Explorium MCP: B2B company and contact data in your AI app

How to connect Explorium to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

1. 1Click Connect Explorium free and sign in with your Explorium account.
2. 2Every tool is on once you connect. Enrichment uses Explorium credits, so switch it off for people who only need to search, and keep the credit balance check so your AI app can look before it spends.
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 how many software companies in Germany match your target filters in Explorium, then open Activity to see the call.

Prospecting with Explorium from a chat

• Search businesses or prospects with structured filters, starting in preview mode.
• Get audience counts and distributions for a filter set before fetching any records.
• Match up to 50 company names, domains or LinkedIn URLs to Explorium business IDs.
• Enrich up to 50 businesses with firmographics, after checking your remaining credits.

Keep Explorium credits and contacts in check

• Switch off the enrichment and matching tools; they're hidden from your AI app and refused if called.
• Prospect records include personal details, and a policy can hide them from results.
• Activity records every Explorium call, so credit use can be matched to the calls behind it.

What you get with Explorium and ContextGate

• Your AI apps can use ExploriumClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach Explorium through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
• You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any Explorium 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.

Explorium tools

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

• Autocomplete Filter ValuesFind normalized values for Explorium business and prospect search filters, including company names, job titles, industries, locations, skills, and interests. Live trial calls consumed zero credits.
• Enrich Business FirmographicsEnrich 1-50 Explorium business IDs with company firmographics. This call is credit-metered: a live trial probe charged exactly one credit for one submitted business. Check EXPLORIUM_GET_CREDIT_BALANCE
• Get Audience StatsReturn aggregate distributions and total counts for either a business or prospect filter set before fetching records. Empty business filters were live-tested at zero credits; usage is still reported.
• Get Credit BalanceReturn the connected Explorium company's allocated and remaining credits and trial or paid account type. Use before full searches, enrichments, or other potentially metered calls.
• Get Job StatusGet detailed status, timing, credit usage, errors, and downloadable CSV result metadata for one existing Explorium job. Invalid IDs may produce a provider 500 instead of 404.
• List JobsList existing Explorium asynchronous jobs, optionally filtered by lifecycle status, and return their IDs for detailed monitoring. This does not create or cancel jobs.
• Match BusinessesResolve 1-50 business names, domains, URLs, or LinkedIn URLs to Explorium business IDs while preserving input order. The provider reports credit usage for every call; a one-record trial call consumed
• Match ProspectsResolve 1-50 people from names, employers, email, phone, LinkedIn URL, or Explorium business ID to prospect IDs while preserving input order. A live one-record trial call used zero credits; returned u
• Search BusinessesSearch Explorium businesses with structured filters and cursor pagination. Preview mode is the zero-credit default observed on the trial account; full mode may consume credits, so check EXPLORIUM_GET_
• Search ProspectsSearch Explorium prospects with strict person and employer filters, returning one cursor-paginated page. Preview is the zero-credit default observed on the trial account; full mode may consume credits