# Magellan Data Spotlight **Category:** 💻 Developer Tools **Repository:** https://github.com/sorrek/mcp **Views:** 0 **Installs:** 0 **Upvotes:** 0 **Directory Page:** https://allmcps.com/mcp/magellan-data-spotlight ## Description Find parent companies, PE backers, corporate families, and portfolio siblings for any company. ## Claude Desktop Quick Installation Heuristic fallback — verify the package name and runner against the repository README before running it. Uses `npx` (confidence: low): ```json "mcpServers": { "magellan-data-spotlight": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y","magellan-data-spotlight"] } } ``` ## Documentation & README

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# Magellan Data MCP **Corporate ownership intelligence for AI agents.** Connect Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client to [Magellan Data](https://magellandata.io)'s Spotlight platform and ask who owns whom — parent companies, PE backing, corporate families, and portfolio siblings — over lists of thousands of companies at a time. Hosted server. No install. Connect with an API key, or via OAuth from hosted connectors like claude.ai. ``` https://spotlight-mcp.magellandata.io/mcp ``` That's an MCP endpoint, not a web page — paste it into your client's config, not your browser. Opening it directly returns an error, which is the correct behaviour for every hosted MCP server. --- ## Try asking Once connected, these all work in plain language: > "Read `accounts.xlsx` and tell me which of these companies are PE-backed, and by whom." > "We just closed Moosend. Find every other company owned by the same PE firm — those are > our warm expansion targets." > "Which of my 200 accounts are subsidiaries of a larger parent? Append the parent company > to the spreadsheet and save it." > "Map the full corporate family under Constant Contact's parent so I can see the sister > companies I'm not covering." The agent handles the whole pipeline — submitting the batch, polling until the runs finish, checking the price, and joining results back to your original file by `input_url`. --- ## Quick start **1. Get an API key.** Sign up at [magellandata.io](https://magellandata.io) and generate a key from the Spotlight dashboard. Keys look like `mgln_sk_live_…`. Every key carries its own credit balance, and usage is billed to the key that made the call. **2. Connect your client.**
Claude Code ```bash claude mcp add --transport http magellan-data https://spotlight-mcp.magellandata.io/mcp \ --header "Authorization: Bearer mgln_sk_live_YOUR_KEY" claude mcp list # expect: magellan-data ... ✓ Connected ```
Cursor Add to `~/.cursor/mcp.json` (or `.cursor/mcp.json` in a project): ```json { "mcpServers": { "magellan-data": { "url": "https://spotlight-mcp.magellandata.io/mcp", "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer mgln_sk_live_YOUR_KEY" } } } } ```
VS Code Add to `.vscode/mcp.json` — this prompts for the key rather than storing it in the file: ```json { "inputs": [ { "type": "promptString", "id": "magellanKey", "description": "Magellan Data API key (mgln_sk_live_...)", "password": true } ], "servers": { "magellan-data": { "type": "http", "url": "https://spotlight-mcp.magellandata.io/mcp", "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${input:magellanKey}" } } } } ```
Any other MCP client The server speaks **Streamable HTTP** and is stateless. Point any compliant client at `https://spotlight-mcp.magellandata.io/mcp` with an `Authorization: Bearer ` header.
