Base2026

Base2026 ingests public TikTok videos from a curated list of SEO/GEO/AEO practitioners, has them transcribed and reviewed, then publishes short attributed excerpts (never full transcripts) tied to a stable source page and the original TikTok link. A free search workspace, a 'Source Diversity Check' (separates record count from creator count from distinct-URL count so repetition of one video isn't mistaken for consensus), and a 'Source-backed Brief' builder sit on top of the same corpus. The vendor is explicit that a matching record is not proof a tactic works — the FAQ and methodology pages spell out what a search match does and doesn't establish, which is unusual candor for a free tool page.

The live public-stats endpoint reported 2,313 indexed documents and 1,675 distinct source videos as of 2026-09-08 (https://base2026.dev/api/stats); the last static export manifest (dated 2026-07-29) recorded 1,525 documents from 18 creators (https://base2026.dev/static/manifest.json). The creator index shows heavy concentration: @tjrobertson52 (357 records), @build_in_public (411) and @joshuamaraney (248) together account for roughly 60% of all source records, while five creators contribute three records or fewer (https://base2026.dev/creators/). Coverage is TikTok-only — the manifest's own scope field says 'public TikTok-only export,' despite marketing copy referring more broadly to 'expert video.'

Everything public — search, the two check tools, the API, the MCP endpoint, the WordPress plugin beta and the JSONL dataset exports — is free with no account or key required (confirmed by testing the search endpoint and MCP manifest call directly). The vendor states there is no shipped paid plan; a possible pilot for recurring agency research is listed on the roadmap as unproven and exploratory, not a product (https://base2026.dev/investors, https://base2026.dev/roadmap).

The search API (POST /api/search/multi-search) and MCP endpoint (POST /api/mcp) both work without a key — verified live against both. MCP exposes six bounded read-only tools (search_sources, get_source, get_creator, get_topic, get_topic_signal, get_public_manifest) rate-limited at 60 requests/minute per edge identity (https://base2026.dev/api). Four JSONL exports (documents, passages, insight cards, topic-signal briefs) are downloadable for offline analysis, with a dated manifest so a cited count can be pinned to a specific export rather than a moving live number.

The code is Apache-2.0 on GitHub (github.com/offflinerpsy/base2026), pushed as recently as 2026-09-06, with 0 stars, 0 forks and 3 open issues as of this check — an active but essentially unadopted repo (https://api.github.com/repos/offflinerpsy/base2026). It's a solo-founder project (Alex Yarosh, an SEO practitioner running client sites like Dreamwood and Aster Films on the side; https://base2026.dev/founder) with no stated funding. The base2026.dev domain was registered 2026-08-19, so the product is under a month old at time of writing (RDAP: https://rdap.org/domain/base2026.dev). The WordPress 'Evidence Sidebar' plugin (v0.1.1) is a manual-ZIP beta, not listed in the official WordPress.org plugin directory (confirmed via wordpress.org search, zero results) — so anyone using it has no automatic-update path and is trusting a direct download.

Base2026 never publishes full transcripts or raw captions/ASR — only bounded excerpts with attribution, source-text status, and a working correction/removal path for creators (email-based, documented at https://base2026.dev/opt-out and https://base2026.dev/source-policy). The privacy notice is unusually specific about what its own first-party measurement does and does not collect (no cookies for anonymous use, no raw URLs or queries stored, no IP/user-agent retained with form submissions; https://base2026.dev/privacy). No independent security certification (SOC 2, etc.) is claimed or found; the closest thing to a security page is a GitHub SECURITY.md listing verification commands and access controls, not a compliance program (https://github.com/offflinerpsy/base2026/blob/main/SECURITY.md).