IntelCue MCP Server

Live market & competitor intelligence inside Claude and any MCP-compatible AI assistant.

IntelCue is an AI-first competitive and market intelligence platform. It continuously monitors your sources — newsletters, blogs, news, YouTube, websites, Google Ads, patents, SEC filings, Certificate Transparency (new subdomains), and more — then analyzes everything for trending topics, competitive moves, and keywords. This repository documents the IntelCue MCP server, which exposes that intelligence to AI assistants via the Model Context Protocol.

Ask your AI assistant about your market and competitors, and it pulls from your live, continuously-updated IntelCue data automatically. Learn more at www.intelcue.ai.

What is the IntelCue MCP server?

A hosted, remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP) that gives AI assistants read-only access to your IntelCue workspace. It scopes every response to your authenticated workspace, so your data stays private to you.

Endpoint: https://api.intelcue.ai/v1/mcp/sse
Transport: Streamable HTTP (official MCP SDK)
Auth: your IntelCue API key (ic_sk_…) — via OAuth, Authorization: Bearer, or the x-api-key header

Connect

Option 1 — Smithery (easiest)

Install from the Smithery listing and paste your IntelCue API key when prompted.

Option 2 — Claude Desktop

config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "intelcue": {
      "type": "url",
      "url": "https://api.intelcue.ai/v1/mcp/sse",
      "name": "IntelCue",
      "authorization": "Bearer ic_sk_your_api_key_here"
    }
  }
}

Option 3 — Any MCP client (header auth)

Send your key in the x-api-key header to https://api.intelcue.ai/v1/mcp/sse.

Get your API key on the Connect page in your IntelCue dashboard.

Tools

All tools are read-only and automatically scoped to your workspace.

Tool	What it returns
`get_trending_topics`	Trending topics with momentum scores, change deltas, and examples
`get_competitive_insights`	Competitive alerts ranked by severity
`get_keywords`	Keywords & hashtags with volume and trend direction
`get_newsletter_content`	Recent newsletter content from subscribed sources
`get_blog_updates`	Latest posts from monitored blogs
`get_patent_filings`	Recent patent filings and grants from monitored companies
`get_front_page_brief`	The latest AI-generated weekly Front Page brief for your workspace

Example questions to ask your assistant

"What are the top trending topics in my market this week?"
"Any high-severity competitive moves in the last 7 days?"
"Which keywords are surging right now, with hashtags?"
"Summarize the latest newsletters and blog posts from my competitors."
"Have any tracked companies filed patents recently?"
"Pull my latest Front Page brief and summarize it."

Learn more

Product: www.intelcue.ai
Competitive intelligence: intelcue.ai/solutions/competitive-intelligence
Google Ads transparency: intelcue.ai/solutions/google-ads-transparency
Newsletter tracking: intelcue.ai/solutions/newsletter-tracker
Website change tracking: intelcue.ai/solutions/website-change-tracker
Blog: intelcue.ai/blog

FAQ

What is IntelCue? An AI-first market and competitive intelligence platform that monitors your sources and delivers insights into Claude or any AI assistant via MCP. See www.intelcue.ai.

Do I need an account? Yes. The MCP server returns data scoped to your IntelCue workspace, so you need an IntelCue account and API key (ic_sk_…) from the Connect page.

Which AI assistants are supported? Any MCP-compatible client — Claude Desktop, Claude.ai, and others via the Model Context Protocol.

Is my data shared? No. Every tool call is scoped to your own workspace.