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What's Trending

What's Trending is a social listening and content intelligence product for lean marketing teams, agencies and founders. It monitors public posts matching customer defined market terms and competitor profiles across Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube, keeps the original source link, author, post text, published time and whatever engagement each platform exposes, ranks recurring topics by activity and momentum, and returns evidence backed content directions. It sends nothing and contacts nobody, so several axes in this grid record structural non application rather than a vendor failing them. Two things a reader should have alongside the grades.

The product is one of six shipped by Wavicle, an artificial intelligence consulting studio that describes itself as led by a single builder, and no customer of the product is named anywhere in public. It also entered this index through the contact form, at the vendor's request on 28 August 2026, which changed nothing about how it was graded: public sources only, on the same seventeen axes as every other record.

Last VerifiedAugust 28, 2026
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Founded
2025
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Categories
intent-and-signals
Assessment

Capability Axes

Capability grades

17 of 17 axes rated · 5 graded A or B

AI Capability
AI CentralityAI CentralityWhether AI is the product or a feature veneer. The removal test: peel the AI label off, and does anything sellable remain?
CC on AI CentralityAI features on a conventional platform. Peel the AI label off and the product still works roughly as before.
Vendor Published

Peel the model layer off and a working listening tool remains. Collection across public sources, retained post links with author and timestamp, an engagement dashboard, and a ranking score the vendor states is computed from activity, unique authors, recency, platform breadth and available public engagement, which is arithmetic over counts rather than inference.

The model driven parts are narrower and the vendor does not overstate them: suggested market terms and competitor profiles derived from a submitted website, topic summaries, and the content directions it calls planning aids. Its own questions page states plainly that the product does not publish content for the customer and that the buyer decides what to create and where. The claim is proportioned to what was built, which is why this sits at the conventional platform band rather than below it.

Autonomy and Oversight ModelAutonomy and Oversight ModelWhat the system does without a human. Draft for review, auto send, or fully agentic, and what contains a bad run.
BB on Autonomy and Oversight ModelThe human in the loop posture is described substantively (draft versus auto send, approval flows) but the failure containment story is incomplete.
Vendor Published

The outward autonomy boundary is that there is none: the product observes and ranks, and nothing leaves the workspace under the customer's name. What runs unattended is scanning, on schedules as frequent as hourly on the top tier, plus scans an external agent triggers through the published tool endpoint.

Containment on that surface is documented rather than asserted: keys are scoped to a single workspace, displayed once, stored as hashes and revocable in settings; an agent triggered scan is rate limited to one per hour per workspace; and the vendor enumerates what a key cannot reach, naming other workspaces, private platform data, billing operations and stored credentials.

Guidance published for agent authors tells them to treat generated content ideas as briefs requiring human review and to reuse stored evidence rather than trigger another scan. Held below the top band because the vendor states that an agent triggered scan mutates workspace history while publishing no audit trail, no record of which key acted, and no notification to the account owner when it does.

AI Disclosure and Model TransparencyAI Disclosure and Model TransparencyWhat models power the product, whether AI generated outreach discloses itself, and whether scoring and routing logic is explainable.
CC on AI Disclosure and Model TransparencyThe product is described as AI powered with the stack, the disclosure behavior, and the scoring logic all unstated.
Vendor Published

Ranking is explained and the model layer is not. The vendor publishes the five inputs behind a topic score, states that a score is a prioritisation aid rather than proof of total market demand, tells readers that a missing metric means unknown rather than zero, and instructs agents to separate observed metrics from inferred significance. That is more explainability of scoring than most vendors in this index publish. Against it, no model, provider, family or version appears anywhere.

The privacy policy refers to artificial intelligence processing providers as an unnamed category, the workspace holds a model connection setting that is never described, and the topic summaries and content directions are generated text whose provenance is unstated. Documenting the generative half at the level the deterministic half already reaches would move this.

Operational and Outcome EvidenceOperational and Outcome EvidenceMeasured outcomes with a stated basis: replies, meetings, pipeline, win rates. Logos are not evidence and prestige is not measurement.
CC on Operational and Outcome EvidenceOutcome claims are headline percentages with no stated basis, or customer logos standing in for results.
Vendor Published

Customer evidence is absent in every form: no named customer, case study, testimonial, logo wall, review count or usage figure anywhere on the site or in its sitemap. What holds this at the middle band rather than lower is that nothing was fabricated to fill the gap. The homepage workspace panel carrying post counts, author counts and engagement figures is labelled an illustrative workspace, which is the honest form of a pattern this index has repeatedly recorded in its dishonest form.

