{
  "name": "builders-in-fintech",
  "title": "Builders in Fintech",
  "version": "1.1.0",
  "description": "Read-only access to the Builders in Fintech database: fintech companies, investors, people, funding rounds, events and published articles, newsletter issues and podcast episodes. Only editorially approved, published records are returned, and every row carries a canonical URL you should cite. Amounts are reported in their original currency and are never converted. Data is CC BY 4.0 — attribute Builders in Fintech and link back.",
  "endpoint": "https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp",
  "documentation": "https://buildersinfintech.ai/mcp",
  "agentInstructions": "https://buildersinfintech.ai/for-agents",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "protocolVersion": "2025-06-18",
  "supportedProtocolVersions": [
    "2026-07-28",
    "2025-11-25",
    "2025-06-18",
    "2025-03-26"
  ],
  "authentication": "none",
  "rateLimit": "500 calls per connection per day (per IP address for clients that do not keep a session); 60 requests per minute; at most 200 rows per call",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "tools": [
    {
      "name": "search_organizations",
      "title": "Search companies and investors",
      "description": "Search fintech companies and investors by name, kind or country. Returns public profiles with canonical URLs. Arguments: q (or query): text to search for, matched against the name. With no q the tool returns a plain alphabetical list (first 25 by default). Unknown arguments are rejected."
    },
    {
      "name": "get_organization",
      "title": "Get a company or investor",
      "description": "Full public profile for one organization by slug: description, country, funding rounds (raised or led), people, any disclosure, our published coverage of it (articles, newsletter issues, podcast episodes), and its products (company-provided, not part of the CC BY dataset)."
    },
    {
      "name": "search_people",
      "title": "Search people",
      "description": "Search founders, operators and investors covered by the publication. Arguments: q (or query): text to search for, matched against the full name. With no q the tool returns a plain alphabetical list (first 25 by default). Unknown arguments are rejected."
    },
    {
      "name": "get_person",
      "title": "Get a person",
      "description": "Full public profile for one person by slug: bio, roles and coverage."
    },
    {
      "name": "list_funding_rounds",
      "title": "List funding rounds",
      "description": "Approved funding rounds, newest first, with optional filters and keyset pagination. Pass the returned next_cursor fields (after_date, after_id) to get the next page."
    },
    {
      "name": "largest_rounds",
      "title": "Largest funding rounds",
      "description": "Largest disclosed equity rounds, ranked per currency (amounts are never converted between currencies)."
    },
    {
      "name": "most_active_investors",
      "title": "Most active investors",
      "description": "Investors ranked by the number of approved rounds they appear in. Category defaults to equity. With a country, only rounds of companies headquartered in that country are counted; the country may be a slug ('italy') or a two-letter ISO code ('IT'), case-insensitive."
    },
    {
      "name": "funding_summary",
      "title": "Funding totals",
      "description": "Counts for a slice of the funding database: rounds, countries, totals per announced currency, undisclosed rounds and rounds per category. Note: rounds, per_currency and undisclosed count equity rounds only, while by_category covers every category (equity, debt, fund, grant, ipo), so the category split can sum higher than the round count."
    },
    {
      "name": "get_funding_index",
      "title": "Get the Funding Index",
      "description": "The weekly Builders Fintech Funding Index of approved equity rounds (ISO weeks). Arguments: week (optional, 'YYYY-Www', e.g. '2026-W39') returns that week; otherwise the latest weeks, newest first. weeks (optional, 1–104, default 1) sets how many. Count Index = rounds this week / average of the prior 12 weeks × 100. USD median index uses disclosed USD rounds only (needs 5). Amounts are never converted. Published values are frozen; revised_* shows later corrections. coverage_affected is true when a coverage change falls in the week or its 12-week baseline; coverage_note then explains how the index overstates activity. Unknown arguments are rejected."
    },
    {
      "name": "get_investor_scorecard",
      "title": "Get an investor's follow-on scorecard",
      "description": "Follow-on scorecard for one investor by slug: of the portfolio companies it first backed at least the window ago, the share that raised a later approved round (equity or IPO) within the window, at least gap_days after entry. Only returned when the investor has at least min_eligible eligible companies. Arguments: slug (required). Unknown arguments are rejected."
    },
    {
      "name": "search_products",
      "title": "Search fintech products",
      "description": "Search fintech products by text, category, market, API availability or customer type. Company-provided, not part of the CC BY dataset. Each result carries provided_by, last_confirmed_at and sponsored; sponsorship never changes ordering. Arguments: q (or query) matched against name and short description; with no q the tool lists products alphabetically. cursor is the opaque next_cursor from a previous page. Unknown arguments are rejected."
    },
    {
      "name": "get_product",
      "title": "Get a fintech product",
      "description": "Full public listing for one product by slug: description, category, markets, customer type, API, pricing model, links and the company. Company-provided, not part of the CC BY dataset. Each result carries provided_by, last_confirmed_at and sponsored; sponsorship never changes ordering."
    },
    {
      "name": "search_content",
      "title": "Search the publication",
      "description": "Full-text search across published news, newsletter issues, podcast episodes and public entity pages. Arguments: q (or query): text to search for, at least 2 characters — required, this tool has no plain-list mode. Unknown arguments are rejected."
    },
    {
      "name": "get_content",
      "title": "Get an article, issue or episode",
      "description": "One published item by type and slug, with its body text (truncated), topics, countries, organizations and people. News items also include a corrections array (date + note), newest first."
    },
    {
      "name": "search_podcast_knowledge",
      "title": "Search podcast facts and Q&A",
      "description": "Search attributed facts and question-and-answer pairs from Builders in Fintech podcast episodes (as stated by the guest, not independently verified). Arguments: q (or query) matched against fact text, and against questions and answers; organization (slug) = facts linked to that company or investor; person (slug) = facts said by that person; fact_type (figure, fact, plan, view); episode (podcast episode slug); limit; cursor (next_cursor from the previous page). With no q the tool lists the newest facts. The qa array is returned only when q is given and honours q and episode only. Unknown arguments are rejected."
    },
    {
      "name": "list_events",
      "title": "List fintech events",
      "description": "Approved fintech events, upcoming by default, with optional country, format, topic and month filters."
    },
    {
      "name": "list_topics",
      "title": "List topics",
      "description": "Every public topic with its slug and URL, for use as a filter in the other tools."
    },
    {
      "name": "list_countries",
      "title": "List countries",
      "description": "Countries that have public coverage, with company and content counts."
    },
    {
      "name": "about",
      "title": "About this server",
      "description": "What this database covers, how to cite it, and where the bulk downloads live."
    }
  ],
  "prompts": [
    {
      "name": "funding_this_week",
      "title": "This week in fintech funding",
      "description": "The rounds announced since last Monday, in a country of your choice, with links to cite."
    },
    {
      "name": "company_briefing",
      "title": "Company briefing with coverage",
      "description": "A short profile of one company: what it does, its funding history, its people and what we have published about it."
    },
    {
      "name": "largest_rounds_and_totals",
      "title": "Largest rounds this year plus totals",
      "description": "The biggest rounds of a year grouped by currency, followed by the totals from funding_summary."
    },
    {
      "name": "archive",
      "title": "What we have written on a theme",
      "description": "Our newsletter issues and podcast episodes on one theme, with the two most relevant read in full."
    }
  ]
}