# MyTelescope

> MyTelescope turns Claude (and any other MCP-compatible AI assistant) into a fullstack AI marketer. It plugs real, monthly-updated demand signals from 13 platforms (Google, TikTok, YouTube, Amazon, Pinterest, Bing, Etsy, App Store, Google Play, eBay, Perplexity, Instagram, X) directly into your AI chat, so marketing teams can measure marketing impact, create interest driven content, improve AI search relevance, forecast market demand, identify product level demand and create marketing plans — all without leaving the LLM they already use.

MyTelescope is used by marketing teams at Vattenfall, Suntory, Jim Beam, Publicis, Annalect and Banfana.

Demand signals correlate with actual market share at 83% on average across 40+ validated categories. Automotive reaches 0.92.

## What MyTelescope is

- A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives Claude and other AI assistants live access to search demand data from 13 platforms.
- Pre-built intelligence skills (workflows) for brand tracking, share of search, demand forecasting, AI visibility audits, content gap analysis and competitive analysis.
- A back-end where teams can save dashboards, upload their own knowledge (briefs, strategy docs, brand guidelines) and set trend alerts.

## Core capabilities

- Real search demand from 13 platforms, updated monthly.
- Share of search vs competitors over time.
- Demand forecasting using an ensemble of ARIMA, SARIMA, ETS (Holt-Winters), Prophet, XGBoost and LSTM models.
- Emerging demand detection (signals with the highest velocity).
- AI visibility tracking (how a brand appears in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overviews, Copilot).
- Knowledge base for company documents that Claude factors into every answer.
- Trend alerts via email when demand for a tracked signal shifts.

## Built to

The MyTelescope homepage frames the product around six action use cases that marketing teams can run inside their AI assistant, plus one premium operating-system use case.

### Measure marketing impact
Improve impact of awareness investment by using brand tracking to measure and analyse the impact based on interest. Optimize campaigns based on interest combined with marketing best practices. Available as MyTelescope platform or by using MCP for your LLM of choice. Learn more: https://mytelescope.ai/brand/

### Create interest driven content
Improve content based on what people actually care about and content producing best practices. Learn more: https://mytelescope.ai/content/

### Improve AI search relevance
Increase relevance in AI-powered search based on what people search and ask for combined with AI search best practices. Learn more: https://mytelescope.ai/ai-visibility/

### Forecast market demand
Get an overview of category-level demand and forecast trending products by analysing what people are interested in, and adapt your offering based on interest and best product marketing practices. Available as MyTelescope platform or by using MCP for your LLM of choice. Learn more: https://mytelescope.ai/trends/

### Identify product level demand
See which products drive most interest based on what people are searching and asking for. Optimise campaigns and improve messaging based on interest and demand. Available as MyTelescope platform or by using MCP for your LLM of choice. Learn more: https://mytelescope.ai/pmm/

### Create marketing plans
Use your AI as a marketing expert that creates plans and strategies based on best practices in marketing together with search insights and demand. Learn more: https://mytelescope.ai/brand/

### Implement an AI marketing operation system (Premium)
Opportunity for every company to excel in marketing. Now you can implement a full stack AI marketeer and deliver on all demands, creating a complete marketing operation system with limited resources. Book a demo: https://calendly.com/carlotto-mytelescope/new-meeting-1

## Marketing team pages

### Brand teams (/brand)
Track brand health using share of search across 13 platforms, monitor competitor momentum, and catch shifts in category demand before they show up in revenue. Surveys ask people what they think. Search shows you what they actually do. MyTelescope makes that gap visible.

### Growth (/growth)
Validate markets before committing budget, spot emerging demand before competitors do, and decide where to expand based on what people actually search for. See where demand is accelerating, which channels are growing fastest, and where there is still room to move.

### Product marketing (/pmm)
Pressure-test positioning before committing to a launch, map demand in your category, identify the messaging angles that get the most search traction, and time launches around demand peaks. Replaces guesswork with evidence before the deck gets built.

### Content (/content)
Find what your audience is searching for, spot the gaps competitors are not covering, and build content around real demand instead of gut feeling. Identifies topics and formats that are growing across TikTok, YouTube and Google so creative decisions are grounded in signal.

### SEO (/seo)
See not only what people search for but where demand is moving, which platforms are accelerating, and which topics are emerging before they get competitive. Complements Ahrefs and Semrush by exposing the demand layer those tools miss, including non-Google platforms.

### AI visibility (/ai-visibility)
Measure how often, how accurately and how favourably your brand appears in answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini and Copilot. Map current presence, identify the prompts and sources that drive traffic and pipeline, and prioritise the structure, authority and citation work that improves AI presence.

### Researcher (/researcher)
Size a category, map a market, validate a hypothesis or spot emerging behaviour in seconds, using real demand data from 13 platforms instead of surveys or stale reports. Designed for analysts and strategists who need answers grounded in actual behaviour.

