Flexmls Scout is the AI assistant built into Flexmls. You type a question in plain English and it answers from live MLS data and your own account. The first Flexmls Scout prompt that paid off for us was this one: “Which of my contacts viewed listings in the last 30 days?” It came back with 11 names, a listing count for each and an activity score, in about a minute. That is a warm follow-up list most agents never pull.

FBS, the company behind Flexmls, announced Scout in the first week of November 2026. It showed up in our Louisville MLS account at Winner Realty in Louisville, Kentucky, and we tested it on November 9, 2026. Below are 40 prompts you can copy, sorted by job, plus the limits we hit so you do not have to find them yourself.

The short answer

• Where it is: the Scout icon at the top right of Flexmls on desktop, or “Ask Scout” on the Search menu of the Flexmls mobile web app. It can also open in its own window, with your past chats listed down the left side.
• Who has it: only members of an MLS that has added it. The Flexmls help page calls Scout a paid, premium add-on that an MLS turns on for its members.
• What it reads: MLS listing data and your own account, meaning your listings, your production and your contacts. It does not search the web or public records.
• Where it is strongest: market statistics, listing searches, price-change lists, contact activity and Flexmls how-to questions.
• The fine print: every answer ends with “Responses use AI. Please verify results.” Check the numbers before a client sees them.

What Flexmls Scout can do

We asked Scout to list everything it can help with. This is what it told us, in our words:

• Market statistics: trends, inventory, days on market and price movement for an area.
• CMAs: comparables and a valuation for pricing a listing, including a CMA report you can download and share.
• Property search: listings across the MLS by type, location, price, bedrooms, bathrooms and features.
• Your listings and production: your listings and their photos, your sales numbers, and share links for your listings.
• Hot sheets: new listings and recent changes.
• Flexmls help: how-to and support questions about Flexmls itself.
• MLS rules: only if your MLS has loaded its rules.
• Contacts: your contact list, contacts by tag, and what a specific contact viewed or shared.

What Flexmls Scout cannot do

Scout was just as direct about its limits. As of November 9, 2026 it told us it cannot:

• Manage showings or open houses.
• Build net sheets, seller proceeds, mortgage or carrying-cost math.
• Search the web.
• Read county, tax assessor or other public records, such as owner names, deeds and ownership history. Tax and parcel fields that are on an MLS listing are fair game.
• Find or display maps.
• Reach third-party tools.
• Add or update listings. Scout said “not yet” on this one.
• Look up the member roster.
• Produce agent or office ranking reports.

For the money math Scout skips, our free seller net proceeds calculator and the rest of the Winner Realty tools are open to anyone.

40 Flexmls Scout prompts to copy

Swap the parts in brackets for your own area, price or client. Scout uses your MLS’s field names, so if a search comes back thin, ask it which fields it used.

Market statistics prompts

• 1. How’s the market in [ZIP or city] right now? Give me homes for sale, median sold price, days on market and months of supply for single-family homes, with the month named.
• 2. Compare [ZIP A] and [ZIP B] for single-family homes over the last 12 months: median sold price, days on market and sale-to-list ratio.
• 3. What is the months of supply for condos in [city] this month compared with the same month last year?
• 4. Show the median sold price for [property type] in [county] for each of the last 12 months.
• 5. What percentage of list price are homes selling for in [ZIP], this month and a year ago?
• 6. Is inventory in [area] rising or falling over the last six months? Give me the monthly counts.

What happened when we ran it: prompt 1 on ZIP 40220 took under a minute. Scout reported 89 homes for sale, a $277,500 median sold price and about 2.5 months of supply for October 2026, each next to the October 2025 number. Those three figures matched the MLS pull behind our own 40220 page. It also chose October on its own, because November was not finished. Always ask for the month by name.

