CueScout

CueScout is an AI visibility tracking platform that runs a brand's buying questions on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok and Google's AI Overviews / AI Mode, records whether each answer names the brand or a competitor, keeps the pages cited, and turns that into a queue of fixes. It also ships a remote MCP server (https://mcp.cuescout.com/mcp) for ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor and VS Code. Built and run by solo founder Telman Gadimov.

CueScout is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, AI Visibility, Generative Engine Optimization, Brand Monitoring, and SEO.

CueScout’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, support, and 23 more developer resources.

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37.6/100 thin Agent 26/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessPaidSelf serve

1 API 1 MCP Servers

Company AI Visibility Generative Engine Optimization Brand Monitoring SEO Competitor Analysis MCP

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 37.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 2.9 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 6.1 / 17

Access Clarity 12.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.2 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 6.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.5 / 15

Agent readiness — 26/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document Ask about this →
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author Ask about this →
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented) Ask about this →
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes Ask about this →
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0 Ask about this →
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks Ask about this →

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 13.7 — up to +21.6 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 35.7 — up to +12.9 composite points Ask about this →
Contract Governance scores 0.0 — up to +12.0 composite points Ask about this →

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Standards implemented 3

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

CueScout MCP Server

Remote MCP server (streamable HTTP, JSON-RPC) that runs CueScout's AI visibility checks from ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client. Five checks (check_ai_visibility...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

CueScout MCP Server

Remote MCP server at mcp.cuescout.com requiring OAuth; 14 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

CueScout API pricing

Prices published by CueScout.

Plan	Price
Starter	$49 a month or $490 a year, 2 months free
Growth	$189 a month or $1,890 a year, 2 months free
More than 100 prompts	Email us for a price
Grok pack add-on	+$19/mo
Claude add-on	+ $99/mo

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

AI visibility checker (web tool): the AI visibility checker allows 12 runs
AI Overview checker (web tool): the AI Overview checker 20
query fan-out tool (web tool): the query fan-out tool 30

LICENSE

JSON Schema 14

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

check_ai_crawler_access input

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

check_ai_readiness input

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

check_ai_visibility input

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

CueScout Authentication

3 schemes

SECURITY

CueScout Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

CueScout Scopes

1 scope

1 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conventions

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

IntegrationEdges

IntegrationEdges

SDKs

SDKs

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

Commercial 6

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

UsageTerms

DataLicense

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

DataProcessing

DataProcessing

Eligibility

Eligibility

Source (apis.yml)

aid: cuescout-com
name: CueScout
description: CueScout is an AI visibility tracking platform that runs a brand's buying questions on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini,
  Claude, Grok and Google's AI Overviews / AI Mode, records whether each answer names the brand or a competitor, keeps the
  pages cited, and turns that into a queue of fixes. It also ships a remote MCP server (https://mcp.cuescout.com/mcp) for
  ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor and VS Code. Built and run by solo founder Telman Gadimov.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/cuescout-com/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:mcp-registry
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-11-04 (modular-v1; was harvest)
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Paid · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  probe_state: covered
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-11-04'
modified: '2026-11-04'
tags:
- Company
- AI Visibility
- Generative Engine Optimization
- Brand Monitoring
- SEO
- Competitor Analysis
- MCP
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
image: https://cuescout.com/cuescout-og.png?v=20261009
common:
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/cuescout-com-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/cuescout-com-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/cuescout-com-conventions.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cuescout-com-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/cuescout-com-scopes.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/cuescout-com-llms.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/cuescout-com-mcp.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/cuescout-com-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/cuescout-com-hosts.yml
- type: IntegrationEdges
  url: integrations/cuescout-com-integration-edges.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/cuescout-com-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/cuescout-com-packages.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cuescout-com-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://cuescout.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://cuescout.com/mcp
- type: Integrations
  url: https://cuescout.com/integrations
- type: Blog
  url: https://cuescout.com/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://cuescout.com/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://cuescout.com/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://cuescout.com/login
- type: Support
  url: https://cuescout.com/contact
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://cuescout.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://cuescout.com/privacy
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: https://cuescout.com/llms.txt
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cuescout
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/getcuescout
- type: UsageTerms
  url: terms/cuescout-com-terms-of-service.yml
- type: DataProcessing
  url: privacy/cuescout-com-privacy-policy.yml
- type: Eligibility
  url: eligibility/cuescout-com-eligibility.yml
- type: DataLicense
  url: data-license/cuescout-com-data-license.yml
apis:
- aid: cuescout-com:cuescout-mcp-server
  name: CueScout MCP Server
  description: Remote MCP server (streamable HTTP, JSON-RPC) that runs CueScout's AI visibility checks from ChatGPT, Claude,
    Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client. Five checks (check_ai_visibility, check_ai_readiness, check_ai_crawler_access, validate_structured_data,
    check_sitemap) need no account or API key; account tools (brands, visibility, prompts, citation sources, todos, site audit)
    require connecting a CueScout account via OAuth (scope account:read, authorization server https://api.cuescout.com). A
    live tools/list on 2026-11-04 returned 14 tools (serverInfo cuescout 1.2.0). No REST OpenAPI, GraphQL or AsyncAPI contract
    is published.
  humanURL: https://cuescout.com/mcp
  baseURL: https://mcp.cuescout.com/mcp
  tags:
  - MCP
  - AI Visibility
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cuescout.com/mcp
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cuescout-com-check-ai-visibility-input-schema.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/cuescout-com-mcp-tools-list-response.json
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: identity-verified
  detail: 'Name, description and pointers read from cuescout.com (title "CueScout: AI visibility tracking for your brand",
    /about, /mcp). All pointers (incl. /signup, /login, og image) re-fetched 2026-11-04 with a browser UA, all 200. No GitHub
    org, status page, changelog, roadmap or Postman link is published on the homepage, /mcp or llms.txt. LinkedIn 403 is edge
    policy on a link published in the site footer.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://cuescout.com/
    status: 200
  - url: https://cuescout.com/about
    status: 200
  - url: https://cuescout.com/mcp
    status: 200
  - url: https://cuescout.com/integrations
    status: 200
  - url: https://cuescout.com/blog
    status: 200
  - url: https://cuescout.com/pricing
    status: 200
  - url: https://cuescout.com/signup
    status: 200
  - url: https://cuescout.com/login
    status: 200
  - url: https://cuescout.com/contact
    status: 200
  - url: https://cuescout.com/terms
    status: 200
  - url: https://cuescout.com/privacy
    status: 200
  - url: https://cuescout.com/llms.txt
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cuescout
    status: 403
  - url: https://x.com/getcuescout
    status: 200
  - url: https://cuescout.com/docs
    status: 404
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-04'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 35
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=anthropic,contract=anthropic,surfaces=anthropic,docs=anthropic,regulatory=anthropic

CueScout API — frequently asked questions

Does CueScout have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from CueScout, including CueScout MCP Server.

How do I authenticate with the CueScout API?

CueScout documents its authentication (3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as CueScout Authentication.

How much does the CueScout API cost?

CueScout publishes its prices; its Starter plan is $49 a month or $490 a year, 2 months free as of 2026-11-04. APIs.io lists 5 pricing plans for CueScout, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does CueScout have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for CueScout: Remote MCP server at mcp.cuescout.com requiring OAuth; 14 tools listed.

Is the CueScout API ready for AI agents?

CueScout has a Kin Score of 37.6 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 25.9 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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