### Trends (/trends)
Catch emerging themes across platforms before they become mainstream. Detects accelerating signals using velocity-based scoring so trend tracking is based on real movement, not editorial guesswork.

## Pricing

Start free with 500 credits (around 250 questions). No credit card required. Credits never expire and roll over month to month. Pay yearly upfront and get +15% extra credits.

### Plans (monthly)

- Free — $0. 500 one-time credits. Around 250 questions. Access to all public dashboards. No credit card required.
- Basic — $25/mo. 250 credits per month. All query types. Access to all public dashboards. Flexible monthly plan.
- Starter — $199/mo. 2,500 credits per month. All query types. Basic agent. Community support.
- Growth — $499/mo. 7,000 credits per month. All features. Full agent and factory. Analytics dashboard. Priority support.
- Enterprise — Custom. Dedicated support. SLA. Custom integrations.

### Credit packs (one-time, never expire)

- $50 pack — 250 credits
- $100 pack — 500 credits
- $200 pack — 1,200 credits
- $400 pack — 3,000 credits

## Data sources

Google, Google Trends, YouTube, TikTok, Amazon, Pinterest, Bing, Instagram, X, eBay, Perplexity, App Store, Google Play, Etsy. Coverage by market varies — most platforms are available in major markets (US, UK, DE, FR, SE and more). Data refreshes monthly.

## Accuracy

- 83% average correlation between MyTelescope demand signals and actual market share across 40+ validated categories.
- Automotive category reaches 0.92 correlation.
- Noise reduction exceeds 85-90% before modelling.
- ETS (Holt-Winters) performs best for seasonal and accelerating signals in backtesting.
- Leading indicators (pricing queries, comparison searches) move 4-8 weeks ahead of market events.

## MCP server

- URL: https://mytelescope-orchestrator-mcp-amjjfcdvoa-uc.a.run.app/mcp
- Protocol: Model Context Protocol over HTTP/SSE
- Authentication: API key (obtained at https://mytelescope.ai)
- Compatible with Claude, Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT (via MCP) and any MCP-compatible assistant.
- Full tool list and skill workflows: https://mytelescope.ai/AGENTS.md

## How MyTelescope differs from other tools

- vs Google Trends: Google Trends gives relative interest with no absolute volume and only one platform. MyTelescope gives absolute monthly volume across 13 platforms, plus forecasting, share of search and AI-native querying inside Claude.
- vs Semrush Trends: Semrush focuses on web traffic and keyword rankings. MyTelescope focuses on consumer demand signals across search and discovery platforms (including TikTok, Amazon, YouTube, App stores) and exposes them through a conversational AI workflow rather than dashboards.
- vs Exploding Topics: Exploding Topics is a curated trend feed. MyTelescope is a queryable demand intelligence layer that lets you ask any question about any topic, brand or category in any tracked market and get a real answer with charts and forecasts.
- vs Similarweb: Similarweb measures website and app traffic. MyTelescope measures search and discovery intent before the click, which is a leading indicator of where traffic and sales are heading next.
- vs Ahrefs: Ahrefs is built for ranking and backlinks on Google. MyTelescope shows where demand is moving across 13 platforms and helps prioritise what is worth ranking for next.

## FAQ

### Getting started

**Why MyTelescope?**
MyTelescope is an intelligence layer for your AI. It connects to Claude via MCP, plugging real demand data from Google, TikTok, Amazon and more directly into your workflow, so instead of guessing about the market, you just ask and get answers backed by real signals. Use it to track trends, do research, find content gaps, monitor competitors and build custom agents with your own documents and strategy combined with live market data. Everything you need to understand your market, right where you're already working.

**How do I connect MyTelescope to Claude?**
Follow the step-by-step guide at https://mytelescope.ai/install to get connected in a few minutes. You add the MCP server URL in Claude's integrations settings, sign in with your MyTelescope account, then upload the skill file so Claude knows when to query market signals.

**Can I book a demo?**
Yes. Book a session with the MyTelescope team at https://calendly.com/carlotto-mytelescope/new-meeting-1 for a walkthrough of the platform, the MCP integration, and the premium AI marketing operation system option.

### Data and platforms

**What data sources does MyTelescope use?**
MyTelescope pulls search volume data from across the biggest platforms where most people search: Google, TikTok, Amazon, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, Bing, X, eBay, Perplexity, App Store, Google Play and Etsy. 13 platforms in total. That means you are not just seeing what people search on Google, you are seeing demand signals from every major platform in one place. Most market research tools give you one slice, MyTelescope gives you the full picture.

**How often is the data updated?**
Data is updated monthly so you always have a current signal to work from.

**What is MyTelescope's AI trained on?**
MyTelescope's AI understands frameworks like the 4 Ps, the 60/40 rule, Porter's Five Forces, and Peter Drucker's thinking on strategy. That means it combines market intelligence with a deep understanding of marketing and business strategy. You're not just getting data. You're getting analysis that understands what the numbers mean for your decisions.

