The card index — SEO research

Research that ends in a post, not a spreadsheet.

Keyword lists with real search data. Competitor gaps computed by arithmetic, not vibes. And the part every SEO tool forgets: one click turns the research into a briefed card on the calendar — target keyword and related terms already filled in.

Start free — 2,000 credits See the bridge ↓

SEO Hub on every plan · keyword research 15–50 credits per query — on the rate card

Fig. 1 — one query, going to press Illustrative rows · the flow is the product

Keyword list — “winter skincare”Client: Alma Skin

KeywordVolumeDiffIntent

winter skincare routine9,90041Info

skin barrier repair6,60028Info

best moisturiser dry skin14,80063Comm

ceramides vs hyaluronic2,40019Info

Volume · difficulty · CPC · intent · trend · SERP features — real search data, per keyword

Content card — drafted→ Calendar

Why skin barriers fail in winter

Targetskin barrier repair

Keywords pre-filled · the writing room targets them

The index — four drawers

Research filed the way you’ll use it.

Per client workspace, like everything here — one client’s research never leaks into another’s.

Drawer 01 — Keywords

Lists with real numbers

Search volume, difficulty, CPC, intent, trend, SERP features — per keyword, from a real search-data provider. Pull suggestions and related terms live, or file keywords by hand and enrich them later.

Enrichment: 15–50 cr per query · on the rate card

Drawer 02 — Competitors

The gap, by arithmetic

Pull a competitor’s ranking keywords, and the gap analysis is a set difference: what they rank for that isn’t in your lists. Not an AI opinion — subtraction.

Refresh per competitor domain · gap recomputes from your lists

Drawer 03 — Topic clusters

Authority you can audit

Map your topic clusters and score them with a printed formula, not a black box:

authority = volume 40% + consistency 30% + depth 30%

You do the mapping — we don’t pretend an AI picks your topics for you.

Deterministic score · same inputs, same number

Drawer 04 — The bridge

Where research becomes work

Every drawer ends at the same place: a card, a brief, or a series — see below. The research isn’t the deliverable. The post is.

The reason this page exists

The bridge — query to card

The spreadsheet never happens.

Every other SEO tool ends at an export button. Here the keyword list has three exits, and they all land in production — pre-filled, briefed, on the calendar where the writing room picks them up.

Research you act on beats research you file.

Keyword → Card One click. A content card lands on the calendar with the target keyword and the top related terms pre-filled — the writing room aims at them.

List → Brief One click. The list’s top ten keywords by volume become a research brief the pipeline consumes before a word is written.

List → Series One click opens the series builder, pre-filled — pick the platforms and the whole keyword-targeted series plans itself onto the calendar.

The source — where the numbers come from

Real search data, or an error. Never an invention.

Keyword metrics come from DataForSEO — the same commercial search data the dedicated SEO suites run on. And here’s the part we’re proudest of: if the data source is unavailable, you get an error message. Not a plausible number an AI made up. An error.

A wrong search volume is worse than no search volume.

Data source — two ways inYour choice

Shared poolUse our DataForSEO account — metered against your credits, nothing to set up.

Bring your ownPlug in your own DataForSEO keys per workspace — unmetered, your account, your quota.

NeitherLists and clusters still work, filed by hand — metrics stay honestly empty until a source is connected.

Said plainly — how we keep this honest

On what the AI does here

Less than you’d think, on purpose. The numbers are provider data, the gap is subtraction, the authority score is a printed formula. The AI’s job starts after the bridge — writing the post the research asked for.

On topic suggestions

The SEO Hub doesn’t auto-recommend topics — you map the clusters, it scores them and shows the gaps in your own lists. If we build a recommender worth trusting, you’ll read it on the changelog first.

The index is open

File a query. Ship a post.

Start free with 2,000 credits — build a keyword list for a client, find the gap, and send the best query straight to the calendar as a briefed card. Roughly a week of real production, on us.

Start with 2,000 free credits See the rate card

No card · No trial countdown · No per-client fees