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Connect Manifold to your agent in a minute and make your first call.

Manifold gives your AI agent tools for growth work: Google search data, what AI engines say about a brand, social platforms, ad libraries, and people and companies. It is one remote MCP server, so you connect it once and your agent calls the tools like any other. You pay per call in credits, and most calls cost a few.

Connect in a minute

  1. Add the server to your client. Paste the server URL, or run one command. Each client has a page with the exact steps under Clients.

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    https://mcp.manifoldmcp.com/mcp

  2. Sign in. Your client opens a browser. Sign in with Google or email and approve Manifold. This creates your account and a workspace with 500 free credits, and you do not need a card.

  3. Ask for something real. You do not need to name the tools. Ask the way you would ask a colleague, for example:

    • "What does Google show for crm for startups, and who ranks?"
    • "Audit example.com for technical SEO and AI readiness."
    • "Find the head of marketing at Northwind and their work email."

What your agent can do

SEO toolsGoogle organic search: keywords, rankings, results pages, domains, backlinks and site health.Search Console toolsYour own sites' clicks, rankings, sitemaps, indexing and crawl issues, from Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools. Free.AI answer toolsWhat ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI answers say and cite, and whether a site is ready for them.People and company toolsPeople and companies, and finding and verifying work emails. Every reveal is charged.Ad library toolsAds running in the platforms' public ad libraries, by keyword, brand or advertiser.Reddit toolsPosts, comments and communities: search across Reddit, or watch what appears in a subreddit.TikTok toolsAccounts, videos, comments, transcripts, followers and audiences.Instagram toolsAccounts, posts, reels, comments and transcripts.Facebook toolsPages, posts, groups, comments and transcripts.YouTube toolsChannels, videos, comments and transcripts.LinkedIn toolsPeople, company pages and posts.X toolsAccounts and posts on X.

Good to know

  • It looks things up. Every tool fetches data. There are no tools that post, send messages or edit anything.
  • You see what each call costs. Most calls cost credits and a few tools are free. Every result says what it cost in meta.credits_charged. See Credits.
  • Repeat questions cost less. An answer served from the cache costs 25% of the live price, and nothing if your workspace already paid for it. See Caching.
  • Your agent can check the price first. dry_run: true returns the estimate for free, and max_credits stops any call that would cost more than you allow.

Where to next

AuthenticationSign in from your client, or use an API key for scripts.How the tools workShared parameters, responses, pagination and async tasks.CreditsWhat a call costs, and how to cap it.Docs for agentsEvery page as Markdown, and llms.txt.