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Metal MCP connects AI assistants directly to your Metal workspace. Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, or Cursor to find investors, map warm intros, update your pipeline, or prepare you for a call, and it happens in Metal without you opening the app. It is built on MCP (Model Context Protocol), the open standard for connecting AI models to software. Any MCP-compatible client works, and teams building custom agents or internal tooling can build on the same connection.

Same Intelligence, New Surface

MCP is an access layer, not a separate product. Everything it does runs on the same proprietary data, relevance scoring, and network intelligence that powers the Metal app, so results stay consistent wherever you work.

Common Use Cases

Search the market by stage, sector, geography, thesis, or recent activity. Pull full investor profiles, check sizes, portfolio patterns, and co-investor relationships. Your assistant can research companies, their funding history, and founders, or find the investors behind any founder and the deals a specific partner has personally led.Search results and investor profiles carry each investor’s fit for your company, with the same rank and reasons you see in the Relevance column in Metal. Your assistant leads with the best-fitting investors and gives you the same answer the app does.You can name any investor, company, or person and your assistant pulls the record directly. If the name matches more than one record, your assistant gets the list of matches rather than a guess, so it can check with you.
“Find seed-stage fintech investors in Europe who have led a round in the last 12 months, and show me their typical check size.”

Getting Connected

Pick the app you use. Every setup ends the same way: you sign in to Metal in your browser, choose your organization, and approve access.
Before you start, sign in to Metal at app.metal.so in your browser. Any setup that asks for a server URL uses https://api.metal.so/mcp. It starts with api, not app, so copy it rather than typing it.
Metal is listed in Claude’s connector directory, so there is nothing to configure.
1

Find Metal in the directory

In Claude, open Settings → Connectors, search for Metal Fundraising, and click Connect.
2

Sign in and choose your organization

Sign in with your Metal account and select the organization you want to connect. Access is limited to that organization.
3

Approve permissions

Read and write access are granted separately. Start read-only if you prefer, and turn on write access when you want your assistant to update your pipeline, tags, and notes.
To check it works, start a new chat and try: “Use Metal to find seed-stage fintech investors in the UK.” Setup takes about two minutes. You can remove access at any time from your app’s connector settings.

Access and Security

Scoped to You

Your assistant sees only what your Metal account can see, within the organization you selected at connection time.

Granular Permissions

Read and write access are separate scopes, so you control exactly what your assistant is allowed to change.
Your fundraising configuration (stage, sector, geography, existing investors) is managed in the Metal app and is not editable through MCP. This keeps the setup that drives your recommendations deliberate and in one place.

Usage Limits

MCP calls are limited per workspace. The limits below apply to workspaces on a paid plan. Every call counts the same whatever it does, and the limits are shared by everyone in your workspace and every AI app you connect.
LimitCalls
Per minute500
Per 7 days12,000
You can see your workspace’s calls in the last 7 days in Metal under Settings → MCP Servers. Your assistant also gets the number of calls left with every answer, so you can ask it. When a limit is reached, your assistant stops calling Metal and tells you when calls work again. Everything still works in the Metal app in the meantime. If your workspace needs a higher limit, write to us at support@metal.so.
Metal MCP is for running your own raise. Using it to copy Metal’s data in bulk, for example to build or refresh your own database, resell it, or feed another product, breaks our Terms of Service. We can remove MCP access for your workspace permanently, or close your account, without warning.

Troubleshooting

“Authorization with Metal failed.” This is usually a stale or half-finished earlier connection attempt. Remove the Metal connector from your client entirely, then reconnect from scratch following the steps above. The connector won’t authenticate. Double-check the server URL is https://api.metal.so/mcp. Entering app.metal.so instead of api.metal.so is the most common cause of failed connections. Codex: Metal is listed but can’t do anything. Run codex mcp login metal again, then start a new session. Codex only loads Metal when a session starts. ChatGPT: there’s no Create button. Developer mode is off. Turn it on in Settings → Apps → Advanced settings, or ask your workspace admin to enable it. Still stuck? Email support@metal.so and include the reference code from the error message (it starts with “ofid_”). It lets us find your connection attempt immediately.
For questions, or if there is an ambitious workflow you want to build on Metal MCP, reach out to us (support@metal.so).