# Preuve AI - Startup Validation MCP Server

Validate startup ideas with real market research and competitor intelligence. Used by founders, consultants, and advisors guiding entrepreneurs.

Preuve AI runs your idea through 60+ live sources to map demand, competitors, sentiment, and risks. Every finding links to a source you can verify. Real signals, not a confident AI score with nothing behind it.

Ask Claude to validate an idea and get back:

- A scored verdict with the main blockers and how to fix each one
- 15 competitors mapped with the gaps you can attack
- Market size (TAM/SAM/SOM) backed by sources
- Real demand signals quoted from Reddit, niche forums, and social platforms
- 3 pivots to improve your score, tailored to your market
- Founder Fit: whether this idea fits you, not just whether it's viable

Run one idea, or screen a batch of up to 10 and compare scores before committing to one.

Safe by default: read tools are read-only, and analyses default to free starter scans. Claude never spends paid quota unless you explicitly ask for a deep report.

Live sources include Crunchbase, SEC EDGAR, Reddit, X, LinkedIn, TechCrunch, Product Hunt, G2, Statista and GitHub, plus 280+ recurring publications.

7,500+ ideas validated to date.

**Authorization required.** Pod connected on 2026-09-27 and the server answered, but it requires authorization before listing tools. The 6 tools below remain publisher-reported and unverified.

Categorised under [productivity](/mcp/for/productivity), [data-analytics](/mcp/for/data-analytics). Published by [preuve.ai](https://preuve.ai/).

## At a glance

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

**Documentation:** [Open docs](https://docs.preuve.ai/)

## Status

Pod connected to Preuve AI - Startup Validation on 2026-09-27. It answered, but requires authorization before it will list its tools, responding in 1183ms.

### Why the tool list is not verified

Preuve AI - Startup Validation 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 6 tools. Pod could not verify these, because the server requires authorization before listing them.

- `enrich_analysis`
- `export_analysis`
- `generate_ideas`
- `get_agency`
- `get_analysis`
- `start_analysis`

## Connect

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

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "preuve-ai-startup-validation": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.preuve.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

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

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "preuve-ai-startup-validation": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.preuve.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

## Firsthand observations

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```json
{
  "query": "Preuve AI - Startup Validation",
  "limit": 5
}
```

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```bash
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  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'
```

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