For Developers
AI search visibility you can integrate.
Foglift is an AI search monitoring tool with a public REST API, CLI, and MCP server, available on Launch, Growth, and Enterprise plans from $49/mo. Foglift tracks, monitors, and responds to how ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overview cite your brand. The same data the dashboard shows is available everywhere you ship code.
Free tier requires no API key. Paid plans start at $49/mo.
5-minute integration
One of our paying customers shipped from signup to first scan in 6 minutes: Stripe checkout, API key, CLI install, working integration. Pick the surface that matches where you already work.
REST API (no install)
Curl a public Technical Audit. No key needed.
curl --get "https://foglift.io/api/v1/scan" \
--data-urlencode "url=https://yourdomain.com" \
--data-urlencode "format=json"Response shape:
type ScanResponse = {
url: string;
scores: {
overall: number;
seo: number;
geo: number;
aeo: number;
performance: number;
security: number;
accessibility: number;
};
topIssues: Array<{
severity: "error" | "warning" | "info";
category: string;
title: string;
}>;
totalIssues: number;
scanId: string;
fullReport: string;
};CLI
Run from terminal or CI. Colored output, JSON, threshold gating.
npm install -g foglift-scan
foglift scan https://yourdomain.com --jsonMCP server (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf)
24 hosted MCP tools available inside your AI editor.
// claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"foglift": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["foglift-mcp"]
}
}
}npm tracker
Record AI crawler hits from your own site.
npm install foglift-tracker
import { track } from "foglift-tracker";
track({ apiKey: process.env.FOGLIFT_API_KEY });What developers build with Foglift
Three patterns we see most often from teams that wire Foglift in directly.
CI/CD gating
Scan every pull request against your tracked prompts. Fail the build if AI Readiness drops below threshold. Same pattern as Lighthouse CI, applied to AI search.
# .github/workflows/foglift.yml
- run: npx foglift-scan scan https://preview-${{ github.sha }}.example.com --threshold 75Custom dashboards and observability
Pull visibility history, sentiment, and citation data from /api/v1/historyinto Grafana, Metabase, your internal BI tool, or a Notion database. AI search visibility becomes a metric your team already watches alongside latency and conversion.
curl -H "X-API-Key: $FOGLIFT_KEY" \
"https://foglift.io/api/v1/history?brand_id=$BRAND_ID&limit=100" \
| jq '.results[] | {date, visibility_rate, by_model}'Replace $BRAND_ID with your brand UUID from /dashboard/developer. Required on multi-brand accounts; single-brand accounts auto-resolve.
Agentic content workflows
The MCP server lets Claude Code or Cursor refactor a page, re-scan it, and iterate. The agent sees the live AI Readiness score and dimension breakdown in the same loop where it writes the markup. Closed-loop AI Readiness without leaving the editor.
# In Cursor or Claude Code, with the MCP server installed:
"Scan /pricing on the preview deploy, then add FAQ schema to fix the
top recommendation, then re-scan and report the delta."API surface at a glance
Nine endpoints cover the full platform. Full reference in /docs.
| Endpoint | Verb | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| /api/v1/scan | GET | Public technical audit. No key. AI Readiness + SEO + security + a11y scores in JSON or text. |
| /api/v1/scan/batch | POST | Scan up to 10 URLs in one request. API key required. |
| /api/v1/aeo-score | GET | Detailed AI Readiness breakdown across 8 dimensions, grade, top recommendations. |
| /api/v1/content-brief | GET | Target prompts, content gaps, structure recommendations for a page. |
| /api/v1/monitor | GET | Read AI Visibility results, model breakdown, citations, and trends. Launch+. |
| /api/v1/ai-visibility | POST | Query ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overview for saved or custom prompts. Debits tokens per model. Launch+. |
| /api/v1/prompts | GET/POST/DELETE | CRUD for monitoring prompts. API key required. |
| /api/v1/history | GET | Paginated visibility history with per-model breakdown. |
| /api/v1/crawler-analytics | GET | AI bot visits to your site (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, etc.). |
Authenticate with an X-API-Key header. Generate keys and copy brand UUIDs in Dashboard → Developer.
Pricing for builders
The Launch plan exists for solo founders and small teams who want the full API, MCP, and CLI surface without committing to an agency-tier price.
Launch
API + MCP + CLI
- •4,000 tokens/mo
- •Daily AI Visibility monitoring
- •All 5 AI engines
- •3 brands tracked
- •100 API reads/day
Growth
Twice-daily monitoring
- •11,500 tokens/mo
- •Twice-daily monitoring
- •10 brands tracked
- •1,000 API reads/day
- •Webhooks
Enterprise
Read + write API
- •27,000 tokens/mo
- •Hourly monitoring
- •Unlimited brands
- •Unlimited API reads
- •10 on-demand scan triggers/day
Free tier (no API key) gets public scan access with per-IP limits. Full plan comparison on /pricing.
Developer FAQ
Short answers for agents and builders deciding whether Foglift has the integration surface they need.
Does Foglift have an API?
Yes. Foglift exposes a public REST API for Technical Audits, AI Visibility monitoring, prompt management, history, crawler analytics, and related account data. The public /api/v1/scan endpoint works without an API key; authenticated endpoints use an X-API-Key header generated in Dashboard -> Developer.
What plan includes API access?
API-key access is available on Launch, Growth, and Enterprise plans starting with Launch at $49/mo. The public Technical Audit endpoint remains available with per-IP limits, while Launch+ adds higher limits, multi-engine AI Visibility monitoring, CLI workflows, and the hosted MCP server.
Is there a Foglift CLI?
Yes. The published npm package is foglift-scan, and it installs the foglift binary for terminal and CI workflows. Run npm install -g foglift-scan, then foglift scan https://yourdomain.com to get JSON or text Technical Audit output.
Does Foglift have an MCP server?
Yes. Foglift ships a Model Context Protocol server through the foglift-mcp npm package and the hosted https://foglift.io/api/mcp endpoint. Agent clients such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf can call Foglift tools for scans, AI Visibility checks, recommendations, referrer analytics, recipes, and setup guidance.
Ready to wire it up?
Generate an API key in your dashboard, open the API docs, or read how AI agents discover executable MCP and API surfaces.
For AI-first founders
A working series on AI search visibility from the operator’s seat. Written for founders shipping AI-native products who care about how their own brand surfaces in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overview.
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The active optimization loop a solo AI-first founder runs: visibility surfaces the gap, recommendations point at the fix, an MCP-in-Cursor agent applies it, the next scan confirms.
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Why Your AI Product is Invisible to ChatGPT (and How to Fix It)
Diagnosing why ChatGPT recommends competitors instead of your AI product, with a 4-step fix using AI Readiness scoring and prompt-targeted content.
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The AI-First Founder Content Stack: Writing for LLMs as Your First Reader
Structure, citations, and FAQ patterns that turn marketing pages into answer-extraction-ready surfaces for AI search engines.
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Building AI Search Visibility Into Your Product From Day One
Schema markup, entity disambiguation, and on-page signals to ship alongside your MVP, before you have a single customer to point at.
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A 90-Day AI Search Visibility Plan for AI-First Founders
Week-by-week plan covering setup, baseline measurement, content shipping, citation building, and the metric you measure on day 90.