Journalists — "Your Bylines Are Scattered Across the Internet. Here's How to Own Them."
Kitfo Team
Kitfo Team
Every working journalist has the same folder somewhere: a graveyard of bookmarked links, half of them now 404s, a few behind paywalls you don't have access to anymore, one or two saved as screenshots because you had a bad feeling about that outlet's survival. This is what "keeping track of your work" looks like for most writers — and it's not tracking anything. It's hoping.
Google Alerts doesn't fix this. It tells you a mention exists, then leaves you to do the actual work of saving it, organizing it, and proving it mattered. And when a site restructures its URLs, gets acquired, or just quietly disappears, whatever alert you got is the only record you'll ever have that the piece existed at all.
That's the actual pain point: bylines are not owned by the writer. They live on someone else's server, on someone else's timeline, and they leave when that server does.
Watched sources instead of a raw alert feed. Kitfo lets you point at the specific outlets you write for and watches them for new bylines automatically — no digging through a noisy inbox trying to tell a real mention apart from a false match. Free accounts get basic tracking; Pro unlocks unlimited watched sources.
Analytics that mean something. Per-article click analytics show whether a piece actually landed — useful for your own sense of what's working, and useful the next time you're pitching an editor with more than a bare portfolio link.
Collections that tell a story. Unlimited press collections let you group your archive the way an editor or hiring manager would actually want to read it — curated, not just chronological.
An archive that survives the outlet. Publications get acquired, redesigned, or shut down. Full archive export (Industry plan) gives you a durable copy of your work that doesn't depend on someone else's server staying online.
If you've ever lost track of your own work, that's the gap Kitfo is built to close.