Listing search prompts

• 7. Find active single-family homes in [ZIP] under $[price] with a first-floor primary bedroom.
• 8. Show me active multifamily listings in [county] that were listed in the last 14 days.
• 9. Which active listings in [city] have been on the market more than 90 days? Sort by days on market.
• 10. Find homes in [area] with a detached garage and at least half an acre, between $[low] and $[high].
• 11. Show me listings that went pending in [ZIP] this week and what they were listed for.
• 12. Find active listings in [subdivision] and give me the price per square foot for each.

Hot sheet and price change prompts

• 13. Show me [property type] listings in [county] with a price reduction in the last 7 days. Address, old price, new price, days on market.
• 14. What came on the market in [ZIP] since yesterday morning?
• 15. Which listings in [area] came back on the market this week?
• 16. What expired or was withdrawn in [ZIP] in the last 30 days?
• 17. What closed in [subdivision] in the last 60 days, and for how much?

What happened when we ran it: prompt 13 for multifamily in Jefferson County returned 10 active listings with the old price, the new price and days on market. Without being asked, Scout flagged four that had been relisted, where the days on market shown was far lower than the cumulative number. One showed 5 days and had 97 cumulative. Ask for cumulative days on market before you write an offer.

CMA and pricing prompts

• 18. Create a CMA for [full property address or MLS number].
• 19. Pull the six closest closed sales to [address] from the last six months, within 20 percent of [square feet].
• 20. What did homes like [address] sell for per square foot in the last 90 days?
• 21. Which active listings would compete with [address] at $[price]?
• 22. How long did homes priced between $[low] and $[high] take to sell in [ZIP] this year?

Prompt 18 is one of Scout’s own starter buttons. The Flexmls help page says Scout can turn a CMA into a downloadable report for your client. Read every comp before you send it. The pricing call is still yours.

Contact prompts

• 23. Which of my contacts viewed listings in the last 30 days? Give the name, how many listings, and the most recent activity date. Sort by most recent.
• 24. List the listings [contact name] viewed, with address, ZIP, property type, list price and status. One line each.
• 25. Which of my contacts have the highest activity score right now?
• 26. Show me my contacts tagged [tag].
• 27. Which contacts opened my emails but have not viewed a listing?
• 28. What listings have I sent to [contact name], and when?

What happened when we ran it: prompt 23 gave us 11 contacts with listing views in 30 days. Prompt 24 on one of them returned 12 listings in a clean table, every one a multifamily property between $69,900 and $479,000. That tells you what to send that person next without asking. Run prompt 23 every Monday and prompt 24 on the top three names.

Your listings and production prompts

• 29. What are my total closed sales this year?
• 30. List my active listings with days on market and the last price change.
• 31. Which of my listings have been active more than 60 days?
• 32. Create a share link for my listing at [address].
• 33. What was my average sale-to-list ratio on my closed listings this year?

MLS rules prompts

• 34. What are my MLS’s rules for Coming Soon listings? Cite the rule section.
• 35. What are my MLS’s rules around photos?
• 36. How long do I have to enter a new listing after the listing agreement is signed?

What happened when we ran it: our MLS has not loaded its rules into Scout yet. Scout said it could not find the Coming Soon rule, said it would not guess at the text, and pointed us to MLS staff. That is the right answer. If you get the same one, ask your MLS to add its rulebook.

Flexmls how-to prompts

• 37. How do I run a CMA in Flexmls?
• 38. How do I set up a listing email subscription for a contact?
• 39. How do I build a custom hot sheet?
• 40. How do I change which columns show in my search results?

Five things we learned testing Flexmls Scout

• Name the month. “Right now” means the last full month of statistics. Ask Scout to say which month it used.
• One contact at a time. We asked for a breakdown of what all 11 active contacts viewed in one message. It ran for several minutes and came back incomplete, and Scout said so plainly. The same question about one contact came back clean in under a minute.
• Contact dates are approximate. Scout told us it cannot see the time of each view, so it used the date the contact record last changed. Treat the date as “about when,” and treat the listing count as the real signal.
• The activity score is a shortcut. Scout said the score comes from Flexmls and that sharing a listing or messaging the agent raises it more than a view does. In a large contact list it only checked contacts with a score above zero, so a quiet contact can be missed.
• It tells you when it does not know. On MLS rules and on the big contact request, Scout said what it could not stand behind. A tool that admits a gap is one you can work with.