**3. Verify.** Ask your agent: *"Check my Magellan Data credit balance."* If it comes back with a number, you're connected. That call is free. --- ## Authentication Two methods are supported; use whichever fits how you're connecting. **API keys** (`mgln_sk_live_…`) — for local and CLI clients like Claude Code, Cursor, or anything you configure by hand. Generate a key in the [Spotlight dashboard](https://magellandata.io) and pass it as a Bearer token in the `Authorization` header, as shown in the quick start above. Usage is billed to the key that made the call. **OAuth 2.1** — for hosted connectors such as claude.ai and ChatGPT. There's nothing OAuth-specific to set up on your side: when you add the connector (from the directory, or as a custom connector where the platform holds the client credentials), you'll be sent to Spotlight to sign in and approve access — the usual "connect, sign in, allow" flow — and the client handles tokens from there. Usage is billed to the Spotlight account you approved with. Either way, every request is authenticated and attributed to one Spotlight account — the two methods differ only in how the credential reaches the server. --- ## What you can look up | Output type | Answers | Cost | | --- | --- | --- | | `parent_companies` | Is this company a subsidiary, and of whom? | 70 credits per URL **where a parent is found** — no match, no charge | | `pe_ownership` | Is it PE-backed, by which firm, and what deal type? | 70 credits per URL **found to be PE-backed** — no match, no charge | | `corporate_families` | Every subsidiary and sister company under a shared parent | 20 credits per record returned (min. 1 per URL) | | `pe_portfolios` | Every company held by the same PE firm | 20 credits per record returned (min. 1 per URL) | For `parent_companies` and `pe_ownership` you pay only for hits: a URL where nothing is discovered costs nothing, so 70 credits × your URL count is the *ceiling*, not the bill. The other two are priced per output record. Either way the exact price is known once a run completes — the agent reads it off the run and tells you before downloading. --- ## How credits work This is the part worth understanding, because it's what keeps an autonomous agent from quietly burning your balance: - **Submitting a batch is free.** So is starting the processing runs, polling their status, and checking your balance. - **Credits are charged at exactly one point:** `download_run`. Nothing before it costs anything. - **The agent surfaces the price first.** Every run carries a `price` field, and the server instructs connected clients to state that number and wait for you before downloading. - **Re-downloads are free, forever.** Once a run is purchased it stays purchased. If a download link expires, just ask again — no second charge. If you'd rather not think about it: everything up to and including "how much will this cost" is free, and the agent will ask. --- ## Tools | Tool | Charges credits? | What it does | | --- | --- | --- | | `check_credits` | No | Your available balance. Doubles as a connection check. | | `submit_batch` | No | Create a batch from 1–5,000 company URLs. Returns a `batch_id`. | | `process_batch` | No | Start async runs — one per output type. Returns immediately. | | `list_runs` | No | Every run for a batch: status, price, purchase state. | | `get_run_status` | No | One run's status and price. Poll this until `completed`. | | `download_run` | **Yes** | Buys the results. Returns a short download link plus a preview. | The flow is always **submit → process → poll → download**. Results come back as a short download link (`https://api.magellandata.io/dl/…`, valid for 1 hour) rather than inline, so a 2-million-row result set never touches your agent's context window. The link needs no auth header — hand it straight to `curl`, `pandas.read_csv`, or a browser. In hosted chat environments without general internet access (like the claude.ai connector), the assistant presents it as a clickable link for you to open rather than fetching it itself. There's also a **`magellan_playbook` prompt** — a GTM strategy guide covering expansion- target ranking, `deal_type` interpretation, and MSA-timing triggers. In Claude Code it shows up as a slash command under the `magellan-data` server. --- ## Working example [`examples/quickstart.py`](https://github.com/sorrek/mcp/blob/HEAD/examples/quickstart.py) runs the full pipeline against the REST API directly — useful for understanding what the agent is doing under the hood, or for wiring Magellan Data into a non-agentic pipeline. ```bash export MAGELLAN_API_KEY=mgln_sk_live_YOUR_KEY python examples/quickstart.py --urls moosend.com constantcontact.com --type pe_ownership ``` [`examples/accounts.csv`](https://github.com/sorrek/mcp/blob/HEAD/examples/accounts.csv) and [`accounts.xlsx`](https://github.com/sorrek/mcp/blob/HEAD/examples/accounts.xlsx) are a 12-row fixture you can point an agent at without supplying your own data. The companies span independents, acquired subsidiaries, and PE-backed businesses, so each output type returns something. Enriching all twelve costs at most 840 credits per match-based output type (only the companies where something is found are charged) — cheap enough to validate the pipeline for real. It stops and asks before the download step, so you can run it end to end without spending credits until you mean to. [`examples/PROMPTS.md`](https://github.com/sorrek/mcp/blob/HEAD/examples/PROMPTS.md) has a walkthrough of agent prompts in increasing order of ambition, with the expected cost of each noted up front. --- ## Skills The [`skills/`](https://github.com/sorrek/mcp/blob/HEAD/skills/) directory holds task-focused playbooks that turn raw tool output into a finished deliverable — a ranked target list, a coverage map, an enriched spreadsheet — instead of JSON. Clients that support skills can load them from this repo; clients that don't can still be pointed at the markdown directly. | Skill | Produces | | --- | --- | | `account-expansion` | Ranked warm-intro targets from a closed-won account's ownership graph | | `pe-portfolio-map` | Coverage map of a PE firm's portfolio against your existing accounts | | `ownership-enrichment` | Your account list, enriched in place with parent and PE-backing columns | --- ## Repository contents ``` .mcp.json MCP registration (Claude Code, Codex) mcp.json MCP registration (Cursor) .vscode/mcp.json MCP registration (VS Code, prompts for key) .claude-plugin/ plugin.json Claude plugin metadata marketplace.json Claude marketplace metadata server.json Official MCP Registry metadata skills/*/SKILL.md Task playbooks examples/ quickstart.py Full pipeline against the REST API PROMPTS.md Agent prompt walkthrough accounts.csv 12-row test fixture accounts.xlsx Same fixture, spreadsheet form assets/ logo.png Wordmark, navy (for light backgrounds) logo-light.png Wordmark, white (for dark backgrounds) social-preview.png 1280x640 social card — upload under Settings > Social preview social-preview-light.png Light-background alternate ``` To use the manifests locally: ```bash git clone https://github.com/sorrek/mcp.git ``` Then point your client at the repo root or the specific manifest path. --- ## Troubleshooting **The endpoint URL shows an error in my browser.** Expected. `/mcp` speaks JSON-RPC over POST; the transport spec reserves GET on that path for opening an event stream, so a server like this one that doesn't offer streams answers with 405. There's nothing to see there. To check the server is actually up, ask your agent to call `check_credits` — that's free and exercises the whole auth path. **My client connects but lists no tools.** Almost always an auth problem rather than a transport one. Confirm the header is `Authorization: Bearer mgln_sk_live_...` with the `Bearer ` prefix, and that the key is active in the Spotlight dashboard. **A download link says it has expired (HTTP 410).** Download links last an hour. Call `download_run` again for a fresh one — re-downloads are free. **A run has been `processing` for a long time.** Large batches take minutes, not seconds. Poll every 10–30 seconds rather than in a tight loop. If a run sits past 20 minutes, open an issue with the `run_id`. --- ## Notes and limits - **Batch size:** up to 5,000 URLs per batch. Larger lists should be chunked; the agent will do this if you ask. - **Timing:** large runs take minutes, not seconds. Polling every 10–30 seconds is the right cadence and the server instructions say so. - **Overlapping inputs:** if two input companies share a parent or a PE firm, you're charged for both inputs. Every output row carries `input_url`, so deduplicating client-side is trivial. - **Auth:** every request carries either an API key or an OAuth token (see [Authentication](#authentication)), so usage is always attributed to the right Spotlight account. --- ## Roadmap - Listing in the official MCP Registry and downstream directories - `last_verified` timestamps on ownership records Issues and feature requests are welcome — open one on this repo. --- ## Support - **API documentation:** [docs.magellandata.io](https://docs.magellandata.io) - **Bugs and requests:** [open an issue](https://github.com/sorrek/mcp/issues) - **Data quality problems:** [support@magellandata.io](mailto:support@magellandata.io?subject=Data%20quality%20issue) - **Commercial questions:** [magellandata.io](https://magellandata.io) ## License [MIT](https://github.com/sorrek/mcp/blob/HEAD/LICENSE) — this repository. The Spotlight API itself is a commercial service governed by the Magellan Data terms of service.