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teahose-mcp

Live AI-company intelligence for Claude — funding signals, lookalike search, podcast/newsletter buzz, and emerging market themes, all drawn from the Teahose intel graph. No API key required to start; a free key unlocks higher rate limits and daily-email alerts.

claude mcp add teahose -- npx -y teahose-mcp

Or install as a Claude Code plugin (this repo doubles as a plugin marketplace):

/plugin marketplace add altmbr/teahose-mcp<br>/plugin install teahose@teahose-mcp

Tools

Tool<br>Description

find_companies<br>Vector search over the Teahose AI-company graph — pass a competitor URL or a plain-text description to find similar companies with similarity scores.

who_is_talking_about<br>What operators, VCs, and newsletters are saying about a company — mention signals from podcasts and newsletters, with source and episode.

latest_funding<br>Fresh funding rounds across the AI landscape — amount, round, investors, dated and sourced. Optionally filter by theme slug.

check_companies<br>Batch-check a list of company names (portfolio, CRM, watchlist) to see which had signals in the last 7 or 30 days.

emerging_themes<br>Machine-discovered AI market themes ranked emerging-first with 7-day signal volume.

get_company<br>Profile of an AI company: what it does, sector, themes, and recent funding/product/hiring/mention signals.

watch_company<br>Subscribe to daily email alerts whenever a company has new signals. Requires a free API key.

Security & Privacy

This server is a thin, read-only HTTP client. A security review should find:

Network access: The only endpoint contacted is https://www.teahose.com/api/mcp/v1/*. No other outbound requests are made.

No filesystem or shell access: The server does not read, write, or execute anything on the local filesystem.

No exec / child processes: No child_process, eval, or dynamic code execution of any kind.

No telemetry: The server emits no analytics, crash reports, or tracking beyond the API calls themselves. The API calls are subject to Teahose's privacy policy.

Credential scope: The only credential is the optional TEAHOSE_API_KEY environment variable. It is sent solely to teahose.com in an x-teahose-key request header.

Dependencies: Exactly two runtime dependencies — @modelcontextprotocol/sdk and zod. No native addons.

No postinstall scripts: package.json has no install, postinstall, or prepare hooks.

All tools are read-only except watch_company (which writes a watch subscription on teahose.com) and requires a valid API key.

Free Tier vs. Free Key

A free Teahose API key is available at https://www.teahose.com/mcp . Getting a key also subscribes you to the Teahose daily-digest email (unsubscribe any time).

Limit<br>Keyless<br>Free key

Requests / minute<br>10<br>30

Requests / day<br>50<br>1,000

Company signals returned<br>25

Buzz mentions returned<br>25

Funding rows returned<br>15 (max 14-day window)<br>50 (max 30-day window)

check_companies names<br>10<br>50

find_companies matches<br>15

Configuration

Variable<br>Required<br>Description

TEAHOSE_API_KEY<br>No<br>Free key from https://www.teahose.com/mcp. Unlocks higher limits and watch_company.

TEAHOSE_API_URL<br>No<br>Override the API base URL (useful for local testing against a dev server).

Setting your key in Claude Code

Add an env block to your MCP server entry in .claude/settings.json:

"mcpServers": {<br>"teahose": {<br>"command": "npx",<br>"args": ["-y", "teahose-mcp@latest"],<br>"env": {<br>"TEAHOSE_API_KEY": "your-key-here"

Or set TEAHOSE_API_KEY in your shell environment before...

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