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A platform for starting a business by chatting with AI: use an AI team to build websites, make apps and find customers, plus a marketplace of ready-made AI team templates.
Engine Labs of One-line growth story, compiled by us from public sources; speculation is marked separately below.
Checkout visits over time
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1. Productwhat it sells, to whom, and how it charges
- Product
- A platform for starting a business by chatting with AI: use an AI team to build websites, make apps and find customers, plus a marketplace of ready-made AI team templates.
- Users
- Solo founders and students who want to start a small business cheaply with AI
- Positioning
- Free forever (ad-supported, daily limits), positioned against paid AI site-building / agent platforms
- Pricing
- Free forever (ad-supported, limits reset daily); Premium starts at $20 Billing: mixed Free tier: yes Source: Pricing page
- Prices on site
- Free forever (ad-supported); Premium upgrade, price not shown
- Acquisition entry points on site
- Discord community
“Marketplace lets users 'list your own team for sale'; 'Free forever', 'Limits reset daily', ad-supported; footer GitHub (Engine-Labs) with no open-source claim”Quote from the site
2. Channelswhere new users come from and what the traffic looks like
New-user source: Other (Direct / referral / email / paid). Direct 89%, search 8.1% (brand keywords 93.8%, plus the competitor keyword polsia), referral 2.9%. Referrals come from the AI tool directory theresanaiforthat.com 11.45%, github.com 3.28%, masaischool.com 1.58%; AI referral trygravity.ai 0.66%; social sources are TikTok, Facebook and YouTube.
Last month's traffic sources
Semrush source breakdown (desktop)
Five-class attribution
| Attributable new users, last month | Share |
|---|---|
| SEO | 3% |
| Other | 97% |
Direct + brand search 94%. Direct and brand search count as viral only when the site shows sharing mechanics; the largest share wins, under 5% means Other.
Countries
| Country | Share of visits |
|---|---|
| United States | 52.04% |
| Belgium | 6.84% |
| United Kingdom | 4.63% |
| Germany | 3.91% |
| United Arab Emirates | 3.11% |
Countries (Semrush): United States 72.1%, Bangladesh 3.7%, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2.4%, India 2.4%, Netherlands 1.9%
Language
English
Social sources
TikTok, Facebook, YouTube
AI assistants
| Source | Share |
|---|---|
| trygravity.ai | 0.66 |
| seektool.ai | 0.05 |
| ChatGPT | 0.04 |
AI referrals (Semrush): trygravity.ai 3,002 (0.66%), seektool.ai 245 (0.05%), ChatGPT 186 (0.04%), aymo.ai 184 (0.04%), use.ai 150 (0.03%)
Keywords
142 keywords · brand ~94% · organic 99.36% / paid 0.64%
| Similarweb top 5 keywords |
|---|
| cto |
| cto.new |
| polsia |
| cto new |
| polsia prices |
Non-brand queries: polsia, polsia prices
Referring sites
9 referring sites
| Site | Share of referrals |
|---|---|
| theresanaiforthat.com | 11.45% |
| github.com | 3.28% |
| masaischool.com | 1.58% |
Referrer categories
| Category | Share of referrals |
|---|---|
| Programming and Developer Software | 33.64% |
| Computers Electronics and Technology - Other | 31.06% |
Site metrics (Similarweb, last month)
- Visits, last 3 months
- 251K (3 months)
- Visits MoM
- -15.13%
- Country rank
- United States #55530
- Category rank
- Computers Electronics and Technology/Programming and Developer Software (US) #1084
- Bounce rate
- 39.65%
- Pages / visit
- 4.86
- Visit duration
- 00:02:27
- Industry
- Programming and Developer Software
- Top 3 channels
- Direct › Referrals › Organic Search (top channel 56.81%)
- Semrush monthly visits
- 3 months ago 535,237 · 2 months ago 390,314 · Last month 458,643 Semrush scale, ~3–4× Similarweb
- Semrush organic / paid search visits
- 6,965 / 0
- Semrush source breakdown (desktop)
- Direct 67.9%, accounts.google.com 9.1%, google.com · Google organic 6.2%, stripe.com 2.4%, github.com 2.2%
3. Growth pathhow the first users arrived and what kept it growing
Classification
Basics
Timeline
Growth loop
Revenue and scale clues
Confidence and gaps
Other sites that started via “Creator or press spark”
Similar sitessame category, also growing via Other
FAQ
How many checkout visits does Cto get per month?
About 25,788 last month (Similarweb estimate), #105 of 606; the month before was 18,227. Opening checkout is not paying, so this is not revenue.
Where do Cto's new users come from?
New-user source: Other (Direct / referral / email / paid). Mostly referrals, email or paid, or mostly direct with no clear source Direct 89%, search 8.1% (brand keywords 93.8%, plus the competitor keyword polsia), referral 2.9%. Referrals come from the AI tool directory theresanaiforthat.com 11.45%, github.com 3.28%, masaischool.com 1.58%; AI referral trygravity.ai 0.66%; social sources are TikTok, Facebook and YouTube.
How much does Cto cost?
Free forever (ad-supported, limits reset daily); Premium starts at $20
Dossier confidence: high. Parts 1 and 2 come from reading the site and Similarweb data; part 3 from public reporting, founder posts, Wayback snapshots, WHOIS and similar, with speculation marked.
The number: checkout visits is Similarweb's estimate of visits from the site to a checkout payment page; opening checkout is not paying, so this is not revenue. Small sites land on fixed buckets.
Data through last month. Page updated 2026-10-26.