What scoped keys are
A key is a credential for the network catalogue of the Are you found by AI? MCP server. Whoever holds it can connect their AI to the sites that key covers, and nothing else. There is no login and no password to manage, so share a key the way you would share a password. A key works the same way a monitor token does. The recommended form is the static endpointhttps://areyoufoundbyai.com/mcp with the key in an Authorization: Bearer or x-api-key header. The path form also works:
What a key can do
A key holder’s AI can use the network catalogue for the sites the key covers:- List those sites with their latest visibility and readiness, week movement and verdict
- Read each site’s scores and subscores, saved engine answers, rivals, citations, mentions, fix plan, personas and post brief
- Read each site’s saved evidence (crawler access, AI-referred traffic, agent view, benchmark, share of voice, cited queries, source profiles, citation sources, structured data, regional observations, weekly brief and grants check), its existing scan allowance with
get_balance, and its setup reads - Queue a capped on-demand re-measure for a covered site with
run_check, and collect the result withget_run. This only works for a site with active monitoring, and it uses the same capped runs as the console’s own re-measure
What a key cannot do
A key cannot:- Reach any site outside its scope, including other clients in your network
- Add or remove sites
- Change account settings or touch billing
- Open your network page
How to create a scoped key
1
Open AI access on your network page
On your network page, open AI access. Name the key after the person or team who will use it, which makes auditing and revoking it easier later.
2
Tick the sites the key should cover
Tick the client sites this key should reach, or choose the whole network. A whole-network key picks up new sites automatically.
3
Copy the setup and hand it over
Press Copy setup next to the new key. It copies a complete handoff message, with the key’s URL and the exact steps for the Claude app, Claude Code and Cursor, ready to paste into an email or chat.
Using a scoped key with an AI assistant
To add a key to Claude Code:- “Which of my clients moved this week?”
- “What should we do for this client this month?”
- “Draft a post brief for that client from the measured data.”
- “Which buyer questions is this client still invisible on, and who is AI naming instead?”