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Research Intel MCP Server

by dropwatchhq Your server? Claim it
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Research Intel is answering right now. Last checked 2 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

Research GTM triggers: new NIH grants by PI/institution and new clinical trials by sponsor/phase.

Uptime history 47 days of history
47 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
70 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Research Intel every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 2 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add research-intel --transport http https://research.dropwatchhq.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "research-intel": {
      "url": "https://research.dropwatchhq.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.research-intel]
url = "https://research.dropwatchhq.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "research-intel": {
      "url": "https://research.dropwatchhq.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "research-intel": {
      "url": "https://research.dropwatchhq.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

delta
delta_digest
New grants + new trials in a filter over the last N days (the weekly-digest payload). Best for BD teams.
entity
entity_watch
Recent funding/trial events for one institution, PI, sponsor, or topic. Use to enrich an account or check a competitor.
new
new_funding
THE GTM-trigger tool. Return the newest NIH grants and newly-registered clinical trials in a territory — the highest-intent buying signal in life-sciences sales (a newly-funded lab has budget and is choosing vendors now). Filter by institution, PI, sponsor, topic, state, IC, phase.
records
search_records
Ad-hoc search/enrichment over snapshotted grants + trials by any filter (keyword, sponsorClass, topic, $ range).
whats
whats_changed_since
Return grants/trials that are NEW or MODIFIED since a cursor token (cursor = your bookmark / CRM-sync point). Pass the cursor from a prior call to get only changes since then. Same filters as new_funding.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://research.dropwatchhq.com/mcp streamable-http answering 55 ms 2 min ago

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Research Intel — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Research Intel do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: delta_digest, entity_watch, new_funding, search_records, whats_changed_since. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Research Intel working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 70 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Research Intel?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Research Intel need an API key?
No. Research Intel completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Research Intel?
It answers our handshake in 70 ms on average, which is faster than 86% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.