Kultur.dev

Cultural Intelligence Infrastructure for AI Agents

The multimodal cultural intelligence layer every AI agent and global company needs.

Analyze text, images, and video across 200+ markets before you ship, post, or launch.

Website • Docs • OpenAPI Spec • Quick Start • Tools • Pricing

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Why Kultur.dev?

Every AI agent operating globally is flying blind without cultural intelligence. A thumbs-up gesture that's offensive in the Middle East. A color palette that signals death in East Asia. A marketing slogan that's a slur in Brazil. These aren't edge cases. They're the daily reality of operating globally without cultural awareness.

Kultur.dev is the world's first multimodal cultural intelligence infrastructure. It gives AI agents and global enterprises the ability to analyze text, images, and video for cultural risks, sensitivity, and localization across 200+ markets, before content goes live.

What Makes It Different

Kultur.dev goes beyond text. It analyzes images for visual taboos (colors, symbols, gestures) and video content for cultural compliance across regions. It covers 200+ markets with deep, verified cultural intelligence, not surface-level summaries.

Localization comes with 15 tone styles (formal, humble, celebratory, diplomatic, marketing, medical, legal, and more). Reports are branded, boardroom-ready PDF documents, not raw JSON. Risk scoring is real-time with actionable recommendations before content ships.

The platform includes Hofstede cultural dimensions with business implications and cross-country comparison, plus geopolitical risk analysis with adaptive EWA scoring across 12 risk categories.

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Overview

Kultur.dev provides cultural intelligence as an API, enabling AI agents, LLMs, and enterprise software to understand cultural context, avoid sensitivity violations, and communicate effectively across 200+ markets and 50+ languages.

The MCP (Model Context Protocol) server exposes 9 specialized tools plus multimodal and streaming endpoints that any MCP-compatible client can use:

MCP Tools

Multimodal & Streaming Endpoints

Report Generation

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Quick Start

Option 1: SSE Transport (Recommended)

Connect any MCP client to the Kultur.dev SSE endpoint:

https://kultur.dev/api/mcp-sse/sse

Authentication via Bearer token in the Authorization header.

Option 2: Claude Desktop

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{

"mcpServers": { "kultur-dev": { "url": "https://kultur.dev/api/mcp-sse/sse", "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" } } } }

Option 3: Cursor IDE

Add to your Cursor MCP settings (.cursor/mcp.json):

{

"mcpServers": { "kultur-dev": { "url": "https://kultur.dev/api/mcp-sse/sse", "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" } } } }

Option 4: Windsurf IDE

Add to your Windsurf MCP configuration:

{

"mcpServers": { "kultur-dev": { "serverUrl": "https://kultur.dev/api/mcp-sse/sse", "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" } } } }

Option 5: VS Code / GitHub Copilot

Add to your VS Code settings.json:

{

"mcp": { "servers": { "kultur-dev": { "type": "sse", "url": "https://kultur.dev/api/mcp-sse/sse", "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" } } } } }

Option 6: Cline

Add to your Cline MCP settings:

{

"mcpServers": { "kultur-dev": { "url": "https://kultur.dev/api/mcp-sse/sse", "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" } } } }

Option 7: npm

npx @kultur-dev/mcp-server

Option 8: pip

pip install kultur-mcp

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REST & Streaming API

For non-MCP integrations, Kultur.dev provides a comprehensive REST and WebSocket API:

Text Analysis

Multimodal & Streaming Analysis

Reports

Example: Real-time Streaming (WebSocket)

const socket = new WebSocket('wss://kultur.dev/api/v1/streaming/analyze');

socket.onopen = () => { socket.send(JSON.stringify({ "auth_token": "YOUR_API_KEY", "target_country": "SA", "frame_data": "base64_encoded_frame" })); };

socket.onmessage = (event) => { const analysis = JSON.parse(event.data); console.log('Real-time Cultural Risk:', analysis.risk_score); };

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Authentication

All requests require a valid API key passed as a Bearer token:

Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY

Get Your API Key

1. Visit kultur.dev
2. Sign up for a plan
3. Copy your API key from the dashboard

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Pricing

Free tier includes full access to all tools including multimodal analysis. Pro and Enterprise tiers provide clean, production-ready responses and access to Real-time Streaming endpoints.

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Use Cases

For Podcasters & Broadcasters: Real-time cultural monitoring of live video feeds to ensure global brand safety. Instant alerts for visual taboos or sensitive gestures during live streaming.

For AI Agents & LLMs: Cultural context injection before generating responses about specific countries. Real-time sensitivity checking on AI-generated content (text, images, and video). Localization guidance for multi-market content generation. Visual content screening before publishing to international audiences.

For Global Enterprises: CRM systems that adapt communication style per market. Marketing teams launching campaigns across culturally diverse regions. E-commerce platforms expanding internationally with culturally appropriate imagery. Compliance teams ensuring brand safety across all regions. HR platforms with cultural onboarding intelligence.

For Developers: Add cultural awareness to any application in minutes. Hofstede dimensions for academic and business research. Geopolitical risk scoring for supply chain and investment analysis. Multimodal content screening pipelines.

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Who Needs Kultur.dev

Every AI agent operating across borders. Every global marketing team. Every e-commerce platform expanding internationally. Every content platform serving diverse audiences. Every localization team that needs more than translation. They need cultural adaptation. Every compliance team responsible for brand safety across regions.

The cost of a cultural mistake is measured in millions. The cost of preventing one is an API call.

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Server Discovery

The MCP server card is available at:

https://kultur.dev/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json

OpenAPI specification:

https://kultur.dev/api/openapi-spec.json

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Composio Toolkit

Kultur.dev is also available as a native Composio toolkit for LangChain, CrewAI, and OpenAI integrations:

pip install composio-kultur

The toolkit provides 8 LocalAction tools:

LangChain Example

from composio_kultur.toolkit import KulturTool

from langchain.agents im