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Getting started

Connect Manifold to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client in a minute, make your first call, and look up every tool, credit cost and limit.

Manifold gives your AI agent tools for growth work: Google search data, what AI engines say about a brand, local businesses on Google Maps, 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

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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Sign in. Your client opens a browser. Sign in with Google or email and approve Manifold. This creates your account and a workspace on the free plan, with 250 credits a month, and you do not need a card.
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, and sitemap and URL submission. Free.Google Analytics toolsYour own sites' sessions, users, conversions and revenue by channel, page, campaign or date, from Google Analytics 4. 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.Google Maps toolsLocal businesses as Google Maps lists them: who ranks for a search in an area, filtered lists for prospecting, and full Business Profiles.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 toolsRead TikTok accounts, videos, comments, transcripts and audiences from your agent: each tool's parameters, what it returns and what it costs.Instagram toolsRead Instagram accounts, posts, reels, comments and transcripts from your agent: each tool's parameters, what it returns and what it costs.Facebook toolsRead Facebook pages, posts, groups, comments and transcripts from your agent: each tool's parameters, what it returns and what it costs.YouTube toolsRead YouTube channels, videos, comments and transcripts from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor: each tool's parameters, what it returns and what it costs.LinkedIn toolsRead LinkedIn people, company pages and posts from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor: each tool's parameters, what it returns and what it costs.App store toolsGoogle Play and App Store listings, reviews, top charts and the store searches apps rank for.Amazon toolsAmazon results pages, product listings, sellers and the Amazon searches products rank for.Monitoring toolsMonitors that repeat other tools' calls on a schedule and report what changed: mentions, posts, pages, ads, rankings and AI answers. The tools are free; checks pay for their calls.Google Shopping toolsGoogle Shopping results, product specs, every store's price and pooled reviews.

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.