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Apollo MCP connector

Connect Apollo to Elaichi and Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client can search people and companies and enrich contacts and accounts, with every lookup running inside each person's own Apollo access.

  • How it connects. Connects with an API key. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.

  • One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.

  • Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.

How to connect

How to connect Apollo to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Two steps, about a minute.

1

In Elaichi

Connect Apollo once

  1. Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Apollo.

  2. Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.

  3. Paste an Apollo API key. One person generates a token in Apollo and pastes it once. Everyone else works through Share with, and never sees it.

The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.

Add connection

Choose a connector.

apollo
Apollo
Anteriad
Bombora
Captain Data
Clay
Cognism
2

In your AI client

Point it at one endpoint

Everyone in the organization uses the same address, and each person only ever reaches what their own account allows.

Apollo MCP connector for Claude

  1. 1

    Open Customize, then Connectors.

  2. 2

    Press Add.

  3. 3

    Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  4. 4

    Sign in and approve.

On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.

Apollo MCP connector for Claude Code

  1. 1

    In a terminal, run claude mcp add with the endpoint.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  2. 2

    Start Claude Code and run /mcp.

  3. 3

    Pick elaichi, then sign in and approve in the browser.

Terminal

$ claude mcp add --transport http elaichi --scope user https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp

Use --scope project instead to share it with the repository through .mcp.json.

Apollo MCP connector for ChatGPT

  1. 1

    Open Plugins, then press the + button.

  2. 2

    Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.

  4. 4

    Press Create, then sign in and approve.

Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.

Apollo MCP connector for Cursor

  1. 1

    Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json.

  2. 2

    Add the endpoint under mcpServers.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elaichi": {
      "url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.

Connect Apollo to any MCP client

  1. 1

    Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  2. 2

    Sign in and approve.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elaichi": {
      "url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.

Use cases

What teams do with Apollo through Elaichi

Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.

  • Sales

    Research an account before the first call

    Ask for the company's size, industry, location and funding from Apollo, then the people who hold the titles you sell to. Walk in knowing who matters.

  • Sales Development

    Build a prospect list from a plain description

    Describe the titles, industries and regions you want and get a list of matching people from Apollo. Narrow it by company size or seniority in the next message.

  • Sales Development

    Fill in a lead's email and phone

    Give a name and a company and Apollo returns the work email, phone, title and LinkedIn profile. No more copying one field at a time.

  • Marketing

    Find lookalike companies for a campaign

    Start from a customer you already have and ask Apollo for companies with the same industry, headcount and technology. Hand the list to the team that runs the campaign.

  • Revenue Operations

    Clean up a record with missing fields

    Paste a company domain and get its full Apollo profile, including industry, employee count and headquarters, so the account in your CRM is complete.

  • Recruiting

    Map the people at a target company

    Ask Apollo who works in engineering or product at a company you are hiring from, with titles and seniority, before anyone writes an outreach message.

Try asking

  • “Find VP Sales contacts at fintech companies in Austin”
  • “Enrich Priya Shah at Northwind with work email and phone”
  • “Which SaaS companies in London have 200 to 500 employees?”

See all 4 Apollo tools below

Compare

Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for Apollo

All three can connect Apollo to an AI assistant, and all three have admin controls. They differ in where access lives and how you pay.

Elaichi compared with Zapier MCP and Composio for Apollo, by what to check
What to check Elaichi Zapier MCP Composio
Where the AI connects One address for the whole organization. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp A server per member, created at sign-in. An MCP endpoint per team, or an SDK.
Control over Apollo tools Allow or restrict single Apollo tools, per role or user. App and action restrictions on the account. Role permissions, down to the action.
Record of calls One audit entry per Apollo call. A History tab of tool calls. A log of every tool call.
Single sign-on SAML or OIDC, plus SCIM, on Gold. SAML on Enterprise. SAML and OIDC on Enterprise.
Price $15 per user per month. 2 tasks per successful call. Billed per tool call.

Sources: Zapier MCP docs, security, usage; Composio docs, gateway, enterprise, pricing. Checked September 2026.

Longer take: Zapier MCP alternative and when you don't need an MCP gateway.

AI tools

Apollo tools for your AI agents

4 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Apollo, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.

See it in Elaichi

What connecting Apollo gets you

6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Apollo account.

The agent

Ask Apollo for prospects in plain language.

Describe the titles, industries and regions you want and get live people and companies back.

  • people
  • companies
  • contacts
  • organizations

Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.

Find VP Sales contacts at fintech companies in Austin

Enrich Priya Shah at Northwind with work email and phone

Which SaaS companies in London have 200 to 500 employees?

Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

MCP clients

One endpoint brings Apollo to every client.

Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor connect to Apollo over OAuth, with no SDK and no shared API key.

ElaichiMCP clients
Claude ChatGPT Cursor

Copy the endpoint

https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
Client Connected by Status Last used
Claude
E

Emily Carter

• Connected 4 minutes ago
Cursor
M

Megan Brooks

• Connected 2 hours ago
ChatGPT
R

Ryan Hayes

• Connected Yesterday

Tool catalog

4 Apollo tools, no code to write.

Search people, search companies, and enrich either one, ready the moment Apollo is connected.

  • Apollo people enrichment match
  • Apollo organizations enrich
  • List all Apollo mixed people
  • List all Apollo mixed companies
ElaichiTools
Tool Action Description
Apollo people enrichment match Action Find one person by email, LinkedIn URL, or a name (name, or first_name and last_name) together with the company they work at (organization_name or domain), and return their enriched profile. Costs 1-9 credits when a person is matched (more if a mobile phone is revealed), 0 credits on no match. Every parameter is sent as a query-string parameter, even though the HTTP method is POST -- Apollo's own OpenAPI spec marks every one of them `in: query`, and no JSON body is sent. Phone numbers cannot be revealed through this integration: reveal_phone_number triggers an asynchronous webhook/poll flow that is not offered here.
Apollo organizations enrich Action Find one company by domain, LinkedIn URL, or website (name alone is not accepted -- Apollo returns 422 -- but it narrows the match when sent alongside another identifier), and return its enriched profile. 1 credit per organization matched. Every parameter is sent as a query-string parameter; no JSON body is sent. This is a separate method from the pre-existing organization-enrichment.list (added before unified enrichment existed): that method's `list` resource-method type makes the engine apply the integration's inherited page-format pagination unconditionally, adding `page`/`per_page` query parameters this endpoint does not document; this `enrich` method is a custom-named method, so no pagination logic runs and no undocumented parameters are added.
List all Apollo mixed people List Search for people. 0 credits. Requires a master API key, or a key with the mixed_people_api_search OAuth scope -- a normal API key gets a 403 "endpoint access denied". Results are partial: there is no email or phone field at all in this search response (only boolean has_email/has_direct_phone flags), and the last name is masked (last_name_obfuscated, e.g. "Hu***n") rather than withheld outright, so every record from this method is partial. Every filter and the page/per_page pagination parameters are sent as query-string parameters, even though the HTTP method is POST.
List all Apollo mixed companies List Search for companies. 1 credit per page (unlike the people-search sibling, this is not free). Records here are full, not masked. Every filter and the page/per_page pagination parameters are sent as query-string parameters, even though the HTTP method is POST.

Toolboxes

Each team gets its own Apollo toolbox.

Sales, marketing and recruiting each see the Apollo lookups their work needs.

  • Sales
  • Sales Development
  • Marketing
  • Revenue Operations
ElaichiToolboxes
Name Source template Tools Created

Sales toolbox

Apollo · accounts and contacts

Apollo starter 18 Mar 4, 2026

Sales Development toolbox

Apollo · prospect lists and enrichment

— 9 Mar 2, 2026

Marketing toolbox

Apollo · lookalike companies and segments

— 24 Feb 27, 2026

Revenue Operations toolbox

Apollo · record enrichment and hygiene

Apollo starter 6 Feb 19, 2026

Recruiting toolbox

Apollo · people and titles at target companies

— 31 Jan 30, 2026

Customer Success toolbox

Apollo · account research and contacts

— 12 Jan 22, 2026

Shared connections

Teammates use Apollo without seeing the key.

One person connects Apollo, shares it with a team, and nobody else handles a credential.

  • Sales EMEA
  • Sales North America
  • Outbound
  • Marketing
ElaichiConnections
Connection Scope Status Access
AP

Apollo (Sales EMEA)

Connected by Emily Carter

Personal • Active 1 team · 6 members
AP

Apollo (Sales North America)

Connected by Jake Morgan

Organization • Active 3 teams · 24 members
AP

Apollo (Outbound)

Connected by Megan Brooks

Organization • Active 2 teams · 11 members
AP

Apollo (Marketing)

Connected by Tyler Reed

Personal • Needs re-auth 1 team · 3 members
AP

Apollo (Recruiting)

Connected by Ryan Hayes

Personal • Active Not shared
AP

Apollo (RevOps)

Connected by Ashley Parker

Personal • Active 2 teams · 9 members

Audit log

Every Apollo lookup names who ran it.

When, who, what happened and which person or company, in an append-only log.

