Bring Company Secretarial
to Claude Desktop
Learn how to connect Inform Direct to Claude Desktop and start using 10 AI agent tools in minutes. Fully managed, enterprise secure, and ready to use without writing a single line of code.
What is the Inform Direct MCP Server?
Connect your Inform Direct account to any AI agent and take full control of your UK company secretarial and statutory compliance workflows through natural conversation.
What you can do
- Company Portfolio Orchestration — List and manage all companies in your portfolio programmatically, retrieving detailed metadata including company numbers and public URLs
- Statutory Compliance Intelligence — Programmatically access and monitor statutory registers for directors, shareholders, and PSCs to ensure perfectly coordinated compliance
- Filings & Reporting Architecture — Track confirmation statement deadlines and Companies House filing statuses to maintain a audit trail of corporate actions
- Document Library Management — Access and organize minutes, resolutions, and share certificates directly through your agent for perfectly coordinated corporate governance
- Operational Monitoring — Verify account-level API connectivity and monitor portfolio health directly through your agent for instant performance reporting
How it works
1. Subscribe to this server
2. Retrieve your API Key from your Inform Direct account (Account > Integrations)
3. Start orchestrating your corporate compliance from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client
No more manual logging into Companies House or secretarial portals to check deadlines. Your AI acts as your dedicated corporate secretary and compliance architect.
Who is this for?
- Company Secretaries & Accountants — instantly retrieve company summaries and monitor filing deadlines using natural language commands
- Legal & Compliance Teams — verify statutory registers and PSC details without leaving your workspace
- Business Owners — automate the management of their UK company portfolio through simple AI queries
Built-in capabilities (10)
Add a company
Verify Inform Direct API connectivity
Get account info
Get company details
Get filing deadlines
List all companies
List company directors
List company filings
List shareholders
This does not affect the company at Companies House. Remove a company
Why Claude Desktop?
Claude Desktop is the definitive way to connect Inform Direct to your AI workflow. Add Vinkius Edge URL to your config, restart the app, and Claude immediately exposes all 10 tools in the chat interface. ask a question, Claude calls the right tool, and you see the answer. Zero code, zero context switching.
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Claude Desktop is the reference MCP client. it was designed alongside the protocol itself, ensuring the most complete and stable MCP implementation available
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Zero-code configuration: add a server URL to a JSON file and Claude instantly discovers and exposes all available tools in the chat interface
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Claude's extended thinking capability lets it reason through multi-step tool usage, chaining multiple API calls to answer complex questions
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Enterprise-grade security with local config storage. your tokens never leave your machine, and connections go directly to Vinkius Edge network
Inform Direct in Claude Desktop
Inform Direct and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect Inform Direct to Claude Desktop through Vinkius don't need to source, host, or maintain individual MCP servers. Every tool call runs inside a hardened runtime with credential isolation, DLP, and a signed audit chain.
Raw MCP | Vinkius | |
|---|---|---|
| Server catalog | Find and host yourself | 3,400+ managed |
| Infrastructure | Self-hosted | Sandboxed V8 isolates |
| Credential handling | Plaintext in config | Vault + runtime injection |
| Data loss prevention | None | Configurable DLP policies |
| Kill switch | None | Global instant shutdown |
| Financial circuit breakers | None | Per-server limits + alerts |
| Audit trail | None | Ed25519 signed logs |
| SIEM log streaming | None | Splunk, Datadog, Webhook |
| Honeytokens | None | Canary alerts on leak |
| Custom domains | Not applicable | DNS challenge verified |
| GDPR compliance | Manual effort | Automated purge + export |
Why teams choose Vinkius for Inform Direct in Claude Desktop
The Inform Direct MCP Server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS — a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts. All 10 tools execute in hardened sandboxes optimized for native MCP execution.
Your AI agents in Claude Desktop only access the data you authorize, with DLP that blocks sensitive information from ever reaching the model, kill switch for instant shutdown, and up to 60% token savings. Enterprise-grade infrastructure, zero maintenance.
* Every MCP server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS - a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts optimized for native MCP execution. See our infrastructure
How Vinkius secures
Inform Direct for Claude Desktop
Every tool call from Claude Desktop to the Inform Direct MCP Server is protected by DLP redaction, cryptographic audit chains, V8 sandbox isolation, kill switch, and financial circuit breakers.
Frequently asked questions
Can I add a UK company to my account via AI?
Yes. Use the add_company tool with the Companies House registration number and the company will be linked to your Inform Direct account instantly.
How do I check a company's filing deadlines?
Use the get_filing_status tool with the company number to see all upcoming deadlines for confirmation statements and annual accounts.
Can I view directors and shareholders?
Absolutely. Use list_directors and list_shareholders with the company number to retrieve complete officer and ownership records.
How does Claude Desktop discover MCP tools?
When Claude Desktop starts, it reads the claude_desktop_config.json file and connects to each configured MCP server. It calls the tools/list endpoint to fetch the schema for every available tool, then surfaces them as clickable options in the chat interface via the 🔌 icon.
What happens if the MCP server is temporarily unavailable?
Claude Desktop handles disconnections gracefully. if the server is unreachable at startup, the tools simply won't appear. Once the server becomes available again, restarting Claude Desktop will re-establish the connection. There is no timeout penalty or error loop.
Can I connect multiple MCP servers simultaneously?
Yes. You can add as many servers as you need in the mcpServers section of the config file. Each server appears as a separate tool provider, and Claude can use tools from multiple servers in a single conversation turn.
Is there a limit on the number of tools per server?
Claude Desktop can handle hundreds of tools per server. However, for optimal LLM performance, Vinkius servers are designed to expose focused, well-documented tool sets rather than overwhelming the model with too many options.
Does Claude Desktop support Streamable HTTP transport?
Yes. Claude Desktop supports both SSE (Server-Sent Events) and the newer Streamable HTTP transport that Vinkius uses. Simply provide the server URL. Claude auto-negotiates the transport protocol.
Server not appearing after restart
Ensure the JSON is valid (no trailing commas). Check the file path: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\\Claude\\ (Windows).
Authentication error
Verify your Vinkius token is correct. Go to cloud.vinkius.com to regenerate it if needed.
Tools not showing in chat
Click the 🔌 icon at the bottom of the chat input. If it shows 0 tools, the server may still be connecting. wait a few seconds.