About askbowtie

askbowtie joins every signal your site emits, analytics, JavaScript errors, uptime, Google Search, and Google Ads, into one MCP server your AI agent can query. Ask in plain language, get every number cited. No dashboard required.

Why it exists

Running a site usually means four or five open tabs: an analytics dashboard, an error tracker, an uptime monitor, Search Console, an Ads account. Each one has its own login, its own definitions, and its own idea of what a "session" is. askbowtie puts all of it in one place, per site, and lets your agent read across it the way a human never has time to.

The philosophy: the agent is the brain

askbowtie's job is to store the raw signal faithfully and serve it back close to raw, not to pre-digest it into a canned verdict. Your agent is the one reasoning about what changed and why, with real numbers instead of a vendor's summary. That keeps askbowtie honest: it can't hide behind an opinion it never formed.

Store raw, serve raw-ish.Data isn't collapsed into an index before you get to see it. Your agent gets the numbers and draws its own conclusions.
No alerting brains.askbowtie doesn't decide what's a "problem" and page you about it. Only two things interrupt a human: the site going down, and traffic dropping to zero.
One join, not five tabs.Analytics, errors, uptime, search, and ads live in one per-site database so a single question can span all of them.

The ⋈ mark

⋈ is the relational-algebra join operator: the symbol for combining two tables on what they share. That's what askbowtie does with your site's signals. "Bowtie" is the persona you address in copy ("Ask Bowtie about your site"); askbowtie is the product.

Formerly itbroke.dev

askbowtie was previously known as itbroke.dev, rebranded in 2026 for a name that says what the tool actually does: every signal about your site, answered by your agent. Read the full story at itbroke-is-now-askbowtie. Old itbroke.dev links redirect here, and trackers already installed keep working with no changes required.

First-party, cookieless, yours

The tracker is a single small script with no cookies. Data is first-party, stored per site in its own database, and never sold or shared. Bring-your-own-database, where askbowtie writes to a database URL you control, is on the roadmap toward data that's 100% yours end to end. Built on Cloudflare Workers and D1.

Built by Ben

Ben built askbowtie. Find him at launchwithben.com, or reach the team at [email protected].

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