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Show HN: Ask your AI what changed across your competitors

IndustryLens launched a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets users query competitive intelligence data—including pricing, positioning, ads, hiring, reviews, and news—directly from AI tools like Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT. The service offers a public tier with no demo gate and paid plans starting at €59/month, covering markets such as sales intelligence, AI search, and spend management.

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Show HN: Ask your AI what changed across your competitors
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Model Context Protocol

Add IndustryLens to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-aware tool and ask competitive questions mid-task — answered from a live engine that tracks pricing, positioning, ads, hiring, reviews and news, with sources.

Add it to your AI app #

Add it once to your account and it works wherever you use that app — web, desktop and mobile. No download, no API key for the public tier.

  • ChatGPTPlus / Pro / Business Settings → Connectors → Developer mode → Create.

  • ClaudePro / Team / Enterprise True one-click — opens the Add-connector dialog pre-filled.

  • GeminiApp: coming · CLI now App support is coming — use Gemini CLI for now.

  • PerplexityPro / Max Settings → Connectors → add a custom connector.

  • GrokPaid tiers grok.com/connectors → New Connector → Custom.

  • MistralFree + paid Le Chat → Connectors → + Add → Custom MCP. Free tier works.

For developers #

Editor and CLI clients install per-device. Any other MCP client accepts the remote URL directly: https://api.industry-lens.com/mcp/public

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  • Claude Code One CLI command, then restart your session.

  • Cursor One-click deep-link install.

  • VS Code One-click via the built-in MCP installer.

  • Windsurf Add to Windsurf’s MCP config (Cascade).

  • Cline Add a remote MCP server in Cline’s settings.

  • Claude Desktop Manual config-file method (or just use the Claude card above).

  • Smithery One-click via the Smithery gateway — works across clients.

$ claude mcp add industrylens --transport http https://api.industry-lens.com/mcp/public

What you can ask #

  • get_competitive_profile One company in, a competitive overview out — recent strategic moves and the reports that cover them.

  • list_competitor_moves The latest tracked moves for a single competitor, newest first.

  • find_competitors Who competes with a given company, across the markets we monitor.

  • list_reports · get_report · list_comparisons · get_comparison Browse and read IndustryLens’s published intelligence reports and head-to-head competitor comparisons.

What it covers #

The markets IndustryLens monitors today — coverage refreshes weekly and grows as we add verticals.

  • Sales intelligence
  • AI-search & brand visibility
  • GTM engineering
  • Spend management
  • APM & observability
  • Offshore engineering / BOT
  • Competitive intelligence

Why it’s different #

Other competitive-intelligence platforms gate their data behind a demo call and an enterprise contract. IndustryLens is queryable from the tools you already work in, on a public tier, with published pricing and no demo gate.

Privacy #

The public server returns facts about companies and the existence of strategic shifts — never any customer’s private data, and never who tracks whom. Full per-account intelligence and deeper analysis live in your IndustryLens account.

Add as a Claude plugin marketplace #

In Claude.ai, open Customize → Personal plugins → Create plugin → Add marketplace and paste the URL below. IndustryLens’s public and account servers then appear as one-click installable plugins. In Claude Code, run /plugin marketplace add IndustryLensOp/claude-plugins

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https://industry-lens.com/.well-known/claude-marketplace.json

Embed the badge #

Link to IndustryLens MCP from your README, docs, or site:

<a href="https://industry-lens.com/mcp"><img src="https://industry-lens.com/mcp-badge.svg" alt="Install IndustryLens MCP" height="32"></a>

Get the full picture

The public tier is a window. Your account is the whole room — every channel, full analysis, and weekly briefings, from €59/month. Pricing published, no demo gate.

Last updated 2026-06-03

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