# Tianyancha / 天眼查 MCP

> Tianyancha / 天眼查 is China's premier enterprise data platform, giving your AI agent deep business intelligence capabilities. It allows you to instantly search for any company, audit its ownership structure, and monitor operational risks from a natural language prompt. Instead of navigating complex web portals, your agent retrieves detailed corporate metadata, including staff lists, registered patents, court cases, and shareholder relationships, turning due diligence into a conversation.

## Overview
- **Category:** industry-titans
- **Price:** Free
- **Tags:** enterprise-data, due-diligence, risk-monitoring, corporate-registry, industrial-research, ownership-auditing, business-metadata

## Description

Tianyancha connects deep business intelligence straight to your workflow. It lets your AI agent take over the tedious work of researching companies—the kind of multi-step investigation usually requiring multiple tabs and hours of clicking. When you connect this MCP via Vinkius, your agent becomes a real-time corporate auditor. You don't need to manually navigate Tianyancha’s massive portal; your AI client handles it all.

Need to audit a potential partner? Ask your agent to list the company's shareholders and check for any legal risk indicators instantly. Want to know who runs the place? It can retrieve main staff and executive lists. Need to vet intellectual assets? Your agent finds registered trademarks, patents, and copyrights. This means you move from complex data gathering to decision-making, keeping your B2B research accurate and fast.

## Tools

### get_contact_info
Retrieves the core contact details for a specific enterprise.

### get_full_details
Pulls all available basic and industrial metadata about a company.

### list_branches
Lists the full network of registered business branches for an enterprise.

### list_investments
Provides a record of all outward investments made by the company.

### list_ip
Lists registered intellectual property assets, including trademarks and patents.

### list_risks
Retrieves detailed risk information, court cases, and industrial abnormalities for a company.

### list_shareholders
Lists the owners of the company, detailing corporate ownership structure.

### list_staff
Identifies and lists key decision-makers by providing main staff and executive names.

### search_enterprise
Initiates a search for companies based on keywords or industry names.

### get_basic_info
Gathers the essential, high-level basic information about an enterprise.

## Prompt Examples

**Prompt:** 
```
Search for companies named 'Alibaba' in Tianyancha.
```

**Response:** 
```
I've retrieved the search results for 'Alibaba'. There are several matches, including 'Alibaba Group Holding Limited' and 'Alibaba Cloud'. Which one would you like the basic information for?
```

**Prompt:** 
```
Show me the shareholder structure for 'Huawei'.
```

**Response:** 
```
I've listed the shareholders for Huawei. The primary owner is the Union of Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd. Would you like a list of Huawei's outward investments as well?
```

**Prompt:** 
```
Check for any risk information regarding 'Evergrande'.
```

**Response:** 
```
I've retrieved the risk indicators for Evergrande. There are numerous court cases and industrial abnormalities listed. Should I retrieve the details for the most recent legal incidents?
```

## Capabilities

### Search for Companies
Find specific businesses using keywords across China's corporate registry.

### Audit Ownership Structures
Map out a company’s ownership by listing primary shareholders and their outward investments.

### Assess Corporate Risk
Pull risk indicators, court cases, and industrial abnormalities for due diligence checks.

### Track Personnel
Identify key decision-makers by listing the enterprise's main staff and executives.

### Review Corporate Assets
Audit a company’s intellectual property portfolio, including registered trademarks and patents.

## Use Cases

### Vetting a Potential Merger Partner
A M&A lawyer needs to know if the target company has any hidden liabilities. They ask their agent to run 'list_risks' and then cross-reference that data with 'get_full_details' to see if the risk factors are tied to specific operational branches, saving days of manual database work.

### Identifying Corporate Control
A competitor needs to know who controls a rival firm. They use their agent to run 'list_shareholders' and then follow up with 'get_contact_info' for the largest listed owner, immediately identifying key points of contact.

### Competitive Market Research
A business analyst wants a full profile on five market leaders. They use their agent to run 'search_enterprise' first, then call 'list_ip' and 'get_basic_info' for each result sequentially, building a complete competitive matrix in minutes.

### Due Diligence for Investment Capital
An investment team needs to understand the full scope of an emerging tech company. They ask their agent to retrieve 'list_investments' and 'list_branches', confirming both where the money is going and where the physical operations are located.

## Benefits

- Instant Risk Spotting: Instead of reading through endless court filings, you ask your agent to run 'list_risks' on a target company. It aggregates all potential issues—from legal cases to industrial abnormalities—into one summarized report.
- Deep Ownership Mapping: Quickly determine who owns what with the 'list_shareholders' tool. You can trace complex corporate structures and see exactly where a company has made its outward investments using 'list_investments'.
- Executive Identification: Stop guessing who the decision-maker is. Use 'list_staff' to get a clean list of main staff and executives, allowing your agent to target communications accurately.
- Comprehensive Vetting: Get both basic details ('get_basic_info') and full records ('get_full_details'), ensuring you have every piece of data needed for thorough due diligence before signing any contract.
- IP Asset Audit: Check a company's intellectual standing by running 'list_ip'. This tool quickly pulls up registered trademarks, patents, and copyrights, giving you immediate insight into their core assets.

## How It Works

The bottom line is that you talk to your AI client like talking to a research assistant who already has access to all this company data.

1. Subscribe to this MCP on Vinkius and provide your Tianyancha API Token.
2. Connect your AI client (Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.) to the configured MCP endpoint.
3. Ask your agent a question using natural language; it will execute the necessary calls to gather and summarize the required corporate data.

## Frequently Asked Questions

**How do I use Tianyancha / 天眼查 MCP to check ownership?**
Use the 'list_shareholders' tool. You simply ask your agent for the shareholder structure of a company, and it retrieves the primary owners and their detailed stake in the business.

**Can Tianyancha / 天眼查 MCP find patents?**
Yes, use 'list_ip'. This tool pulls up all registered intellectual property for an enterprise, including both trademarks and patents. It’s great for competitive analysis.

**What if I only want to know the risks? Should I use Tianyancha / 天眼查 MCP?**
Absolutely. The 'list_risks' tool aggregates court cases, industrial abnormalities, and other risk indicators into one place, saving you from checking multiple legal databases.

**Does the MCP handle branch locations?**
Yes, run the 'list_branches' tool. It provides a comprehensive list of all registered physical branches across China for any given company.

**How do I get basic info and staff lists at once using Tianyancha / 天眼查 MCP?**
Ask your agent to perform both 'get_basic_info' and 'list_staff'. You can then ask the agent to synthesize that data, giving you a profile of the company alongside its key decision-makers.