The Chrome extension isn't a save button — it's where your advisor meets you, on the homes you're already looking at. The board's agent zone, rendered onto Zillow. A box under every listing (the heart stays the heart) that's either a launch pad or a live conversation — depending on one simple rule.
The Zillow box is not a separate surface — it's a window onto the home's board card. Same Convex card, two mounts. Zero it on Zillow, drag it on the board, answer the advisor on either — both reflect it instantly. The card also carries its stage ("In your shortlist"), so you always know where a home sits in your hunt without leaving Zillow.
A slim cream strip: Zero this home, plus room for a couple jumping-off controls. Near-free to paint on every tile — nothing runs per home.
The advisor made a card before you zeroed — a question to learn you. Shows on Zillow by the same rule. This is the day-one seed.
You zeroed it → the full card, minus image: the advisor's read, its question, the controls, the stage, a line to the board.
All three are the same rule. "Cold / scout / warm" is just who made the card and what stage it's in — there's no special path for any of them.
This is the piece that ties it together: the board has two intake columns, not one.
When you zero a home, it lands here and the advisor goes to work analyzing it. Once it has a read, the home moves into the hunt (Worth seeing) or out (Passed).
The advisor's own column — where it pulls homes onto the board itself and asks about them. The day-one seeds and all the ongoing scouting live here.
Both front doors feed the same flow (Worth seeing → Scheduled → Seen → Shortlist). And the connection to Zillow falls out of the rule for free: the scout cards are the advisor populating its own column — so they're real board tickets, which means by the rule they show on Zillow too. Zero one of them and it just slides from the advisor's column into your inbox. The two front doors, the board, and the Zillow box are all one object viewed from different sides.
The cold-start problem — the empty screen a new tool greets you with — doesn't exist here. The moment the advisor is born, it goes into your market (resolved at onboarding), pulls 5–6 real homes, and pins a question to each. You open Zillow for the first time and your advisor is already there, already curious. Not every listing — a deliberate handful. Enough to feel met.
The advisor scouts ahead and pins questions that teach it your taste, not generic prompts:
This is the unfair advantage: every other product only shows you what you'd like. A real buyer's agent learns you fastest by testing the edges — "not this, right?"
None of this is new plumbing. The Zillow scout is the same advisor we already designed — its yearnings, its memory, its agent zone — pointed at a live Zillow tile instead of a board card.
resolveMarket) — the advisor knows where to scout.ask, with why = the yearning + memory trace. Same board ask verb.