The vendor's answer to proof is a complete first scan run free with no payment card, which puts the burden of demonstration on the product rather than on a claimed statistic. One named customer with a stated period and metric would move this.

Compliance and Risk
Outreach Compliance PostureOutreach Compliance PostureHow the product handles regulated outreach: consent, DNC scrubbing, opt out mechanics, caller ID conduct, and the public enforcement record.
CC on Outreach Compliance PostureCompliance is mentioned as the customer’s responsibility, with little or no product enforcement described. The tool can be run lawfully, and nothing about it helps.
Vendor Published

This axis barely bites here, because the product sends nothing: there is no email, dialer, message or connection request in it, only collection of public posts, ranking and source links returned to the buyer. What is knowable is that the terms of service place lawful use and respect for third party rights and platform rules on the customer, and that nothing in the product is described as enforcing any of it. Recorded at the responsibility transferred band with the structural context carried in this note, per the convention for products in this index that do not send.

Data Privacy PostureData Privacy PostureGDPR and CCPA posture: lawful basis, data subject rights handling, DPA availability, subprocessor disclosure.
CC on Data Privacy PostureA standard privacy policy exists and answers none of the questions this product category specifically raises.
Vendor Published

Two halves, and only the customer facing one is answered. For the account holder the policy is current, dated 20 August 2026, and specific: analytics providers named individually, with Mixpanel on its European data residency service and address enrichment disabled, Microsoft Clarity and Sentry named for interaction and error diagnostics, an accept or decline choice for optional analytics, a statement that passwords, credentials, keys, provider tokens and raw sensitive form values are never sent to analytics, compliance with the Google limited use requirements stated by name, no sale of personal information, and a route to request access, correction, export or deletion.

For the people whose public posts become the evidence, which is the personal data this product processes at scale, there is no lawful basis, no notice, no objection route and no retention period. There is also no processing agreement anywhere, no sub processor list, no named legal entity in the policy and no supervisory authority route, and neither European nor California privacy law is named on any page read.

Data Licensing and ProvenanceData Licensing and ProvenanceWhere the data comes from and on what legal footing: licensed, contributed, public record, or scraped, and who stands behind the answer.
BB on Data Licensing and ProvenanceProvenance is substantively described but incompletely: sourcing classes named without the legal footing, or indemnification unstated.
Vendor Published

Provenance is described platform by platform, which is rare at this size and rarer at this price. The published reference states that Reddit is read through public search feeds with a public archive fallback, Facebook through configured public page feeds where accessible, Instagram through Meta's authorised professional account and business discovery surfaces, and X through configured official access when present with public profile and embed fallbacks otherwise.

The vendor states outright that it never claims access to private posts, private comments, private impressions or metrics a source does not expose, and the collected fields are enumerated: platform, author, text, original link, publication time, matched terms and source specific public metrics. Held below the top band because the legal footing is never stated. There is no licence position, no terms of service position, and no indemnification, and the unnamed public archive standing behind the Reddit fallback is precisely where that question bites.

Platform Terms ExposurePlatform Terms ExposureWhether the product operates inside the terms of the platforms it touches, and the restriction risk a buyer inherits when it does not.
BB on Platform Terms ExposureThe method is described and mostly conformant, with one real ambiguity the vendor does not resolve, or conformance asserted without the partnership evidence that would settle it.
Vendor Published

The operating method is disclosed rather than implied, and most of it is sanctioned: Meta's authorised professional account and business discovery surfaces are named for Instagram, configured official access is named for X, and configured public page feeds for Facebook. Nothing in this product rents or rotates accounts, ships a browser extension, automates a logged in session or markets evasion, and the terms instruct customers to respect platform rules.

The unresolved ambiguity, and the reason this is not the top band, is that the same reference describes fallback paths for when official access is absent, naming public profile and embed fallbacks for X and a public archive for Reddit, and neither fallback carries a conformance position. The vendor also states that coverage and available engagement fields vary with platform availability, which is a continuity risk the buyer inherits rather than one the vendor controls.

AI Safety and Data StewardshipAI Safety and Data StewardshipThe cross client boundary: whether customer data trains models that serve competitors, plus retention and deletion posture.
CC on AI Safety and Data StewardshipSecurity language exists but the training question, the one this axis turns on, is unanswered: a buyer cannot tell whether their pipeline data improves a competitor’s instance.
Vendor Published

The training question is answered for one narrow input and left open for everything else. Google account information is stated not to be sold, not used for advertising and not used to train generalised models, which is precise and precisely limited.

Nothing states whether workspace configuration, collected evidence, generated reports or submitted market terms reach the unnamed artificial intelligence processing providers, whether those providers retain them, or whether anything improves a model serving other workspaces.