  • When
  • Who
  • What happened
  • Type
ElaichiAudit log
When Who What happened Type

2 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:10 PM

E

Emily Carter

[email protected]

Restriction Created Access

8 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:04 PM

J

Jake Morgan

[email protected]

Restriction Updated Access

14 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:58 PM

M

Megan Brooks

[email protected]

Role Assigned Access

20 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:52 PM

T

Tyler Reed

[email protected]

Apollo Users Updated MCP

26 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:46 PM

R

Ryan Hayes

[email protected]

Apollo People Created MCP

32 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:40 PM

A

Ashley Parker

[email protected]

Apollo People List Toolbox

Launching soon

From answering questions to doing the work

A person no longer has to ask. A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations and live dashboards are launching soon, on the Black plan.

Automations

A schedule starts real prospecting work.

New Apollo people are fetched, grouped, drafted into a digest, approved by a person, then posted.

Apollo digest

Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emily Carter

  1. ✓

    Schedule

    Every weekday at 8:00 AM

    0.2s
  2. ✓

    Fetch people

    Apollo

    1.4s
  3. ✓

    Group by owner

    Transform

    0.1s
  4. ✓

    Draft the digest

    Agent step

    Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary

    6.2s
  5. Approve the digest

    Needs approval

    Assigned to Michael Brennan

    Approve
  6. Post the digest

    Apollo

    Queued

Collections and dashboards

Apollo numbers, computed without a model.

Searches, enrichments, people matched and companies enriched, by team, refreshed on a schedule.

Apollo health

Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the people collection

Live

People

1,284 ↓ 12%

Companies

96 ↓ 8%

Needs attention

3 ↑ 2

Updated this week

412 ↑ 9%

People created

Last 14 days

By team

Share of activity

Sales EMEA 34%

Sales North America 27%

Outbound 21%

Marketing 18%

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do I connect Apollo to Claude?

Connect Apollo in Elaichi first: Apollo signs in with an API key, which you paste in once, and there is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Then open Claude, go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Sign in to Elaichi as yourself and Apollo is available in Claude from that point on.

Does Apollo work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?

Yes. Apollo is connected once in Elaichi, and the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, is added to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any MCP client, and the Elaichi Agent. There is nothing separate to set up for each client.

What can an AI agent actually do with my Apollo data?

With Apollo connected, an AI agent can search for people by title, seniority, industry and location, search for companies by size, industry and technology, and enrich a single person or company with email, phone, headcount and other profile fields. Short concrete asks work best, such as a name and a company, or a title and a region. This connector looks things up and fills in details; it does not change anything in Apollo.

Does connecting Apollo give the AI everything in my Apollo account?

No. Every Apollo request runs as the person who signed in to Elaichi, so the agent can see only what that person's own Apollo account and credits allow. Elaichi can narrow that further by restricting actions for a team, and it can never widen access beyond what the person already has in Apollo.

Can my team share one Apollo connection?

Yes. One person connects Apollo in Elaichi and shares the connection with a team, and nobody else ever handles the Apollo API key. Each teammate still signs in to Elaichi as themselves, so every Apollo search and enrichment in the audit log names the person who ran it.

Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Apollo?

The Apollo connector only searches and enriches people and companies, so it has no way to delete or edit records in Apollo. Restrictions still work per action: if you restrict enrichment for a team, that action is removed from what their AI client can reach and cannot be called, whatever the prompt says.

What happens to an Apollo connection when someone leaves?

Offboarding a person in Elaichi ends their access to Apollo through every client at once. A shared Apollo connection keeps working for everyone else on the team. If you want Apollo gone entirely, disconnecting it once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and every other client at the same time.

Does the Apollo MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?

Yes. Apollo is reached over the same MCP endpoint every client uses, so anything that speaks MCP can call it — Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cline, Zed and OpenCode among them — alongside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and the Elaichi Agent. The tools on offer and the access behind them are identical whichever client asks. Only the setup screen differs.

Is Elaichi an alternative to Zapier MCP for Apollo?

Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use Apollo. Zapier MCP fits a team that already automates in Zapier, since each person signs in and acts as themselves in that account. Elaichi fits when IT wants one address for the whole company, per-tool rules by role, and a record of every Apollo call.

How is Elaichi different from Composio for Apollo?

Composio gives AI agents tools and sign-in handling across 1,000+ apps, for developers building agents or people using an assistant, billed per tool call. Elaichi gives a company's own people governed access to Apollo: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.

Put Apollo in front of your team

14 days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.

Works with
Claude ChatGPT Cursor and any other MCP client, or the Elaichi Agent.
When the trial ends
Nothing is deleted. Connections, roles and the audit log stay where they are, so subscribing picks up exactly where you left off.