Product Roadmap
See what we’re exploring, planning, building, and improving for The Scouting Exchange. Priorities may change as we learn from Cub Scout volunteers and beta feedback.
Exploring
7Under consideration
Denner & Youth Leadership Tools
Explore ways to support youth leadership during den meetings with simple, reusable tools such as meeting blueprints, Denner role cards, helper assignments, and Scout/Den Chief prompts. Physical versions will be tested first to learn what works before deciding how these tools should be incorporated into meeting planning and printable materials in the app.
Multi-Rank Den Planning
Support leaders who run dens with Scouts from more than one rank. Explore ways to build a single meeting plan that can include requirements and adventures from multiple ranks, while making it easy to identify activities Scouts can do together and add rank-specific activities when needed. Meeting agendas, parent summaries, and advancement tracking should preserve the correct requirements for each rank while allowing the den to plan and meet as one group. This exploration may also include how multi-rank dens interact with Annual Planning, adventure selection, Exchange activity recommendations and filtering, and requirement coverage.
Community Quality & Curation
Ratings, favorites/bookmarks, reporting, duplicate detection, trusted contributors, and ways to surface particularly effective activities.
Pack-Level Collaboration
Better coordination between dens and pack leadership around shared events, resources, and planning.
Den Chief Leadership Development
Help Den Chiefs grow as leaders through meeting participation and simple post-meeting reflection on what worked and what to improve.
Browser Extension: Send to The Scouting Exchange
Capture an activity discovered elsewhere on the web, retain its source URL, and use AI to adapt it into a structured Exchange activity.
AI Meeting Planning Assistant
Go beyond individual activities and help build an entire meeting from selected requirements, available time, Scout count, location, and leader preferences.
Planned
10Committed and queued
Reusable Meeting Segment Templates
Save common parts of a den meeting—such as an Opening, Gathering Activity, Closing, or other recurring segment—as reusable templates. Add a saved segment template to any existing meeting plan without replacing the requirements, activities, or other content already planned. This makes it easy to reuse consistent meeting routines, including meetings created from the Annual Plan.
Mobile Experience
Optimize key Scouting Exchange workflows for phones and smaller screens, making it easier to plan, reference meetings, and manage den activities on the go.
Scout Progress & Record Tracking
Track each Scout’s completed requirements and easily see what still needs to be recorded in Scoutbook.
Meeting Plan Archiving
Allow leaders to archive and restore unused or outdated meeting plans while preserving their history.
Beta Security & Abuse Protection
Rate limiting, bot/spam protections, account abuse safeguards, and security review as beta access expands.
Parent Volunteer Delegation
Allow a Den Leader to hand a particular meeting or adventure to a parent volunteer with limited permissions rather than requiring them to become a full leader.
Activity Author Privacy Controls
Let contributors choose whether their name appears publicly or within the Exchange.
Public Activity Exchange
Allow anyone to browse/search community activities while reserving publishing and other participation features for registered users.
AI Activity Assistant
Help leaders create or adapt activities, generate instructions/supply lists, and suggest how an activity may meet or support requirements.
AI Parent Communication Assistant
Draft parent emails/messages automatically from the actual meeting plan, supplies, at-home assignments, location, and other event details. This is still the AI feature I’d build first.
In Progress
1Actively being built
Shipped
15Recently shipped
Meeting Run & Wrap-Up Experience
A redesigned meeting-night workflow that makes it easier to record what actually happened and update Scout progress afterward. Leaders can take attendance, record activity results and feedback, review which requirements were covered, confirm Scout completions in bulk with individual exceptions, assign missed requirements as at-home follow-up, and finish the meeting in one connected workflow. The redesign also preserves activity-use history, supports post-meeting corrections, and keeps planned, covered, and individual Scout completion status clearly separated.
Denner Rotation & Meeting Assignments
Leaders can optionally record a Denner rotation for their den and assign a Scout as Denner for individual meetings. Denner assignments appear throughout meeting planning, printable agendas, Coming Up, and family-facing meeting information.
Family Invitations
Give Den Leaders simple ways to connect families to their den. Leaders can copy a reusable join link, prepare a ready-to-send email, or print invitations with the den join code and QR code in 1-, 2-, 4-, or 6-per-page layouts. A dismissible Dashboard card keeps family invitations easy to find during setup, while Roster → Den Access remains the permanent home for join access.
Resource & Attachments Revamp
Audit and redesign how files, links, resources, and attachments work throughout The Scouting Exchange so their purpose and behavior are clear and consistent. Resources should function as reusable items in a Den’s private resource library, while attachments should belong directly to the activity, meeting-plan segment, at-home assignment, or other item they support. The revamp should make it easy for leaders to: Upload or link supporting materials directly where they are needed. Attach existing Resources from their Den library. Add attachments to any appropriate Meeting Plan segment, not only Activities. Control whether supporting content is leader-only, family-safe, or eligible to be shared publicly. Publish Activities with eligible attachments intact instead of unexpectedly removing them. Copy or save shared Activities with their intended supporting materials. Clearly understand when a private Resource will remain private versus when an attachment will travel with shared content. This work should include an audit of the existing Resource/attachment data model, publication workflow, Exchange sharing and copying behavior, Meeting Plans, At-Home Assignments, and parent-facing access so supporting materials behave predictably across the app.
Scout Adventure Interests
Let Scouts help shape the den’s year by sharing which elective adventures interest them most. Parents can review their Scout’s rank-specific elective adventures with their Scout and select a limited number of favorites, such as 3–5. Leaders can also print an interest sheet for Scouts to complete in person and optionally record those selections in the app. Interest selections are informational only and do not guarantee that an adventure will be included in the den plan. Leader planning screens will surface aggregate Scout interest so leaders can use it when choosing electives, including: Elective Adventure Selection: Show the number of Scouts interested in each adventure while the leader is deciding which electives to add to the annual plan. Annual Plan: Display interest counts alongside elective adventures so leaders can consider Scout preferences while scheduling the year. Scout Interests Summary: Show participation and the den’s most-requested elective adventures, with the ability to see individual selections when useful.
Guided Onboarding
Help new leaders get started with an in-app walkthrough of planning, activities, meetings, and other key features.
Cub Scout Curriculum Expansion
Adding official adventures, requirements, and supporting resources across additional Cub Scout ranks.
Try a Test Den
Let prospective leaders explore the planning experience in a separate test den without having to configure a real pack and den first.
Calendar & Event Planning
Schedule den meetings and other events and connect curriculum planning directly to the calendar.
Printable Meeting Agendas & Parent Summaries
Generate leader-friendly agendas and simplified parent handouts from the same meeting plan.