Your AI assistant can now audit any website.

Semrush and Ahrefs are built around backlink databases and rank tracking dashboards. You log in, navigate menus, and export reports. Accrue SEO works differently: it runs inside your AI assistant. You type "audit mysite.com" in Claude Desktop, Cursor, or Windsurf and get results in 20 to 40 seconds. Your AI assistant can then help you fix issues in the same conversation. Accrue SEO also checks AI search visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, a category that traditional tools do not cover. The tradeoff: Accrue SEO does not include a backlink database or rank tracker.

No. You type plain English commands like "audit mysite.com" or "check if my site is visible to ChatGPT". Setup takes 30 seconds: you paste a single JSON block into your AI assistant's configuration file. The tool handles everything else, fetching your page, running 9 checks, and returning results with specific fix recommendations. The JSON block is 4 lines and looks exactly like the example in the Docs section of this page. If you can follow a copy-paste instruction, you can set this up. Non-technical users typically ask their AI assistant to help interpret results and suggest the exact code or content changes needed. Technical users can pipe results into automated scripts or CI workflows. No terminal, no npm install, no deployment required on your end. The entire setup is documented in the Docs section below with a working copy-paste example.

Accrue SEO works with any AI assistant that supports MCP (Model Context Protocol). Currently tested and supported: Claude Desktop (Anthropic's desktop app), Cursor (AI code editor), and Windsurf (Codeium's editor). The MCP standard is open, so any tool that adds MCP support will work automatically. Claude Code (Anthropic's CLI) and VS Code with MCP extensions are also compatible. Setup is identical across all clients: you add a single JSON block to the client's configuration file specifying the server URL and your API key. No browser plugin, no separate app, no dashboard to visit. As of 2025, MCP adoption is accelerating rapidly, with new AI assistants adding support every few months. Any client listed on the official MCP registry at modelcontextprotocol.io will connect to Accrue SEO without any changes on our end. All 15 audit tools are available in every supported client.

A single-page audit takes 20 to 40 seconds depending on the target site's response time and complexity. This includes fetching the page, analyzing HTML, checking structured data, and running the AI-powered content and GEO evaluations. Full site crawls (Agency tier and above) take longer, typically 2 to 5 minutes for a 50-page site and up to 15 minutes for 500 pages. Deep audits run asynchronously and you can poll for results. The slowest part of a single-page audit is usually the Core Web Vitals check, which calls the Google PageSpeed Insights API, and the GEO visibility check, which tests whether your content appears in AI-generated answers. If your target site has a slow server or blocks headless browsers, the fetch step can add 5 to 10 seconds. Results include a numeric score from 0 to 100, a severity-sorted issue list, and time-to-fix estimates for each recommendation.

The free tier gives you 3 audits per day with no signup or API key required. We identify free users by IP address. When you hit the limit, the tool returns a clear message with your current usage count and a link to upgrade. The limit resets every 24 hours. Paid plans (starting at $29 per month for Pro) offer 50 to unlimited audits per month with additional features like AI-powered content analysis, schema generation, and competitor comparisons.

Accrue SEO reads only publicly accessible pages, the same content that any search engine crawler would see. We do not require login credentials or access to private content. Audit results are returned directly to your AI assistant through an encrypted HTTPS connection. We do not store your page content on our servers. For paid users, we keep a summary of audit scores and metadata (URL, timestamp, score) in our database so you can view your audit history.

MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, an open standard created by Anthropic. It lets AI assistants connect to external tools and data sources, similar to how browser extensions add capabilities to Chrome. When you configure an MCP server in your AI assistant, the assistant gains access to that server's tools. Accrue SEO provides 15 SEO tools through MCP, including page auditing, schema validation, content analysis, AI visibility checking, and competitor comparison. The protocol handles authentication, request routing, and response formatting automatically.