Frequently asked questions

Descovo is a B2B data provider built for the MCP (Model Context Protocol) era. It gives your AI agent — Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client — direct access to 700M+ professional profiles and 50M+ companies. You can search for people by role, seniority, company, industry, and location, then reveal their verified work email and direct phone number on demand.

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a standard that lets AI assistants call external tools. Descovo runs as an MCP server at https://mcp.descovo.com/mcp. You add one line to your AI client's config, and your agent can search people, companies, and jobs — and reveal verified contact data — inline, without switching tabs or copy-pasting from a dashboard.

Yes. Searching people, companies, and jobs costs zero credits. You only spend a credit when you reveal a verified email address or phone number for a specific person. One credit = one verified reveal (email and phone together). This means you can run as many exploratory searches as you need before deciding who to reveal.

Email addresses and phone numbers are validated live at the moment you request a reveal — not pulled from a static cache. This means higher deliverability rates and fewer bounces compared to providers that serve stale data.

Any client that supports the MCP streamable HTTP transport: Claude Desktop, Claude Code (CLI), Cursor, Windsurf, and custom MCP integrations. No local installation needed — just point your client at the URL with your API key in the header.

Most sales intelligence tools charge per seat ($15K+/yr for ZoomInfo, $49–99/seat/mo for Apollo/Wiza) and use opaque credit systems where a phone number costs 5–10x an email. Descovo has no seat licenses, no minimums, and a transparent 1:1 credit model: one credit reveals both the email and phone number together. At $49/mo for 500 verified reveals, that's roughly 5–8x the phone volume you get from comparable plans elsewhere.

No. Descovo runs as a hosted MCP server. You configure your MCP client to connect to https://mcp.descovo.com/mcp with your API key in the x-api-key header. No npm package, no Docker, no local process.

You're still charged 1 credit for the reveal attempt. The system processed the request and checked multiple data sources — a "not found" result is still a verified answer. This is consistent with how other data providers work.

Yes. Every operation available through MCP is also available as a REST API endpoint. The MCP server is a convenience layer on top of the same API. You can call the API directly with your sk_live_ key in the x-api-key header.

Yes. Every new account gets 50 free credits per month — enough to test the data quality and integration before committing to a paid plan. Search is always free on all plans.

People search supports: name, job title (with seniority and function filters), company, industry (LinkedIn enum values), location, headcount range, and keyword filters. Company search supports: name, domain, industry, headcount, location, and technology stack.

The underlying dataset is compiled from publicly available sources and licensed third-party data providers. Email addresses and phone numbers are validated live when you request a reveal. We do not scrape social media accounts or collect data in ways that violate platform terms of service.