Retention is described by purpose rather than by period, with account and workspace data kept while the account is active and as needed for security, legal and operational purposes, and cached public posts refreshed or deleted as sources change. Deletion is available by written request with no stated timeline.

Recipient Disclosure and AuthenticityRecipient Disclosure and AuthenticityHow the product presents itself to the people it targets: whether automated outreach and AI agents disclose themselves, whether sender personas are real, and whether personalization is grounded in verifiable fact. Measured as known compliance with Article 50 of the EU AI Act, in force since August 2, 2026, which requires AI systems that interact with individuals to disclose that fact.
CC on Recipient Disclosure and AuthenticityNothing published on whether recipients are told they are dealing with software. For a product whose AI talks to prospects, silence here is now a regulatory posture, not a style choice.
Vendor Published

This axis has no outbound surface to grade, since the product contacts nobody: it does not send, call, message or converse, and it carries no persona or sender identity. The one live question it raises is the inverse of the usual one. Identifiable individuals, their handles, their post text and their published times are collected, stored and ranked without notice to them, and the resulting content direction is aimed back at the audience those posts came from.

Nothing published addresses whether an individual can object to their post being retained as evidence, and the disclosure obligations in force since August 2026 are not mentioned anywhere. Credited in the note rather than the grade: the product preserves author attribution and the original source link on every item and instructs agents to show source links beside conclusions, which is the grounding discipline this axis rewards in products that do generate outreach.

Integration and Deployment
Ecosystem and Integration DepthEcosystem and Integration DepthDocumented depth of CRM and stack integration: objects, sync direction, API surface, marketplace presence that matches the claims.
BB on Ecosystem and Integration DepthSolid primary CRM integration documented, with depth unstated at the edges (sync direction, custom objects, failure behavior).
Vendor Published

The programmatic half is unusually complete and the connector half does not exist. Published and readable without an account: an interface contract in OpenAPI 3.1, four documented read and scan endpoints, a stateless tool endpoint exposing three named tools with discovery metadata at a well known path, an agent manifest, an agent skill file, separate markdown guides for the interface, authentication and pricing, and a consolidated machine readable product reference.

Access is priced into the fifty dollar tier rather than reserved for an enterprise conversation, which is the opposite of the pattern this index records at larger vendors. Against that, there is no connector to anything a marketing team already runs: no system of record, no marketing automation platform, no workflow tool, no calendar, no chat destination, no webhooks and no marketplace listing. Evidence leaves this product only by being read.

Deployment Model and Data ResidencyDeployment Model and Data ResidencyWhere the product runs and where customer data lives, including residency options for EU buyers.
CC on Deployment Model and Data ResidencyCloud hosted is the whole public answer. Region and residency questions require a sales conversation.
Vendor Published

Hosting is answerable only as cloud. The marketing site, the application and the interface run as separate hosts on one domain, and nothing states the infrastructure provider, region, country or tenancy model for the store where workspace configuration and collected evidence live. The only residency statement anywhere concerns product analytics rather than customer data, naming Mixpanel's European data residency service. For a buyer base that includes agencies handling European client material, the residency question is left to a conversation that has no published starting point.

Security Certifications and Trust CenterSecurity Certifications and Trust CenterVerifiable security posture: enumerated current certifications and a trust center an outsider can actually read.
CC on Security Certifications and Trust CenterSecurity is claimed in general terms. Asserting certifications without enumerating them is weaker than it looks, and this band is where that lands.
Vendor Published

A small but real control set, and no independent verification of any kind. What is published: interface keys stored as hashes, displayed once, scoped to one workspace and revocable in settings; a requirement that a key stays server side and never appears in a query string or on a public page; a statement that credentials and keys are never sent to product analytics; named error monitoring; and a crawler policy that disallows the interface path.

Beyond that there is no security page anywhere in the sitemap, no certification, no audit or report, no penetration test, no trust centre, no status page and no vulnerability disclosure route. The sensitivity class sits below the sending tools this index grades, since the product holds no mailbox credential and no contact database, though it does hold sign in identity and, where the keyword metrics feature is enabled, delegated advertising interface access. One completed audit with its type and period stated would move this.

Commercial and Operational
Commercial TransparencyCommercial TransparencyWhether a buyer can budget without a sales call. Published pricing graded on completeness, not on the price itself.
AA on Commercial TransparencyReal prices published: plans, seat or usage economics, and the shape of enterprise pricing, sufficient for a buyer to budget without a call.
Vendor Published

A buyer can compute the entire bill from published pages, and the pricing reference is itself machine readable and dated. Three tiers with no quote only step: a free complete first scan with no payment card, $20 per month or $192 per year for one full scan every seven days with a seven day trial, and $50 per month or $480 per year for unlimited scans with hourly scheduling and agent access.

