Instilus small-business decision tools MCP Server

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Instilus small-business decision tools is answering right now. Last checked 4 min ago. It exposes 8 tools.

Valuation, EBITDA, break-even, margin, rates, acquisition, competitor research, store audit.

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Uptime history 35 days of history · worst day 98%

35 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

390 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 2

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 7 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

7 Oct 2 tools appeared forge_competitor_research_method, forge_shopify_store_audit

This one has been quiet for a while

Quiet is not dead — but it is worth knowing when it wakes up, or when someone else takes it over. We watch the repository and tell you either way.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 4 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add business-tools --transport http https://www.instilus.com/mcp/v1

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://www.instilus.com/mcp/v1

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.business-tools]
url = "https://www.instilus.com/mcp/v1"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "business-tools": {
      "url": "https://www.instilus.com/mcp/v1"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "business-tools": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.instilus.com/mcp/v1"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 8

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

forge

forge_acquisition_affordability

Check whether a business being bought can pay for its own purchase out of profit, and what happens if it underperforms. Answers "can I afford to buy this business?" from asking price, deposit, loan terms and the annual profit of the business being bought.

forge_break_even

Work out how many sales a month a business needs to cover its costs, and how many to hit a target profit. Answers "what is my break-even point?" from fixed monthly costs, price per sale and variable cost per sale.

forge_business_valuation_estimate

Estimate what a small business is worth using Normalised EBITDA and typical small-business earnings multiples. Answers "how much is my business worth?" from real figures — revenue, cost of goods sold, operating expenses, owner pay and a fair-market salary for the owner role — rather than a generic rule of thumb. Produces an indicative enterprise value range, not a professional appraisal.

forge_competitor_research_method

The method for researching competitors or a market before committing money, and what each finding is worth. Answers "how do I do a competitor analysis?", "how do I research a market before entering it?" and "what will an investor ask me about competitors?" — returns the steps, the six things a competitor publicly reveals, and how to turn a finding into a decision rather than a grid.

forge_ebitda

Calculate EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA for a small business. Answers "what is my EBITDA?" and "what is my adjusted EBITDA after add-backs?" from real figures — revenue, cost of goods sold, operating expenses, and add-backs such as owner pay above a market salary, one-off costs and personal expenses run through the business.

forge_freelance_rate

Work out the hourly or day rate a freelancer or consultant needs to charge, once unbillable time is accounted for. Answers "what should I charge per hour?" from target annual income, business costs, working weeks and realistic billable hours.

forge_profit_margin

Convert between profit margin and markup, and work out the price a target margin requires. Answers "what is my profit margin?", "what is the difference between margin and markup?" and "what should I charge for a 40% margin?" from cost and price.

forge_shopify_store_audit

Audit a real Shopify store from its public pages and score it out of 100 for speed, SEO, trust and product pages. Answers "why is my Shopify store not converting?", "how fast is my store?" and "what should I fix on my Shopify store first?" — reads only what a shopper can see, needs no login or app install, and returns the fixes in the order worth doing them.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://www.instilus.com/mcp/v1	streamable-http	answering	431 ms	4 min ago

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Instilus small-business decision tools — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Instilus small-business decision tools do?

It exposes 8 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: forge_acquisition_affordability, forge_break_even, forge_business_valuation_estimate, forge_competitor_research_method, forge_ebitda, forge_freelance_rate and 2 more. 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 Instilus small-business decision tools 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 390 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

Is Instilus small-business decision tools still maintained?

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.

How do I connect Instilus small-business decision tools?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Instilus small-business decision tools need an API key?

No. Instilus small-business decision tools completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 8 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Instilus small-business decision tools?

It answers our handshake in 390 ms on average, which is faster than 33% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.