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ukintel.uk — UK company, tender and grant intelligence

REMOTE · API.UKINTEL.UK · SCANNED OCT 7

Companies House, Find a Tender and Find a Grant as paid JSON for agents. USDC via x402, no signup.

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0 this week 77 Trust /100
Trust breakdown (7 categories)

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →

Endpoint Security63
Transport & Reachability100
Schema Quality & AI Usability64
  • AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
  • Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 3030 tokens (~233/item across 13 items; 13 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. See how to fix → Fail
  • Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management100
  • No destabilizing schema changes in the last 30 days.Pass
Tool Coverage98
  • 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
  • 94% of tool parameters carry a description.Partial
Tool Safety75
  • No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
  • 0 of 2 tool(s) whose name or description implies an irreversible operation declare an MCP destructiveHint annotation; "uk_tenders_fit_score" implies "send" and declares no destructiveHint at all, which the MCP spec reads as destructive by default. See how to fix → Fail
  • An AI judge read all 14 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
  • Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Install

How do I install the ukintel.uk — UK company, tender and grant intelligence MCP server?

ukintel.uk — UK company, tender and grant intelligence is a hosted endpoint at https://api.ukintel.uk/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

remote · api.ukintel.uk

# add to Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http uk-ukintel-ukintel 'https://api.ukintel.uk/mcp'
// .cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uk-ukintel-ukintel": {
      "url": "https://api.ukintel.uk/mcp"
    }
  }
}
// .vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "uk-ukintel-ukintel": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.ukintel.uk/mcp"
    }
  }
}
# ~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.uk-ukintel-ukintel]
url = "https://api.ukintel.uk/mcp"
// opencode.json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "uk-ukintel-ukintel": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://api.ukintel.uk/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
# add to OpenClaw
openclaw mcp add uk-ukintel-ukintel --url 'https://api.ukintel.uk/mcp' --transport streamable-http
# ~/.hermes/config.yaml
mcp_servers:
  uk-ukintel-ukintel:
    url: "https://api.ukintel.uk/mcp"
// ~/.netclaw/config/netclaw.json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "uk-ukintel-ukintel": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://api.ukintel.uk/mcp"
    }
  }
}
# add to Vellum
assistant mcp add uk-ukintel-ukintel -t streamable-http -u 'https://api.ukintel.uk/mcp'
// mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uk-ukintel-ukintel": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.ukintel.uk/mcp"
    }
  }
}

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

Changelog

Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.

  • 28 Sept 26 0
    • We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server See what changed → functional
  • 25 Sept 26 0
    • We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server See what changed → functional
  • 16 Sept 26 0
    • Stability: 0.97 → pass security
  • 15 Sept 26 +1

    No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 93 to 97. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 28 days of observed history at the previous scan, 29 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

  • 13 Sept 26 +1

    No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 87 to 90. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 26 days of observed history at the previous scan, 27 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

  • 11 Sept 26 +1

    No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 80 to 83. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 24 days of observed history at the previous scan, 25 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

  • 9 Sept 26 +1

    No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 73 to 77. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 22 days of observed history at the previous scan, 23 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

  • 1 Sept 26 0
    • Tool “uk_company_verdict” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
    • Tool “uk_tenders_fit_score” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
Diagnostics

Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.

Captured 7 Oct 2026 · Probed https://api.ukintel.uk/mcp

TLS valid

Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .

Subject Issuer Valid from Valid until Key Signature Serial
CN=api.ukintel.uk CN=YR2,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US 8 Aug 2026 6 Nov 2026 RSA 2048 SHA256-RSA 6e9eb636ffa1bd7281b96a2e1642ec62809
SANs: api.ukintel.uk
CN=YR2,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US (CA) CN=Root YR,O=ISRG,C=US 3 Sept 2025 2 Sept 2028 RSA 2048 SHA256-RSA 4ebd24947e24d394802d84a52fd5b319
CN=Root YR,O=ISRG,C=US (CA) CN=ISRG Root X1,O=Internet Security Research Group,C=US 13 May 2026 2 Sept 2032 RSA 4096 SHA256-RSA f24b6d17f9d9ad7cb1c9fea78782699f

Background: What to check on a remote MCP endpoint →

DNSSEC insecure

Validation of api.ukintel.uk. — Not signed

Zone DS Keys Algorithms Outcome
. trust_anchor 20326, 38696 8, 8 Verified
uk. present 43876 8 Verified
ukintel.uk. absent Unsigned (proven) parent-signed NSEC/NSEC3 proves an unsigned delegation
Authentication No authorisation required

The endpoint answered without asking for a token. Anyone who knows the URL can reach it.

