Captain Data MCP connector
The Captain Data connector brings your people searches, company enrichments, employee lists and quota usage into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and the Elaichi Agent through one governed endpoint, where each person sees only what their own Captain Data access allows.
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How it connects. Connects with an API key. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.
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One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.
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Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.
12 tools
How to connect
How to connect Captain Data to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
Two steps, about a minute.
In Elaichi
Connect Captain Data once
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Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Captain Data.
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Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
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Paste a Captain Data API key. One person generates a token in Captain Data 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.
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.
Captain Data MCP connector for Claude
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Open Customize, then Connectors.
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Press Add.
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Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.
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Sign in and approve.
On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.
Captain Data MCP connector for ChatGPT
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Open Plugins, then press the + button.
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Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.
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Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.
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Press Create, then sign in and approve.
Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.
Captain Data MCP connector for Cursor
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Open
~/.cursor/mcp.json. -
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Add the endpoint under
mcpServers.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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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 Captain Data to any MCP client
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Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.
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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 Captain Data through Elaichi
Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.
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Sales
Brief yourself on a prospect before the call
Pull up the enriched profile of a buyer, their work history, skills and certifications, and get a short brief without opening Captain Data.
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Sales development
Review this week's people finds in one place
Ask which people your searches surfaced this week, which ones came back enriched, and which lists are still thin.
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Marketing
Check company enrichments for a campaign segment
Look over the companies you enriched for a segment, compare size and industry, and spot the ones that do not fit before the campaign goes out.
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Recruiting
Scan candidate skills and certifications quickly
Read through the skills, certifications and past roles Captain Data found for a shortlist and get a summary you can share with the hiring manager.
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Revenue operations
Watch quota and workspace consumption
Ask how much of your Captain Data quota is left, which workspaces are using the most, and whether you will run out before month end.
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Partnerships
Map the people at a target company
List the employees Captain Data found at a company you want to partner with, grouped by department and seniority, so you know who to approach.
Try asking
- “Summarize this week's people finds and which ones came back enriched.”
- “List the employees found at Acme and group them by department.”
- “How much of our Captain Data quota is left this month?”
Compare
Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for Captain Data
All three can connect Captain Data to an AI assistant, and all three have admin controls. They differ in where access lives and how you pay.
| What to check | Elaichi | Zapier MCP | Composio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where the AI connects |
One address for the whole organization.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
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A server per member, created at sign-in. | An MCP endpoint per team, or an SDK. |
| Control over Captain Data tools | Allow or restrict single Captain Data 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 Captain Data 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
Captain Data tools for your AI agents
12 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Captain Data, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
No tools match your search.
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What connecting Captain Data gets you
6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Captain Data account.
The agent
Ask about prospects and get live answers.
Plain questions return the people, companies and employees Captain Data has already found.
- people
- companies
- employees
- quotas
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
Summarize this week's people finds and which ones came back enriched.
List the employees found at Acme and group them by department.
How much of our Captain Data quota is left this month?
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
MCP clients
Captain Data in every MCP client, one endpoint.
Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor connect through one governed endpoint, no SDK and no shared API key.
ElaichiMCP clientsClaude
ChatGPT
Cursor
Copy the endpoint
Tool catalog
12 Captain Data tools, zero custom code.
People finds, company enrichments, employees, skills, certifications, quotas and consumption, ready to use.
- List all Captain Data people finds
- List all Captain Data search peoples
- List all Captain Data people enriches
- List all Captain Data people experiences
ElaichiToolsToolboxes
Every team gets its own Captain Data toolbox.
Sales, recruiting and marketing each work from a toolbox scoped to their own job.
- Sales
- Sales development
- Marketing
- Recruiting
ElaichiToolboxesShared connections
Share one connection, keep the key private.
Teammates read Captain Data results through a shared connection without ever seeing the API key.
- Sales EMEA
- Sales US
- Outbound
- Marketing
ElaichiConnectionsAudit log
Every Captain Data request has a name on it.
When, who, what happened, and which record, in an append-only audit log.
- When
- Who
- What happened
- Type
ElaichiAudit logLaunching 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 the work, a person approves.
New Captain Data enrichments are fetched, grouped and drafted into a digest before anyone signs off.
Captain Data digest
Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emily Carter
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Schedule
Every weekday at 8:00 AM
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Fetch people
Captain Data
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Group by owner
Transform
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Draft the digest
Agent step
Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary
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Approve the digest
Needs approval
Assigned to Michael Brennan
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Post the digest
Captain Data
Queued
Collections and dashboards
Captain Data health, computed without asking.
Enrichments, finds and quota usage over 14 days, broken down by team, refreshed on a schedule.
Captain Data health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the people collection
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 US 27%
Outbound 21%
Marketing 18%
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How do I connect Captain Data to Claude?
In Elaichi, choose Captain Data and paste the API key from your Captain Data account, which takes a minute and needs no client ID or secret. Then in Claude open Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Sign in with your Elaichi account and Captain Data is ready in Claude.
Does Captain Data work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Captain Data connects once in Elaichi and the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client and the Elaichi Agent. You do not set it up again for each one.
What can an AI agent actually do with my Captain Data data?
An agent can read the results of your Captain Data searches and enrichments: the people and companies found, their work experience, skills and certifications, the employees listed at a company, plus your quota and workspace consumption. You can ask for a brief on a prospect, a summary of this week's finds, or how much quota is left. Short, concrete asks such as "list the companies enriched this month" work better than long paragraphs.
Does connecting Captain Data give the AI everything in my workspace?
No. Every request to Captain Data runs as the person who signed in, so an agent sees only the searches, enrichments and workspaces that person can already see. Elaichi can narrow that further by team or by action, and it can never widen it.
Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Captain Data?
This Captain Data connector only reads results, so an agent cannot edit or delete searches or enrichments through it. On top of that, Elaichi restrictions work per action, and a restricted action is never shown to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, so no prompt can reach it.
What happens to a Captain Data connection when someone leaves?
Offboarding that person in Elaichi ends their Captain Data access in every client at once. A connection they shared keeps working for everyone else on the team. If you want Captain Data gone entirely, disconnecting it once in Elaichi removes it from every client.
Does the Captain Data MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?
Yes. Captain Data 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 Captain Data?
Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use Captain Data. 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 Captain Data call.
How is Elaichi different from Composio for Captain Data?
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 Captain Data: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.
Put Captain Data in front of your team
14 days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.
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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.