BirdSift MCP connector
Search for local businesses, check your saved leads, and draft outreach — all from inside Claude, no separate scripts required.
BirdSift MCP Connector
Talk to BirdSift from inside Claude — search for local businesses, check your saved leads, and draft outreach, without leaving the conversation.
Connector URL: https://api.birdsift.com/mcp
Reference: GET /v1/docs is the REST equivalent this connector
wraps. Human-readable version: birdsift.com/docs/mcp.
Connecting
In Claude, add a custom connector (or find BirdSift in the Connectors Directory) with the URL above. Claude runs a standard OAuth flow against BirdSift's own sign-in — there's no separate API key to create or paste. Approving the connection grants it, for your workspace:
- Read access to your saved leads
- The ability to run searches and draft outreach, both of which spend your workspace's credits
Nothing about connecting changes what's in your workspace by itself — the two tools that spend
credits (search_businesses, draft_outreach_email) prompt Claude for your confirmation on every
call, the same way any tool that writes data does.
What it does
Six tools, mirroring the REST API's scope with two additions REST doesn't have:
| Tool | Costs | What it does |
|---|---|---|
list_leads | Free | Your workspace's saved leads, newest first, paginated |
get_lead | Free | One lead's full detail, including verified website-quality signals |
get_credit_balance | Free | Your workspace's current credit balance |
export_leads_csv | Free | Up to 500 saved leads as CSV text, newest first (default 100; no phone numbers or ratings) |
search_businesses | Up to 1 credit per new result | Searches Google Places for one location/category and saves what it finds as leads |
draft_outreach_email | 1 credit, only on success | Drafts a cold-outreach email for one saved lead, grounded only in verified facts |
Same rules as the REST API apply: search_businesses can take up to ~45 seconds when checking live
websites for mobile-friendliness or outdated design; draft_outreach_email returns drafted: false
(not an error) when nothing verified about a lead is worth opening an email with; BirdSift never
sends email itself, only drafts it.
What it doesn't do
- No natural-language search endpoint of its own — that's the point of using MCP instead of the
REST API. Claude turns your sentence into
search_businesses's structured arguments; there's no separate planning step to call. - No bulk drafting. One
draft_outreach_emailcall per lead, same as REST. - No sending. You get subject and body back; you send them yourself.
See GET /v1/docs for the REST API this connector is built on,
including the full error-code reference and credit-accounting rules that apply identically here.