🎥 Gabriel Isserlis

SuperScout

Upgrade your private location database!

Our software helps you: 
- manage and search through your personal locations database with a map or keywords
- share beautiful shortlists with clients and colleagues
- never do the same research twice! 

Prettier than Dropbox; More secure than SmugMug. More functional than both. 

Built from the ground up for location scouts, managers, and production companies.

Founder & CEO

Boardwave

The Boardwave network is a powerful community of Founders, CEOs, Chairs, Independent NEDs & Investors from across Europe, representing companies at every stage of development in the tech industry.The Boardwave network is a powerful community of Founders, CEOs, Chairs, Independent NEDs & Investors from across Europe, representing companies at every stage of development in the tech industry.

Boardwave member

Tutti

Tutti is building technology to give creatives more time to create.

Today, we are a SaaS enabled marketplace for amazing creative venues - places for film/photo shoots, rehearsals, live-streams, concerts, and more. Traditionally it can take days or weeks to find and book these places, but on Tutti, creators find and message 1000+ spaces in minutes.
Simultaneously, our software helps amazing, unusual venues automate their booking processes and save countless hours on admin.

Learn more: https://www.tutti.space

Tutti was launched at the Founder Institute, London (www.fi.co) in 2018.
Supported by the Rattle Collective 2019-2021 (now closed).
Supported by the CultTech Accelerator in 2023. 

Funding: 
Self funded: 2018 - 2022
Raised £295k from 356 people (crowd) in 2022.

Techstars

Mentor

Founder Institute

Successfully graduated as a member of the London Winter 2018 cohort of the Founder Institute - the world’s premier idea-stage accelerator and startup launch program.

Top 3% Graduate & Mentor

Marketplace Risk

Today, the Marketplace Risk platform is the most comprehensive source of education, networking and information sharing for marketplace, sharing, gig, peer-to-peer and collaborative economy startups to learn risk management, trust & safety, compliance and legal strategy necessary to launch, grow and exit successfully. From our blog, e-newsletter, Platform Podcast, Slack Forum and Live Event & Webinar Series, to our conferences and summits, Marketplace Risk is the first and only dedicated resource for startups to take their businesses to the next level.

Advisory Board Member

Founders Pledge

As a member of the Founders Pledge community I’m committed to leveraging my success for good. Founders Pledge enables entrepreneurs and investors to give back, give more, and give effectively, by pledging a portion of future exit proceeds to charity. They provide charity research, organise events with thought leaders in social impact, and handle the administrative burden of donating to globally.

Pledger

OPUS

OPUS is a community that provides opportunities for emerging leaders who recognize the value of peer-to-peer relationships as a powerful catalyst for positive change in the world.

Member

Home Grown Club

A members' club for entrepreneurs, investors, performance business leaders and the change makers of tomorrow. Happy to refer new members - DM me for details

Founding Member

Culttech Accelerator

Graduate

Unlocking space for creativity: Founder/CEO of Tutti

My expertise lies at the intersection of creativity and technology, which has inspired 
1. Tutti: "AirBnB for creative spaces" 
2. SuperScout: "Your personal database of locations, supercharged with AI" 

(Side note: I won't accept connection requests unless you give me a compelling reason, or I've met you in person)

With degrees in film making and software development, as well as a decade of work in music, theatre, and photography, and years building tech startups, I have a unique set of insights. 

These have inspired creative technical solutions to problems I have experienced first hand in the creative industries, one of the fastest growing sectors that is already worth more than $3tr to humanity. 

Follow Tutti & SuperScout to see those ideas become a reality

www.tutti.space - www.superscout.ai

Follow me here to get honest stories, insights, and thoughts about the highs, lows, and in-betweens of building a startup: 

- It's not an easy or quick journey, but it's a bloody rewarding one. 

- You can't do it alone. If you think you can, you're kidding yourself. 

- You don't know what you don't know - you'll always be learning things you never knew you needed to know.

- Everything is about relationships. Start building them early and often. You never know who might be able to help you. 


Lastly, this is me behind the companies and experience: 
I love to: 
- Invent solutions
- Design product (UX - I'm great at functional, not so good at pretty)
- Support other founders (it's a bloody difficult journey)
- Inspire others
- Dream up & build the future!

It's incredible what can change in a year! 

Last year, I attended an event in December called FOCUS, to show off our new technology for people in locations in film/tv. It was the same event that a year prior, I came up with the idea. 

