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  "name": "BuzzSumo",
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  "category": "community-dark-social",
  "what_it_does": "Researches top-performing content and social engagement by topic, tracks brand/competitor mentions, and surfaces influencers, built on a large historical index of article and social-share data.",
  "ai_features": "\"Content Ideas Generator\" and \"Brief Generator\" synthesize headlines/keywords/SERP data into content-ideation output - this reads as research aggregation surfaced through a generation UI, not a confirmed proprietary trained model; treat the \"AI\" framing skeptically.",
  "mcp_status": "none-found",
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  "mcp_auth": "n/a",
  "api_gate": "paid, quote-only - an Account API (Alerts/Projects) and a Search API exist, but both are \"not tied to specific pricing tiers\" and require contacting sales for arrangement/pricing, on top of already-paid subscription tiers running $199-$999/mo.",
  "revops_role": "Content/engagement research and influencer-discovery layer - more content-marketing-adjacent than a pure dark-social signal tool, but relevant to GTM engineers building content-driven outbound triggers.",
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  "last_checked": "2026-09-02",
  "sources": "https://buzzsumo.com/pricing/",
  "notes": "Checked GitHub and PulseMCP for \"buzzsumo\" - no MCP server found under either official or community listings. API pricing being separately quote-gated on top of an already-paid subscription is a meaningfully worse access story than most tools in this file. 2026-09-02: re-checked buzzsumo.com (no llms.txt), the official MCP registry (no entry) and a web search. viaSocket serves an \"MCP Server for BuzzSumo\" page at https://viasocket.com/mcp/buzzsumo but it lists no actions (only \"Request a new Action\"), and APITracker reports no BuzzSumo MCP servers; a connector shell with zero tools is not counted. none-found stands.",
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