Plainfold data tools (all tools)

Plainfold MCP tools

Small, honest data tools for people and AI agents. Each tool runs on Apify and is available to AI agents as a remote MCP server through Apify's hosted MCP endpoint. You pay per result, at the prices below. There's nothing to install or host.

Website: https://plainfold.github.io · Machine-readable index: https://plainfold.github.io/llms.txt

Tools

All tools in one server: https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=plainfold/sam-gov-contract-opportunities,plainfold/business-entity-check,plainfold/company-hiring-signals,plainfold/sec-company-financials

Quick start

1. Get an Apify account (free) at https://apify.com. MCP clients that support OAuth (Claude, VS Code, Cursor) can sign in to Apify in the browser, so you don't need to copy a token. Otherwise, copy your API token from https://console.apify.com/account/integrations.
2. Add one of the URLs above to your MCP client (examples below).
3. Ask your agent a question. It calls the tool, and the run is billed to your Apify account at the tool's price.

Claude (claude.ai and Claude Desktop)

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, paste https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=plainfold/sam-gov-contract-opportunities,plainfold/business-entity-check,plainfold/company-hiring-signals,plainfold/sec-company-financials and sign in with Apify.

Or, in claude_desktop_config.json, using mcp-remote with a token:

{

"mcpServers": { "plainfold": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=plainfold/sam-gov-contract-opportunities,plainfold/business-entity-check,plainfold/company-hiring-signals,plainfold/sec-company-financials", "--header", "Authorization:${AUTH_HEADER}" ], "env": { "AUTH_HEADER": "Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" } } } }

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http plainfold "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=plainfold/sam-gov-contract-opportunities,plainfold/business-entity-check,plainfold/company-hiring-signals,plainfold/sec-company-financials"

Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json)

{

"mcpServers": { "plainfold": { "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=plainfold/sam-gov-contract-opportunities,plainfold/business-entity-check,plainfold/company-hiring-signals,plainfold/sec-company-financials", "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" } } } }

(Leave out `headers` to sign in with OAuth instead.)

VS Code (.vscode/mcp.json)

{

"servers": { "plainfold": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=plainfold/sam-gov-contract-opportunities,plainfold/business-entity-check,plainfold/company-hiring-signals,plainfold/sec-company-financials" } } }

Any other MCP client

Use streamable HTTP with the URL above and the header Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN.

SAM.gov Contract Opportunities

Search and monitor U.S. federal contract opportunities from SAM.gov's official daily data extract: RFPs, solicitations, sources sought and award notices.

• Returns federal contract opportunities as clean JSON, one row per notice, from SAM.gov's official nightly public extract (not scraped).
• Filters by keyword, NAICS, PSC, set-aside (small business, 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB), agency, state, posted date and deadline.
• Keyword search is relevance-ranked and ignores the FAR/DFARS boilerplate that every defense notice repeats.
• Can run on a schedule and return only notices that are new since the last run.

Use it for: Finding federal contracts to bid on, daily bid alerts, market research by NAICS/PSC code, and award notices (who won what, for how much). Not for: State and local bids, non-U.S. tenders, attachment downloads, or historical spending data (use USAspending.gov). Price: $0.002 per opportunity returned + $0.002 per run (about $0.20 per 100 results). No SAM.gov API key needed.

• MCP URL: https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=plainfold/sam-gov-contract-opportunities
• MCP tool name: plainfold--sam-gov-contract-opportunities
• Apify page and full docs: https://apify.com/plainfold/sam-gov-contract-opportunities
• Registry entry: servers/sam-gov-contract-opportunities/server.json

Example prompt: *"Find open small-business cybersecurity contracts on SAM.gov with the soonest deadlines."*

Example MCP tool call:

{

"name": "plainfold--sam-gov-contract-opportunities", "arguments": { "keywords": [ "cybersecurity" ], "setAsides": [ "SBA" ], "onlyOpenForResponses": true, "sortBy": "deadlineAsc", "maxResults": 10 } }

Or call it over plain HTTP (returns the results as JSON):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/plainfold~sam-gov-contract-opportunities/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \

-H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"keywords": ["cybersecurity"], "setAsides": ["SBA"], "onlyOpenForResponses": true, "sortBy": "deadlineAsc", "maxResults": 10}'

US Business Entity Check

Check whether a US company is registered and active, using official state business-registry open data (New York, Colorado, Oregon, Connecticut, Texas).