Scout or your own AI assistant?

Flexmls has a second door for AI. Since April 2026 the Flexmls MCP Server has let members connect an outside assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT to their own Flexmls login, if the MLS allows it. You turn it on under Preferences, then AI Settings, and Flexmls shows you the connection steps.

• Use Scout when the question is about your contacts or your own production, when you want a CMA report, or when you want zero setup. It lives where you already work.
• Use your own assistant when the MLS numbers need to end up somewhere else: a market update email, a listing presentation, a page on your website. Per the Flexmls help page, that connection covers market statistics, listing searches and your own listings.

We use both. One example: Ask the MLS, a public page where anyone can ask a Louisville market question and get an answer from live MLS data, checked by an agent before it goes out. Here is how Winner Realty uses AI, and where a person always decides.

Rules of the road

• Verify before you send. Open the listings and check the numbers against Flexmls. An AI summary is a draft.
• Keep it Fair Housing clean. Ask about houses, prices, land and places. Never ask any AI tool to sort areas by who lives there, and never pass along an answer that does.
• Protect your clients. Contact names and viewing activity are for your follow-up. They do not belong in a screenshot on social media.
• MLS rules still apply. A sentence written by Scout about another agent’s listing is still MLS data. Your MLS’s display and sharing rules did not change.

Frequently asked questions

What is Flexmls Scout?

Flexmls Scout is an AI assistant built into the Flexmls MLS platform by FBS. Real estate agents type questions in plain English and Scout answers from live MLS data and the agent’s own account, including listings, market statistics, contact activity, production and Flexmls help articles. FBS announced it in the first week of November 2026.

How do I get Flexmls Scout?

Your MLS has to add it. The Flexmls help page describes Scout as a paid, premium add-on that an MLS can enable for its members. If you do not see the Scout icon at the top right of Flexmls, ask your MLS whether it plans to turn Scout on.

Where is the Scout button in Flexmls?

On desktop, click the Scout icon at the top right corner of the screen and a chat panel opens on the right. On the Flexmls mobile web app we found it as “Ask Scout” on the Search menu. The panel can expand to full screen or open in its own window.

What are the best Flexmls Scout prompts?

The three that earned their keep for us first: “Which of my contacts viewed listings in the last 30 days?”, “How’s the market in [ZIP] right now, with the month named?” and “Show me listings in [county] with a price reduction in the last 7 days.” All 40 prompts on this page are free to copy.

Can Flexmls Scout search the web or public records?

No. Scout told us it works only from MLS listing data and your own account data. It does not search the web, and it does not read county, tax assessor or deed records.

Can Flexmls Scout create a CMA?

Yes. “Create a CMA for [address or MLS number]” is one of Scout’s starter prompts, and the Flexmls help page says Scout can generate a downloadable CMA report to share with a client. Review the comparables yourself before you send it.

Does Flexmls Scout work on a phone?

FBS says Scout works across its desktop and mobile applications. We used it from the Flexmls mobile web app through the “Ask Scout” link on the Search menu.

Is Flexmls Scout the same as the Flexmls MCP Server?

No. Scout is the assistant inside Flexmls. The Flexmls MCP Server, released in April 2026, connects an outside AI assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT to your Flexmls login. Both depend on your MLS turning them on.

Sources: the Flexmls Scout help page and its Scout FAQ, FBS’s November 2026 announcement, and our own tests in Louisville MLS on November 9, 2026.

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Rob Bergeron is Owner–Realtor at Award-Winning Winner Realty in Louisville, Kentucky (Lisa Tucker, Principal Broker, licensed in Kentucky and Indiana). Email me with any questions: Rob@thewinnerrealty.com.