**How do credits work and how do I buy more?**
Each time you query MyTelescope data through Claude or the platform, a small number of credits are used. You start with free credits and can upgrade your plan when you need more. You can also top up with extra credits at any time without changing your plan. To check your balance or buy more credits, just ask Claude directly and it handles everything in the chat. You can also manage your credits by logging into MyTelescope.

### MCP and technical

**What is MCP and how does it work?**
MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, an open standard that lets AI tools like Claude connect to external data sources. MyTelescope uses MCP to plug your market data directly into your AI workflow. No code needed, no exports, no copy-paste. You just ask and the data is already there.

**What is an API, and how is it different from MCP?**
An API lets two pieces of software talk to each other. Normally a developer has to build that connection with code. MCP does the same thing but is designed for AI, so anyone can connect a tool to Claude without touching a single line of code.

**What does MyTelescope's MCP actually do?**
MyTelescope acts as an intelligence layer for Claude. When you ask a question about your market, Claude pulls demand data from Google, TikTok, Amazon and more in the background. So instead of answering from training data alone, it answers with real signals. Your uploaded documents and saved dashboards are part of that layer too, making Claude an expert on both your market and your specific situation at the same time.

**What is a skill file and why do I need it?**
A skill file is a small instruction file that tells Claude how and when to use MyTelescope. Without it, Claude won't know that MyTelescope is available or how to get the best out of it. You upload it once during setup and it works automatically from that point on. When the skill file is updated, you will need to re-upload the latest version manually. You can always download the most recent version at https://mytelescope.ai/install.

**Can I edit the skill file myself?**
Yes. The skill file is a plain text file and you can edit it if you want to customize how Claude uses MyTelescope. We recommend using the default version unless you are comfortable with prompting — the default is optimised for the best results.

### Security and privacy

**Is my data secure?**
Yes. MyTelescope is built on a security-first foundation, aligned with SOC 2 standards. Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest, stored on Google Cloud Platform's enterprise-grade infrastructure, and never shared without your permission. For enterprise teams, MyTelescope supports role-based access control and dedicated security reviews.

**Is it safe to connect an MCP to Claude?**
Yes. MCP connections are read-only by default. MyTelescope can send data to Claude, but Claude cannot modify anything in your MyTelescope account. Anthropic, the company behind Claude, does not have access to your MyTelescope data. You are always in control of what is connected.

**Is it safe to upload my documents into an MCP?**
Yes. Documents you upload are stored securely and are only used to give Claude context when you ask questions. They are not shared with other users or used to train any AI models.

**Can other users of my MCP access or edit my documents?**
No. Your documents are private to your account. Other users connected to the same MCP server cannot see, access or edit your uploaded documents.

## Trusted by

Vattenfall, Suntory, Jim Beam, Publicis, Annalect, Banfana.

## Key pages

- [Homepage](https://mytelescope.ai): What MyTelescope is, who it is for and how to get started.
- [Pricing](https://mytelescope.ai/pricing): Full plan details, credit packs and the pricing calculator.
- [Install for Claude](https://mytelescope.ai/install): Step-by-step setup for Claude and other MCP-compatible assistants.
- [FAQ](https://mytelescope.ai/faq): Complete list of frequently asked questions.
- [Blog](https://mytelescope.ai/blog): Articles on demand intelligence, AI visibility and share of search.
- [Brand teams](https://mytelescope.ai/brand): Share of search, brand health, competitive tracking.
- [Growth](https://mytelescope.ai/growth): Trend signals and demand spikes for acquisition.
- [Product marketing](https://mytelescope.ai/pmm): Positioning research and category demand.
- [Content](https://mytelescope.ai/content): Content ideas grounded in real search demand.
- [SEO](https://mytelescope.ai/seo): Keyword and topic intelligence inside Claude.
- [AI visibility](https://mytelescope.ai/ai-visibility): How your brand appears in AI answers.
- [Researcher](https://mytelescope.ai/researcher): Market research without dashboards.
- [Trends](https://mytelescope.ai/trends): Emerging themes across platforms.
- [Agents](https://mytelescope.ai/agents): Pre-built MyTelescope agents for marketing teams.
- [Skills](https://mytelescope.ai/skills): Pre-built intelligence skills (workflows).
- [Data sources](https://mytelescope.ai/knowledge): The 13 platforms MyTelescope tracks.
- [Security](https://mytelescope.ai/security): Security posture, SOC 2 alignment, GCP infrastructure.
- [Changelog](https://mytelescope.ai/changelog): Product updates and improvements.
- [AGENTS.md](https://mytelescope.ai/AGENTS.md): MCP tool list, skill workflows, technical details for AI agents.

## Optional

- [Google Cloud case study](https://cloud.google.com/customers/mytelescope): How MyTelescope is built on Google Cloud.
- [llms-full.txt](https://mytelescope.ai/llms-full.txt): Full plain-text content from every public page.
- [pricing.md](https://mytelescope.ai/pricing.md): Machine-readable pricing details.