• Give it company names; for each one it returns a verdict (active, inactive, status unclear, not found) and the matching registrations.
• Each registration includes legal name, registry ID, entity type, status, good standing, jurisdiction, formation date and business address.
• Company records only: it never returns officers, agents, owners or any other personal data.
• Handles suffix and punctuation differences (Inc vs Inc., L.L.C. vs LLC) and lists similar names separately.

Use it for: Vendor and supplier checks before paying, KYB onboarding, lead qualification, and confirming that a company named in a contract, invoice or email actually exists. Not for: People lookups, states other than NY/CO/OR/CT/TX, credit or financial data, or a legal certificate of good standing. Price: $0.004 per company found, $0.0005 per lookup with no match, + $0.0005 per run. Failed lookups are not charged.

• MCP URL: https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=plainfold/business-entity-check
• MCP tool name: plainfold--business-entity-check
• Apify page and full docs: https://apify.com/plainfold/business-entity-check
• Registry entry: servers/business-entity-check/server.json

Example prompt: *"Is Arrow Electronics, Inc. a real, active registered company? Which states is it registered in?"*

Example MCP tool call:

{

"name": "plainfold--business-entity-check", "arguments": { "companies": [ "Arrow Electronics, Inc.", "Kodak Alaris LLC" ] } }

Or call it over plain HTTP (returns the results as JSON):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/plainfold~business-entity-check/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \

-H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"companies": ["Arrow Electronics, Inc.", "Kodak Alaris LLC"]}'

Company Jobs & Hiring Signals

Give a company website, name or job-board URL and get its open jobs in one clean format plus a hiring summary: roles by department and location, new postings, hiring velocity and growth hints.

• Finds the company's public job board from its website and auto-detects Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, SmartRecruiters, Recruitee, Breezy HR, Personio and BambooHR.
• Returns every open job in one normalized format: title, department, team, location, remote/hybrid/onsite, seniority, posted date, URL and salary when published.
• Adds a hiring summary per company: open roles by department, location, seniority and workplace type, roles posted in the last 7/30/90 days, hiring velocity and plain-language growth hints.
• Optional postedSince filter for monitoring new roles. No personal data: no recruiter or hiring-manager names, emails or phone numbers.

Use it for: Sales and account research, investment and market research (hiring velocity as a growth signal), recruiting and competitive intel, and monitoring a list of companies for new roles. Not for: Searching all jobs across the web by keyword (it works company by company), Workday/iCIMS/Taleo-only employers, LinkedIn or Indeed listings, or anything about people. Price: $0.003 per company summary (only when a job board is found) + $0.001 per job returned + $0.0005 per run. Companies with no board found are not charged.

• MCP URL: https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=plainfold/company-hiring-signals
• MCP tool name: plainfold--company-hiring-signals
• Apify page and full docs: https://apify.com/plainfold/company-hiring-signals
• Registry entry: servers/company-hiring-signals/server.json

Example prompt: *"Is ramp.com hiring right now? Which departments, and how many roles were posted in the last 30 days?"*

Example MCP tool call:

{

"name": "plainfold--company-hiring-signals", "arguments": { "companies": [ "ramp.com", "https://jobs.lever.co/spotify", "greenhouse:stripe" ], "postedSince": "7 days", "maxJobsPerCompany": 50 } }

Or call it over plain HTTP (returns the results as JSON):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/plainfold~company-hiring-signals/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \

-H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"companies": ["ramp.com", "https://jobs.lever.co/spotify", "greenhouse:stripe"], "postedSince": "7 days", "maxJobsPerCompany": 50}'

SEC Company Financials

Get clean annual and quarterly financials for any SEC filer from official EDGAR XBRL data: revenue, net income, EPS, cash flow, assets, liabilities, cash, shares, margins, YoY growth and TTM, plus company info and latest filings with links.

• Returns key financials from official SEC filings (EDGAR XBRL): revenue, gross profit, operating income, net income,