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Five free tools for the things you should not be paying for in 2026.

No login, no email, no domain upsell. Each tool eats the API cost so you do not have to. The economics work because most users hit cache; the budget for the rest funds itself out of the consultancy.

the tools

/01 AI Content Brief Generator new Paste a keyword. Get back a structured brief from the live SERP. Fetches the live top-10 SERP, extracts the common themes and required entities, then proposes an H2/H3 outline with a word-count target and People-Also-Ask coverage. Output ready to hand to a writer or drop straight into your editor. free · 5 briefs/day per ip
/02 Business Name Generator + Trademark Check Generate names, then search four major trademark registries Generates 20 brand-name candidates, then runs a preliminary live registry search across UKIPO, USPTO, EUIPO and WIPO Madrid on the top 12. Surfaces similar marks with owner, filing date, Nice classes and status. free · 10 fresh searches/ip/day · cached unlimited
/03 AI Search Keyword Research See what AI engines are actually answering for your topic Harvests questions from Google PAA, Reddit, and Stack Exchange, then clusters them semantically. Returns search volume, keyword difficulty, an AI Overview presence flag, and the actual Perplexity answer with cited sources for the top clusters. Built for AEO and GEO research in 2026. free · 10 fresh searches/ip/day · cached unlimited
/04 AI Citation Checker Test if ChatGPT cites your brand for buyer-intent queries Type your domain. Tool derives 5 buyer queries someone in your category would ask ChatGPT or Perplexity, runs each through Google with AI Overview detection, and reports whether your brand appears in the top 10 organic results that AI assistants pull citations from. free · 3 runs/hour per ip
/05 WordPress Stack Advisor Paste a URL. Get a migration stack pick for that live site. Fetches the homepage, sitemap, and robots.txt, detects CMS, plugins, page count, multilingual and ecommerce signals, then returns a tailored stack recommendation: Next.js, Astro, Nuxt, headless WordPress, Sanity, Payload, or stay on WordPress, with timeline, cost range, and risk callouts. free · 5 analyses/hour per ip

why these are free

The free tier on each tool is sized so an honest researcher never hits the cap. Cached searches are unlimited (most popular queries hit cache); fresh searches are rate-limited per IP at a level that costs the consultancy under $50/day in API fees at typical traffic. The economics work because the same searches recur, the first user pays for the API call, every subsequent user for 4 weeks gets the cached result for free.

Where the free tier stops: deep enterprise audits (citation tracking over 90 days, multi-brand comparison, programmatic content brief generation across 100+ topics) and legal trademark clearance through qualified counsel. Those are paid engagements or professional services, not free-tool outputs, described on /solutions/ai-seo-geo/, /ai-search-optimization/ and the brand identity and trademark workflow guide.

If a tool ever starts running at a loss, the rate limit tightens before the tool disappears. None of them have ever been gated behind email collection and none ever will be. The lead-gen path is the consultancy CTA on each results page, not a captured email list.

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Tools that genuinely save consultancy clients time get built. Likely next: schema markup generator for AI Overview readiness, AI prompt visibility tracker, domain availability + TM combined search.

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