Result No authorisation required
HTTP status 200
Header Value
strict-transport-security max-age=63072000

Background: How OAuth 2.1 works in the 2026 MCP spec →

Transports 2 probes
Transport URL Outcome Status Location
streamable-http https://api.ukintel.uk/mcp Verified 200
http (plaintext) http://api.ukintel.uk/mcp HTTPS enforced 308 https://api.ukintel.uk/mcp
MCP tools · 13 exposed · ~2,824 tokens

The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →

Tool Tokens
uk_company_fca ~143

Is this UK company regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority? Returns register status, a permissions summary and any warnings - sold separately from the full verdict because fintech-vetting agents often want only this. Costs $0.02 USDC per call (x402, Base mainnet). Returns: result.fca = { checked, regulated, frn, firm_name, status, permissions_summary, warnings[], note }. When the register is unavailable, checked=false and the reason is named - never a 500.

NameTypeReqDescription
numberstringyesUK company number. 8 characters; two-letter prefixes are supported (SC = Scotland, NI = Northern Ireland, OC = LLP).

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

uk_company_profile ~186

One UK company as clean structured JSON: status, incorporation date, company type, SIC codes, registered office, accounts and confirmation-statement due dates with overdue booleans, and officer counts. Sourced live from Companies House. Costs $0.02 USDC per call (x402, Base mainnet). Returns: result = { name, company_number, status, type, incorporated, registered_office, sic_codes[], accounts{}, confirmation_statement{}, officers{ active, total, resigned_last_12m }, age_years }.

NameTypeReqDescription
detailstring–Set to 'full' to add filing history (last 10) and anonymised officer records, and to lift the ~800 token response cap.
numberstringyesUK company number. 8 characters; two-letter prefixes are supported (SC = Scotland, NI = Northern Ireland, OC = LLP).

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

uk_company_search ~133

Find a UK company by name. Returns the top 5 matches from the Companies House register with number, name, status and incorporation date. Taster tier - cheap enough to try on a whim before paying for a full profile or verdict. Costs $0.005 USDC per call (x402, Base mainnet). Returns: results[] of { company_number, name, status, incorporated, address_snippet }, plus total_matches.

NameTypeReqDescription
limitinteger–Number of matches to return, 1-5. Defaults to 5.
qstringyesCompany name or fragment to search for.

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

uk_company_verdict ~242

Should an agent trust this UK company? Returns a 0-100 verdict and low_risk/caution/high_risk band, with every rule that fired named in the response and the register value that triggered it: STATUS_DISSOLVED, STRIKE_OFF_ACTIVE, ACCOUNTS_OVERDUE, NO_ACTIVE_DIRECTORS, OFFICER_CHURN, FS_SIC_NOT_FCA and 9 more. Rules are deterministic and published, so you can audit the verdict or re-weight it. Never model-scored. Costs $0.10 USDC per call (x402, Base mainnet). Returns: Everything the profile returns, plus verdict = { score 0-100, band low_risk|caution|high_risk, flags[{code,detail}], fca{}, narrative }.

NameTypeReqDescription
detailstring–Set to 'full' to add filing history (last 10) and anonymised officer records, and to lift the ~800 token response cap.
numberstringyesUK company number. 8 characters; two-letter prefixes are supported (SC = Scotland, NI = Northern Ireland, OC = LLP).

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

uk_funder_dossier ~228

Who actually funds things like yours: one UK funder's giving history aggregated from the 360Giving open-data corpus - grants made, total and typical award, size distribution, yearly pattern, most recent named awards - plus any of their grant schemes live on Find a Grant right now. Licences are respected per dataset (share-alike data is excluded from the numbers, and every recent-award row carries its source licence). Costs $0.20 USDC per call (x402, Base mainnet). Returns: result = { funder{name,ids}, match_quality, giving { grants_made, total_awarded_gbp, years, size_distribution_gbp{min,p25,median,p75,max,mean}, yearly{}, typical_award_gbp }, recent_awards[] (each with licence + publisher), live_grants_now[], coverage }.

