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A scouting report, taken apart

Below is one complete report, in the order the product’s own contract fixes, with a note beside every section saying what it is for and why it sits where it does. Reading it is the fastest way to understand what Avanti Scout produces.

The gap, left standing: −0.7.54 of 268 reviews set aside, 31 for signs of manipulation and 23 for being about something else.

The specimen’s hallmark. Each punch opens what it answers. The hallmark is read at one decimal; the report below gives the same figures to two.

What happens between the link and the report

The scouting metaphor is not decoration. The analysis genuinely has discrete, explainable stages, so the product narrates them while it works rather than showing a spinner. A spinner would waste the one moment when the user is most willing to be told how the thing they are about to trust actually operates.

  1. 01Gathering reviews

    Every review we can lawfully reach for this listing, across every platform that carries it, through an official route where one exists and a licensed provider where one does not.

  2. 02Checking for manipulation

    Timing bursts, rating distribution shape, reviewer clusters and duplication, checked across the whole set.

  3. 03Reading for detail

    What reviewers actually said about the things that matter for a hotel, as opposed to for a drill or a boiler engineer. Different category, different questions.

  4. 04Checking what has changed

    Whether the listing today is the listing the older reviews describe. New owner, new chef, refurbishment, product revision.

  5. 05Writing up

    A short brief in plain English, which may only say what the earlier stages produced. If it mentions an aspect or a review that the structured stages did not produce, it is rejected and written again rather than published.

This is a specimen

The Hollow Oak, Bristol, does not exist. This report was assembled from the published report contract rather than produced by scouting a real hotel, and every number in it is illustrative. It is stamped on every section so that no single screenshot of it can be mistaken for a finding about a real business.

The structure, the field names, the confidence vocabulary and the section order are not illustrative. They are exactly what the product produces, section for section.

The key to the report

Twelve sections, in a fixed order the client cannot rearrange, because the order is part of the product. The first eight are the report; the last four are the record that makes it checkable.

  1. 01Headline
  2. 02Summary
  3. 03What has changed
  4. 04Aspect scorecard
  5. 05Outliers
  6. 06Manipulation summary
  7. 07Across platforms
  8. 08Every review
  9. 09Watch
  10. 10The business’s response
  11. 11Provenance
  12. 12Affiliate disclosure

Scouting report

The Hollow Oak, Bristol

An invented hotel. No real business is described by this report.

region:
GB
category:
accommodation
analysis:
v1.0.0
generated:
29 August 2026

01

Headline

The Scout Rating beside the platform’s own, the gap between them, the confidence band and the sample it rests on. The gap is a finding in its own right, so it is never hidden.

Scout Rating
3.82
The platform says
4.50
The gap
-0.68Lower than the platform’s own

High confidence, 214 reviews analysed.

Every confidence word on this site is a defined term. That link goes to its definition.

Reviews found
268
Counted
214
Set aside, manipulation signals
31
Set aside, not about this listing
23

02

Summary

A short brief in plain English. It may only state what the earlier stages produced, and it is regenerated rather than published if it strays.

The rooms were refurbished in the autumn of 2025 and the reviews change with the fabric. Guests placed in the annexe, which the works did not reach, still describe tired carpets, a bathroom extractor that did not work and a lift that was out of service for a fortnight. Guests in the main building describe new bathrooms and a quieter night on the courtyard side. Street-facing rooms on the first and second floors are still reported as noisy at the weekend by guests in both buildings. A cluster of twenty-four five-star reviews posted inside seven days in November 2025 has been set aside, so the rating below is drawn from the reviews that remain. Breakfast and the price of parking are the two complaints that survive the refurbishment.

03

What has changed

The window the report covers, and the moments the reviews themselves say the listing changed: a new owner, a refurbishment, a new chef, a product revision.

Reviews from 4 November 2025 to 21 August 2026.

  1. 4 November 2025

    Refurbishment

    Bedrooms and bathrooms reopened after works

    5 reviews say so

  2. 14 January 2026

    Ownership

    Reviews either side describe a different operator

    4 reviews say so

04

Aspect scorecard

The things that matter for this category, each rated separately, each with its reasoning and the reviews it was drawn from. An aspect that cannot cite its sources does not render at all.

  • Cleanliness

    4.35

    Rooms are reported as clean on arrival throughout the window, and the two complaints about bathroom mould both concern annexe bathrooms. Housekeeping is described as daily and unobtrusive.

    drawn from 7 reviews

  • Room condition

    3.10

    Refurbished rooms are described as well finished, and reviewers who were placed in the unrefurbished annexe describe chipped furniture and a wardrobe door off its runner. The two accounts sit in the same window, which is why the score is lower than the cleanliness score.

    drawn from 6 reviews

  • Noise

    2.85

    Street-facing rooms are reported as noisy after eleven at night at weekends, with reviewers naming the taxi rank and the bar opposite. Courtyard rooms are described as quiet by the same reviewers.

    drawn from 5 reviews

  • Location

    4.62

    Reviewers travelling for the theatre and the station both describe the walk as under ten minutes. Drivers record the car park as a separate charge rather than as part of the room rate.

    drawn from 6 reviews

  • Staff and service

    4.05

    Reception is described as quick to move a guest off the street side once the noise was raised, and two reviewers record a late checkout given without a charge. Two others describe a single unstaffed period at breakfast.

    drawn from 5 reviews

  • Value for money

    3.24

    Reviewers name their rates: one hundred and forty pounds midweek, two hundred and ten pounds on a Saturday in July. Parking at eighteen pounds a night and breakfast at seventeen pounds a head are named as the reason the stay was judged expensive rather than the room rate itself.

    drawn from 6 reviews

  • Photographs versus reviews

    2.90

    Six reviews describe a room smaller than the photographed one, and four of those name the annexe. Three describe the courtyard view where the listing photograph shows the garden. The roll-top bath in the listing photographs is named by two reviewers as present only in the suites.

    drawn from 6 reviews

An aspect that cannot cite the reviews it was drawn from fails validation and is never served. That is a rule of the report, not a preference of the interface.

