# ukintel.uk — UK company, tender and grant intelligence (remote · api.ukintel.uk)

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

- Trust score: 65/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-08-20

## Components

- remote · `api.ukintel.uk`: 65/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-ukintel-ukintel/api.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-ukintel-ukintel/api)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://api.ukintel.uk/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.3.0`

## Trust breakdown

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. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-08-20.

- **Endpoint Security**: 63/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - Authorisation not fully verified: no authorisation is required to call this server, and 13 tool(s) never declared a destructiveHint. The MCP spec treats an absent hint as destructive by default, so we cannot call this surface safe.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 65/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 3008 tokens (~231/item across 13 items; 13 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 10/100
  - Stability observed for 3 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 98/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 94% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http uk-ukintel-ukintel https://api.ukintel.uk/mcp
```

### Codex

```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
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add uk-ukintel-ukintel --url https://api.ukintel.uk/mcp --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  uk-ukintel-ukintel:
    url: "https://api.ukintel.uk/mcp"
```

### Other

```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 recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-08-20 (score 65, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-08-19 (score 64, +1)

- [security] Tool “uk_grant_eligibility” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads

### 2026-08-18 (score 63, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-08-17 (score 63)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (13)

### `uk_preview` (~173 tokens)

A real sample answer, rotating daily (free)

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.

Input parameters:

- `wing` (string): Which product family to sample: company (default), tenders or grants.

### `uk_health` (~43 tokens)

Service status (free)

Liveness and upstream health. Free, because frameworks probe before they route money.

Free. Returns: status, version, network, upstreams{}, rules_version, warnings[].

### `uk_company_search` (~133 tokens)

Search UK companies by name

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.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): Number of matches to return, 1-5. Defaults to 5.
- `q` (string, required): Company name or fragment to search for.

### `uk_company_profile` (~186 tokens)

Structured UK company profile

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 }.

Input parameters:

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

### `uk_company_verdict` (~210 tokens)

0-100 legitimacy verdict on a UK company

Check any UK company is real, active and safe to deal with. One call returns Companies House registration, filing health, officer stability and an FCA-regulation cross-check as clean JSON with a 0-100 risk verdict, named flags you can audit, and a two-sentence plain-English narrative. Scores are computed by deterministic rules, never by a language model.

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 }.

Input parameters:

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

### `uk_company_fca` (~143 tokens)

FCA Financial Services Register status only

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.

Input parameters:

- `number` (string, required): UK company number. 8 characters; two-letter prefixes are supported (SC = Scotland, NI = Northern Ireland, OC = LLP).

### `uk_tenders_search` (~371 tokens)

Search live UK tenders as agent-ready briefs

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.

Input parameters:

- `cpv` (string): CPV code prefix filter, comma-separated (e.g. 909,45233). Notices without CPV codes are excluded and counted.
- `deadline_after` (string): Only notices whose submission deadline is on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD).
- `q` (string): Keywords, synonym-expanded (e.g. 'cleaning' also finds janitorial and hygiene services). At least one of q, cpv or region is required.
- `region` (string): 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.
- `stage` (string): tender (open competitions, default both) or planning (early engagement).
- `value_max` (integer): Maximum stated contract value in GBP.
- `value_min` (integer): Minimum stated contract value in GBP.

### `uk_tender_brief` (~191 tokens)

Full dossier on one tender

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{} }.

Input parameters:

- `ocid` (string, required): The OCDS contracting-process id, e.g. ocds-h6vhtk-06df8b (FTS) or ocds-b5fd17-… (Contracts Finder). Exactly as returned by /v1/tenders/search.

### `uk_tenders_fit_score` (~231 tokens)

Score live tenders against a supplier profile, 0-100 with per-factor breakdown

Send a supplier profile (what you do, keywords, regions, value band, certifications) and get back the best-fitting live UK tenders, each scored 0-100 by deterministic rules across five published factors - relevance, value fit, geography, timeline, buyer history - with every factor's numerator AND denominator so you can re-weight client-side, plus a what-to-emphasise note for the top matches. The judgement product: scores are computed by rules, never by a language model.

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 } }.

Input parameters:

- `filters` (object): Optional pre-filters (same fields as /v1/tenders/search).
- `supplier` (object, required): The supplier profile to match against live tenders.
- `top` (integer)

### `uk_grants_search` (~343 tokens)

Search live UK grants

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{} }.

Input parameters:

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

### `uk_grants_match` (~190 tokens)

Match a project profile to eligible UK grants, ranked

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} }.

Input parameters:

- `project` (object, required): The project profile to match against live grants.
- `top` (integer)

### `uk_grant_eligibility` (~360 tokens)

ELIGIBLE / UNCERTAIN / INELIGIBLE verdict for one grant, one project

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[] }.

Input parameters:

- `declare` (object): 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…
- `id` (string, required): Grant 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_type` (string): Applicant type slug (individual, business, charity, community_group, public_body, local_authority, education).
- `region` (string): Where the project is: england, scotland, wales, northern-ireland.

### `uk_funder_dossier` (~228 tokens)

Funder dossier from 1.4M+ published UK grants

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 }.

Input parameters:

- `name` (string, required): Funder name or slug, e.g. national-lottery-heritage-fund, "Esmée Fairbairn Foundation", or a GB-CHC-… org id.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-ukintel-ukintel/api#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-08-20: 65
- 2026-08-19: 64
- 2026-08-18: 63
- 2026-08-17: 63

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://api.ukintel.uk/mcp
- Website: https://api.ukintel.uk/llms.txt
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-ukintel-ukintel/api.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-ukintel-ukintel/api.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-ukintel-ukintel/api