More long term, one vision I've found interesting is to grow Scout into a place where users can take their alerts and share them publicly with other people. There's actually some basic abilities to do just that, now - here's a set of alerts we've created around regulatory reform:

https://scout.sunlightfoundation.com/user/sunlightfoundation/regulatory-review

You can subscribe to that set of alerts "all at once" by hitting the "Follow" button, and you'll get all the same notifications that we do around regulatory reform.

We'd like to take this sort of thing much, much further and really make Scout a platform for people to help others better track issues, and show off their expertise while they're at it.