05

Outliers

The reviews that disagree with everything else, and what we make of each: a genuine one-off, a reviewer describing something else, an external factor, or a possible fabrication.

  • Google, review 9

    Reviewer confusion

    The review describes a different listing.

  • Tripadvisor, review 88

    Genuine one off

    Rated 1.0 against a Scout Rating of 3.8, and counted in full.

  • Tripadvisor, review 118

    Possible fabrication

    The language does not read as an authentic account, and it is not counted.

06

Manipulation summary

How much of the corpus was set aside or discounted, on which named signals, in how many cases. Written as a statement about a body of reviews and never about a business or a person.

31 of 268 reviews in this set were set aside and 19 were counted at reduced weight, on signals recorded as burst timing (24), reviewer account pattern (12), template language match (17), photo reuse (6), reviewer network cluster (9). These are patterns in the review corpus, consistent with the practices the CMA guidance addresses. They are not a finding about the business or about any reviewer.

Signals recorded on this set
SignalReviews
Burst timing24
Reviewer account pattern12
Template language match17
Photo reuse6
Cross listing duplicate0
Reviewer network cluster9
Gating shaped distribution0

A signal with a count of zero is printed rather than hidden, because knowing which checks were run and found nothing is part of knowing what the report means.

07

Across platforms

The same listing on every platform that carries it, with each platform’s own rating and the size of its corpus. Where they disagree the report says so rather than averaging the disagreement away.

The same listing, on each platform that carries it
PlatformIts ratingReviews
Booking.com4.0862
Google4.4838
Tripadvisor4.66168

The platforms in this set do not agree on this listing, and the report weighs each corpus separately rather than averaging them.

08

Every review

Every review, with how it was classified, the weight it carried and the reason. Nothing is silently deleted, which is what makes the rest of the report checkable.

268 reviews, every one of them retrievable with the reason for its treatment. Eleven are shown here; the product shows all of them.

An extract from the full list
ReviewTreatmentWeightReason
Tripadvisor, review 14Counted1.00Counted in full.
Tripadvisor, review 88Counted1.00Counted in full.
Booking.com, review 48Counted1.00Counted in full.
Tripadvisor, review 103Set aside: flagged signals0.00Part of a posting burst far outside this listing’s normal pace.
Tripadvisor, review 104Set aside: flagged signals0.00Part of the same burst, with wording that closely matches another review in this set.
Tripadvisor, review 118Set aside: flagged signals0.00The language does not read as an authentic account, and it is not counted.
Booking.com, review 55Set aside: flagged signals0.00A cluster of newly opened accounts posting within hours of one another.
Google, review 9Set aside: off-topic0.00The review describes a different listing.
Tripadvisor, review 77Set aside: off-topic0.00The review carries no evaluative content.
Tripadvisor, review 131Counted at reduced weight0.35The same image appears on 3 reviews of this listing.
Booking.com, review 66Counted at reduced weight0.35A brand-new account with no review history.

09

Watch

The signals that would raise an alert on this particular listing, so that the standing instruction is specific rather than generic.

The signals that would raise an alert on this particular listing.

  • Scout rating drift
  • Trust drift
  • New breakpoint
  • Review burst
  • Aspect level change
  • Right of reply response

10

The business’s response

Shown only where the business has claimed the listing and replied, at the same visual weight as the findings, at this fixed position. Free to any business, subscription or not.

No response. This section appears when a business has claimed the listing and replied, and it sits here, in this position, at the same visual weight as the findings above it.

11

Provenance

Which platforms supplied the corpus, how each was reached, when each was last refreshed, which version of the analysis produced this run, and a link to the published methodology.

Where the reviews came from, and when
PlatformRouteLast refreshed
Booking.coma licensed provider28 August 2026
GoogleThe platform’s own access28 August 2026
TripadvisorThe platform’s own access28 August 2026
analysis version
analysis v1.0.0

Read the published methodology

12

Affiliate disclosure

Shown wherever an outbound link on the report is monetised. Every such link is also labelled at the link itself, not only here.

Nothing on this report is monetised, so there is nothing to disclose. Where a link is monetised the disclosure appears here and the link itself is labelled, not only this footer.

An invented hotel. No real business is described by this report.

What the report will not do

  • It will not force a verdict. Where the evidence is thin or contradictory the confidence band says so and no rating is shown at all. That is a designed result state with its own layout, not an error.
  • It will not hide the reviews it discounted. Every set-aside review stays retrievable with the reason for its treatment, which is a rule of the report, not a preference of the interface.
  • It will not name anybody. Every finding is a statement about a body of reviews, attributed to a signal and carrying a count.