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Under construction. Where it stands

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Open-source SEO tool

Every site you run, seen in one place.

Owlseen will bring Search Console and Bing figures, rank tracking, indexing and opportunities together for a company running one website or many, on its own Google and Bing accounts.

See what’s plannedOwlseen on GitHub

Under construction. There’s nothing to install or sign up for yet. The first version is being built now, from a dashboard its author already runs on his own sites.

Google Search ConsoleBing Webmaster Tools
Status
Under constructionFirst version being built. Nothing to install today.
License
AGPL-3.0Open source from its first public release.
Figures
From your accountsYour own Google and Bing, connected by you.
Hosting
In the EU, or yoursA hosted instance is planned, and so is self-hosting.

Why it’s being built

Search engines report one site at a time. You don’t run one site at a time.

It starts from a dashboard its author built to keep an eye on his own sites, and is being rebuilt so others can use it.

  1. 01

    Each report is one property

    Search Console’s reports open on one property, Bing Webmaster Tools’ on one site. Which of your sites moved this week is a question you answer by hand.

    What Search Console leaves out
  2. 02

    Declines are slow

    A page rarely falls off a cliff. It loses a few clicks a month until nobody remembers it ranked. Comparing periods, site by site, is the job nobody has time for.

    How to catch a slow decline
  3. 03

    Indexing breaks quietly

    A page can leave the index with no error anywhere on your site. You often find out from the traffic, weeks later, on the one site you weren’t looking at.

    What the statuses really mean

The first version

What it’s going to do first

Six things, being built now. Everything here is in the future tense, because none of it has been released.

GoogleBingAll your sites

An overview of every site

Clicks, impressions, click-through rate and average position, for everything you run or any group of sites, Google and Bing side by side.

Google Search Console
Bing Webmaster Tools
one view

Your own accounts

A real setup step: each workspace will create its own Google OAuth client, type it on the Connections page, then allow access. Bing Webmaster Tools takes your own access. The figures will come from there, not from a scraper.

A card for each site

Each site’s trend at a glance, so the one that moved stands out from the ones that didn’t.

Page 1Page 2

Keywords and opportunities

Each site’s queries and pages, with the ones just off the top picked out: where a small gain could bring clicks.

A rank tracker

You’ll pick the keywords that matter and keep their position, day by day, as Search Console reports it.

IndexedNot indexedLeft the index

Indexing and alerts

Pages that have shown up in search will be checked, a share each day. You’ll see which are in the index, and see it when one falls out, on screen and through MCP.

Where it stands

Nothing is released yet

The honest list, as of 6 November 2026. A filled dot is being built. A ring isn’t there yet.

Being built: the first version

  • Connectors for your Google and Bing accounts
  • An overview of every site, with site groups
  • A card for each site
  • Keywords and opportunities
  • A rank tracker
  • Indexing and alerts, on screen and through MCP
  • Workspaces for several companies
  • An MCP server at /api/mcp

Comes later

  • Site audits
  • Internal links
  • PageSpeed and Core Web Vitals
  • Keyword research with AI
  • Tasks

Not available yet

  • The source code, which goes public with the first release
  • An install guide
  • Accounts at app.owlseen.com
  • A price for the hosted instance
  • Real screens to show you

Also in the plan

Planned for the first version

Not just intentions: these are being built with the rest, and none of it is released yet.

  • Your accounts

    You’ll connect your own Google and Bing, on the Connections page. Nothing will go through a shared panel.

  • Several companies

    Workspaces will keep one company’s sites, accounts and people apart from another’s, for a group or an agency.

  • Open source

    AGPL-3.0 from the first public release, with the code at github.com/Owlseen/owlseen.

  • In the EU, or yours

    A hosted instance at app.owlseen.com on servers in the EU, in Frankfurt (fra1), or your own servers.

  • From your assistant

    An MCP server at /api/mcp, so Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client will be able to read your figures and answer from them.

The kind of thing to ask it
  • Which of my sites lost the most clicks this week, and on which queries?
  • Which keywords on this site are just off page one?
  • Did a page leave the index since Monday?

Examples of what it’s meant for. The MCP server isn’t released yet. Assistants are named in text only: nothing here implies they endorse Owlseen.

Run it

Two ways, once it’s out

Neither exists yet. This is what’s planned, and no price has been set.

On your own servers

A Next.js app and a Postgres database, with your own Google and Bing access. The software will be free under AGPL-3.0, and you’d pay for what it runs on.

At app.owlseen.com

The instance we’ll run, on servers in the EU, with your own accounts connected to it. It doesn’t exist yet, and no price has been set.

How it’s meant to run

From the blog

For people running several sites

All posts
Content decay: find the pages losing traffic in time
How to spot pages slowly losing clicks in Search Console, tell decay from seasonality or a technical fault, and decide whether to refresh, merge or leave them.
content-decaycontentsearch-console
Core Web Vitals across several sites: what to measure first
The thresholds, why field and lab figures disagree, what to do when a small site has no data, and how to keep watch on many origins for free with the CrUX API.
core-web-vitalsperformanceseveral-sites
Crawled or discovered, currently not indexed: what to do
What the statuses in Search Console’s Page indexing report mean, which to ignore, the order to check things in, and what works and what doesn’t.
indexingsearch-consoletechnical-seo

Questions

Asked plainly

Can I use Owlseen today?

No. It isn’t released: there’s no code to install and no account to open. The first version is being built now, from a dashboard its author already runs on his own sites.

What will it cost?

If you run it yourself, the software will be free under AGPL-3.0 and you’d pay for your server and database. No price has been set for the hosted instance, so none is written here.

Where will the figures come from?

From the accounts you connect. For Search Console, each workspace will create its own Google OAuth client, type it on the Connections page, then allow access. Bing Webmaster Tools takes your own access. It can only show what those services report, with their limits.

Will it replace an all-in-one SEO suite?

Not the part that needs a crawl of the whole web. Competitors’ traffic and backlink indexes aren’t planned. Owlseen looks at your own sites, through your own accounts.

Will the rank tracker scrape Google?

No. It’s planned to read positions from Search Console, which reports an average position per query, rather than scrape results pages.

Can it serve several companies?

Yes, that’s planned for the first version: a workspace per company, with its own sites, accounts and people, and one person able to belong to several.

From the same publisher

The drop you see in time is the one you can fix.

Write to us to hear when there’s something to try. We’ll write once.

Tell me when it’s readySee what’s planned