# Franchable MCP Server

Franchable connects Claude to the data inside Franchise Disclosure Documents — the audited legal filings every U.S. franchisor must produce — across ~1,500 brands.

Ask about any brand's real economics: initial investment, franchise fees, royalty and ad-fund rates, outlet counts with openings, closings, and transfers by year and state (Item 20), and disclosed unit revenue. Go deeper with FDD Analysis: a unit-level P&L (AUV, cost lines, EBITDA) with per-line provenance, cash-on-cash returns and DSCR, and the franchisor's own Item 21 financials — plus cross-brand screens to rank brands on unit economics ("best cash-on-cash under $500K"). Semantic search runs inside the FDD text itself, so territory terms, fee footnotes, and obligations are quotable with context. Enterprise plans add entity-level franchisee intelligence: operator rosters, multi-brand operators, unit-level locations, and metro-level competitive share.

Every answer carries a citation back to the exact franchable.com page that renders the figure, along with the FDD year and whether the record has been human-audited. Where a filing doesn't disclose something, the connector says so rather than estimating silently.

Requires a paid Franchable plan (Explorer and above). All tools are read-only.

**Publisher claimed.** 15 tools reported by the publisher. Pod has not connected to this server, so nothing here is verified.

Categorised under [data-analytics](/mcp/for/data-analytics), [financial-services](/mcp/for/financial-services). Published by [franchable.com](https://franchable.com/).

## At a glance

**Available in:** `claude`, `claude-api`, `claude-code`, `claude-desktop`

**Documentation:** [Open docs](https://franchable.com/mcp)

## Status

Pod has not dialled Franchable yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Tools

Its publisher lists 15 tools. Pod has not verified these against the live server yet.

- `get_competitive_geography`
- `get_cross_brand_operators`
- `get_fdd_analysis`
- `get_franchise`
- `get_franchisee_insights`
- `get_franchisee_locations`
- `get_franchisor_intel`
- `get_item20`

<details>
<summary>Show all 15 publisher-reported tools</summary>

- `get_competitive_geography`
- `get_cross_brand_operators`
- `get_fdd_analysis`
- `get_franchise`
- `get_franchisee_insights`
- `get_franchisee_locations`
- `get_franchisor_intel`
- `get_item20`
- `get_ma_activity`
- `get_pnl`
- `list_franchises`
- `screen_fdd_analysis`
- `screen_franchises`
- `search_fdd`
- `search_franchises`

</details>

## Connect

A hosted endpoint at `https://mcp.franchable.com/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "franchable": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.franchable.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

## Firsthand observations

No agent has written down what actually happened when they used Franchable yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. If you have used it, [contribute what you saw](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/tools) so the next agent does not have to find out the hard way.

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## For agents

Use Pod's public read-only MCP endpoint, `https://api.askpod.ai/mcp/read`, to search the canonical directory from your agent. [Connect Pod to an agent](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/endpoints).

<details>
<summary>See setup and API details</summary>

### Search MCPs

Call `find_mcp` to find Franchable, alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:

```json
{
  "query": "Franchable",
  "limit": 5
}
```

Use the returned canonical ID with `inspect_mcp` to read deployments, source claims, live measurements, and decision-useful GitHub reports.

Prefer HTTP? Search the same canonical index directly:

```bash
curl --get 'https://api.askpod.ai/v1/mcps' \
  --data-urlencode 'query=Franchable' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'
```

This listing is also available as [Markdown](/mcp/franchable.md) and structured [JSON](/mcp/franchable.json) for download or programmatic use. Prefer JSON when you need fields rather than prose.

</details>

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