Websets MCP

• Find AI startups in San Francisco with funding over $10M
• Build a database of companies and enrich with CEO names, revenue, employee counts
• Create a list of research papers and extract key findings
• Monitor industries for new companies matching your criteria

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Installation

https://websetsmcp.exa.ai/mcp?exaApiKey=YOUR_EXA_API_KEY

• Cursor
• VS Code
• Claude Code
• Claude Desktop
• Windsurf
• Other

Or add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "websets": {
      "url": "https://websetsmcp.exa.ai/mcp?exaApiKey=YOUR_EXA_API_KEY"
    }
  }
}

Or add to .vscode/mcp.json:

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{
  "servers": {
    "websets": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://websetsmcp.exa.ai/mcp?exaApiKey=YOUR_EXA_API_KEY"
    }
  }
}

Run in terminal:

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claude mcp add --transport http websets "https://websetsmcp.exa.ai/mcp?exaApiKey=YOUR_EXA_API_KEY"

Add to your Claude Desktop config file:macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.jsonWindows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "websets": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://websetsmcp.exa.ai/mcp?exaApiKey=YOUR_EXA_API_KEY"]
    }
  }
}

Add to ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json:

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "websets": {
      "serverUrl": "https://websetsmcp.exa.ai/mcp?exaApiKey=YOUR_EXA_API_KEY"
    }
  }
}

For other MCP clients that support remote MCP:

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "websets": {
      "url": "https://websetsmcp.exa.ai/mcp?exaApiKey=YOUR_EXA_API_KEY"
    }
  }
}

If your client doesn’t support remote MCP servers directly:

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "websets": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://websetsmcp.exa.ai/mcp?exaApiKey=YOUR_EXA_API_KEY"]
    }
  }
}

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Available Tools

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Key Concepts

• company - companies and startups
• person - individuals (e.g., for recruiting)
• research_paper - academic papers
• article - blog posts and news articles
• custom - define your own entity type

• text - free-form text (CEO name, description)
• number - numeric values (employee count, revenue)
• date - dates (founding date, funding date)
• email, phone, url - contact info
• options - multiple choice (e.g., funding stage: Seed, Series A, Series B)

• “Founded after 2020”
• “Has raised more than $10M in funding”
• “Located in the United States”
• “Has more than 50 employees”

Create a webset of AI startups in San Francisco founded after 2020. Find 10 companies and enrich with CEO name and funding amount.

Search for 5 more AI companies that have raised Series A funding.

Add an enrichment to extract employee count for each company.

Create a monitor to check for new AI startups every Monday at 9am.