How to connect Akta with ChatGPT

Connect ChatGPT to Akta MCP. Generate target companies for fintech startups, enrich leads with firmographic and signals, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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Akta is a company intelligence platform providing enrichment, news, and alternative business signals. It helps teams build targeted company lists and enrich data-driven workflows.

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How to connect Akta MCP with ChatGPT

ChatGPT can take action across your apps and files, stay with a project for hours, and turn a goal into finished materials like sheets, slides, and docs, not just answers.

In this guide, I will explain the easiest and most secure way to connect your Akta account to ChatGPT via Composio Connect, so it can enrich company profiles, generate targeted company lists, fetch company news, and surface alternative signals through natural language commands without ever putting your account credentials at risk.

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Why use Composio over default connectors?

  • Apps with read and write access. Default connectors mostly can read your data. Composio's Akta integration lets ChatGPT take actions like creating drafts, sending updates, labeling records, and more.
  • 1,700+ SaaS toolkits out of the box. Composio gives you instant access to a vast catalog of pre-built connectors, from Gmail and Slack to Notion, Linear, and Salesforce.
  • One MCP server for every app. Connect any of your applications on demand through a single endpoint, rather than juggling a separate server for each app.
  • Smart, context-aware tool loading. Unlike traditional MCP servers that dump every available tool into the LLM context window, Composio searches for and loads only the tools relevant to the task at hand.
  • Cross-app automation. Chain actions across multiple apps in a single run - fetch a thread, summarize it in Notion, and post highlights to Slack without leaving the conversation.

Prerequisites

Note: Composio connects through OAuth. You will be asked to sign in and approve specific permissions. Review the permission screen carefully if you are using a work account.

Step-by-step: Connect Akta to ChatGPT

1. Install the Composio plugin

Click the button. ChatGPT opens the Composio plugin page. Click Install plugin.

Install in ChatGPT

Composio plugin page in ChatGPT with the Install plugin button

You can also find it inside ChatGPT: go to Settings, open Plugins, search the marketplace for Composio, and click Install plugin.

2. Authenticate

After you install, ChatGPT asks you to authenticate with Composio. Log in and click Allow access to authorize ChatGPT to use your Composio account.

Composio login and Allow access screen for ChatGPT

3. Start using Composio

That is it. Composio tools are now available in ChatGPT. Type @Composio followed by your request, for example @Composio find unread Akta messages and summarize them, and it will run the actions you authorize. On first use it asks you to authorize Akta.

Option 2: Add Composio as an MCP server

If you cannot use the plugin marketplace, add Composio as a custom MCP server instead.

1. Open the MCP settings

In ChatGPT, go to Settings and open the Plugins section. Inside the Plugins page, click the MCP tab.

ChatGPT settings showing the Plugins page with the MCP tab selected

2. Add the server

Click Add server. In the Name field enter Composio, for Type select Streamable HTTP, and in the URL field paste the Composio MCP server URL:

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https://connect.composio.dev/mcp
ChatGPT Add server dialog with the name Composio, type Streamable HTTP, and the Composio MCP URL

Then click Save. The Composio server now appears in your MCP plugins list.

ChatGPT Plugins page showing the Composio MCP server added to the list

3. Authenticate

Click Authenticate on the Composio entry, log in via Composio, and click Allow access. Composio tools are then available in ChatGPT the same way as with the plugin.

What you can do after connecting Akta

  • Generate target companies for fintech startups
  • Enrich leads with firmographic and signals
  • Alert me on company fundraising news

Security + privacy notes (important)

  • Use least-privilege access: Only grant permissions you actually need.
  • Review OAuth permissions before approving: Make sure requested scopes match what you expect Composio and ChatGPT to do.
  • Keep write actions human-reviewed: For actions like sending messages, creating labels, or editing drafts, keep manual confirmation enabled.
  • Be careful with sensitive data: Avoid using this setup with highly sensitive information unless allowed by your personal, company, or client policies.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Akta action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Build Company Filters

Turn plain-English screening criteria such as industry, location, funding stage or date, or business model into reusable structured filters for AKTA_GENERATE_COMPANY_LIST.

Generate Company List

Search companies with structured filters across industry, headquarters or office location, founded year, company type, ownership, funding, investors, revenue and valuation bands, B2B/B2C, GTM motion, revenue model, AI maturity, API availability, customers, partnerships and markets served.

Get Account Status

Return the connected Akta account's package, Enterprise entitlement, credit balance, spend, and currency.

Get Company Assessment

Returns the broader company assessment by domain or akta UUID, including market position, strengths, weaknesses, competitive moat, key risks, highlights and peer context.

Get Company Business Model

Returns the business-model section for a company by domain or akta UUID, including GTM type and motion, offering type, revenue model, pricing details, marketing channels, distribution channels and major cost components.

Get Company Customer Profile

Returns the customer-profile section for a company by domain or akta UUID, including customer segments, ideal-customer profiles and named customers, with fields such as target buyer, use case and pain point where available.

Get Company Digital Presence

Returns the company's digital-presence section by domain or akta UUID, covering web, social and app footprint such as official social-media profiles and other supported digital-presence fields.

Get Company Enrichment

Company enrichment by domain or akta UUID with a detailed, section-based profile covering firmographics, industry, headcount band, locations, business model, management, products, customers, competitors, partnerships, technology, strategic signals, funding, M&A and more.

Get Company Filter Values

Returns exact allowed values for company-list filters, including countries, regions, industry and NAICS/SIC codes, funding stages, round types, revenue and valuation bands, ownership, GTM motion, revenue model, AI maturity, partnership types and investor UUIDs.

Get Company Financial Estimate

Returns estimated financial scale for a company by domain or akta UUID, including revenue-estimate and valuation-estimate bands.

Get Company Firmographic

Returns the firmographic section for a company by domain or akta UUID, including core identity and classification fields such as company name, legal name, website, company type, founded year, company description, operating status, ownership category and headcount range.

Get Company Funding Details

Returns company funding data by domain or akta UUID, including funding stage, last funding date, total funding where available, and funding rounds with round name or stage, date, amount, investors and other deal fields available under the caller's plan.

Get Company Headcount Trends

Company headcount and employee growth by domain or akta UUID using LinkedIn-sourced workforce data: current employees, monthly historical headcount, 6/12/24-month growth, and department-level headcount with 6/12-month growth.

Get Company Hierarchy

Returns company hierarchy data by domain or akta UUID, including parent-company information and subsidiaries with fields such as name, business focus, relationship type and acquisition date where available.

Get Company Industry

Returns industry classification for a company by domain or akta UUID, including akta.

Get Company Location

Returns company location data by domain or akta UUID, including headquarters, office locations and markets served.

Get Company Logo

Free endpoint that returns the hosted company logo URL for a company by domain or akta UUID.

Get Company Management Profile

Returns company management profiles by domain or akta UUID, including founders, executives and board members with names, titles or designation categories, start dates, background summaries and source-backed profile commentary where available.

Get Company M&A and Investments

Returns M&A and investment activity for a company by domain or akta UUID, including acquisition and investment overviews plus deal records with counterparties, dates, status and other transaction fields available under the caller's plan.

Get Company Partnerships

Returns the full partnership and strategic-relationship list for a company by domain or akta UUID, including partner name and UUID, partnership type, strategic tier, announcement date, description and source links where available.

Get Company Peers

Returns a curated peer set for a company by domain or akta UUID, with peer names, akta UUIDs, descriptions and peer types such as direct peers and broad incumbents.

Get Company Product Offering

Returns the company's product-offering section by domain or akta UUID, covering products or brands, core offering, customer problem solved, functional benefits, quantifiable outcomes and key differentiators.

Get Company Product Reviews

Company product reviews and G2 ratings by domain or akta UUID in two steps: first retrieve the company's product catalog and product IDs, then request reviews for selected product IDs.

Get Company Strategic Signals

Returns strategic company signals by domain or akta UUID, including scale indicators, partnerships, recent strategic moves, leadership changes and expansion highlights.

Get Company SWOT

Returns a concise company SWOT-style assessment by domain or akta UUID, including strengths, weaknesses, key risks and key highlights derived from the broader company assessment.

Get Company Technology

Returns the technology section for a company by domain or akta UUID, including core technology, integrations, AI capabilities and maturity, public API availability, MCP availability, app-store presence and notable product features where available.

Get Company Trust Signals

Returns trust-related company signals by domain or akta UUID, including compliance, regulatory updates, certifications, awards or other trust indicators available for the company.

Get Company Website Traffic

Company website traffic by domain or akta UUID, including estimated monthly visits, bounce rate, pages per visit, time on site and traffic share across direct, search, social, referrals, email, display, affiliate and generative-AI sources.

Get News Articles

Retrieve complete article records for news IDs from News Signals, including full text, AI summary, sentiment, event tags, industries, named entities, company mentions and taxonomy codes.

Get Request Status

Get the current state and detail of an asynchronous Akta request, such as a company-addition request.

List Company Employee Reviews

Company employee reviews and workplace ratings by domain or akta UUID, including overall rating, culture, senior management, work-life balance, compensation and diversity scores, CEO approval, business outlook, recommend-to-friend metrics, and individual reviews with pros, cons, reviewer role, tenure and employment status.

List Company Filters

Returns the full filter schema for Search Companies by Filters, including each filter key, value shape, matching behavior and whether allowed values come from Company List Filter Values.

List Company Job Posts

Company job posts and hiring signals by domain or akta UUID from sources including LinkedIn and Indeed, with title, location, date, URL, AI description, employment type, remote flag, disclosed salary, experience requirements, skills and total open roles.

List Company Social Posts

Company social posts by domain or akta UUID, including post text, date, URL, content type, paid and repost flags, AI-classified theme, mentioned companies and engagement metrics such as reactions, comments and reposts.

Request Company Addition

Submit a company for asynchronous addition to Akta, or return its existing record if already present.

Search Companies

Free endpoint to find and resolve a company by name, website/domain or akta UUID before calling other company endpoints.

Search Industries

Free endpoint to search industries, sectors, markets and niches by free text and return matching akta industry codes ranked by relevance.

Search News

Search real-time news and historical archives by company (domain or akta UUID), industry codes from AKTA_SEARCH_INDUSTRIES, or any topic, trend or keyword, including funding, M&A, launches, partnerships, leadership changes, layoffs, financial, regulatory and risk events.

Search Regions

Resolve a region name or UN M49 code to Akta region records, or omit query to list supported regions.

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