The annual equivalent is stated for each tier, the limits are enumerated tier by tier rather than implied, the rate limit of one agent triggered scan per hour per workspace is printed where a buyer sees it, and the billing mechanics are published in full: monthly and annual renewal until cancelled, immediate upgrade with provider calculated proration, downgrade scheduled to the next billing date, checkout total displayed before payment, and cancellation effective at the date the billing portal shows. Two gaps worth naming, neither load bearing: refund terms are unstated, and no scan is quantified by the volume of posts or sources it collects, so the unit of value behind the price is uncounted.

Exit and Data PortabilityExit and Data PortabilityWhat happens when a customer leaves: completeness of data export, rights to enriched or licensed data after termination, deletion commitments, and auto renewal mechanics, graded from published terms and documentation.
CC on Exit and Data PortabilityExport exists as a feature claim while the terms that govern exit, data rights after termination, deletion, and auto renewal mechanics, are not published anywhere a buyer can read.
Vendor Published

Renewal and cancellation are documented better than most of this index, and offboarding is not documented at all. Published: monthly and annual subscriptions renew until cancelled, cancellation stops future renewal at the effective date the billing portal displays, a downgrade takes effect at the next billing date, and a written route exists to request access, correction, export or deletion of account data.

On the top tier the read endpoints are themselves a portability path, since stored evidence and ranked topics can be pulled in bulk through the interface. Missing is the part a buyer needs before signing: no self serve export or file format on any tier, no statement of what happens to stored evidence and scan history after cancellation, no deletion timeline attached to the request route, and no post termination data rights in the terms, which are silent on the subject and name no governing law.

Deliverability and Sending DisciplineDeliverability and Sending DisciplineThe operational craft of sending: warmup, rotation, volume governance, spam rate monitoring, and what happens when reputation degrades.
CC on Deliverability and Sending DisciplineDeliverability is invoked as a benefit with no documented mechanism. For senders this is the axis where marketing most outruns evidence.
Vendor Published

This product has no sending surface, so the axis records what is knowable rather than a sending practice. Collection side discipline is the closest analogue and it is published: scans through the interface are rate limited to one per hour per workspace, the middle tier is capped at one scan every seven days, agent guidance instructs reuse of stored evidence before triggering a fresh scan, and the vendor states that coverage and available engagement fields vary by platform rather than promising completeness. Unpublished on the same subject: request rates against the platforms themselves, and what the product does when a source rate limits, blocks or withdraws access.

Segment and Market CoverageSegment and Market CoverageWho the product actually serves, evidenced: segments, geographies, languages, and customers that match the claim.
CC on Segment and Market CoveragePositioning language covers everyone from startup to enterprise, which specifies no one.
Vendor Published

Who it is for is stated clearly and evidenced by nobody. The buyer is named repeatedly as marketers, founders, lean content teams and agencies, and the site supports that with five use case pages and a set of agency oriented guides covering brand monitoring, competitor monitoring, content research and client reporting.

Against it: no customer is named anywhere, no customer count, no team size band, no region, and no language coverage statement at all, which is load bearing for a product whose function is reading conversations across five platforms. The company base recorded on this profile is London, stated by the vendor; the about page separately gives an Acton, Massachusetts address for Wavicle, the studio that operates the product.

Commercial

Pricing

What this vendor charges, what it commits to in writing, and where the bill can move. Figures the vendor publishes itself are labeled Vendor Published. Figures labeled Estimated come from other sources and the vendor has not confirmed them.

What it costs
Vendor Published
$20 per month
$20 lowest published figure
In short
  • Three plans, all priced in public with no sales call anywhere in the path. Your first complete scan is free and needs no card.
  • After that it is $20 a month, or $192 for a year, for one scan every seven days. Unlimited scans with hourly scheduling and programmatic access is $50 a month, or $480 for a year.
  • The limits are printed next to the prices, which is unusual. You can see the scan frequency, the rate limits and what each tier excludes before you pay anything.
  • Billing is straightforward: it renews until you cancel, upgrades take effect immediately with the cost prorated, downgrades wait for your next billing date, and you see the checkout total first.
  • Two things nobody tells you. There is no refund policy published, and no page says how many posts or sources one scan actually collects, so the thing you are buying by frequency is never counted.

How the price works

What you are charged for, and what makes the bill go up.

Published in full, on a pricing section of the homepage and again in a dated machine readable pricing reference. Three tiers, no quote only step and no enterprise band.

