# StartupHub People & Intel AI Agent Connect > StartupHub People & Intel MCP connects your AI agent to a massive database of founders, executives, and investors. Use it to find verified professional emails, match startups to the right VCs, and pull unredacted regulatory dossiers on companies and leadership. It turns your AI client into a high-end research analyst for deal sourcing and due diligence. ## Overview - **Category:** lead-generation - **Price:** Free - **Endpoint:** https://edge.vinkius.com/vk_preview_nPcqYmDmrKK3m3vaPbe9PO62L0vf1xjmgmHntsWg/ai-agent-connect - **Tags:** email-finder, email-verification, contact-enrichment, investor-data, sales-intelligence, founders, recruiting, due-diligence ## Description You can now run professional-grade outreach and due diligence directly from your AI client. Instead of jumping between LinkedIn, email verifiers, and public filings, you use this MCP to pull everything in one place. You can search for specific founders by tags like Unit 8200 or Serial Entrepreneur, then immediately grab a deliverable email address. If you are looking for funding, the MCP matches your startup to investors based on sector overlap and stage. For high-stakes decisions, you can pull full dossiers that include ownership structures, fund AUM, and compensation benchmarks from authoritative records. It even lets you scan a target website to see if it is ready for AI agents, giving you a perfect opening for a sales pitch. It is built to handle the heavy lifting of people and company intelligence so you can focus on the actual outreach. ## Tools ### scan_agent_readiness Scores a website from 0 to 100 based on how well it works with AI agents and provides fix prompts for failures. ### get_person Fetches a person's profile using their slug, email, or social handle. ### intel_lookup Compiles unredacted dossiers including regulatory filings, ownership structures, and compensation benchmarks from public records. ### discover_email Finds a professional email address for a person using their name and company domain. The tool validates the address automatically during the search. ### enrich_email Turns a single email address into a full profile including the person and their company context. ### match_investors Ranks the best-fit investors for a startup based on sector, activity, and stage. ### get_investor Retrieves specific investor details like cheque size, sector focus, and portfolio. ### search_investors Searches for VCs, angels, and accelerators by name, country, or type. ### search_people Finds founders and executives using names, titles, sectors, or specific tags. ### validate_email Checks if a specific email address is real and deliverable. ### intel_preview Shows you which intelligence sections are available for a person or company before you spend credits on a full lookup. ## Prompt Examples **Prompt:** ``` Find the CEO of Anthropic and get me a verified email. ``` **Response:** ``` search_people found Dario Amodei (CEO and Co-founder at Anthropic). discover_email returned [email protected] which is a verified, deliverable address. ``` **Prompt:** ``` Which investors are the best fit for our startup, acme-security.com? ``` **Response:** ``` match_investors identified 12 matches. The top fit is Example Ventures with a score of 82 based on sector overlap and recent activity. ``` **Prompt:** ``` Check if acme-security.com is ready for AI agents. ``` **Response:** ``` scan_agent_readiness gave the site a score of 23/100. The main issues are missing llms.txt and low content depth. ``` ## Capabilities ### Contact Discovery Your agent finds verified professional emails for specific executives. ### Investor Matching The MCP ranks VCs and angels by their fit for a specific startup. ### Corporate Intelligence Your agent pulls ownership structures and regulatory filings from public records. ### Website Auditing The tool scores sites for AI readiness to create personalized outreach hooks. ### Identity Resolution Your agent converts social handles or emails into full professional profiles. ## Use Cases ### Fundraising A founder uses the MCP to find VCs that actually invest in their specific sector and stage. ### Executive Sourcing A recruiter searches for leaders with specific tags like Unit 8200 to find niche talent. ### Sales Prospecting A sales rep finds a target company, identifies the CTO, and gets a verified email in two steps. ### Due Diligence A risk team pulls a full dossier on a company's ownership and control structures. ## Benefits - Eliminates manual searching by resolving identities through social handles or emails. - Reduces outreach failure by providing only deliverable email addresses. - Speeds up due diligence with instant access to regulatory and financial filings. - Provides specific sales hooks by identifying technical gaps in target websites. ## How It Works Connect the MCP to your AI client and start querying professional data immediately. 1. Connect the StartupHub MCP to your preferred AI client via Vinkius. 2. Add your StartupHub API key in your account settings for full access. 3. Ask your agent to find a person, an investor, or a company. 4. Use the returned data to perform outreach or deep research. ## Frequently Asked Questions **Do I need an API key to use this MCP?** You can use intel_preview for free without a key. However, you will need a StartupHub API key to access emails, investor matching, and full dossiers. **How are the emails verified?** The discover_email tool performs internal validation, so the addresses it returns are already verified as deliverable. **Can I use this with Claude or Cursor?** Yes, this MCP works with any MCP-compatible client including Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf. **What kind of data is in the dossiers?** Dossiers include regulatory and corporate filings, ownership structures, fund AUM, and compensation benchmarks. **How does investor matching work?** The tool ranks investors by providing a fit score based on sector overlap, activity, and investment stage. **How is this different from StartupHub's own MCP server?** StartupHub's hosted MCP exposes only a few free utilities. This server covers the people, investor and intelligence half of the API — people search, multi-identifier resolution, email discovery and verification, investor matching, and the deep-intelligence dossiers — with unified lookups so you never have to pick the right endpoint. **Should I use discover_email or validate_email?** `discover_email` goes from a name + company domain to a found, verified address (3 credits) and already validates every candidate internally. `validate_email` (1 credit) is only for an address you already have from somewhere else — a contact page, a signature, a scraped profile. Running validate on discover output wastes credits. **What is a deep-intelligence dossier and what does it cost?** It is a compiled dossier on a person or company from authoritative public records: regulatory and corporate filings, ownership and control structures, fund assets under management, compensation benchmarks, affiliated entities and verified contacts. Each lookup costs 10 credits, so run the free `intel_preview` first — it shows exactly which sections will be populated, so you never pay for an empty dossier.