NameTypeReqDescription
namestringyesFunder name or slug, e.g. national-lottery-heritage-fund, "Esmée Fairbairn Foundation", or a GB-CHC-… org id.

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

uk_grant_eligibility ~360

One grant, one project: a deterministic eligibility verdict with the full criteria table - each criterion quoted from the grant's own eligibility text, marked pass/fail/undeclared - plus what is missing to firm it up and indicative funding. Criteria are parsed once at ingest, never guessed at request time; if the full text is not parsed yet the verdict uses Find a Grant's listing fields, flagged PARTIAL_CRITERIA, and criteria_provenance says so. Costs $0.15 USDC per call (x402, Base mainnet). Returns: result = { grant{name,funder,window,amounts,source_url}, criteria[{code,requirement,pass,detail}], missing[], failed[], indicative_funding, criteria_provenance{source,complete,parsed_at,eligibility_text_available} }, verdict = { score, band eligible|uncertain|ineligible, flags[] }.

NameTypeReqDescription
declareobject–Extra facts this grant's criteria ask for, as declared key/values (e.g. { "land_ha": 3.5, "management_control": true }). Each criterion names the parameter it reads, so a first call tells you what to…
idstringyesGrant id: the Find a Grant slug exactly as returned by /v1/grants/search (e.g. england-woodland-creation-offer-ewco-1), or a curated short alias like ewco.
org_typestring–Applicant type slug (individual, business, charity, community_group, public_body, local_authority, education).
regionstring–Where the project is: england, scotland, wales, northern-ireland.

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

uk_grants_match ~190

Send a project profile (what it is, who you are, where, how much you need) and get back the live UK grants it could actually get - ranked eligible-first with a per-criterion pass/fail table for every match, from criteria parsed once at ingest from each grant's own eligibility text. Ineligible grants are excluded and counted, never dressed up as options. Deterministic rules; no language model touches the verdicts. Costs $0.15 USDC per call (x402, Base mainnet). Returns: result = { considered, matches[] of { grant summary + eligibility { band eligible|uncertain, score, criteria[{code,requirement,pass,detail}], missing[], flags[] } , relevance }, excluded{ineligible, closed} }.

NameTypeReqDescription
projectobjectyesThe project profile to match against live grants.
topinteger––

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

uk_grants_search ~343

Live UK grant funding calls from GOV.UK Find a Grant in one call: name, funder, amount range, opening/closing dates, who can apply, one-line summary and the official source link. Filter by keywords, nation, applicant type and amount band. Indexed daily from the official listing - the service has no API of its own, so this is the machine-readable version. Costs $0.10 USDC per call (x402, Base mainnet). Returns: result = { total_matched, returned, grants[] of { id, name, funder, amounts{min,max,text}, window{opens,closes,open_now,days_to_close}, who_can_apply, org_types, regions, summary, criteria_parsed, criteria_basis seed|llm|listing|null, source_url }, excluded{} }.

NameTypeReqDescription
maxinteger–Only grants whose minimum award is at most this many GBP.
mininteger–Only grants whose maximum award is at least this many GBP.
open_nowstring–Default true: only grants currently open for applications. Set to false to include closed/not-yet-open listings.
org_typestring–Applicant type: individual, business, charity, community_group, public_body, local_authority, education (synonyms like sole-trader, cic, council are mapped).
qstring–Keywords matched against grant names, summaries, funders and descriptions (light stemming). At least one criterion is required.
regionstring–UK nation: england, scotland, wales, northern-ireland (or uk for UK-wide only).

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

uk_health ~43

Liveness and upstream health. Free, because frameworks probe before they route money. Free. Returns: status, version, network, upstreams{}, rules_version, warnings[].

Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

uk_preview ~173

A genuine, freshly-computed sample so an agent can see the exact response shape before spending anything. Default: a real company verdict, rotating daily. Add ?wing=tenders for a real live-tender brief, or ?wing=grants for a real grant eligibility verdict - all rotating daily. Every response carries the same envelope: query, result, verdict, confidence, as_of, sources, attribution, notice, cost. Free. Returns: The identical envelope returned by the paid endpoints: /v1/company/{number}/verdict by default, /v1/tenders/{ocid}/brief with ?wing=tenders, /v1/grants/{id}/eligibility with ?wing=grants.

