Help yourself.
Things you can use today without talking to me. No sign-up, no email to hand over, no form in the way. Take them, use them on a real job this afternoon, and tell nobody where you got them if you would rather.
What is here
Phrasez
Type the phrase you think people use, and see what they actually type into Google instead. It scores each phrase for popularity, groups the alternatives, and shows what is trending now. Quick asks Google once. Deep asks around fifty variations and finds a great deal more.
Free, with no sign-up and nothing to install. The score is an estimate of relative popularity, not a search volume: for exact monthly figures you need Keyword Planner or a paid tool.
Ten questions for any AI vendor
Send these to whoever is trying to sell you something, before you sign. Where your data is processed, who can see it, what happens to it if the vendor fails, and whether it trains their models on any tier.
How quickly the answers come back tells you more than the demo did. Use it without me, and without telling me.
Why they are free
Because they cost almost nothing to run and they are useful on their own. There is no sign-up, so there is no list to be added to and no address for me to keep. If one of them saves you an afternoon, that is the whole transaction and we are square.
They are not a trial of anything. Paid work starts somewhere else entirely, with the review, and nothing on this page is a step towards it. If you use these every week and never get in touch, they still work.
A word on what they are not
Phrasez estimates how popular a phrase is from how early Google offers it as a suggestion. That is a comparison between phrases on the same topic, not a search volume, and the source it reads is unofficial enough that Google could change it tomorrow. For exact monthly numbers you want Keyword Planner or a paid keyword tool, and the tool says so itself.
The vendor questions are questions, not advice. They tell you what to ask and why it matters. What the answers mean for your business is a separate conversation, and some of it belongs with a solicitor rather than with me.