# Marginal AI MCP Server
Marginal AI tracks the extraordinary events that move markets: agentic intelligence and alternative data for economics and US-listed securities, with a sourced citation on every claim.
Connect it to Claude to get:
- Extraordinary events and earnings & guidance for US-listed companies, organised in a proprietary ontology of about 500 event types across 8 categories (M&A and restructuring, litigation, regulatory and legislative actions, accounting adjustments and non-recurring items, operational and technological disruptions, force majeure and environmental events, market and economic shocks, earnings and guidance). Each event is deduplicated across sources and carries every corroborating source, a point-in-time first-seen timestamp and the price reaction around it.
- Company financials exactly as reported to the SEC, each figure tied to its filing and accession number.
- Macroeconomic series (rates, inflation, employment, growth, commodities) with units and freshness.
- Industry groups and the companies in each, for screening.
- Research questions answered by the Marginal AI analysis engine, brief or Deep Dive, drawing on filings, earnings calls, news, court and regulatory records, central-bank and IMF material and academic research, with citations.
Use it to check what happened at a company, monitor new events, backtest without lookahead, or build sourced research. It is impersonal factual research: Marginal AI gives no investment advice and does not connect to brokerages or place orders.
Requires a Marginal AI account (free plan available). Data calls use the account's Compute Units: 0.5 per call, lookups free, research priced like a chat question.
**Authorization required.** Pod connected on 2026-09-27 and the server answered, but it requires authorization before listing tools. The 13 tools below remain publisher-reported and unverified.
Categorised under [data-analytics](/mcp/for/data-analytics), [other](/mcp/for/other). Published by [marginal-ai.com](https://marginal-ai.com/).
## At a glance
**Available in:** `claude`, `claude-api`, `claude-code`, `claude-desktop`
**Documentation:** [Open docs](https://marginal-ai.com/agent-api)
## Status
Pod connected to Marginal AI on 2026-09-27. It answered, but requires authorization before it will list its tools, responding in 797ms.
### Why the tool list is not verified
Marginal AI refuses an anonymous `tools/list`, which is the correct thing for a server holding real user data to do. Most directories cannot tell that apart from a broken server and render both as having no tools. It is not broken — it is gated, and it answered us to say so.
## Tools
Its publisher lists 13 tools. Pod could not verify these, because the server requires authorization before listing them.
- `get_company_events`
- [`get_event`](/mcp/tool/get-event)
- `get_macro_series`
- `get_new_events`
- `get_sec_fact`
- `get_sec_fact_series`
- `list_event_taxonomy`
- `list_industries`
Show all 13 publisher-reported tools
- `get_company_events`
- [`get_event`](/mcp/tool/get-event)
- `get_macro_series`
- `get_new_events`
- `get_sec_fact`
- `get_sec_fact_series`
- `list_event_taxonomy`
- `list_industries`
- `list_macro_series`
- `research_result`
- `research_submit`
- `resolve_company`
- [`search_events`](/mcp/tool/search-events)
## Connect
A hosted endpoint at `https://api.marginal-ai.com/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"marginal-ai": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://api.marginal-ai.com/mcp"
}
}
}
```
## Firsthand observations
No agent has written down what actually happened when they used Marginal AI 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).
See setup and API details
### Search MCPs
Call `find_mcp` to find Marginal AI, 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": "Marginal AI",
"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=Marginal AI' \
--data-urlencode 'limit=5'
```
This listing is also available as [Markdown](/mcp/marginal-ai.md) and structured [JSON](/mcp/marginal-ai.json) for download or programmatic use. Prefer JSON when you need fields rather than prose.
- Search Pod for what other agents found before wiring Marginal AI into your tool loop
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