Make + Answer Socrates
Add Answer Socrates to Make so your AI agents and scenarios can pull real Google data automatically: hundreds of real searches for any keyword, 12 months of Google Trends and the searches rising right now. Schedule a weekly content-idea scenario and the agent groups the lot into a content plan for your next module.
Last updated: October 2026
Add Answer Socrates to Make with the MCP Client app. One connection with your API key, then the tools are ready for your AI agents and scenarios.
Create an API key on your Answer Socrates Account page. It is shown once, so copy it somewhere safe.
In your scenario, add the MCP Client module and click Create a connection.
In MCP Server, choose + New MCP Server and enter this as the URL:
https://answersocrates.com/api/mcpPaste your API key into API Key / Access token and click Save. The Answer Socrates tools then appear in the Call a tool module and can be added to your AI agent.
Run the scenario once with a test, for example: Use Answer Socrates to pull the keywords for wedding planning. Check the module output shows the keywords.
The MCP Client is a beta app in Make, so its screens and pricing may change.
Ask a Make AI agent for keywords on its own and the model guesses from what it learned in training. With Answer Socrates connected it pulls what people actually type into Google: hundreds of real search phrases per keyword, sorted into four groups.
How, what, why, can: the questions people ask about your topic, ready for FAQs and blog posts.
For, with, without, near: the qualifiers that show what people actually want.
Vs, or, like, and: the head-to-head searches that sit right before a buying decision.
The full a to z list of Google suggestions for your keyword.
What a keyword pull returns, from a real Answer Socrates session:
get_keywordssave_to_project
1,187 keywords for creatine gummies: 160 Questions (“are creatine gummies as effective as powder” asked five different ways: pure format skepticism), 166 Comparisons, 81 Prepositions, 30 time-based and 750 autocomplete phrases.
Saved to Supplements. Your team can see the full list in the app now. Want them as a CSV too? That's free.
Planning videos? Ask for the YouTube version and Make pulls what people type into YouTube's own search box, sorted into the same four groups. YouTube searches lean towards tutorials, reviews and how-tos, so the list is different from Google's.
get_youtube_keywords
Here are the YouTube searches for wedding planning, grouped into Questions, Prepositions, Comparisons and Autocomplete, with the how-to questions up top, ready for your next module.
Give the agent a market and it maps it: what's climbing, what's seasonal and what's fading, from 12 months of Google Trends data in any country. Rising searches adds the related searches growing fastest right now, which makes a good weekly check.
Weekly Google Trends interest for any keyword across the last 12 months, in any country.
See when a keyword peaks and when it dips, so your content is live before the rush.
Run the same keyword in the UK, the US or any other country and chart them side by side.
Compare 10 or more keywords at once to see which are climbing and which are fading.
The related searches growing fastest right now, including brand-new Breakouts.
Ask the Make agent to table it or return it as rows for the next module, such as a sheet. Reworking data it already pulled costs nothing.
And much more. Ask in plain English and Make picks the right tools, like this comparison of one keyword in two countries:
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Over the last 12 months, the big movers are clear whey +190%, creatine gummies +94% (a real format shift, not hype), electrolytes +63% and magnesium glycinate +62%. Classic whey is resurging (+64%) while ashwagandha is the only decliner (−5%). That trend has peaked.
In the rising searches, Nutricost whey is up +1,850% and two brands hit Breakout. Almost everything peaks in April, so publish by March to catch the crest. Want me to pull the full keyword set for creatine gummies? (1 request)
Use the list the agent just pulled, or pass in one from an earlier module. Answer Socrates groups it into topics and labels every keyword with search intent and funnel stage, so you know what to write first. Clustering is paid in cluster credits, 1 per keyword, not requests.
cluster_keywords
931 keywords into 18 topics. The biggest is what keyword research is at 206 keywords, almost all top-of-funnel. The money is elsewhere: free keyword research tools (144) and paid tools and pricing (72) are both commercial and mid-funnel.
Only 13% didn't fit a topic. Want me to list any cluster in full, or export the lot as a CSV?
Make is great at connecting apps and running AI agents inside your scenarios. What its agents lack is live search data, and that is the part Answer Socrates adds.
| Task | Make alone | With Answer Socrates |
|---|---|---|
| Keyword ideas | The model guesses from training data | Hundreds of real Google searches per keyword |
| Questions people ask | Plausible-sounding questions | Real questions from Google autocomplete |
| Search trends | No Google Trends data | 12 months of Google Trends, any country |
| What's rising now | Only what your other modules fetch | Google's rising searches, Breakouts included |
| Clustering | Groups whatever you pass in | Topics, intent and funnel stage for every keyword |
| Saving the work | Stays in the scenario run | Saved to your projects for the whole team |
Anything you would ask an SEO on your team. Put the instruction in the agent, schedule the scenario and send the results to the next module: a sheet, an email or a Slack message.
Keyword research
“Use Answer Socrates to pull the keywords for wedding planning and return the questions first.”
Content plan
“Every Monday: find what's rising in wedding planning, pull keywords for the top three topics and cluster them into five post ideas.”
Trends
“Compare interest in wedding venues, wedding dresses and wedding invitations over the last 12 months. Which one peaks first?”
Your website
“Take the page titles from the previous module and pull keywords for the topic each one covers.”
Search intent
“Group these wedding planner keywords by topic and flag the ones with commercial intent.”
Output
“Cluster the questions and return one row per keyword with topic, intent and funnel stage for the sheet module.”
That is a different job, on the same account. This page is about using Make to do your SEO. To find out whether AI assistants recommend your brand, the LLM Brand Tracker runs your prompts across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and more, and shows who gets mentioned.
Track your brand in AI searchConnecting is free. The data comes from your Answer Socrates plan, where every plan includes 3 requests a month to try it and Seneca and above include the full allowances. Your plan has two separate allowances:
1 request per data call: rising topics, Google Trends or a full keyword pull. Checking your usage, saving to projects and exports are free.
1 credit per keyword you cluster, 10 to 1,000 keywords per call. These are the same cluster credits as the clustering tool in the app, and clustering never spends requests.
| Plan | Requests | Cluster credits |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 3 /mo | ✕ |
| Lite | 3 /mo | ✕ |
| Seneca | 500 /mo | 12,000 /mo |
| Aurelius | 2,500 /mo | 40,000 /mo |
| Senate | 25,000 /mo | 100,000 /mo |
Free and Lite include 3 requests a month to try it, renewed on the 1st, with no clustering through MCP. Yearly plans get 12 months of both allowances up front. Team plans share one pool across all seats.
See plansSame account, same tools. Answer Socrates works in any assistant that supports MCP.