MCP

Use early.tools inside Claude, Cursor or any AI assistant: ask about early-stage tools, founders, resources and blog posts.

https://www.early.tools/api/mcp
  1. 1
    Copy the address
    The one above. No key, no password.
  2. 2
    Add it to your app
    Pick your app below for where it goes.
  3. 3
    Sign in and approve
    Your usual email link, then Approve.

Your app

  1. 1Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
  2. 2Name it early.tools and paste the address.
  3. 3Click Connect, sign in, approve.
https://www.early.tools/api/mcp

What you get

Free account
  • Every tool live on early.tools
  • 573 public founder profiles
  • Free startup resources
  • Experiments, glossary and blog posts
  • Your listings and their stats
  • Edit your listings, logo, sponsorship and bookings from chat
  • Tools before they list
  • Founder contacts and the watchlist
  • Premium resources
200 calls a day · 30 a minute
Member
  • Everything in free
  • The full backlog, including what lists next week
  • All 670 founders with role and company; contacts on request (50 a day)
  • The watchlist: 11,622 founders, and what they launch before Product Hunt
  • Premium resources, with their links
5,000 calls a day · 120 a minute
Become a member

Access follows your account, not the connection: upgrade and the same connection sees more on its next question.

Founders

The people behind the tools. Free accounts search public profiles; members search every founder behind a tool, with enrichment, and can ask for contact details one founder at a time. The watchlist is wider: founders we follow before they have listed anything.

Free
573
Public founder profiles
Members
670
Founders behind every tool, listed or not
Members
383
With role and company
Members
446
Reachable by email, 210 verified
Members
226
Reachable by phone
Members
11,622
Watched founders (YC and beyond), before they list
What you get per founderFreeMember
Name, photo and bio
X, LinkedIn and website
Tools they built on early.tools
Role, company and location
Company size and funding stage
Email addresses, marked verified or notOn request
Phone numbersOn request
Latest move on the watchlist

On request means your assistant asks for one founder's contact details on purpose, never in a list. Up to 50 a day, and every lookup is logged.

Manage from chat

Your assistant can update what you own on early.tools, on every account, free or member. Nothing changes until you approve it.

  • Your listings

    Name, description, links, topic, platforms, stage, access, founder links and your deal.

  • Your logo

    Send a link, or drop the image into the chat. You see the new logo before it goes live.

  • Announcements

    Add, edit or remove launch updates on your listing’s timeline.

  • Your sponsorship

    Company name, tagline, link, logo and newsletter mention on your banner.

  • Newsletter blocks

    The block you present in an edition, until that edition goes out.

  • Bookings and billing

    Links to book featured weeks, a sponsorship, a newsletter slot or membership, and to Stripe billing. You pay there, never in the chat.

  1. 1Your assistant drafts it

    Ask in plain words. Nothing changes yet.

  2. 2You check every field

    It shows what each field is now and what it becomes, in chat and on a review page.

  3. 3You say yes

    Only then is it applied. Say no, or wait 30 minutes, and nothing happens.

Deletes and changes to any link (your website, social links, a sponsor or deal link) are approved on early.tools only, never in chat, so text hidden in something your assistant reads can never repoint them. Free accounts can apply up to 30 changes a day, members 100.

Try asking

What AI agent tools launched this week?Who built Linear, and what else have they made?What lists on early.tools next week?How do I run a smoke test?Update my listing’s description and add a launch announcementUse this image as my logoFeature my tool for the next two free weeks

Help

Can my assistant change my listing or sponsorship?
Yes, and only once you approve it. Your assistant drafts the change and shows you every field before and after; nothing goes live until you say yes, in chat or on the review page it links to. Deletes and changes to any link are approved on early.tools only. Payments and cancellations always happen on early.tools or Stripe, never in the chat.
“localhost refused to connect” after approving
Your app stopped waiting before you finished. Start the connection again from the app and approve within a minute or two.
The sign-in email opened a different browser
Approve there. If the app then keeps waiting, start again and open the email link in the browser your app opened.
The app can’t reach the server
Use the address exactly as shown, with www and ending in /api/mcp.
Results look limited
Ask your assistant to run my_access: it shows your plan, what you approved and today's usage.
Disconnecting an app
Every connected app is under Connected apps on your account. Disconnect, and it stops on its next question.
What you approve
  • catalog:read — Search early.tools: tools, founders, resources and blog posts, at your membership level
  • account:read — See your own listings, with their views and clicks
  • submissions:write — Check whether a product is already listed, and start a submission you finish and pay for on early.tools
  • manage:write — Propose changes to your listings, sponsorship, newsletter bookings and profile, applied only after you confirm each one, and open checkout or billing links you pay in on early.tools
  • The first is required; untick the others on the approval screen. Nothing is ever paid for from an assistant.
For app developers

OAuth 2.1 with PKCE (S256) for public clients. Register dynamically (RFC 7591) or use a Client ID Metadata Document URL as client_id. Tokens are bound to the MCP resource (RFC 8707). Stateless Streamable HTTP.

https://www.early.tools/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource
https://www.early.tools/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server