The Specter MCP connects your AI client straight to Specter's private-markets data, so your assistant can pull live company, people, investor and transaction records, and the signals that track how they change. Ask a question in plain English and it picks the right tool, resolves the entity, and returns the requested data.

This article lists every tool the MCP exposes and what each one does, then walks through a few common workflows, with a focus on talent and investor-interest signals. For setup, see the Specter MCP Installation Guide; for how sign-in works, see How Specter MCP Authentication Works.

How the tools are organized

The tools group by what you are working with. Most are read-only and return data. A handful are write tools that change your workspace (creating a list, saving a search); your AI client will ask you to confirm before it runs one.

Resolve an entity

Start here when you already know who you are looking for. Each tool turns an identifier you hold into a Specter record.

Tool	What it does
`find_company`	Resolve a company you can name (domain, LinkedIn, ID or exact name) to its minimal profile.
`find_person`	Resolve a known person (LinkedIn, email, ID or name) to its minimal profile.
`find_investor`	Resolve an investor firm (domain, name or ID) to a minimal profile.

Search and discovery

Use AI search tool to run a natural-language search across any product and get a compact result list

Tool	What it does
`search`	Run a natural-language search across any product and get a compact result list, plus a query you can save.

Company intelligence

Tool	What it does
`get_company_profile`	Pull a full company profile, presented as a mini investment memo.
`get_company_intelligence`	Get headcount by department, investor signals, founders and key people, plus the latest reported and estimated revenue and valuation.
`get_company_competitors`	See a ranked competitive landscape and the dimensions the market splits on.
`get_company_funding_rounds`	List the company's funding rounds with valuations and investors.
`get_company_acquisitions`	List acquisitions the company made or was part of.
`get_company_ipos`	List the company's IPO events.
`get_company_latest_revenue`	Get the most recent reported and estimated revenue, including high and low estimate ranges.
`get_company_latest_valuation`	Get the most recent reported and estimated valuation, including high and low estimate ranges.
`get_company_news_signals`	Pull news-sourced signals for the company: funding, revenue, traction and deals.
`get_company_investor_interest_signals`	See the investor-interest signals attributed to one company.

People

Tool	What it does
`get_person_profile`	Pull a full person profile with career timeline, education and highlights.
`get_person_email`	Get a personal or professional email for a person.
`get_person_talent_signals`	See the career moves Specter tracked for one person: founding, going stealth, exec hires, promotions.

Investors

Tool	What it does
`get_investor_profile`	Get an investor firm's firmographics and investment activity.
`get_investor_funding_rounds`	List the rounds an investor took part in, with the funded company and co-investors.
`get_investor_interest_signals`	See the interest signals sourced from one investor.

Lists

Tool	What it does
`get_lists`	List the company, people or investor lists you can access.
`get_list_items`	Pull the items in a specific list.
`create_list`	Create a new list (write)
`update_list`	Rename a list, change whether it is shared with the API, or add and remove its items. (write)
`delete_list`	Archive a list you manage. (write)

Saved searches

Note: create_saved_search and delete_saved_search are write tools and will ask you to confirm.

Tool	What it does
`get_saved_searches`	List your saved searches across any product.
`get_saved_search_items`	Pull results from a saved search either the complete set, or only new results that have been added since a date you choose.
`create_saved_search`	Save a search you have built so it persists and is shared with the API. (write)
`delete_saved_search`	Delete a saved search you own. (write)

Common workflows

You do not call these tools by name. You describe what you want, and your assistant chains the right tools together. The usual path runs from broad to specific:

1. Search in plain English

Ask something like "Find high-growth fintech companies in Europe" and your assistant uses search to return matching companies, people or investors. Describe what you are after in plain terms.

2. Save a search to track it

Happy with a search? Ask to save it and your assistant stores it with create_saved_search. From then on, get_saved_search_items returns only the net-new results since your last read, so a recurring check never shows you the same record twice.

3. Build a target list

Ask "Create a list called Q3 Targets with these companies" and your assistant resolves each one with find_company, or pulls them straight from a search, then creates the list with create_list. Use update_list to add, remove or rename items later.

4. Go deeper on a company

Once you have a company in front of you, ask for more and your assistant follows up with the detail tools, for example get_company_profile for a full memo, get_company_competitors for the competitive set, get_company_funding_rounds for funding history and much more

Need a hand?

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