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    Tom StrömJune 16, 20263 min read

    Cogny Solo Now Has a Built-In Chat — Marketing Skills, No Setup

    Cogny Solo Now Has a Built-In Chat — Marketing Skills, No Setup

    Until now, Cogny Solo meant one thing: you connected Cogny to your own AI — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor — over MCP, and drove your marketing data from your terminal. That's a great workflow if you live in a coding agent. It's a wall if you don't.

    So we added a second way in. Cogny Solo now has a built-in chat, right in the UI, preloaded with marketing skills. Sign up, open the chat, and ask — no agent to install, no MCP to wire, no OAuth dance for the AI.


    TL;DR

    • Built-in chat: Open Cogny Solo and ask. SEO audits, competitor research, ad copy — the marketing skills come preloaded, nothing to install.
    • Still bring-your-own-AI: The MCP path is unchanged. Connect Cogny to Claude Code, Codex or Cursor and run it from your terminal.
    • Free to start: Every workspace gets 15 MCP calls a month plus starter credits to try the chat. No card.
    • Pricing, plainly: The built-in chat runs on pay-as-you-go credits (top up as you go). Solo at $9/mo gives you unmetered MCP under fair use from your own agent — it doesn't cover chat inference, which is metered because we pay a provider for it.

    Two ways to use Solo

    1. The built-in chat — no setup. Not technical, or just want to ask a question without standing anything up? Open the chat in the Cogny dashboard. The skills are already there: ask for an SEO audit against your Search Console data, a competitor breakdown, or a set of ad-copy variations. It reads your connected channels and answers in plain language. This path runs on credits — new workspaces get starter credits free, and you top up when you want more.

    2. Bring your own AI — over MCP. If you live in a coding agent, nothing changed for you. Connect Cogny's MCP to Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or any MCP-capable client and drive every tool from your terminal. On the $9/mo Solo plan, MCP is unmetered under fair use — your agent pays for its own inference, so we don't meter the calls.

    Same data, same connected channels, same open-source skills repo — two front doors.

    Why split chat and MCP pricing

    We want the pricing to be honest about what costs us money. Standard MCP tool calls driven by your agent don't cost us inference — your agent pays for that — so on Solo they're unmetered. The built-in chat is different: Cogny pays a model provider every time it answers. So chat runs on metered credits rather than hiding inside a flat fee, on both the free tier and Solo. Starter credits let you try it for nothing; after that you only pay for what you use.

    No bundling tricks, no "unlimited" that isn't. You can read the exact credit model on the pricing page.

    Start in three minutes

    1. Sign up free at app.cogny.com — no card. You get 15 MCP calls/month and starter chat credits.
    2. Connect a channel you already use — Search Console, Google Ads, or LinkedIn Ads.
    3. Open the chat and ask. "Run an SEO audit on my top pages." "Where am I losing budget in Google Ads?" The skills are preloaded.

    When you outgrow the free allowance, top up credits for more chat, or subscribe to Solo at $9/mo for unmetered MCP from your own agent.

    Try Cogny Solo →