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MCP / CONNECTION GUIDE

Company intelligence.
Inside your AI workflow.

Connect an AI assistant or agent to company profiles, financials and corporate relationships through Model Context Protocol.

The Global Database MCP server gives a compatible AI client access to company-data tools. Your client uses those tools to research a customer and its wider group, subject to your account’s data permissions.

MCP server URL
https://mcp.globaldatabase.com/mcp

Connect your AI client

  1. Open the integrations or connectors settings in a client that supports remote MCP connections.
  2. Add a custom MCP connection. Enter https://mcp.globaldatabase.com/mcp as the server URL.
  3. Complete the connector’s authentication flow with your Global Database API key.
  4. Confirm the connection is available and review the company-data tools it exposes.
  5. Start a conversation and ask a focused company research question.
Authentication and access

Use the connector’s credential flow, rather than putting a key in a research prompt or URL. The provider documents API-key setup through a client UI; it does not specify a universal manual MCP header configuration. Follow its supported setup for your client.

MCP access and data entitlements are provisioned separately. EntityReach’s website search allowance does not define your MCP quota. Confirm permitted datasets and usage as part of your Enterprise access setup.

Available company-data tools

These are the five tool categories listed in the provider’s MCP reference. The labels below describe capabilities; your connected client supplies the exact callable tool names and input schemas.

Provider tool categoryWhat it doesAccount expansion use
Enrichment by Website URLResolve a business from its website and retrieve company context.Start from a customer domain, then confirm the returned legal entity.
Enrichment by LinkedIn URLResolve a business from its LinkedIn company page.Disambiguate a customer when you have a company-page URL.
AutocompleteSearch using a company name or identifiers such as registration number, VAT, ticker or email.Confirm the country and registration record before mapping the group.
Company FinancialsRetrieve available company financial measures and reporting periods.Add scale and performance context to a potential expansion account.
Company OwnershipRetrieve available shareholders and corporate group relationships.Find parents, subsidiaries and related entities worth investigating.

Available fields and results depend on company coverage and account permissions. Inspect the current tool list after connecting; this page does not assert undocumented machine-readable tool names.

Provider tool catalog ↗

Start with a clear company identity

Give your assistant a company name and country, a registration number, or a website or LinkedIn company URL. The provider also supports company identifiers such as VAT number, ticker and email. These are lookup inputs, not a promise that every tool accepts the same argument names.

Prompt · verify a company
Find the legal entity behind tesco.com.
Confirm its company name, country and registration number
before retrieving its corporate group.

For ambiguous results, confirm the intended legal entity before continuing. Keep the provider company ID with the research so later tool calls refer to the same company.

Prompts for account expansion

Use these in sequence after connecting. The later prompts rely on research already present in the conversation. Replace the customer, offering and territory with your own context.

01Map the wider account
Prompt · corporate group research
Our customer is Tesco PLC in the UK, registration number 00445790. First confirm the legal entity. Then use the available company tools to map its parent, subsidiary and sister-company relationships. Return company identifiers, countries and the relationship evidence where available. Flag ambiguous matches and missing data.
02Find expansion candidates
Prompt · expansion shortlist
Using the verified group from our previous research, assess potential expansion for workforce scheduling software in the UK and Ireland. Separate companies within territory from those outside it. For each candidate, distinguish sourced company facts from a possible product-fit hypothesis. Do not assume the company needs our software or is covered by our existing contract.
03Add commercial context
Prompt · qualify company scale
For the shortlisted companies, retrieve the available financial and employee data. Show reporting periods, currencies and sources. Explain what the data can tell us about company scale and what we still need to learn from the account owner. Treat missing data as unavailable, not zero.
04Prepare the next account review
Prompt · account expansion brief
Create an account expansion brief from the verified research in this conversation. Include the existing customer, candidate companies, corporate connections, territory fit, evidence, open questions and recommended next actions. Keep confirmed facts separate from assumptions. Do not claim a revenue opportunity is qualified until the account owner validates need and contract coverage.
A relationship is a starting point

Corporate connections can reveal companies to investigate. Your CRM, contract records and account owner establish current coverage, customer need and whether an expansion opportunity is qualified.

Use MCP from your own agent

Use a maintained MCP client implementation that supports the server’s authentication and protocol version. The provider setup page does not declare a fixed protocol revision; let the client handle compatibility and transport details.

  1. Connect with the account’s approved credentials.
  2. Discover tools using tools/list. Follow pagination when the response includes nextCursor.
  3. Use the returned name and validate inputs against inputSchema.
  4. Call the selected tool through tools/call, then inspect the result before adding it to the account research.

The JSON below illustrates method payloads. It is not a ready-to-send HTTP request or a client configuration file. Your MCP client supplies authentication, protocol metadata and any required connection lifecycle.

JSON · tool discovery method
{
  "method": "tools/list",
  "params": {}
}
JSON · tool call template
{
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "TOOL_NAME_FROM_TOOLS_LIST",
    "arguments": {}
  }
}

Replace TOOL_NAME_FROM_TOOLS_LIST with a discovered name and populate arguments according to that tool’s schema. An empty object is only valid when the tool accepts it.

Keep evidence with the answer

Retain company IDs, source details and reporting dates when returned. Inspect content, any structuredContent and isError; a protocol response is not automatically a successful data result.

Give the agent account context

Supply the relevant customer, territory and offer. Connect your own application if the agent needs saved account plans, contract coverage or CRM ownership; those are separate from the provider’s company-data tools.

Protocol references: tool discovery and results · version compatibility. Use the revision supported by your client and server.

Choose the right integration

Your workflowUseIntegration pattern
Research inside an AI client or your own agentMCPExpose company-data tools to the client through the hosted MCP server.
A conversational research experience inside your productRegis AI →Submit a question to the API and consume its streamed answer and tool data.
A defined company lookup or corporate-tree requestKYB API →Call the specific REST endpoint your workflow needs.
Ongoing updates for selected companiesWatch Companies API →Enroll each company and process event history or webhook notifications.
From research to monitoring

Use the confirmed company IDs from your research to build a shortlist, then enroll the selected companies through Watch Companies. The documented MCP catalog does not list monitoring-subscription tools. Scheduling, alerts and account-plan updates belong in your application.

The downloadable OpenAPI file describes REST APIs. MCP tools are discovered through the MCP connection and are documented separately on this page.

When something needs attention

The client cannot connect

Confirm the exact /mcp URL and support for remote MCP in your client. Follow the provider’s supported authentication flow; client feature availability and setup screens can differ.

Authentication or access is rejected

Check the credential and MCP/data entitlements with your provider. If the client only offers an incompatible authentication method, confirm a supported setup before adding manual headers.

An expected tool is missing

Refresh the discovered tool list and review your account permissions. Use returned tool identifiers rather than a name copied from a different client or account.

The assistant finds the wrong company

Add country, registration number or a company URL. Resolve the identity before requesting ownership or financial data.

A tool returns no data or an error

Inspect the tool result and account limits. Missing information is not proof that no subsidiaries, financial records or business activity exist.

The assistant does not invoke a tool

Enable the connection for the conversation and ask explicitly for company research using that connection. Tool selection and invocation controls belong to the AI client.

Source: Global Database MCP reference ↗ · Reviewed 14 September 2026. Setup and capabilities are documented here; connecting your account is a separate step.