{"slug": "show-hn-ask-your-ai-what-changed-across-your-competitors", "title": "Show HN: Ask your AI what changed across your competitors", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "Model Context Protocol\n\n# Competitive intelligence, inside your AI agent\n\nAdd 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.\n\n## Add it to your AI app\n\nAdd 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.\n\n- ChatGPTPlus / Pro / Business\nSettings → Connectors → Developer mode → Create.\n\n- ClaudePro / Team / Enterprise\nTrue one-click — opens the Add-connector dialog pre-filled.\n\n- GeminiApp: coming · CLI now\nApp support is coming — use Gemini CLI for now.\n\n- PerplexityPro / Max\nSettings → Connectors → add a custom connector.\n\n- GrokPaid tiers\ngrok.com/connectors → New Connector → Custom.\n\n- MistralFree + paid\nLe Chat → Connectors → + Add → Custom MCP. Free tier works.\n\n## For developers\n\nEditor and CLI clients install per-device. Any other MCP client accepts the remote URL directly: `https://api.industry-lens.com/mcp/public`\n\n.\n\n- Claude Code\nOne CLI command, then restart your session.\n\n- Cursor\nOne-click deep-link install.\n\n- VS Code\nOne-click via the built-in MCP installer.\n\n- Windsurf\nAdd to Windsurf’s MCP config (Cascade).\n\n- Cline\nAdd a remote MCP server in Cline’s settings.\n\n- Claude Desktop\nManual config-file method (or just use the Claude card above).\n\n- Smithery\nOne-click via the Smithery gateway — works across clients.\n\n`$ claude mcp add industrylens --transport http https://api.industry-lens.com/mcp/public`\n\n## What you can ask\n\n- get_competitive_profile\nOne company in, a competitive overview out — recent strategic moves and the reports that cover them.\n\n- list_competitor_moves\nThe latest tracked moves for a single competitor, newest first.\n\n- find_competitors\nWho competes with a given company, across the markets we monitor.\n\n- list_reports · get_report · list_comparisons · get_comparison\nBrowse and read IndustryLens’s published intelligence reports and head-to-head competitor comparisons.\n\n## What it covers\n\nThe markets IndustryLens monitors today — coverage refreshes weekly and grows as we add verticals.\n\n- Sales intelligence\n- AI-search & brand visibility\n- GTM engineering\n- Spend management\n- APM & observability\n- Offshore engineering / BOT\n- Competitive intelligence\n\n## Why it’s different\n\nOther 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.\n\n## Privacy\n\nThe 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.\n\n## Add as a Claude plugin marketplace\n\nIn 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`\n\n.\n\n```\nhttps://industry-lens.com/.well-known/claude-marketplace.json\n```\n\n## Embed the badge\n\nLink to IndustryLens MCP from your README, docs, or site:\n\n```\n<a href=\"https://industry-lens.com/mcp\"><img src=\"https://industry-lens.com/mcp-badge.svg\" alt=\"Install IndustryLens MCP\" height=\"32\"></a>\n```\n\n### Get the full picture\n\nThe 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.\n\nLast updated 2026-06-03", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ask-your-ai-what-changed-across-your-competitors", "canonical_source": "https://industry-lens.com/mcp", "published_at": "2026-06-30 07:47:26+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-30 08:20:18.844149+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-agents", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["IndustryLens", "Claude", "Cursor", "ChatGPT", "Gemini", "Perplexity", "Grok", "Mistral"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ask-your-ai-what-changed-across-your-competitors", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ask-your-ai-what-changed-across-your-competitors.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ask-your-ai-what-changed-across-your-competitors.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ask-your-ai-what-changed-across-your-competitors.jsonld"}}