Den meeting planner
Build the agenda from the requirements your Scouts still need, with block times, materials and a coverage meter that tells a full meeting from a busy one.
A first draft of the agenda, grounded in your den's gaps
Akela, the AI meeting assistant
Akela is DenBuddy's optional meeting assistant. Tell it what the night looks like, for example fifty-five minutes, raining, low patience, and it proposes agenda blocks built from the requirements your Scouts still need, each with materials, a leader script, and the requirements it would close. You add the ones you like.
Free for one den, forever. Reads always; writes only when you press Send.
Ask in plain words
There is no prompt to learn. Leaders write the way they would text a co-leader: we are inside this week, I have two adults, half the den still needs Bobcat, make it loud. Akela answers with a plan, not an essay, and you can push back and ask for something calmer, shorter or less messy.
Grounded in your den, not the open internet
Akela is given your den's rank, how many Scouts you have, their Bobcat status, the adventures and requirement text from the catalog, the gap analysis, and the meeting details you entered. Every proposed block cites the adventure and requirement numbers it targets, so you can check the claim instead of trusting it.
Youth protection is in the instructions, not just the policy
Akela is given first names only. It is told never to use or ask for a last name, age, birthday, address or phone number, never to state that a Scout completed anything, and never to propose an activity that puts one adult alone with one Scout or that photographs individual children.
Optional, and never the only way to plan
DenBuddy plans a complete meeting with Akela switched off. When it is disabled or the provider is unreachable, the planner falls back to a deterministic starter plan built from the same gap data. You approve every block before it reaches your agenda, and Akela never records a completion.
The rules this feature works inside
- DenBuddy reads Scoutbook Plus always, and writes back only when you press Send.
- Scouts have no accounts, and nobody can message a Scout.
- A den leader sees their own den. A parent sees their own Scout.
Questions leaders ask about this
Do I have to use AI to use DenBuddy?
No. Akela is switched on and off in Settings, and everything else works the same either way. Plenty of leaders plan entirely by hand or from community plans.
What does Akela know about my Scouts?
First names, rank, and which requirements are still open. Never last names, birthdays, addresses, phone numbers or medical information.
Can Akela mark requirements complete?
No. It plans. Completions are recorded by you after the meeting on the record sheet, and the export to Scoutbook is still a file a human uploads.
What if the plan it gives me is wrong for my den?
Ignore it or edit it. Proposals are suggestions until you add them, and every block stays editable afterwards.
Related features
Advancement gap analysis
A per-Scout, per-requirement view of the whole den, with Bobcat first and a clear answer to the only question that matters in April: who is ready for rank.
Scoutbook Plus import
The DenBuddy Sync extension reads your den from Scoutbook Plus in your own browser session and brings it into DenBuddy. Reads always; writes only when you press Send.
Parent check-in and attendance
Publish the meeting and DenBuddy hands you a check-in link and QR code. Parents mark their Scout present. Nobody signs in, and no Scout has an account.
Community plan library
Browse plans other leaders have published, fork one into your own meeting, and share yours back with every Scout name, den and date scrubbed out.
Plan your next den meeting with DenBuddy
Try a first draft, then make it yours.
Free for one den. No credit card. Works with Scoutbook Plus.