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Overview

The Starbridge MCP brings your bridges, feed, signals, and buyer research directly into any AI environment that supports the Model Context Protocol, and lets you take the same actions you can take in the Starbridge app. Plug Starbridge into your existing agents, skills, and workflows in minutes — every draft, digest, and prep doc grounded in live Starbridge data. Use the Starbridge MCP to:
  • Ground pre-meeting and outbound prep agents in live Starbridge signals and contacts
  • Pull bridge data into your favorite tool to build vendor-presence maps, attribute breakdowns, or other buyer insight visualizations
  • Surface Starbridge data in places like Slack or wherever your team works today — on a scheduled cadence that fits your workflow
  • Create and update bridges, buyer lists, account scoring, and sequences, or invite teammates, without leaving your AI environment

Install the MCP

The Starbridge MCP installs as a custom connector in any client that supports MCP with OAuth. Starbridge skills are delivered through the MCP itself, so there’s nothing else to install.
1

Open connector settings

In Claude, go to Customize → Connectors.
2

Add a custom connector

Click Add custom connector and paste the connector URL:
3

Authorize via OAuth

Click Connect and complete the OAuth flow with your Starbridge credentials.
Some organizations restrict who can add custom connectors. If the Connect button is greyed out, you don’t have permission to add it yourself — ask your Claude admin to either add the Starbridge connector for your whole organization or grant you permission to add custom connectors.

What’s supported

You can do everything through the MCP that you can do in the Starbridge app. Ask in plain language, and your AI assistant picks the right Starbridge actions for you.

What Starbridge does and what your AI tool does

When you use the MCP, Starbridge and your AI tool each do a different part of the work:
  • Starbridge provides the data and takes the actions: your bridges, signals, buyers, contacts, and documents, plus every change you make, like creating a bridge or starting a sequence. Anything you change through the MCP shows up in the Starbridge app right away, just as if you’d done it there.
  • Your AI tool works with that data in its own workspace. Clients like Claude and ChatGPT can run code and create files, so they can turn Starbridge data into charts, maps, slide decks, spreadsheets, and documents, and combine it with your other connected tools like your CRM, email, calendar, or Slack. Those files live in your AI tool, not in Starbridge.
For example, ask “Pull the Local Government ERP bridge and show me which states each vendor is active in as a map.” Starbridge returns the bridge data, and your AI tool draws the map.

Still done in the Starbridge app

A few setup steps need you to sign in to another service in your browser, so they’re done in the Starbridge app: Once they’re connected, you can work with them through the MCP.

Permissions

The MCP uses the same user roles as the Starbridge app. An action that needs a certain role in the app needs the same role in the MCP. For example:
  • You must be a Builder to create or update a bridge or a buyer list.
  • You must be an Admin to set up your market and account scoring, invite users or change their roles, or change your CRM, SSO, and API key settings.
Features that depend on your plan, like Sequences and CRM integrations, are only available through the MCP if your organization has them. If you ask for something your role or plan doesn’t allow, your AI assistant will tell you why it can’t do it.

Contacts and credits

Starbridge offers verified contacts with emails and phones. The MCP surfaces these verified contacts directly in your AI environment. Contacts in the MCP work on a simple locked/unlocked model:
  • A contact is unlocked if your organization has previously enriched it — whether through a bridge or in a previous MCP session. Unlocked contacts are fully accessible through the MCP at no additional credit cost.
  • A contact is locked if your organization hasn’t enriched it yet. Locked contacts are visible in search results with their title and buyer, but name, email, and phone are not revealed until the contact is enriched. Enriching a locked contact costs 2 credits and makes the full contact details available.
Every contact your organization enriches is available to everyone on your team — you’ll never be charged twice for the same contact.

Enriching contacts in the MCP

When you search for contacts through the MCP, any previously enriched contacts are returned immediately. For locked contacts, your AI assistant will show what contacts are available and offer to unlock and enrich them before surfacing the full details. You can unlock contacts one at a time or in bulk. For large requests (20 or more contacts at once), your AI assistant will always check in to confirm the bulk action. If you have a personal credit limit set by your admin, you’ll see that context surfaced alongside the enrichment option. Your admin can raise this credit limit at any time.

Other ways to enrich contacts

Contacts can also be enriched by running a Contacts Bridge, Job Changes Bridge, or Enrich Contact column in a Bridge. Any contact your organization has already enriched through a bridge will appear as unlocked in the MCP, and any contact your organization has already enriched in the MCP can be surfaced in a bridge at no additional credit cost. Learn more about credits in How Do Credits Work?.

What’s not supported

  • Large-scale ad hoc analysis. The MCP is built for research on a single buyer or a small set of buyers, and for working with data already in your bridges. It doesn’t support ad hoc analysis across your whole territory, your TAM, or hundreds of buyers at once. If you’re a Builder, your AI assistant may suggest creating a bridge to run the analysis, then reading the results through the MCP. Otherwise, ask a Builder on your team to set up a bridge for it.

Where to start

For ready-to-adapt prompts across every capability, see Sample Use Cases.

Add ready-made skills

Copy and paste skills like daily meeting prep and a daily feed digest into Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP client to run repeatable workflows on Starbridge data.

Augment your prep skills

Add MCP calls to your pre-meeting or outbound email prep agents — every draft grounded in live Starbridge signals and contacts.

Visualize your bridges

Pull bridge data into your favorite tool to build vendor-presence maps, attribute breakdowns, or other buyer insight visualizations.

Consume Starbridge where you live

Build custom digests to surface Starbridge data in places like Slack or wherever else your team works today — use a scheduled task to pull fresh data through the MCP on a cadence that fits your workflow.

FAQ

Any Starbridge user with an active seat can connect the MCP using their existing credentials. Data access and actions through the MCP follow the same territory, role, and permission scopes as the Starbridge app.
Yes. The Usage Dashboard shows MCP tool calls per user and for the whole team, and includes them in the CSV export. Admins can also ask the MCP itself, for example “Who are my top Starbridge MCP users this month?”
Yes. Any action you can take in the Starbridge app, you can take through the MCP, as long as your role allows it. For example, Builders can create and edit bridges, and Admins can invite users. See Permissions.
No. Starbridge skills now come with the MCP, so you only need to add the Starbridge connector.
Any MCP-compatible client that supports OAuth, including Claude (desktop & web), ChatGPT, Cursor, Cline, and Goose.
Reach out to the Starbridge team at support@starbridge.ai with any questions or feedback.

Sample Use Cases

Ready-to-adapt prompts for Bridges, Feed, signals, contacts, and deep research.

Ask Starbridge Chat

The full guide to researching accounts through chat.

Chrome Extension

Bring buyer profiles, contacts, and signals into your browser.