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Your competitive intel in your AI tools

Connect Claude Desktop or Claude Code to query signals, battlecards, and briefs from natural language.

What you can do

Search signals

Query competitive signals by keyword, competitor, type, or date range — directly from your AI conversation.

Read battlecards

Get AI-generated competitive positioning for any tracked competitor, ready to paste into a sales call or strategy doc.

Get briefs

Pull the latest weekly competitive intelligence summary without leaving your editor or chat.

Research topics

Create research topics, match signals automatically, and track competitive themes across your market.

Setup instructions

Claude.ai (Team, Enterprise)

Add Spyingbee as a remote MCP integration from your Claude.ai settings.

  1. Navigate to Settings > Integrations > Add more
  2. Integration name: Spyingbee
  3. Integration URL: https://spyingbee.com/api/mcp
  4. Click Save and authorize when prompted

Claude Desktop

Add the MCP server to your Claude Desktop configuration file.

  1. Open ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
  2. Add the following to the mcpServers object:
json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "spyingbee": {
      "url": "https://spyingbee.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop to activate.

Claude Code

Register the MCP server from your terminal in one command.

bash
claude mcp add --transport http spyingbee https://spyingbee.com/api/mcp

Run /mcp inside Claude Code to authenticate via OAuth.

Here are some things you could ask

Type these directly in Claude — it picks the right tool automatically.

“What did Stripe ship last week?”

query_signals

“How does Linear position against Jira?”

get_battlecard

“Find signals about AI pricing changes”

semantic_search

“Give me this week's competitive brief”

get_latest_brief

“Start tracking Notion as a competitor”

create_competitor

“Create a research topic about competitor pricing”

create_research_topic

“Assign signal #42 to Alice”

assign_signal

“What companies are in the updates directory?”

list_updates_companies

Available tools

query_signalsSignals

Search competitive signals by keyword, competitor, type (product launch, pricing update, hiring, etc.), or date range. Returns up to 50 results.

semantic_searchSignals

AI-powered natural language search across all signals. Ask conceptual questions like "pricing strategy changes" and get semantically relevant results.

get_signal_detailsSignals

Retrieve full signal details including source URL, content, metadata, and related signals by ID.

assign_signalSignals

Assign a signal to a team member by name or email for follow-up action.

unassign_signalSignals

Remove the assignment from a signal.

search_competitorsCompetitors

List all tracked competitors with their monitored sources and latest activity summary.

get_competitor_summaryCompetitors

Deep-dive into a single competitor — recent signals, active sources, signal frequency, and trend overview.

create_competitorCompetitors

Start tracking a new competitor by website URL. Spyingbee auto-discovers their changelog and begins monitoring for signals.

get_battlecardIntelligence

AI-generated competitive positioning battlecard — strengths, weaknesses, talking points, and objection handling for any tracked competitor.

get_latest_briefIntelligence

Pull the most recent weekly competitive intelligence brief. Summarizes key signals, trends, and recommended actions.

list_research_topicsResearch

List all research topics for your team with signal counts and last updated dates.

get_research_topicResearch

Get a research topic with its matched signals, relevance scores, and AI-generated summary.

create_research_topicResearch

Create a new research topic with keywords. Signals are matched automatically using semantic and keyword search.

match_topic_signalsResearch

Re-run signal matching for a research topic to find newly detected signals.

delete_research_topicResearch

Delete a research topic by ID.

list_team_membersTeam

List all members of your team. Useful to know who a signal can be assigned to.

list_updates_companiesDirectory

Browse the public product updates directory. Filter by category or search by company name.

get_company_updatesDirectory

Get the latest product updates and changelog entries for any company in the public directory.

get_updates_statsDirectory

Get overall stats for the public updates directory — total companies, updates, most active this week.

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