SEO automation
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Yes, if you self-host it. DispatchSEO is open source (AGPL-3.0) and the self-hosted version has every feature: it runs on your machine, under your accounts, so there's nothing for us to bill. The paid cloud sells convenience: we run the machine, bundle the SERP and volume data into one bill, and replace the Google service account ritual with one click.

A self-hosted WordPress site or a website that lives in a GitHub repo, an AI (Claude Code on your Claude subscription, Codex on an OpenAI key, Cursor on your Cursor plan, or the ordinary Claude app once your install has a public address), free Google Search Console access, and a machine with Docker. Your laptop works for a test drive, but we highly recommend a machine that stays awake for real use - a $5 VPS or a Raspberry Pi - since schedules only run while it's on. Rank tracking works with a free SerpApi key; search volume data needs a DataForSEO account, which is the main gap the cloud version fills. The docs walk you through it.

Yes, if you host WordPress yourself. You connect it once from Settings with an application password - the kind WordPress generates for you under Users, then Profile - and finished articles get posted straight to the site, with the cover image, internal links to your other pages and the search-engine markup already in place. There's nothing to install on your side. The other way in is a GitHub repo, where articles arrive as pull requests instead: Next.js, Astro, Hugo, anything you deploy from code. Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, Webflow and Ghost have neither door, so they aren't supported.

No. Every draft is reviewed for quality and sameness before it ships, publishing pace ramps up slowly on purpose, and the agent writes from your product's actual facts, with your repo as its source material. You choose the gate: approve every piece yourself, or run on auto with pull requests as the audit trail.

No. The agent does the research and explains each idea in plain language: what the keyword is, why it looks winnable, and what the article should cover. You judge whether it sounds right for your business, which is the part no tool should take from you.

No - Codex is fully supported too, including the overnight builders. Every scheduled workflow carries every supported agent and asks the dashboard which one to run, so you can switch on Settings and it takes effect on the next build, no reinstall. The honest difference is billing: Claude Code runs on the subscription you already have, Codex is metered by OpenAI per run. Cursor works too, including the overnight builders - those need a Cursor API key (any plan can mint one), and builds draw on your Cursor plan's included usage. You can also skip coding agents entirely: the ordinary Claude app at claude.ai connects as a custom connector, researches and writes on the plan you already pay for, and hands the article to us to check, finish and publish. ChatGPT can't connect yet. Beyond that, the server speaks standard MCP, so any other client (Gemini CLI, Copilot) can connect to the same tools interactively.

It reads your Google Search Console data with read-only access: the queries your site shows up for, plus clicks, impressions, and average position. That's what powers the keyword recommendations and the rank tracking. Nothing in your Google account gets modified, nothing is sold or shared, and you can disconnect anytime. Full details on the Google data usage page.

Sign up and start your 7-day free trial on Starter - you enter a card at checkout, nothing is charged until the trial ends, and you can cancel in one click before then. The setup wizard walks you through connecting your site, about ten minutes end to end. Need more sites right away? Pick Growth or Scale at checkout (billed today), or upgrade anytime. Paying for the year brings Starter down to $20/mo ($240 once a year) instead of $29/mo.

One, and it's not to us: your automations run as GitHub Actions in your own repo, billed to your own GitHub account. Your first two sites or so are covered by GitHub's free tier at $0. Beyond that it's roughly $5/site/month, paid straight to GitHub with nothing added by us - GitHub Pro at $4/month is the simplest way to cover a third site.