Free preview at $0 buys one complete market scan for a new workspace with no payment card, including public source collection, the trend and engagement dashboard, original source links, source backed content opportunities, the free browser tools and templates, and saved results. Its stated limits are that it does not recur and does not include programmatic access, and that a completed free scan must be upgraded before another can run.

Weekly at $20 per month or $192 per year, which the vendor states is equivalent to $16 per month. It buys one full scan every seven days, a seven day trial, the dashboard, source links and available engagement, recurring customer interest reports, and monitoring of the configured market terms and competitor list. Stated limits: the minimum scan interval is seven days, and programmatic access is excluded.

Pro at $50 per month or $480 per year, stated as equivalent to $40 per month. It buys unlimited total scans while the subscription is active, manual and scheduled scans as often as once per hour, the read and scan endpoints, the agent tool endpoint, and workspace scoped keys revocable in settings. Stated limits: a key belongs to one workspace and must stay server side, an agent triggered scan changes workspace history and is limited to one per hour, and unlimited total scans does not mean unlimited concurrent or sub hourly scans.

The subscription is workspace specific rather than per seat, and no seat count, seat minimum or contract length appears at any tier.

What the contract says about your data

What the vendor commits to in writing once your data is in the product.

Thin, and the gap is specific rather than general. No processing agreement is published or offered anywhere on the site, no sub processor list exists, and the privacy policy names no legal entity and no governing law. The terms of service name no governing law either.

What is published in place of an agreement:

  • named analytics and diagnostics providers, with Mixpanel on its European data residency service and address enrichment disabled, Microsoft Clarity for interaction analysis and Sentry for error monitoring
  • a statement that passwords, credentials, keys, provider tokens and raw sensitive form values are never sent to product analytics
  • compliance with the Google limited use requirements named directly
  • and a statement that Google account information is never sold, never used for advertising and never used to train generalised models.

What is not published is the custody question this product actually raises. The store holds public posts written by identifiable third parties, their handles, their text and their timestamps, collected without notice to them, and the policy states no lawful basis, no retention period and no objection route for those individuals. It also refers to artificial intelligence processing providers as an unnamed category, so a buyer cannot establish which external service receives collected content.

A buyer handling European client material should treat the absence of a processing agreement as the first item to raise, and should ask where the workspace store is hosted, since no region is published for anything except analytics.

Getting started

What it costs and what is included before the product is running.

None published and none apparent. Sign up is self serve by email and password or Google sign in, the first scan runs without a payment card, and setup is described as submitting a website address and reviewing the suggested market terms and competitor profiles before scanning.

No setup fee, onboarding charge, migration rate, professional services rate or minimum term was located, and the product surface is consistent with their absence rather than with their being withheld: there is nothing to migrate into it, since the evidence store is built by scanning rather than by importing the buyer's records.

The implementation cost that does exist is unpriced because it is the buyer's own time. The quality of every scan depends on the configured market terms and competitor list, which the buyer reviews and edits, and the vendor is explicit that suggestions are a starting point rather than a finished configuration.

One integration cost applies only at the top tier. Programmatic and agent access are documented for a developer to implement, and a team without one is buying a dashboard rather than a tool endpoint.

What to watch for

Where this pricing can surprise a buyer who has not read it closely.

This is one of the most complete commercial disclosures in the index and it comes from one of the smallest vendors in it, which continues the inversion this corpus has recorded repeatedly: published price tracks the sales motion rather than the size of the company.

Three features of it are worth naming. The annual equivalent is computed for the buyer at each tier rather than expressed as a percentage saving. The limits are enumerated per tier in the same document as the prices, including the rate limits, so the ceiling arrives with the price rather than after purchase. And the billing mechanics are stated in full: renewal until cancelled on both cycles, immediate upgrade with provider calculated proration, downgrade scheduled to the next billing date, the checkout total displayed before payment, and cancellation effective at the date the billing portal shows.

The pricing reference is also published as dated machine readable markdown at a stable address, alongside a consolidated product reference and an interface contract, so an agent evaluating this vendor reads the same figures a person does. Very little else in this index does that.

Two gaps, and neither is load bearing for a buyer at these amounts. Refund terms are unstated on every surface read. And no scan is quantified: nothing states how many posts, sources or terms a single scan collects, so the unit of value behind the price is uncounted and two tiers priced on scan frequency rest on an undefined unit.

One further point a buyer should register rather than a defect: at $20 and $50 per month with no seat count, the commercial risk in this purchase is not the price. It is continuity, since the product is one of six shipped by a studio that describes itself as led by a single builder, and no customer is named anywhere in public.

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