Bring Data Enrichment
to Windsurf
Learn how to connect PeopleDB to Windsurf and start using 12 AI agent tools in minutes. Fully managed, enterprise secure, and ready to use without writing a single line of code.
What is the PeopleDB MCP Server?
Empower your sales and data teams by integrating People Data Labs directly into your AI workflows. Your AI agent can tap into a database of over 3 billion records to automatically enrich incomplete lead profiles, verify email deliverability on the fly, and standardize messy CRM records before outreach campaigns.
What you can do
- Enrich person and company profiles
- Search people and companies with SQL-like filters
- Verify email deliverability
- Identify people from partial data
- Clean and standardize names, locations, and company names
How it works
1. Subscribe to PeopleDB (PeopleDataLabs) 2. Generate your API key in the dashboard 3. Start enriching your contacts securely via VinkiusWho is it for?
Ideal for sales teams, marketers, and developers looking to clean and enrich B2B contact lists instantly.Built-in capabilities (12)
Autocomplete field values
Bulk enrich people
Clean a company name
Clean a location
Clean a name
Enrich a company
Enrich a person
Check credit balance
Identify a person
Search companies
Search people
Verify an email
Why Windsurf?
Windsurf's Cascade agent chains multiple PeopleDB tool calls autonomously. query data, analyze results, and generate code in a single agentic session. Paste Vinkius Edge URL, reload, and all 12 tools are immediately available. Real-time tool feedback appears inline, so you see API responses directly in your editor.
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Windsurf's Cascade agent autonomously chains multiple tool calls in sequence, solving complex multi-step tasks without manual intervention
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Purpose-built for agentic workflows. Cascade understands context across your entire codebase and integrates MCP tools natively
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JSON-based configuration means zero code changes: paste a URL, reload, and all 12 tools are immediately available
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Real-time tool feedback is displayed inline, so you see API responses directly in your editor without switching contexts
PeopleDB in Windsurf
PeopleDB and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect PeopleDB to Windsurf 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 PeopleDB in Windsurf
The PeopleDB 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 12 tools execute in hardened sandboxes optimized for native MCP execution.
Your AI agents in Windsurf 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
PeopleDB for Windsurf
Every tool call from Windsurf to the PeopleDB MCP Server is protected by DLP redaction, cryptographic audit chains, V8 sandbox isolation, kill switch, and financial circuit breakers.
Frequently asked questions
How does person enrichment work?
Provide an email, LinkedIn URL, name+company, or phone number and receive full professional profile including title, company, skills, education, and social links.
Can I clean messy data?
Yes, use cleaner tools to standardize names into first/middle/last, locations into city/region/country, and company names into canonical forms.
Is email verification supported?
Yes, you can directly verify if an email address is valid, deliverable, and safe to use in your outbound campaigns.
How does Windsurf discover MCP tools?
Windsurf reads the mcp_config.json file on startup and connects to each configured server via Streamable HTTP. Tools are listed in the MCP panel and available to Cascade automatically.
Can Cascade chain multiple MCP tool calls?
Yes. Cascade is an agentic system. it can plan and execute multi-step workflows, calling several tools in sequence to accomplish complex tasks without manual prompting between steps.
Does Windsurf support multiple MCP servers?
Yes. Add as many servers as needed in mcp_config.json. Each server's tools appear in the MCP panel and Cascade can use tools from different servers in a single flow.
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