Resources

The toolkit, curated.

The SEO, GEO, analytics and web-stack tools the Contingo team actually uses. No affiliate noise — just what we'd recommend to a friend.

SEO tools

The crawlers, rank trackers and keyword research suites we actually use.

Contingo pick

Ahrefs

paid

The benchmark SEO suite for backlinks, content gaps and rank tracking.

It's the tool we'd miss most. The backlink data is consistently the cleanest in the market.

Visit Ahrefs
Contingo pick

Screaming Frog SEO Spider

freemium

The site crawler every technical SEO grows up on.

The fastest path from "something feels off" to a real root-cause hypothesis.

Visit Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Contingo pick

Google Search Console

free

First-party search performance and indexing data, straight from Google.

No serious SEO program runs without it.

Visit Google Search Console

Semrush

paid

All-in-one SEO, content and competitive research suite.

Visit Semrush

AI visibility & GEO

Tracking and improving how brands surface in ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews.

Contingo pick

Perplexity

freemium

AI answer engine that's become a real source of qualified traffic.

We track Perplexity citation share for every GEO client.

Visit Perplexity
Contingo pick

Profound

paid

Answer-engine analytics: how brands surface across LLMs.

The closest thing to "Search Console for LLMs" we've found.

Visit Profound

Otterly.AI

paid

Lighter-weight AI search monitoring for SMBs and indies.

Visit Otterly.AI

Analytics & measurement

Privacy-friendly analytics and measurement stacks.

Contingo pick

Plausible Analytics

paid

Privacy-friendly, lightweight analytics with no cookies.

Our default for content-heavy sites where CWV matters.

Visit Plausible Analytics
Contingo pick

PostHog

freemium

Product analytics, session replay and feature flags in one stack.

We pair it with Plausible: PostHog for app, Plausible for marketing.

Visit PostHog

Web stack

Frameworks, hosting and tooling we ship production apps on.

Contingo pick

TanStack Start

free

Modern full-stack React framework with server functions.

It's what this site is built on. Fast, typed, and a joy to ship.

Visit TanStack Start
Contingo pick

Vite

free

The build tool that won.

Visit Vite
Contingo pick

Supabase

freemium

Open-source Postgres backend with auth, storage and realtime.

It's the backend for most of what we build.

Visit Supabase
Contingo pick

Cloudflare

freemium

Edge network, Workers, R2 and the global CDN.

Default CDN and edge runtime for our projects.

Visit Cloudflare

Design & workflow

The design and product workflow tools that keep teams shipping.

Contingo pick

Figma

freemium

The collaborative design tool every team uses.

Visit Figma
Contingo pick

Linear

freemium

Fast, opinionated project management for product teams.

It's the only PM tool we've been able to stick with.

Visit Linear
Contingo pick

Lovable

freemium

AI-native app builder that ships real production code.

How we get from idea to clickable in an afternoon.

Visit Lovable

Missing a tool you swear by?

We update this list every quarter. If there's something we should be testing, let us know.

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