We had 1 client in the room! The wonderful Dadina Sagger who shouted about us from the rooftops! And through our talk and stand, we received a large amount of interest, BUT the technology was too early for many people. 

This year we've been diligently working with people who accepted its shortcomings and joined us anyway. 

I have most of them on whatsapp, and I've been using any chance I can to chat with them: gathering their feedback, having conversations about what could be improved & what they've always dreamed of having in a system like this. And I've been using these unlocked insights to adjust our roadmap. 

Our tech still has a long way to go, but it's come leaps and bounds from where it was last year. Massive kudos to Dharmil Trivedi for leading the team so well! And our consistency in talking, listening, understanding, and building has paid off. 

We'll have at least 9 key customers in the room (a small or big jump if you talk # or %), where they'll use a new feature from SuperScout to showcase their locations, but more importantly we won't be just some random name in the noise. 

I've called a bunch of potential customers to set up meetings and consistently they've said "I've heard good things about you! I'm very interested in a demo." 

FOCUS is in 1 month, and I can't wait! (and I'll try to take more photos this time - reusing this one has gotten old)

#networking #launch #customers #locations

Empowering filmmakers with radically better software (SuperScout); Dad, Founder, Mentor, Cat Dad

Received a lovely message this morning. 

4 of our customers were at Filming in England's mixer at #pinewoodstudios last night, and Gary Kinch messaged me this morning to say:

"There was lots of love in the room for SuperScout last night! All 4 of us, very happy!!" 

It's been an absolute pleasure working with you all so far. Looking forward to what the future holds. 

#locations #filmoffices #filminginengland 

Photo credit to Gary Kinch as I wasn't there myself unfortunately.

Remember when I used to share an awesome venue on Tutti (visit www.tutti.space) every week? 

Well, I'm going to try and get back to that, except with SuperScout because we recently launched our Showcase tier, where users can use our tech to show off their incredible locations to the world. 

We have some incredible early showcase sites of customers across England, Czech Republic, Wales, Rep of Ireland, and the US and I can't wait to show off what they have, from castles to cliffs, harbours to homes, mansions, military museums, and even an upside down house! 

If you want to see some incredible locations for film/tv, give me a follow! 
(You'll have to put up with a sprinkling of dad/founder posts too) 

Here's a quick teaser - a literal castle in north Wales! 
DM Richard Williams-Bulkeley if you want to learn more or shoot there! 

#locations #film #showcase

We received another glowing review this week, courtesy of Richard Williams-Bulkeley:  

"For a couple of years I have been looking for a way to manage my locations and their associated images to then communicate them to the Film and Media Industry. I investigated building a website, SmugMug and other image related options but nothing gave me what I wanted. My requirements were:

 - Easy to use
 - Flexible
 - Function rich
 - Slick
 - Fast
 - Professional looking
 - Mapping fully integrated, including Google Maps and W3W
 - Reasonably priced

At last I have found what I have been searching for and more! 

SuperScout met all my requirements. After 2 short sessions I have got to grips with the functionality (and I am a 57 year old location owner!) and am seeing the benefits every time I use the system. It really is fantastic, so simple and intuitive but bursting with really great features for location owners, location managers and scouts alike. It has exceeded my expectations in every way.

In addition they have provided superb support and added some great functionality I hadn't expected, for example the Past Productions Page. The speed of their development is brilliant and their team really understand the Film and TV locations world, its needs and challenges. 

SuperScout is a joy to use!" 


Here's an early version of Richard's new site, powered by SuperScout: 
https://lnkd.in/eV3JAviu

It's fantastic to have you on board Richard! 

#customerlove #filmlocations #product

This past week was really quite insane. I experienced all parts of my new normal in just a few days.

During the week I helped onboard some new customers including one who owns a castle (seriously cool!), and pushed new functions to SuperScout (with the help of Dharmil Trivedi). 

I've recently started coding more with the help of Cursor and Wispr Flow, but it's not 100% perfect, so I'm very happy to have Dharmil's expertise on hand to polish it off. 

I took my son out, either for walks or to play group to give my wife extra time to practise. She had a concert Sunday in Germany, that was going to be recorded for the radio, so... no pressure. 

Then we flew off to Germany. First to a place near Regensburg Saturday for rehearsals, and then Weiden Sunday for the concert: Schumann Quartet & Mozart Quintet. Very memorable programme. 

