ScoutDex

I play Pokémon GO, and the game keeps its real decisions behind spreadsheets — IVs, movesets, league rankings, which raids are actually worth it this week. The answers are out there, but finding them means tabbing between half a dozen community sites in the middle of a battle.

ScoutDex is the scout I wanted. Ask it anything — “is 15/14/15 good for Umbreon in Great League?”, “what should my Lucario run?” — and it answers in a sentence, pulled from current game data instead of a stale wiki page.

How it’s built — The whole thing is a race against the moment you’ve stopped caring, so it’s built for speed. Two cache layers catch repeat questions; a small, fast model works out what you’re asking and pulls the right data (Postgres with pgvector over embeddings); and the answer streams back a word at a time instead of making you wait for the whole thing. The model providers are pinned on purpose — letting the router choose freely quietly added almost a second per answer — and the game data stays fresh through scrapers that run on a schedule inside the app. Live at scoutdex.io.