Clay MCP Server

Clay MCP is a provider-hosted Model Context Protocol server that exposes Clay's sales prospecting and data enrichment platform inside Claude and ChatGPT. It lets GTM teams find ICP contacts at target accounts, pull enriched data points across more than 150 third-party providers, and run pre-built Clay workflows (Functions) without leaving the chat interface. The product is positioned for RevOps teams that want to package their existing Clay alpha into rep-facing prompts.

The server supports default enrichments out of the box (work history, thought leadership, funding, tech stack, headcount growth, website traffic, revenue model, open jobs, investors, competitors, customers, recent news, and verified email) and lets admins expose custom Functions built in Clay as callable tools. Enterprise customers with Audiences (beta) can also query company-level data in aggregate. Permissions, function-level toggles, and per-user credit budgets are managed from Clay's admin settings.

Note: this is the Clay.com sales prospecting MCP, not the Clay.earth personal CRM MCP (which lives at github.com/clay-inc/clay-mcp). The Clay.com server is provider-hosted with no open-source repository; it is consumed through the official Claude and ChatGPT app directories.

Tools

Clay MCP is a hosted connector. There is no package to install and no JSON config to paste; you connect through the official Claude or ChatGPT app directories.

Prerequisites

• A Clay workspace on a Launch, Growth, or Enterprise plan (legacy pricing plans do not have access)
• A Claude or ChatGPT account
• New users receive 500 bonus Clay credits; typical MCP invocations consume 20 to 100 credits

Setup in Claude

• Open the Clay connector page: https://claude.ai/directory/connectors/clay
• Click Connect and authenticate with your Clay account via OAuth
• Confirm the workspace and approve permissions

Setup in ChatGPT

• Open the Clay app: https://chatgpt.com/apps/clay
• Sign in with your Clay account
• Approve the requested scopes

Admin configuration (inside Clay)

• Navigate to Settings > MCP Users to manage which reps have access
• Toggle Functions on or off per function to control what reps can invoke
• Set team-wide default and per-user credit budgets

Manual MCP client config (for clients that accept a raw URL)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "clay": {
      "url": "https://mcp.clay.com",
      "transport": "http"
    }
  }
}

The canonical, supported integration paths remain the Claude and ChatGPT app directories. The raw server URL is not officially documented for arbitrary MCP clients, and Clay has publicly stated the connector is currently focused on Claude and ChatGPT.

• Ask Claude to find VP-level Marketing contacts at a list of target accounts, then enrich them with verified email and recent thought leadership before pushing to Salesforce
• Run an Ops-built outbound generator Function from chat to produce personalized first-line messages for a freshly enriched contact list
• Pull a company snapshot (headcount growth, funding, tech stack, recent news) before a discovery call without opening the Clay app
• Let SDRs trigger an ICP scoring Function on inbound leads directly from Claude, with credit usage capped per rep
• Surface aggregated Audience data (Enterprise beta) so reps can query "show me Series B SaaS companies in our ICP audience hiring AEs"

• "Find 10 Product Marketing Managers at Series B SaaS companies in the US and enrich them with verified email and recent LinkedIn posts."
• "Run our 'Company Snapshot' Clay Function for stripe.com and summarize tech stack, headcount growth, and latest funding."
• "Look up the LinkedIn profile for jane@acme.com using our LinkedIn-from-email Function."
• "Find VPs of Sales at the 25 companies in our 'Q3 Target Accounts' Audience and draft personalized outbound first lines."
• "Score this list of inbound leads using our ICP scoring Function and return only the ones above 80."

• Official, provider-hosted connector available in both Claude and ChatGPT app directories with OAuth setup (no self-hosting required)
• Exposes Clay's 150+ data provider waterfall, so a single tool call can return enrichment that would otherwise require many vendor integrations
• Admin controls for per-function permissions and per-user credit budgets, which matters for RevOps governance
• Custom Clay Functions become callable MCP tools, letting ops teams package proprietary workflows for reps

• Credit-based pricing applies on top of the Clay plan; a single MCP invocation can consume 20 to 100 credits, and phone data plus company-level Audiences are gated to paid or Enterprise tiers
• Officially supported only in Claude and ChatGPT; there is no open-source repo and no documented support for Cursor, Claude Code, or arbitrary MCP clients
• Read and execute focused: some sources report you cannot trigger arbitrary Clay enrichment waterfalls or Claygent runs from chat unless they are packaged as Functions first
• Legacy Clay pricing plans do not have access to the MCP toggle

• Apollo.io MCP: Direct access to Apollo's contact and company database for prospecting and enrichment
• Clearbit / HubSpot Breeze Intelligence: Company and contact enrichment available through HubSpot's official MCP server
• Amplemarket MCP: Sales prospecting and outbound automation, often compared head-to-head with Clay MCP