Clay MCP: people and company search in your AI app

Connect Clay to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

1. 1Click Connect Clay free and sign in with your Clay account.
2. 2All tools are on when you connect. Each search page uses Clay search quota and routines can use Clay credits, so switch off routine runs, or paging past the first results, for anyone who only needs a quick lookup.
3. 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
4. 4Ask your AI app to find heads of finance at UK fintech companies in Clay, then open Activity to see the search it ran.

Prospecting with Clay from a chat

• Search for people or companies with Clay's advanced search, using its field and grammar reference to build the query.
• Page through more results from a search when the first page isn't enough.
• Run a Clay routine on 1 to 100 items and fetch the results, or check progress on a run that's still processing.

Watch Clay quota and contact data

• Switch off routine runs or extra search pages for people who only need a first look; calls to them are refused.
• People searches return personal details, and a policy can hide them from the results your AI app sees.
• Activity records every Clay search and routine run, so quota use can be traced to the call behind it.

What you get with Clay and ContextGate

• Your AI apps can use ClayClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach Clay through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
• You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any Clay tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
• Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.

ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.

Clay tools

Examples of what your AI apps can do in Clay. You'll see the exact list of tools after you connect it.

• Continue SearchConsume one next page from an existing Clay query-mode search. Each call advances Clay's server-side iterator and consumes search quota; call again only while has_more is true.
• Get Current UserReturn the Clay user and workspace associated with the connected Public API key.
• Get Routine Run ResultsCheck progress or fetch one page of results for an existing inline Clay routine run. Returns progress while processing and an explicit next_cursor when another terminal result page is available.
• Get Search Query ReferenceReturn Clay's current advanced-search field and grammar reference for composing people or company queries.
• Run RoutineStart a Clay routine for 1-100 items, poll it for a bounded time, and return completed item results or the current run ID and progress. Execution may consume Clay credits and can notify an existing we
• Search People or CompaniesCreate a Clay query-mode people or company search and consume its first result page. This advances a stateful search iterator and consumes Clay search quota; use Continue Search only while has_more is