Clearscope
Clearscope is a content discoverability platform that pairs classic SEO work with visibility tracking inside AI answers. It covers topic research, AI-assisted drafting, real-time optimization scoring, internal linking and content monitoring for marketing teams.
What is Clearscope?
Clearscope calls itself a discoverability platform, and the wording is deliberate: the product no longer stops at Google rankings but follows a brand into the answers written by AI assistants. It is built as seven connected modules around one content workflow.
Expand is the newest and the most distinctive. It puts clicks, impressions and Google positions alongside mentions and citations in AI responses, measures share of voice on a topic against competitors, and exposes the query fan-out, meaning the web searches ChatGPT and Gemini actually run to assemble an answer. It also separates pages the models already cite from pages that rank well but are never quoted.
Discover handles research: Topic Explorations return keyword ideas, search volumes, potential traffic, questions drawn from Google Autocomplete, and competitive signals including Google Ads competition and cost per click. Write turns that into briefs, AI-generated outlines and first drafts, with SERP analysis and real-time feedback on headings, readability and keyword coverage. Optimize grades topical coverage live as the text takes shape, surfacing key citations, popular questions and competitive angles; its recommendations are credited to NLP algorithms and LLM technologies including Google Cloud, OpenAI and IBM Watson. Protect watches what is already published, raising automatic alerts on 404s, indexing and crawling problems and broken links, and flagging content decay and striking-distance opportunities through a customisable Content Inventory. Localize applies locale settings so recommendations and SERP analysis follow a given region, and Linking proposes internal link opportunities, source pages and anchor text while a draft is open.
The work does not have to happen inside Clearscope: add-ons carry the recommendations into Google Docs, Microsoft Word and WordPress, while Google Search Console and Google Analytics feed performance data back in. Every plan includes prompt tracking, brand visibility tracking, live onboarding and training, priority support, unlimited sharing and exporting, and unlimited users and projects. Published by Mushi Labs LLC in Austin, Texas, the tool is used by content teams at IBM, Webflow, Hotjar, G2, Pipedrive, Algolia, Toast and Podia.
What it does
- Track named prompts on ChatGPT and Gemini and see when your brand is cited
- Measure share of voice on a topic and benchmark it against competitors
- Explore a subject to build content clusters and spot high-impact opportunities
- Generate an AI outline and first draft, then refine it in the editor
- Grade topical coverage in real time and apply the suggested terms
- Surface internal linking opportunities and anchor text while writing
- Monitor published pages for 404s, indexing issues and content decay
When to use Clearscope / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Clearscope is the right fit.
When to use Clearscope
- In-house content teams at SaaS and technology companies
- SEO and organic growth managers accountable for traffic targets
- Content managers and web writers producing briefs at volume
- Brand and communications leads tracking how AI assistants cite them
- Solo creators and freelance marketers who need agency-grade research
When not to use Clearscope
- Occasional bloggers, for whom a USD 129 monthly entry point is hard to justify
- Anyone looking for a permanently free tool, since only a 14-day trial is offered
- Developers wanting programmatic access, as no public API is documented
- Teams working in video, image or audio rather than written content
- Technical SEO specialists after crawling, backlink or server-side audits
How to use Clearscope
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Sign up through Start for free and open the 14-day trial
- Take the live onboarding and training session included with every plan
- Connect Google Search Console so Content Inventory can read your pages
- Connect Google Analytics to bring performance metrics into the same view
- Run a Topic Exploration to choose the subject worth covering
- Create a Content Report on the target query to read the SERP and search intent analysis
- Build an AI outline, then generate a draft or bring in an existing text
- Write in the Clearscope editor, or through the Google Docs add-on, the WordPress plugin or Microsoft Word
- Follow the content score, apply the suggested terms and insert the recommended internal links
- Declare the prompts to track, then watch the Protect alerts for 404s, indexing problems and decay
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Covers classic search rankings and citations inside AI answers in a single place
- Unlimited users and unlimited projects on every plan, including the cheapest
- No contract on monthly plans: cancellation at any time, without penalty
- Live onboarding, training and priority support included rather than sold as an upsell
- Unlimited sharing and exporting, with an explicit promise that the work stays portable
- Works inside Google Docs, Microsoft Word and WordPress, where the writing already happens
- Named, checkable reference customers including IBM, Webflow, Hotjar, G2 and Pipedrive
Cons
- Entry price of USD 129 per month, steep for an individual or a small publication
- No permanent free plan, only a 14-day trial
- No public API and no mobile application
- Tight quotas on Essentials: 50 tracked prompts, 50 pages, 20 explorations and 20 drafts a month
- Add-ons billed separately, at USD 25 a month for 100 extra pages and USD 50 for 10 extra drafts
- Very light legal documentation: a 2017 privacy policy, no GDPR mention, no DPA, no subprocessor list and no hosting country
- Prompt tracking limited to ChatGPT and Gemini, and single sign-on reserved for the unpriced Enterprise tier
Pricing & Plans
Clearscope does not offer a permanent free plan. Access begins with a 14-day free trial, after which the least expensive paid subscription is Essentials at USD 129 per month. Business is priced at USD 399 per month, and Enterprise is quoted on request.
- 50 tracked prompts
- 50 pages
- 20 topic explorations and 20 drafts per month
- 300 tracked prompts
- 300 pages
- 50 topic explorations
- 20 drafts per month and a dedicated account manager
- everything in Business plus custom credits
- custom agreements
- crawler whitelisting and single sign-on
- unlimited users
- unlimited projects and a 14-day free trial
- USD 25 per month on Essentials
- USD 15 on Business
- custom on Enterprise
- in tiers from 100 to 5
- 000 pages
- USD 50 on Essentials
- USD 20 on Business
- custom on Enterprise
- in tiers from 10 to 500 drafts
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Clearscope handles your data.
GDPR overview
There is no GDPR implementation to report, and this needs saying plainly: the word GDPR, like CCPA and data protection, appears nowhere in the pages collected. The site publishes no trust or security page, no Data Processing Agreement, no subprocessor list, no Article 27 EU representative and no Data Protection Officer. What stands in their place is thin. The privacy policy, last updated on 5 October 2017 and adapted from Automattic's template under a Creative Commons licence, invites users to write to support@clearscope.io to delete or correct personal data, and treats continued use of the site as consent to transfers outside the user's home country. The terms place the agreement under the law of the State of Texas. European buyers should treat compliance here as undocumented rather than established.
Who owns the data?
Section 5 of the terms is unambiguous: the customer keeps all right, title and interest in its Customer Data and in any data derived from it and returned as part of the service. Clearscope owns the platform, the software and every improvement made to them. It also reserves a broad right to collect and analyse usage and performance data, including data derived from Customer Data, in order to improve its services and other offerings, and may disclose that material to third parties only in aggregated or de-identified form. Personal information is shared solely with employees, contractors and affiliated organisations bound by confidentiality, is never rented or sold, but would transfer with the business in an acquisition or a bankruptcy.
Reuse rights
Customers may reuse what they produce without asking permission. The pricing page promises unlimited sharing and exporting and states that the work stays portable and is never locked into the platform, while section 5 of the terms confirms the customer owns its data and the outputs derived from it. Nothing in the agreement restricts commercial use of content written with the tool. The limits sit elsewhere: section 4 forbids reverse engineering, derivative works based on the software, use for timesharing or service-bureau purposes on behalf of a third party, and any export that would breach US Commerce Department or OFAC rules. After termination, data remains retrievable for thirty days.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
The site says almost nothing about where data lives. The privacy policy states only that Clearscope relies on third-party vendors and hosting partners for the hardware, software, networking and storage that run the service, and that customer data may sit on third-party storage and travel over third-party networks. No country, region, cloud provider or data centre is named, no subprocessor list is published and no Data Processing Agreement is offered. Using the site is taken as consent to transferring information outside the visitor's home country to employees, contractors and affiliated organisations. The publisher, Mushi Labs LLC, is based in Austin, Texas, and the terms are governed by Texas law, which is the only firm jurisdictional anchor available. One technical caveat: the domain resolves to 217.70.184.55, an address belonging to Gandi in Paris, which is the registrar and DNS operator of the domain and says nothing about where the application or its data are actually hosted.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Clearscope.
- Writing for the content score rather than for the reader, until the text pleases an algorithm and no one else
- Publishing AI drafts without real review: the output can be generic or factually wrong, a distinction the vendor itself draws between AI-assisted and AI-generated content
- Editorial judgement quietly eroding when term suggestions replace thinking about what a piece should say
- Section 5 of the terms lets Clearscope exploit data derived from customer usage to improve its own offerings, and no opt-out from model training is documented anywhere
- No hosting country and no subprocessor list are published, so the path taken by your data cannot be traced
- A privacy policy last updated in 2017 may no longer describe how a platform handling LLM data actually operates
- Costs climb with volume through page and draft add-ons, and the strategy history stays inside the tool even though exports are unlimited
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very low. Everything happens in the browser: you sign up, the 14-day trial starts, and live onboarding and training are included with every plan. Two optional installs take a few minutes, the Google Docs add-on and the WordPress plugin, and Content Inventory needs a Google Search Console account to be connected, which an owner or full-access user can do. Only the Enterprise tier introduces anything resembling IT work, with single sign-on and crawler whitelisting. No infrastructure, no code and no developer time are required.
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Frequently asked questions
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Should you pick Clearscope?
Clearscope is a mature product that has made a credible turn. The domain dates from late 2016 and the first archived snapshot from April 2017, and the tool spent those years becoming a reference for content optimization; the current version adds tracking of brand citations inside ChatGPT and Gemini instead of merely claiming to be ready for AI. Its reference customers are named and checkable, among them IBM, Webflow, Hotjar, G2, Pipedrive, Algolia, Toast and Podia, which is not the norm in this category.
Commercially it is straightforward. Prices are public, there is no contract, plans move in either direction, and unlimited users on every tier means a whole content team can work in it without counting seats. Against that, the entry point is USD 129 per month with no permanent free plan, quotas on the cheapest tier are tight, and add-ons push the bill up as volume grows.
The real weakness is not the product but its paperwork. The privacy policy was last updated in October 2017 and is adapted from a third-party template; the site never mentions the GDPR, publishes no Data Processing Agreement, and names no subprocessor, no hosting country and no security certification. For a United States team that may be a detail. For a European buyer, or for anyone whose procurement asks where the data sits, it is a genuine obstacle, and the broad right the terms reserve to analyse data derived from customer usage deserves a careful read.
Clearscope suits English-speaking content and SEO teams with a budget, who want research, drafting, optimization, internal linking and AI visibility in one workflow, and who can accept a vendor that documents its compliance posture very lightly.
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