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Field guides for TikTok KOL discovery
How KOLens works under the hood — keyword discovery, creator handle lookup, posting-cadence analytics, and the automation patterns that let SMM teams run sourcing at agency scale without an agency contract.
- TikTok ShopAffiliate creatorsCross-border e-commerceInfluencer marketingCreator outreach
How to find TikTok Shop affiliate creators for your store
A practical guide to finding TikTok Shop affiliate creators: search live by keyword, vet for engagement and audience country, pull contact emails, and run outreach.
- TikTokInfluencer marketingPricingCreator ratesBudgeting
How Much to Pay a TikTok Influencer (2026 Rate Guide)
A practical 2026 guide to TikTok influencer pricing — real per-video rate ranges by follower tier, what actually drives the price, and how to estimate a fair offer.
- Cross-border e-commerceTikTok influencer marketingTikTok ShopCreator outreachOverseas sellers
TikTok influencer marketing for cross-border e-commerce sellers
A practical guide for overseas e-commerce sellers: how to find, vet, and contact the right TikTok creators in a market you don't live in — at scale, across a language barrier.
- TikTokInfluencer marketingCross-border e-commerceRegion targetingDiscovery Plans
Find TikTok creators by country (region targeting)
KOLens now targets TikTok KOL discovery by country with a region code. Localize results to Japan, the US, Brazil and more — set it per search or per Discovery Plan.
- Authenticity scoreEngagement qualityCreator vettingTikTokAudience quality
How to read a TikTok creator's authenticity score
KOLens computes a 0-100 authenticity score for any TikTok creator from 8 engagement-quality signals. A how-to on reading the tiers, the signals, and disputes.
- Public profilesTikTokSharingCreator vetting
Share a public TikTok creator profile — no login needed
KOLens publishes a shareable creator profile at kolens.ai/k/<username>. Open it with no account, send the link to a client, see stats, audience and recent posts.
- Creator dossierAIBrand fitPricing
The brand-fit dossier — Creator Overview, Deep Analysis, and Background Research
Three layered LLM reads on every creator: a free scored Creator Overview gated on the brand profile, a 5-credit Deep Analysis premium tier, and web-grounded Background Research with citations. All cached, all locale-aware.
- WatchlistMonitoringAlerts
Watchlist as a monitoring dashboard, not a bookmark list
KOLens Watchlist now surfaces signal badges — rising_kol, trending_video, dormant, new_sponsored, new_contact, no_outreach — plus the latest video thumbnail, outreach status, and brand-fit star rating per row. Sorted by 'needs attention'.
- AIEngineeringCostCache
Why we cache every LLM call — the economics under the dossier
Every LLM-generated section in KOLens (overview, deep analysis, background research, cold outreach, audience insights, activity summary) is cached in Postgres with a 7-30 day TTL. Operators only pay when they explicitly refresh. Here's why and how.
- WorkflowDiscoveryMCPTargeting
The precise-handle workflow — country + brand filter, bulk import, similar creators
Four shipped pieces that turn KOLens into a precise-targeting tool: country filter, brand-account filter, bulk handle import, and 'Similar to X' creator expansion. End-to-end walkthrough for a Mira-style US baby-stroller scenario.
- Case storyMCPDTCWorkflow
Case study: 50 US baby-stroller KOLs in one Friday afternoon
A composite case from a US DTC baby brand that needed to find, qualify, and draft outreach to 50 baby/parenting creators before a Monday review. Total active operator time: 65 minutes. Total LLM + scrape spend: ~$3.20.
- ComparisonModashInfluencers ClubUpfluenceDIY
KOLens vs Modash vs Influencers Club vs DIY scraping — the honest landscape
When to pick KOLens vs Modash, Influencers Club, Upfluence, or a DIY Apify + ChatGPT script. Feature-by-feature comparison with the tradeoffs spelled out, not glossed over.
- AlertsWebhooksSlackEmail
Push KOLens growth alerts to Slack, your inbox, or any webhook URL
KOLens alerts now ship to email + webhook the moment the detector fires. Slack inbound URLs, Zapier, custom endpoints — same JSON payload, configurable per-channel mute, throttle to avoid burst spam.
- Audience analyticsTikTokCreator vetting
Audience Persona is live — sampled-follower analytics for any TikTok creator
KOLens' Audience Snapshot ships today: where a creator's followers actually live, what language they speak, how active they are, which niches they care about. Statistical sample with explicit 95% CI / ±error.
- MCPClaudeCustom ConnectorOAuth
Add KOLens as a Custom Connector in Claude (MCP + OAuth 2.1)
KOLens now speaks MCP over HTTP with OAuth 2.1 + PKCE. Paste one URL into Claude.ai's Custom Connector dialog, click Approve once, and Claude gains KOLens tools — list_kols, get_kol_profile, audience snapshots, watchlist, alerts.
- Case StudyClaude CodeMCPKOL DiscoveryWorkflow
Find TikTok KOLs with Claude Code + KOLens MCP — A Phonecase Brand Case Story
How a 4-person phonecase brand wired Claude Code to KOLens, Notion, and Slack via MCP and compressed a 6-hour KOL-discovery + outreach pipeline to under 6 minutes. Prompts, screenshots, real numbers.
- AutomationDiscoveryTikTok
Automate TikTok KOL discovery — Discovery Plans run daily for you
Set a keyword + interval. KOLens re-scrapes TikTok every 24h, surfaces only new creators, and auto-adds them to your KOL list. No ChatGPT needed; just the keyword.
- Audience analyticsTikTokCreator vetting
TikTok audience snapshot — see where a creator's followers actually live (coming soon)
Sampled country / language / activity / niche signals for any TikTok creator. Honest confidence intervals, no fake demographics. Coming to KOLens.
- TikTokProfile scrapingActivity metrics
Look up any TikTok creator by @handle — full profile in 30 seconds
Paste @username or a TikTok URL. KOLens scrapes the live profile, computes account age, posting cadence, engagement rate, and avg views. 1 credit per lookup.
- Creator activityEngagement metricsTikTok
Posting cadence, account age & creator silence — what KOLens measures
Don't sponsor a dead channel. KOLens computes account age, first/last video, median posting cadence and videos-per-week for any TikTok creator — flags accounts that quietly stopped posting.
- TikTokInfluencer marketingEmail discovery
How to find TikTok KOLs by keyword (with verified emails)
KOLens crawls TikTok live, ranks 200+ creators by engagement, and extracts the verified business emails from every bio link — in under one minute. No annual contracts.