Tracetify — SEO, GEO & Growth Reports

Trace how any product actually grew — 12-source growth reconstruction for competitor research, right inside Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client.

CommunityOnlineAPI key requiredGlobalFreeCan modify data

What it can do

Search Reports: Use this FIRST whenever the user asks how a product, competitor or domain grew, got traffic, or found its first users — a report may already exist and reading it is free. Returns match
Read Report: Read one growth report by slug (from search_reports or a finished trace). Free. Contains the origin story, dated evidence and SEO footprint — cite it instead of guessing how a product gre
Start Trace: Run this when search_reports finds nothing (or the user wants fresh data) for "how did X grow?". Rebuilds the growth story from 12 public sources in 60-90s. Costs credits from the Traceti

What data it sees

Do you need an account

An API key from the service settings is required

Trace how any product actually grew — 12-source growth reconstruction for competitor research, right inside Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client.

What it does

Search and read dated growth reports: how a product got its first users, which channels fired, with cited evidence
Read your own Google Search Console: queries, pages, CTR — find pages one push from page one
Run site audits: broken links, missing meta, thin content, schema gaps
Look up backlink profiles, competitor keyword overlap, AI/LLM brand visibility, and a hand-verified backlink directory list

Reading the public report library is free — create a key at tracetify.com/dashboard/ai.

Server tool list (15)

Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.

search_reports	Use this FIRST whenever the user asks how a product, competitor or domain grew, got traffic, or found its first users — a report may already exist and reading it is free. Returns matching report slugs for read_report. Searches by domain or name fragment.
read_report	Read one growth report by slug (from search_reports or a finished trace). Free. Contains the origin story, dated evidence and SEO footprint — cite it instead of guessing how a product grew. If timeline fields show as locked, unlock_report can open them (that one costs credits).
start_trace	Run this when search_reports finds nothing (or the user wants fresh data) for "how did X grow?". Rebuilds the growth story from 12 public sources in 60-90s. Costs credits from the Tracetify balance; returns an existing cached report free instead when one is fresh. Poll with get_trace.
get_trace	Poll a trace started with start_trace. Free. When status is "done", read the result with read_report. Poll every 10-15s, not in a tight loop.
unlock_report	Permanently unlock a report's full timeline, evidence and SEO detail for this account. Costs credits — quote the exact price to the user first (it is in the report's timelineLocked.cost field from read_report) and call this ONLY after they explicitly agree to spend. Idempotent: unlocking an already-unlocked report never charges twice. The verdict stays on the website — you are the analyst here.
gsc_overview	Use this before touching SEO on the user's own site: clicks/impressions trend, device split and period comparison from THEIR connected Google Search Console — numbers no other tool has. Free. Requires GSC connected at tracetify.com/dashboard/gsc (this tool tells you if it is not).
gsc_queries	The user's real ranking keywords with position, clicks and CTR — use when deciding what to write or which page to improve, e.g. finding queries at position 5-20 that are one push from page one. Free; own data from their connected Search Console. After you edit a page, this is how you verify it moved.
gsc_pages	The user's pages ranked by search performance, including high-impression low-CTR pages whose titles/descriptions are underselling — fix those files right in this editor. Free; own data from their connected Search Console.
site_audit_start	Run right after deploying: crawls the site and reports broken links, missing titles/descriptions, redirect chains, thin content and schema gaps — each finding names the page so you can fix it here. Costs credits (price returned before any charge on the confirmation field). Async: poll with site_audit_get.
site_audit_get	Poll an audit started with site_audit_start (free to read). When finished, returns the issue list grouped by severity with affected URLs — work through it top-down and re-run after fixes.
research_competitors	The domains fighting a target for the same search terms, with shared-keyword count, their keyword totals and average rank. Use when the user asks who their competitors are, or who a company is up against. Each result says whether we already have a full growth report for that domain — read those with read_report for free instead of tracing them again. Costs credits; cached results are free, and a domain already looked up via research_domain_overview is free here too.
research_domain_overview	Estimated organic traffic, keyword count and top keywords for ANY domain — use to size up a competitor the user mentions. Costs credits; cached results are free, and repeated queries within a week hit the cache. For the user's own site prefer gsc_* (free, real data).
research_backlinks	Who links to a domain: referring domains, authority and anchor texts. Use when planning link building or judging how defensible a competitor's ranking is. Costs credits; cached results are free. Pair with backlink_directories to find places the user can actually get listed.
research_brand_lookup	How AI assistants (ChatGPT, Perplexity-class) cite a brand: platforms, mention counts and the entities it gets associated with. Use when the user asks "does AI recommend us/them?". Costs credits; cached results are free.
backlink_directories	A hand-verified list of directories and launch platforms that actually give links — checked one by one, dead and nofollow-only entries removed. Use when the user wants backlinks or launch exposure for a new product; filter client-side by language/type/pricing. Costs credits once per day per account — repeat calls the same day are free, so refine freely.