Find out who’s behind the story.

Where it started, who’s pushing it, and whether it’s growing. Every claim links to the post that made it.

What do you want to know? Where it started Should I worry Who's behind it Did my thing land

What to trace

One free trace a day · No account, no card · Most take a few minutes; a big story can take up to an hour

Free feeds first, then the paid searches. Every venue answers or says why not.

See it work

One real trace. Four questions.

The fake “Earth loses gravity on August 12” story, exactly as the engine read it that day. Pick a question; the same data answers it.

Watching

Tomorrow a new account picks it up, or an earlier post surfaces. Watching re-checks your names and tells you when the story moves.

Every 6 hoursyour names are traced again, every source we search.
An email when it movesvolume jump against its own normal, a new platform, press pickup, or an earlier post found.
A receipt when it doesn’t“Searched again, nothing new.” A quiet week you can see.

Two ways in

Free

Check it now

Any name, on demand. All four questions answered.

^$0no card

Recommended

Watch my names

Unlimited traces, as far back as it goes, and an email when the story moves.

Includedin the $399/mo membership

Cancel anytime, no contract.

✓ Every claim links to the post that made it ✓ Public posts only, never private accounts ✓ “Earliest we could verify,” never a guess called fact

Where Trace stands

They run at tens of thousands a year. None of them trace a story to its earliest public post.

What you want	Trace	Enterprise suites
Where a story started	Yes. Earliest post we could verify, linked.	Not sold.
Confidence, with the gaps named	Yes. We show what we couldn’t see.	Not published.
Minute-by-minute detection	Every 6 hours today.	They win. Sampling every few minutes.
Years of history	From your first trace forward.	They win. A decade-plus archive.
Price	In the $399/mo membership.	$10k to $130k+ a year.

Who the others are, and what they actually sell

DataminrReal-time alerts for 100+ US agencies, the UN and NATO. Fast, broad, early. No origin tracing, no confidence score.

Meltwater · Brandwatch$26k to $130k a year. Spike detection on a years-deep baseline. Anomaly detection, not origin.

Cision · Signal AI · Talkwalker$10k to $75k a year. Detection plus journalist databases, clips and compliance.

NewsWhipPredicts interactions on a 12-year archive, sampling every two minutes.

Contract ranges from Vendr data, checked September 2026. Real contracts, not list prices.