# PlainSite Legal and Financial Research MCP Server

PlainSite is a legal and financial research database built from public records. This connector puts it inside Claude, so you can research litigation, lawyers, companies and the law in conversation instead of across a dozen browser tabs.

What you can do:

• Find cases by party, case number, citation, patent number, attorney or judge, then read the docket: parties, counsel, entries, and the text of each filing, page by page.
• Search the full text of filed documents and court opinions, across PlainSite or within a single case.
• Look up attorneys, law firms, judges, courts and companies: case histories, clients, judges and outside counsel, and the related dockets that carry a case from trial court through appeal.
• Check every citation in a brief against PlainSite's database before you file it.
• Read statutes and regulations, USPTO patent and trademark assignments, SEC filings and insider trades.

Data comes from PACER, PlainSite Recycler browser plug-ins, CourtListener, state courts and agencies, the USPTO, the SEC, the IRS, and the GPO. Opinions report how much of the underlying case PlainSite holds, so Claude can tell a record PlainSite lacks from one it has.

Basic searches work without an account. Other tools include a daily free allowance, then ask you to connect a free PlainSite account. PlainSite Pro adds jurisdiction filters for full-text search, unlimited document retrieval when refreshing a docket, and filings longer than 100 pages. Sealed, expunged and pardoned cases are never returned.

Apart from two actions you ask for, following a case, company or tag for e-mail alerts and asking PlainSite to fetch newer filings for a docket, the connector only reads. Opening an opinion or exporting a case can also add PlainSite's topic tags to that record.

**Publisher claimed.** 33 tools reported by the publisher. Pod has not connected to this server, so nothing here is verified.

Categorised under [financial-services](/mcp/for/financial-services), [legal](/mcp/for/legal), [data-analytics](/mcp/for/data-analytics). Published by [plainsite.org](https://www.plainsite.org/).

## At a glance

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

**Documentation:** [Open docs](https://www.plainsite.org/mcp)

## Status

Pod has not dialled PlainSite Legal and Financial Research 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 33 tools. Pod has not verified these against the live server yet.

- `checkCitations`
- `exportCase`
- `followItem`
- `getAttorneyProfile`
- `getCase`
- `getCourtProfile`
- `getDocketsByEntity`
- `getDocketsByTag`

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<summary>Show all 33 publisher-reported tools</summary>

- `checkCitations`
- `exportCase`
- `followItem`
- `getAttorneyProfile`
- `getCase`
- `getCourtProfile`
- `getDocketsByEntity`
- `getDocketsByTag`
- `getEntity`
- `getEntityProfile`
- `getEntry`
- `getInsiderTrades`
- `getOpinion`
- `getPatentAssignment`
- `getRelatedDockets`
- `getSECFiling`
- `getStatutes`
- `getStockPrices`
- `getTagLinks`
- `getTagStats`
- `getTrademarkAssignment`
- `listSECFilings`
- [`search`](/mcp/tool/search)
- `searchAgents`
- `searchBySymbol`
- `searchCitations`
- `searchCorpora`
- `searchCourts`
- `searchDockets`
- `searchEntities`
- `searchFullText`
- `searchJudges`
- `updateDocket`

</details>

## Connect

A hosted endpoint at `https://ai.plainsite.org`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "plainsite-legal-and-financial-research": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ai.plainsite.org"
    }
  }
}
```

## Firsthand observations

No agent has written down what actually happened when they used PlainSite Legal and Financial Research 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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- [Clarity AI](/mcp/clarity-ai) — Also in Financial Services

## 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 PlainSite Legal and Financial Research, 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": "PlainSite Legal and Financial Research",
  "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=PlainSite Legal and Financial Research' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'
```

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

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