmartScout Helps You Do

01
Product Intelligence
Understand which products, subcategories, and niches are worth pursuing. Evaluate market size, growth, competition, and product-level opportunity before you invest time or money.
02
Competitor Tracking
See how categories, brands, sellers, and products change over time. Track revenue shifts, market share movement, seller activity, and performance trends so you can react faster than the market.
03
Brand Research
Get a full breakdown of any brand on Amazon, including who is selling it, where it is advertising, product performance, and subcategory share. This helps you identify strong brands, weak points, and new angles for growth.
04
Traffic & Advertising Insight
Use tools like Traffic Graph and search intelligence to understand where attention is flowing on Amazon, what products are frequently bought together, and where advertising opportunities exist.
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Why We Built SmartScout

Amazon Sellers
Find profitable products, evaluate categories, and get a clearer view of the competitive landscape before making your next move.
Brands
Understand market share, reseller activity, competitive pressure, and where your brand has room to grow on Amazon.
Agencies & Service Providers
Research prospects, diagnose account opportunities faster, and bring stronger market data into every client conversation.
Business Buyers & Investors
Use seller and brand intelligence to identify targets, evaluate markets, and spot businesses with real potential.
who it’s for

Built for the People Making Amazon Decisions

Amazon is a massive channel, yet most Amazon decisions run on partial data and guesswork.
SmartScout was built to change that.
Before SmartScout existed as a platform, Scott Needham was building and running systems to help scale BuyBoxer, a major Amazon seller he founded in 2011. Those tools gave his team a better way to understand brands, products, competition, and opportunity across the marketplace. Eventually, that internal advantage became SmartScout.
Today, SmartScout helps sellers, brands, and agencies move beyond surface-level product research and see Amazon more strategically: where the money is, who owns the market, where traffic flows, and what to do next.

What Makes Us Different

01
Built by people who have actually sold on Amazon
SmartScout was built from real Amazon experience, not just software development. It grew out of the systems used inside BuyBoxer and was shaped around the needs of serious sellers.
02
A broader view than one-product research
Instead of only helping you evaluate a single listing, SmartScout helps you understand the bigger ecosystem around categories, brands, products, sellers, and traffic patterns.
03
Unique market-mapping tools
Features like Brand Research, Seller Map, and Traffic Graph are designed to surface relationships and opportunities that are hard to find with traditional Amazon research workflows.
04
Made for action, not just analysis
The point is not to drown users in data. It is to help them find better products, better brands, better positioning, and better growth opportunities faster.
Who we are

Meet the Team Behind SmartScout

We build SmartScout with the same mindset our customers bring to Amazon: stay curious, move with data, and focus on what actually creates leverage.

Product

Daryl Macam
Head of Engineering
Seasoned programmer and tech lead with over two decades of experience driving innovation. Focuses on building resilient software solutions, scaling engineering teams, and cultivating a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and product success.
Josh Andrus
VP of Product
Josh entered the Amazon space in 2018 through BuyBoxer, where he led operations and purchasing efforts in the years leading up to the creation of SmartScout. In his free time Josh enjoys flying RC planes and camping with his wife and daughter.
Scott Needham
CEO & Founder
Scott founded SmartScout after years of building systems to help scale BuyBoxer on Amazon. He brings a practitioner’s perspective to the product and focuses on helping operators understand markets, competitors, and growth opportunities with more clarity.

Product

Scott Needham
CEO & Founder
Scott founded SmartScout after years of building systems to help scale BuyBoxer on Amazon. He brings a practitioner’s perspective to the product and focuses on helping operators understand markets, competitors, and growth opportunities with more clarity.
Josh Andrus
VP of Product
Josh entered the Amazon space in 2018 through BuyBoxer, where he led operations and purchasing efforts in the years leading up to the creation of SmartScout. In his free time Josh enjoys flying RC planes and camping with his wife and daughter.
Daryl Macam
Head of Engineering
Seasoned programmer and tech lead with over two decades of experience driving innovation. Focuses on building resilient software solutions, scaling engineering teams, and cultivating a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and product success.

Sales

Brock Yeager
VP of Sales
Brock has been at SmartScout since 2021, growing from SDR to leading Enterprise Sales. Along the way, he's talked with thousands of brands, agencies, and sales teams about data. If you ever run into him, ask about his exotic chicken business or his state record in powerlifting.
Zack Edgmon
Director, Enterprise Customer Success
Been in the space for about 30 years. but if you wanted to be exact its been just under 5 years. Loves Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, D&D, Magic the Gathering, and loads of travel.
Conner Carter
Account Executive
Conner helps brands, sellers, and agencies use SmartScout to better understand Amazon categories, competitors, and growth opportunities. He focuses on making marketplace data easier to use and act on.
Caitlin Hadley
Account Executive
Caitlin is SmartScout's resident Peanut Butter Enthusiast. She's partnered with household name brands, major conglomerates, and leading investment firms to build and implement strategies that have driven real, measurable growth.
Stanton Watts
Enterprise Sales
Stan works with Amazon brands, agencies, and accelerators to get a clear picture of what is actually happening in their business and turn it into a repeatable growth plan using SmartScout’s competitive intelligence platform. When he is not breaking down category leaders and competitor moves, he is probably outside detailing cars or testing new polish and protection combos.
Brett Rossell
Account Executive
Brett’s spent the last 4.5 years in the Amazon space helping brands grow through marketplace strategy, business development, and problem solving. Outside of work, Brett hosts the Getting After It podcast, trains for ultramarathons, and spends way too much time thinking about discipline, endurance, and doing hard things on purpose. Big fan of mountains, good books, and cars.

