Clay▌
by clay-inc
Bridge to Clay's CRM platform for searching, managing contacts, and relationships using natural language. CRM relationsh
Provides a bridge to Clay's personal CRM platform for searching, retrieving, and managing contact information, interactions, and professional relationships through natural language queries.
best for
- / Sales professionals managing client relationships
- / Business development teams tracking prospects
- / Networkers organizing professional contacts
capabilities
- / Search contacts by job title, company, or location
- / Retrieve past interaction history
- / Add new contacts with details
- / Get contact statistics and analytics
- / Access detailed contact information
- / Create notes for contacts
what it does
Connects to Clay's personal CRM platform to search contacts, retrieve interaction history, and manage professional relationships through natural language queries.
about
Clay is an official MCP server published by clay-inc that provides AI assistants with tools and capabilities via the Model Context Protocol. Bridge to Clay's CRM platform for searching, managing contacts, and relationships using natural language. CRM relationsh It is categorized under productivity.
how to install
You can install Clay in your AI client of choice. Use the install panel on this page to get one-click setup for Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, and other MCP-compatible clients. This server runs locally on your machine via the stdio transport.
license
MIT
Clay is released under the MIT license. This is a permissive open-source license, meaning you can freely use, modify, and distribute the software.
readme
# Clay MCP Server
A simple Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for [Clay](https://clay.earth).
## Demo Video
## Getting Started
### Via Clay (preferred)
1. Enter our MCP server url into your client [https://mcp.clay.earth/mcp](https://mcp.clay.earth/mcp)
2. Followed the guided login flow to connect your account.
### Via Smithery
[](https://smithery.ai/server/@clay-inc/clay-mcp)
1. [Visit Clay's Smithery page](https://smithery.ai/server/@clay-inc/clay-mcp), choose your preferred client (e.g. Claude, ChatGPT, Poke, Cursor, Raycast, etc.) and connect through the guided login flow.
2. Follow Smithery's instructions to configure the server URL with your preferred client.
## Features
- **Contact Search**: Find contacts by job title, company, location, or specific keywords.
- **Interaction Search**: Retrieve past interactions based on various criteria.
- **Contact Statistics**: Obtain numerical statistics and percentages related to your contacts.
- **Detailed Contact Info**: Access comprehensive information for a specific contact by ID.
- **Add New Contact**: Create new contacts with details like name, phone, email, and more.
- **Add Contact Note**: Create a note associated with a specific contact.
- **Retrieve Groups**: Get all user-defined groups or lists.
- **Create New Group**: Create a new group or list.
- **Update Group**: Update a group's title or modify its members.
- **Retrieve Notes**: Get notes created within a specified date range.
- **Retrieve Events**: Fetch meetings and events scheduled within a specified date range.
## Examples
- "Who in my network works at Google as a Product Manager?"
- "Who have I emailed the most this year?"
- "How many of my contacts are based in New York?"
- "Who is John Smith?"
- "Add a new contact named Jane Doe, who is a Designer at Figma."
- "Save a note for John Smith: 'Follow up about the Q2 report.'"
- "Create a group called 'Investors 2025.'"
- "Add Jane Doe and John Smith to the Investors 2025 group."
- "What notes did I take last week?"
- "What meetings do I have scheduled for tomorrow?"
## More information
Learn more and reach out at the [Clay Library](https://library.clay.earth).FAQ
- What is the Clay MCP server?
- Clay is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server profile on explainx.ai. MCP lets AI hosts (e.g. Claude Desktop, Cursor) call tools and resources through a standard interface; this page summarizes categories, install hints, and community ratings.
- How do MCP servers relate to agent skills?
- Skills are reusable instruction packages (often SKILL.md); MCP servers expose live capabilities. Teams frequently combine both—skills for workflows, MCP for APIs and data. See explainx.ai/skills and explainx.ai/mcp-servers for parallel directories.
- How are reviews shown for Clay?
- This profile displays 10 aggregated ratings (sample rows for discoverability plus signed-in user reviews). Average score is about 4.5 out of 5—verify behavior in your own environment before production use.
Ratings
4.5★★★★★10 reviews- ★★★★★Shikha Mishra· Oct 10, 2024
Clay is among the better-indexed MCP projects we tried; the explainx.ai summary tracks the official description.
- ★★★★★Piyush G· Sep 9, 2024
We evaluated Clay against two servers with overlapping tools; this profile had the clearer scope statement.
- ★★★★★Chaitanya Patil· Aug 8, 2024
Useful MCP listing: Clay is the kind of server we cite when onboarding engineers to host + tool permissions.
- ★★★★★Sakshi Patil· Jul 7, 2024
Clay reduced integration guesswork — categories and install configs on the listing matched the upstream repo.
- ★★★★★Ganesh Mohane· Jun 6, 2024
I recommend Clay for teams standardizing on MCP; the explainx.ai page compares cleanly with sibling servers.
- ★★★★★Oshnikdeep· May 5, 2024
Strong directory entry: Clay surfaces stars and publisher context so we could sanity-check maintenance before adopting.
- ★★★★★Dhruvi Jain· Apr 4, 2024
Clay has been reliable for tool-calling workflows; the MCP profile page is a good permalink for internal docs.
- ★★★★★Rahul Santra· Mar 3, 2024
According to our notes, Clay benefits from clear Model Context Protocol framing — fewer ambiguous “AI plugin” claims.
- ★★★★★Pratham Ware· Feb 2, 2024
We wired Clay into a staging workspace; the listing’s GitHub and npm pointers saved time versus hunting across READMEs.
- ★★★★★Yash Thakker· Jan 1, 2024
Clay is a well-scoped MCP server in the explainx.ai directory — install snippets and categories matched our Claude Code setup.