The concert was recorded by BR Klassik and will be broadcast on 2 Mar, if anyone reading this is in Germany and wants to tune in then! Their group's name is the "Barbican Quartet." 

And it's back to normal life (or as normal as it gets now...) today. Demo calls for potential clients in Hong Kong and Czech Republic for SuperScout, finalising onboarding for an awesome customer in England, and preparing for our big event in December. 

It's certainly not a boring life... 

#dad #travel #performance

🌊 This lighthouse pioneered the first failed toilet in maritime history—but the views are incredible.

Trwyn Du Lighthouse sits on Black Point at Anglesey's eastern tip (North Wales):
⚫ 29m tower with distinctive three black bands
🌊 Sea-washed stepped base designed for wave management
🏝️ Views across to Puffin Island and the Menai Strait
🚗 Small toll road access with nearby parking

What makes it work: Built in 1838 as a prototype for larger sea-washed towers, this is coastal drama with proper maritime architecture. The stepped base and rocky shoreline give you natural texture, and the contrast between the striped tower and surrounding seascape delivers strong composition options.

Previously shot here: House of the Dragon Season 3 (coming soon)

Get in touch with Richard (link in comments) to learn more.

That awkward moment when your zoom view is disrupted by family! 

I did my best to hide the fact that I was working from my bed, because I'm currently on tour with my wife & son, and there's no available desk in the house. 

But then my wife unexpectedly asked me to take my son during the middle of the meeting. So I had to crawl to the edge of the bed (barriers on both sides for son), mid-meeting, and there's no hiding that... 

Then I had to hold my son on the call (pretty standard at this point - so that was fine) but I suddenly saw that the covers, my pyjamas, and the pillows and headboard were all in view... Oh dear!

Fortunately I don't think my potential clients are going to hold it against me - they're excited about our software, not worrying about where I have to hold meetings! But still, not what I'd intended. 



#dadlife 
#founderlife 
#customercalls

Quick demo: Uploading locations to SuperScout 🎬

Whether you're managing a single location or thousands, here's how easy it is to get your files in to your database:

→ Drag and drop your files (photos, videos, PDFs)
→ Set addresses with autocomplete
→ Add private notes and details only your team sees
→ Set default public info—hide exact addresses, use a radius, control what gets shared

Built for location managers, scouts, production companies, and film offices who need to organise locations fast without the headache.

#locationscout #locationmanager #filmlocations

We have some amazing evangelists helping share our product! 

Last week alone, I had 3 amazing experiences of this.  

❤️ Someone I reached out to (I thought cold) had seen one of our customers using SuperScout on set, and wondered what it was! Apparently that customer then showed the whole team a quick demo! 

💙 Another person I contacted is in an association with a bunch of our customers and have consistently heard good things from multiple people over the past 10 months. She really wants a demo now. 

🥰 Last year I gave a demo to a room of industry people, and someone who had been in that audience has been following our journey. He heard some of his former colleagues were considering buying from one of our competitors, and he told them to consider ours, and reached out to me on the company whatsapp, to connect us. He did not have to! At all! But he went out of his way to try and help us, which is amazing! 

In fact none of these customers sharing our product have to. At the moment our network capabilities are limited, so it doesn't benefit (also doesn't hurt) our customers to have others using it. 

But people are going out of their way to help share the value of SuperScout, which is incredible!

Thank you to everyone talking about SuperScout and sharing it with colleagues. It's time for there to be a new standard in software for the locations industry. 

Time to Ditch Dropbox & Scrap SmugMug. They're not build for this industry, SuperScout is! 

#customerlove #filmlocations #locationscouts

🏠 An upside-down house where gravity-defying scenes come naturally—and IKEA furnished the whole thing.

The Lakeside Upside Down House offers instant visual impact for contemporary productions:
🎨 Red wine-colored exterior with high-gloss finish
🛋️ IKEA-designed interiors with furniture mounted on ceilings
📍 Located in Lakeside Shopping Centre car park (easy crew access)
🔄 Mind-bending perspective shifts for unique shot composition

What makes it work: This isn't set dressing—it's a fully realized inverted environment where production can achieve impossible-looking shots in-camera. The compact footprint means fast setups, while the shopping center location provides nearby amenities for extended shoots. Perfect for commercials, music videos, or any production needing surreal visual hooks.

Get in touch with Gary Kinch at Essex Film Office to learn more about shooting here! (link in comments)

#FilmLocation #LocationScouting #UKFilming

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