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Send a file.
Know what happens next.
Stories of what people actually do with a tracked link, and how-tos for every part of one — who opened it, which pages they read, how to lock it down, and how to hand the whole job to an AI assistant.
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Turn what your AI assistant just wrote into a tracked link on your own domain
Connect slim.to to Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini over MCP, publish the document your assistant just produced as a real hosted page on your own domain, and see exactly who opened it and how long they read.
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How people use it
6 storiesOne job, start to finish — what you send, what comes back, and what you do with it.
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MCP
One prompt, six landing pages — and a way to tell which one is working
We asked Claude for a landing page per audience — sales, fundraising, design, PR, recruiting, project managers — and...
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MCP
“Make me a newspaper” — publishing a web page straight from a chat
What it actually looks like to ask an assistant for a web page, get a live URL on your own domain seconds later,...
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sales
You sent the proposal Tuesday. Here's what you know by Thursday.
A walkthrough of one job — sending a proposal as a tracked link, reading what comes back, and writing a follow-up...
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fundraising
Sharing a deck with forty investors without losing track of it
One link per investor, an email gate on all of them, and a read profile that tells you who's actually interested —...
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agencies
Client work, on your own domain
How a small agency ships every deliverable as a branded link that updates in place — one URL per client project,...
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internal comms
The onboarding doc nobody reads (and how you'd find out)
You wrote the handbook. You linked it in the welcome email. Whether anyone got past page two is the one thing you've...
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Guides and how-tos
8 guidesHow each part of a tracked link works, and how to set it up.
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analytics
How to know when someone opens your PDF
Email attachments tell you nothing. Here's how to send a PDF as a tracked link instead, and get a notification the...
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analytics
Did they actually read your proposal?
An open is not a read. Here's what page-level analytics measure, how to tell a genuine read from a two-second skim,...
· 4 min
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security
Password-protect, expire, or revoke a link you've already sent
Seven ways to control who can open a shared document — password, expiry, view caps, email gates, allowed domains,...
· 5 min
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custom domains
Put your own domain on every link you share
How to serve tracked links from docs.yourcompany.com instead of a shortener domain — DNS setup, automatic TLS, and...
· 3 min
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MCP
Tracked links for AI agents
An agent that produces a report has nowhere to put it. Give it an API key or an MCP connector and it can publish,...
· 4 min
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QR codes
QR codes that tell you who scanned them
Most QR generators hand you a static image and forget you exist. Here's how to make one you can re-point after...
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comparisons
Choosing a document-tracking tool — an eight-point checklist
If you're comparing document-sharing tools, these are the eight questions that actually change how the thing feels...
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sharing
Share a file without making anyone sign up
Every signup wall between your recipient and your document costs you readers. Here's how to send a file that opens...
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