NameTypeReqDescription
wingstring–Which product family to sample: company (default), tenders or grants.

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

uk_tender_brief ~191

One tender as a full agent-ready dossier: parsed requirements summary, buyer, value, complete timeline with working-days-remaining, lots, document links, submission route and the official notice URL. CPV codes are null when the source release carries none - we report the register, we never guess. Costs $0.10 USDC per call (x402, Base mainnet). Returns: result = { ocid, title, buyer, value, stage, published, deadline, days_remaining, region, cpv, summary, description, lots, documents[], submission_url, timeline{}, source{} }.

NameTypeReqDescription
ocidstringyesThe OCDS contracting-process id, e.g. ocds-h6vhtk-06df8b (FTS) or ocds-b5fd17-… (Contracts Finder). Exactly as returned by /v1/tenders/search.

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

uk_tenders_fit_score ~221

Send a supplier profile (what you do, keywords, regions, value band, certifications) and get the best-fitting live UK tenders, each scored 0-100 by deterministic published rules across five factors - relevance, value fit, geography, timeline, buyer history - each with its numerator AND denominator so you can re-weight client-side, plus a what-to-emphasise note on the top matches. Rules score; a model never does. Costs $0.20 USDC per call (x402, Base mainnet). Returns: result = { considered, matches[] of { ...notice brief..., fit: { score, band strong|possible|weak, factors{ relevance/of, value_fit/of_v, geography/of_g, timeline/of_t, buyer_history/of_b }, flags[], rules_version }, emphasise } }.

NameTypeReqDescription
filtersobject–Optional pre-filters (same fields as /v1/tenders/search).
supplierobjectyesThe supplier profile to match against live tenders.
topinteger––

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

uk_tenders_search ~371

Live UK public-sector tenders from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder in one call. Returns the top 10 matching notices as one-paragraph plain-English briefs with buyer, value, deadline, CPV codes (honest null when the notice carries none) and the official notice link. Searches a 6-hourly refreshed index - no signup with either portal needed. Costs $0.05 USDC per call (x402, Base mainnet). Returns: result = { total_matched, returned, notices[] of { ocid, title, buyer, value, stage, published, deadline, days_remaining, region, cpv, summary, source{name, notice_url} }, excluded{} } - excluded{} reports notices honest-nulled out by cpv/region/value/deadline filters.

NameTypeReqDescription
cpvstring–CPV code prefix filter, comma-separated (e.g. 909,45233). Notices without CPV codes are excluded and counted.
deadline_afterstring–Only notices whose submission deadline is on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD).
qstring–Keywords, synonym-expanded (e.g. 'cleaning' also finds janitorial and hygiene services). At least one of q, cpv or region is required.
regionstring–UK nation or English region: scotland, wales, northern-ireland, london, north-east, north-west, yorkshire, east-midlands, west-midlands, east-of-england, south-east, south-west, england.
stagestring–tender (open competitions, default both) or planning (early engagement).
value_maxinteger–Maximum stated contract value in GBP.
value_mininteger–Minimum stated contract value in GBP.

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

Common questions

What is the ukintel.uk — UK company, tender and grant intelligence MCP server?

ukintel.uk — UK company, tender and grant intelligence is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as uk.ukintel/ukintel. Companies House, Find a Tender and Find a Grant as paid JSON for agents. USDC via x402, no signup. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://api.ukintel.uk/mcp).

Is the ukintel.uk — UK company, tender and grant intelligence MCP server safe to use?

ukintel.uk — UK company, tender and grant intelligence scores 77 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

What tools does the ukintel.uk — UK company, tender and grant intelligence MCP server expose?

ukintel.uk — UK company, tender and grant intelligence exposes 13 tools: uk_preview, uk_health, uk_company_search, uk_company_profile, uk_company_verdict, and 8 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 2,824 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

Does the ukintel.uk — UK company, tender and grant intelligence MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to ukintel.uk — UK company, tender and grant intelligence without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

Is the ukintel.uk — UK company, tender and grant intelligence MCP server still maintained?

ukintel.uk — UK company, tender and grant intelligence is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 7 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.