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. Model Context Protocol Competitive intelligence, inside your AI agent 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 . - 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 . https://industry-lens.com/.well-known/claude-marketplace.json Embed the badge Link to IndustryLens MCP from your README, docs, or site: