Retainer: consulting tools MCP Server

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Retainer: consulting tools is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 5 tools.

Free tools for consultants: stakeholder maps, rates, capacity, client profitability, follow-ups.

Uptime history 35 days of history · worst day 0%

35 days agonow

0.0%

Uptime 24h

0 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

120 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Retainer: consulting tools does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 1.6% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 11 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add tools --transport http https://useretainer.com/mcp/

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

https://useretainer.com/mcp/

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.tools]
url = "https://useretainer.com/mcp/"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tools": {
      "url": "https://useretainer.com/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "tools": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://useretainer.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.

calculate

calculate_consulting_rate

Work out what an independent consultant should charge: minimum and recommended hourly rate, day rate, monthly equivalent, and a suggested monthly retainer or project day rate. Use when someone asks what to charge, how to price a retainer, or whether their rate is too low. Ask for their income goal if you don't know it; the other inputs have sensible defaults. Returns a link that opens Retainer's free rate calculator with these numbers.

capacity

check_capacity

Check whether an independent consultant has room for another client: available billable hours, current utilization, and whether they are under target, over target, or overcommitted. Use when someone asks if they can take on new work or feels stretched. Returns a link that opens Retainer's free capacity calculator with these numbers.

map

map_stakeholders

Sort stakeholders on a power/interest grid (Mendelow's matrix) into Manage Closely, Keep Satisfied, Keep Informed, and Monitor, with what to do for each group. Returns a link that opens the finished map in Retainer's free stakeholder mapping tool. Scores are relative: what matters is where people sit compared to each other, not the exact number.

neglected

find_neglected_relationships

Check which clients, past clients, or referral sources a consultant has gone too long without talking to. Sorts contacts by days of silence into healthy (<30 days), cooling (30+), neglected (60+), and urgent (90+), with a suggested next step for each and an overall network health score. Use when someone asks who to follow up with or worries their pipeline is drying up. Returns a link that opens Retainer's free BD neglect detector with these contacts.

rank

rank_client_profitability

Rank a consultant's clients by revenue per hour, with totals and the average, and flag which clients earn below average. Use when someone asks which clients are worth keeping, which to raise prices on, or why they're busy but not earning more. Returns a link that opens Retainer's free client profitability calculator with these clients.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://useretainer.com/mcp/	streamable-http	answering	120 ms	11 min ago

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Retainer: consulting tools — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Retainer: consulting tools do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: calculate_consulting_rate, check_capacity, find_neglected_relationships, map_stakeholders, rank_client_profitability. 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 Retainer: consulting tools working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 91 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 120 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists Retainer: consulting tools as active — why does it not respond?

The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.

How do I connect Retainer: consulting 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 Retainer: consulting tools need an API key?

No. Retainer: consulting tools 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.