Sales

Brock Yeager
VP of Sales
Brock has been at SmartScout since 2021, growing from SDR to leading Enterprise Sales. Along the way, he's talked with thousands of brands, agencies, and sales teams about data. If you ever run into him, ask about his exotic chicken business or his state record in powerlifting.
Zack Edgmon
Director, Enterprise Customer Success
Been in the space for about 30 years. but if you wanted to be exact its been just under 5 years. Loves Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, D&D, Magic the Gathering, and loads of travel.
Conner Carter
Account Executive
Conner helps brands, sellers, and agencies use SmartScout to better understand Amazon categories, competitors, and growth opportunities. He focuses on making marketplace data easier to use and act on.
Caitlin Hadley
Account Executive
Caitlin is SmartScout's resident Peanut Butter Enthusiast. She's partnered with household name brands, major conglomerates, and leading investment firms to build and implement strategies that have driven real, measurable growth.
Stanton Watts
Enterprise Sales
Stan works with Amazon brands, agencies, and accelerators to get a clear picture of what is actually happening in their business and turn it into a repeatable growth plan using SmartScout’s competitive intelligence platform. When he is not breaking down category leaders and competitor moves, he is probably outside detailing cars or testing new polish and protection combos.
Brett Rossell
Account Executive
Brett’s spent the last 4.5 years in the Amazon space helping brands grow through marketplace strategy, business development, and problem solving. Outside of work, Brett hosts the Getting After It podcast, trains for ultramarathons, and spends way too much time thinking about discipline, endurance, and doing hard things on purpose. Big fan of mountains, good books, and cars.
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Marketing

Efe Osazuwa
Growth Marketing Manager
Efe is a creative brand strategist with a knack for turning insights into campaigns that connect. He builds brands with purpose, personality, and impact. Off the clock, he's playing soccer, finding new music, making some of his own, and spending time with his little family.
Michael “Radz” Radziszewski
Head of Affiliate & ELG/Nearbound
Michael leads the affiliate and Ecosystem Led Growth programs at SmartScout, helping educators and content creators become better partners and driving B2B partnerships to support enterprise growth. 15 years in e-commerce space, dad of two, avid runner.
Gabe Passey
Affiliate Marketing Manager
Gabe loves working with Amazon sellers and content creators from all over the world! Gabe joined SmartScout because our data reads like the back of a baseball card. When I'm not managing affiliate partnerships, you'll likely find him on a baseball diamond or fishing.
Cayla Rogers
Event Operations Manager
When not running events at SmartScout, you’ll likely find Cayla traveling in a new country, volunteering at animal shelters, or working on my latest DIY project at home. She loves creating experiences that bring people together.

Marketing

Efe Osazuwa
Growth Marketing Manager
Efe is a creative brand strategist with a knack for turning insights into campaigns that connect. He builds brands with purpose, personality, and impact. Off the clock, he's playing soccer, finding new music, making some of his own, and spending time with his little family.
Michael “Radz” Radziszewski
Head of Affiliate & ELG/Nearbound
Michael leads the affiliate and Ecosystem Led Growth programs at SmartScout, helping educators and content creators become better partners and driving B2B partnerships to support enterprise growth. 15 years in e-commerce space, dad of two, avid runner.
Gabe Passey
Affiliate Marketing Manager
Gabe loves working with Amazon sellers and content creators from all over the world! Gabe joined SmartScout because our data reads like the back of a baseball card. When I'm not managing affiliate partnerships, you'll likely find him on a baseball diamond or fishing.
Cayla Rogers
Event Operations Manager
When not running events at SmartScout, you’ll likely find Cayla traveling in a new country, volunteering at animal shelters, or working on my latest DIY project at home. She loves creating experiences that bring people together.

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About SmartScout

Tried and True

SmartScout is a tool that with roots that go back the creation of the company BuyBoxer.

Scott Needham founded BuyBoxer in 2011 and has become of the highest reviewed sellers on Amazon. BuyBoxer is selling over 300k ASINs through the FBA process. One of the secrets was this very tool to help find diamonds in the rough. SmartScout has allowed us to have a birds eye view of the workings of Amazon. We continue to see success and invite you to experience what we have.

Want to learn more?

Check out Scott's podcast, the Smartest Amazon Seller, to hear insight and success from years of experience and ongoing projects. You will find us also on our YouTube  channel for videos exploring the ins and out of Amazon selling, and follow Scott's Instagram @smartestseller. Scott's content is action oriented on how you can get an edge on Amazon.

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