Most SEO tools were built for a world where Google was the only place people searched. That world is already gone — a growing share of research now happens inside ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, and most existing tools have nothing to say about it.
RosterSEO is our answer: a single, open-source platform that treats classic SEO (rankings, audits, keyword research) and AI-answer-engine visibility as the same problem, because increasingly they are.
Every open-source tool claims to be "real" — so here's what that means concretely in RosterSEO: no feature fabricates a plausible-looking number. If DataForSEO isn't configured, Keyword Research shows an honest "not connected" state instead of inventing search volumes. If your AI provider key is missing, AI Visibility says so instead of guessing at mention counts. This is enforced by convention and code review throughout the project, not a marketing claim bolted on afterward.
We think an SEO tool that watches how your brand shows up in AI answers is exactly the kind of infrastructure you shouldn't have to trust a black box with. Self-hosting means your data — your rankings, your competitor research, your AI-visibility history — stays on your own infrastructure. MIT licensed, so you can fork it, audit it, or run it commercially with no restrictions.
RosterSEO is early. The core product — Page Analyzer, Site Audit, Rank Tracking, Keyword Research, AI Visibility, Publish, and Social — is real and working, but the project itself is young: check the roadmap for what's shipped versus what's still in progress, and the changelog for what's actually shipped, pulled live from our GitHub releases.
If that sounds useful, the fastest way to try it is to self-host it — it's free, and it takes a few minutes.
RosterSEOOpen-source SEO, AI-visibility, and publishing — self-hosted or coming soon to the cloud.
