McKillop CreativeScout

For families of student athletes

Your athlete's recruiting page, built with you in about an hour.

Scout is a guide that knows what a coach needs to see. You talk, paste what you have, and watch the page take shape live. Then John McKillop polishes it and puts it on your athlete's own domain.

Start with Scout — it's free to try See how it works No account to create. Your draft gets a private link you can open on your phone.

How it works

You don't have to know what to provide.

Most families stall on the same things: which film, which stats, what a coach actually reads first. Scout asks only what's useful now, explains anything unfamiliar the moment it comes up, and turns what you paste into facts you approve with a tap.

01Talk with Scout

Name, class year, position, school and club, film, a parent contact. Skip anything, come back any time, paste several things at once.

02Watch the page build

Every fact you confirm lands on a real page with a private link. Open it on your phone. Nothing is published until you say so.

03John polishes it

Send the draft and John does the human work: copy, layout, a quality check, one round of revisions, and your athlete's own domain.

The founding package

Coach-ready, on a domain your family owns.

  • Guided collection with Scout: what to provide, how to get it, and every fact confirmed by you before it appears.
  • A coach-ready page on a standard-price personal domain, registered in your family's name.
  • John's factual and layout quality check, plus one defined revision round.
  • Your existing film embedded (Hudl, Veo, YouTube links) and labelled.
  • A one-page recruiting summary and first-contact email drafts you send yourself.
  • Twelve months of basic page care: fixes, small updates, hosting.
  • Your content, exportable; your domain, transferable. It stays yours.
John McKillop

Who's behind it

Built by a soccer parent who makes things for a living.

John McKillop runs McKillop Creative in Greenville, South Carolina. A physician by training and a novelist, he left medicine to raise four kids, and has spent the last several years building products that guide people through something they didn't know how to start. Scout began as the page he built for his own daughter's recruiting, and the questions every other parent on the sideline asked about it.

Every Scout draft ends with John. He reads it, fixes what a machine gets wrong, and ships a page a coach can read on a phone in thirty seconds.

Questions

Straight answers.

Does Scout watch our film or judge our athlete?

No. Scout checks that a link opens and that the page is complete; it never evaluates play or claims a level. That stays with coaches.

Our team uses Hudl or Veo and I can't get the video out.

Common. Scout walks you through the shared-link route, and where an account is private, the authorized way is a link or clip from your coach or team admin. Scout never reaches into someone else's account.

What do you collect about my child?

Only what a recruiting page shows: name, class year, school and club, film, stats, honors, and a parent contact. No home address, transcript, ID or medical information. The account is the parent's. Coach quotes and contacts are published only with permission.

Is the preview public?

No. Your draft lives at a private, unindexed link. It goes on your domain only after you approve the proof.

What if we already use a recruiting platform?

Keep it. Your page links out to your Hudl or platform profile; it's the front door a coach can read in half a minute, not a replacement for the tools you already use.