Use BuzFind on a site you host yourself

What this is, in plain English

BuzFind lets you point our 25 AI specialists at your website. Most of our customers host their site with us and use the agents through their dashboard. But some of you already have a website hosted somewhere else, like GoDaddy, Wix, Shopify, WordPress, or a developer's server. You should not have to move your site to use BuzFind.

That is what this page covers. You can keep your website where it is and let our agents work on it from a distance. There is no extra fee. The same monthly plan you already pay covers it.

Who this is for

This is for small business owners whose website lives somewhere we do not host. Two ways this typically works:

• You have a developer or web person. You hand them a special key from your dashboard, and they wire it into your site so the agents can do their work. You do not need to be technical.
• You are technical yourself. You build something into your site that talks to BuzFind and gets the agents' output back. We have full developer documentation, but the start is the same: get a key from your dashboard.

If you are not technical and you do not have a developer, you can still use BuzFind. Use the dashboard like everyone else, and skip this page.

How to start (3 steps)

1. Sign up for a paid plan. Pick the tier that includes the agents you need on the pricing page. Soloist, Squad, Department, and Empire all include this feature at no extra cost.
2. Create your access key. Once you are signed in, go to your dashboard. Find the page called API keys in the menu. Click Create key. Give it a label so you remember which site it is for. Copy the long string of letters and numbers it shows you. Save it somewhere safe right then. We do not store it in a way we can show you again.
3. Hand the key to your developer or web person. They paste it into your site's settings (we tell them where in our developer notes). After that, the BuzFind agents start working on your site automatically, just like they do for customers we host.

That is the whole setup. It usually takes a developer 10 to 15 minutes.

What the agents will do for you

Every agent on BuzFind is callable from your own site. Here are some popular ones to give you a sense of what is possible:

• Local SEO Guru checks your Google Business Profile, your local citations, your reviews, and tells you what to fix.
• Keyword Strategist finds the search terms your customers actually use and tells you which pages to write next.
• Speed Optimizer points out what is making your site load slowly on mobile.
• Security Sentinel watches for security holes and hack attempts.
• Entity Schema Engineer writes the markup Google needs to understand your business properly.
• E-E-A-T Content Guru reviews your pages against Google's helpful-content rules.
• Authority Content Creator writes blog posts and pages in your voice using real facts from your site.

See the full list of all 25 agents for what each one does. Whichever ones come with your plan, your developer can call them all from your site.

What does this cost?

Nothing extra. The agents are included in your monthly plan. You do not pay per call, you do not pay extra for hosting elsewhere, and you do not need a separate developer subscription. If your plan includes 7 agents, you can use those 7 agents on your own site at no additional charge.

The only fair-use limit we have is a daily cap on how many times each plan can call the agents. The cap is high enough that no honest small business will ever hit it:

• Soloist: about 100 jobs per day
• Squad: about 500 jobs per day
• Department: about 2,000 jobs per day
• Empire: about 10,000 jobs per day

For comparison, most of our customers run fewer than 30 jobs in a normal day.

What if you ask for an agent your plan does not include?

Your site (or your developer's code) gets a polite reply telling you which plan you would need. You can then decide whether to upgrade, add the missing agent on its own ($59 a month), or skip it. There is no surprise bill - we never charge you for an agent you have not chosen.

Keeping your key safe

Treat your access key like a password.

• Do not paste the key into emails or chat messages.
• Tell your developer to put it in a server-side environment file, not in any code that is visible in a browser.
• If you ever think the key was leaked or stolen, log into your dashboard and click Revoke next to that key. We stop accepting it right away. Then make a new one.
• You can have more than one key. We recommend one per developer or per environment.

For developers

If you are the developer setting this up, the technical reference (endpoints, request shapes, error codes, examples) is sent to you privately when your customer creates their first key. We do not publish the technical details on this page so casual visitors do not paste them into the wrong place. If you need the developer reference now, ask your customer to contact support and we will email it the same day.

Next steps

• Not a customer yet? Pick a plan on the pricing page.
• Already a customer? Log into your dashboard and create your first access key.
• Stuck? Call Al at call Al or visit our support page.
• Want to see what the agents can do first? Read about all 25 BuzFind agents.