# kariops pulse

AI search visibility tracker for small business. Installs once inside Claude and reports how your brand shows up across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews each month, then drafts the page-copy fixes you can apply yourself.

## What it is

A Model Context Protocol connector for Claude. Lives inside Claude.ai (web), Claude Desktop, and Claude Code. Free, always. Users bring their own engine API keys (Anthropic, OpenAI, Perplexity, Google, Serper), so scan cost stays with the user and never crosses to kariops infrastructure.

## What it does

- Monthly scans across five AI search engines.
- Surfaces which queries cite your brand and which cite competitors.
- Drafts page-copy fixes for visibility gaps, returned in chat for the user to apply manually.
- Tracks visibility trend over time so users can see the lift after each round of fixes.

## What it does NOT do

- Does not write to user-controlled systems. All drafts are returned in chat for manual review.
- Does not spend kariops money on user scans. Strict BYOK.
- Does not collect PII beyond OAuth email plus encrypted user-supplied API keys.

## Pricing

Free, always. The connector is open and free to install. The only cost is what each user spends with their own engine providers on their own scans.

## Install

Open Claude settings, choose Connectors, add a custom connector, paste the MCP server URL at https://pulse.kariops.com/api/mcp. Full walkthrough at https://pulse.kariops.com/install.

## Maintainer

Built by Kari Doherty (kariops). Contact kari@kariops.com.