Your best work is buried in private repos, internal docs and Slack threads. Trace reads it, ranks it, and writes posts in your voice — with a citation on every one, pointing back at the thing that produced it.
A 7-day trial without a credit card shipped on 21 July 2026. The card was filtering out the wrong people — engineers evaluating a writing tool on a Sunday, who will not type a card number before seeing a single draft.
Trace watches the trail you already leave. Scroll to move through it — including the day you shipped nothing.
The same sourced story, opened three ways. What you approve, edit and reject is what the voice profile converges on.
These are not suggestions inside a prompt. They are compiled into the product, and they govern this page too — we cannot ban a pattern in your drafts and then use it in our own marketing.
Cheap, instant, catches the literal openers.
Catches manufactured vulnerability and announcement voice that no regex will.
Same source, same pillar, different draft.
Nothing violating the rules is ever published quietly.
Layer 1 runs once and must finish before Layer 2 turns on. Every competitor opens with a blank box; Trace refuses to write until it knows who you are.
Fifteen to twenty questions across career arc, expertise, current work, audience and voice. Speech is the default input — the browser transcribes, you edit, then submit. Output: a one-page Strategy Doc with positioning, three pillars, contrarian takes, a five-beat origin story, a 90-day metric and a voice profile. Free, and useful on its own.
GitHub, file uploads and AI coding-session transcripts today. Google Drive and Notion are next; calendar and Slack exports after that.
Ranked Story Seeds, each tagged to one of your pillars and carrying the source reference it was drawn from.
Five to seven adaptive questions, spoken. When the repos are quiet, this is the source instead of a dead week.
A theme for the week, five to ten recommendations, pillar balance, and the proof assets worth capturing before you publish.
In your voice, citation attached, already filtered by the anti-slop engine before they reach your review inbox.
Approvals, edits and rejections feed back, so next week's drafts sound more like you than this week's did.
A tool built on momentum has nothing to say in a week with one commit and no docs. Trace's check-in becomes the source instead: seven questions, spoken, under ten minutes. You still end the week with a plan, and you still haven't invented anything.
Signal status is always visible. Trace tells you when it is thin.
The 30-minute interview and the document it produces: positioning, three pillars, origin story, voice profile. Downloadable as a PDF, yours to keep whether or not you ever pay us.
Start the interviewEverything in Free, plus GitHub sync, uploads, the weekly check-in and narrative plan, 40 posts a month with three hooks each, and voice calibration. 7 days free with 5 posts, no card.
Start 7 days freeCancel from the account page in two clicks. No fake urgency, no buried cancel button.
Start with the interview. If all you ever take from Trace is the Strategy Doc, that is a fair outcome.