- Who is this for?
- Operators, founders, freelancers, and agencies running owned websites in the AI-search era. Free is the right starting point for evaluating on one site. Pro fits a single operator or small team on up to 3 sites. Agency is built for multi-workspace + team operations across many sites with the MCP + Agent integrations enabled. Business is a conversation when you need custom infrastructure or compliance discussions.
- Why AI-native analytics?
- Because the surface that drives traffic is changing. AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Bing Copilot, Meta AI) increasingly fetch web content during conversations and surface links to publisher sites — those visits are invisible to dashboards that only think about Google referrers. AI-native analytics measures the AI crawlers fetching your pages and the human referrals coming from AI assistants in one fabric, so the data layer is honest about the world you operate in.
- Why does MCP matter?
- Model Context Protocol is an open standard for letting AI assistants subscribe to external data and tools. WebmasterID Agent exposes an MCP server that Claude (Desktop, Code, or VS Code) connects to with a workspace-scoped Bearer key. That lets you ask Claude analytics questions — 'which AI bots crawled /pricing this week?' — and get an answer grounded in your actual data, not generic SEO advice. Every MCP call lands in your workspace audit log, so the integration is auditable end-to-end.
- Why do modern teams use AI-assisted analytics?
- Because a conversation is faster than a click trail for ad-hoc investigation, and dashboards alone aren't enough when the team runs many sites. AI-assisted analytics means an operator can ask Claude (or another MCP client) to read the relevant slice of data and summarise what changed, then act on the answer. WebmasterID keeps the operator in the loop — the AI reads and suggests; the operator decides and ships.
- Do I need a credit card to start?
- No. The Free plan is free forever and requires no card. You only enter payment details when you upgrade to Pro or Agency in your workspace settings.
- What is AI visibility, exactly?
- AI visibility is the measurement of how AI assistants and AI search surfaces interact with your site. WebmasterID tracks crawls from known AI bots (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, and others) and detects human referrals coming from AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Bing Copilot, Meta AI, and others) by inspecting referrer hosts server-side. There is no model call and no external API — the mapping is a closed allow-list you can audit.
- What does attribution mean on WebmasterID?
- Attribution answers: which sources sent the traffic, which of those sources are AI-related, which landing pages received the attributed traffic, which sessions connected those sources to those pages, and a high/medium/low confidence label for each attribution. It is directional analytics from server-side detection — useful for trends and for guiding operator action, not a replacement for paid-ad attribution.
- What is the Event Explorer?
- An Agency-tier surface that lets you filter, drill, and export the raw event stream from your workspace's sites — by date range, traffic type (human/bot), country, pathname, referrer, session, visitor, or campaign. Useful for incident investigation, debugging tracker installs, and confirming the system is recording the events you expect.
- How is this different from Google Analytics or Plausible?
- WebmasterID is an operator intelligence platform, not a generic analytics dashboard. The product layers AI visibility, attribution, and (on paid plans) the MCP + Agent integrations on top of privacy-first event recording. See /compare/plausible and /compare/google-analytics for the side-by-side.
- Do you store raw IPs or use cookies?
- No. The tracker uses text/plain transport, no cookies, no fingerprinting, no third-party identifiers, and no raw IP storage. Geo enrichment uses platform-provided country headers only. Read /privacy-policy for the full posture.
- Can I cancel any time?
- Yes. Paid plans are month-to-month. There are no contracts, no cancellation fees, no dark patterns. Annual billing is available at a discount for Agency and Business on request — write to info@helperg.com.
- Where does my data live?
- On infrastructure we own and operate. No third-party analytics vendor sees your data. We are GDPR-aligned by design — see /privacy-policy and /data-processing for the full posture.
- How do I contact sales or ask a pricing question?
- Email info@helperg.com for sales, pricing, or compliance conversations. We answer every message; there is no support bot.