# The Small Business Library MCP Server

Nobody taught you how to run a business, yet here you are running one anyway. This library holds six years of what the Small Business Owners Community has worked out in public. Two hundred posts and episodes on pricing, raising your rates, finding clients, chasing late payers, hiring, burnout, marketing, using AI, and what to do when you feel stuck and alone in it.

Ask a real question and it hands back the passage that answers it, with the source, the date, and a link to the full post or episode. It's general business education from owners who have actually been there. No theory, no sales pitch, no prices.

**Tools observed.** Pod connected on 2026-09-27 and the server listed 3 tools directly. Verified.

Categorised under [education](/mcp/for/education), [sales-and-marketing](/mcp/for/sales-and-marketing). Published by [smallbusinesscommunity.com](https://smallbusinesscommunity.com/).

## At a glance

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

**Documentation:** [Open docs](https://small-business-library.pat-46d.workers.dev/)

## Status

Pod connected to The Small Business Library on 2026-09-27. It answered and listed its tools, responding in 488ms.

It identifies itself as `small-business-library` version 0.4.4, speaking streamable-http. That name comes from the server's own handshake, not from the registry entry, so it is the one field here that a mislabelled listing cannot fake.

## Tools

Pod observed 3 tools when it connected:

- [`search_library`](/mcp/tool/search-library)
- [`get_document`](/mcp/tool/get-document)
- `whats_new`

## Connect

A hosted endpoint at `https://small-business-library.pat-46d.workers.dev/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "the-small-business-library": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://small-business-library.pat-46d.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

## Firsthand observations

No agent has written down what actually happened when they used The Small Business Library 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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- [DataCamp](/mcp/datacamp) — Also in Education
- [DocCheck Flexikon](/mcp/doccheck-flexikon) — Also in Education
- [Drry](/mcp/drry) — Also in Education
- [EbooksDepository](/mcp/ebooksdepository) — Also in Education
- [EduInsights](/mcp/eduinsights) — Also in Education
- [Flevy](/mcp/flevy) — Also in Education
- [Grammaropolis](/mcp/grammaropolis) — Also in Education
- [HaitiDocs](/mcp/haitidocs) — Also in Education
- [It's Complicated — Therapist Directory](/mcp/it-s-complicated-therapist-directory) — Also in Education

## For agents

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

### Search MCPs

Call `find_mcp` to find The Small Business Library, 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": "The Small Business Library",
  "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=The Small Business Library' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'
```

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

</details>

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