How to connect Akta to Claude

Connect Claude Web, Desktop and Cowork 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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Introduction

Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant, available on the web, in the desktop app, and on mobile. Cowork is its agent for knowledge work, and it runs on all of those surfaces too. Connected to your apps, Claude can work with your files and services to accomplish complex tasks on your behalf.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Akta account to Claude via Composio Connect, enabling it to generate target companies for fintech startups, enrich leads with firmographic and signals, alert me on company fundraising news, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

Setup is the same on Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork, and you only need to do it once. The connector is tied to your account, so it's available in all three.

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Connecting Akta to Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork

Two ways to add the Composio connector. Pick whichever you prefer.

1. Add with one click

Click the button. Claude opens with the Composio connector filled in. Click Add, then go to step 2.

Add to Claude

Add manually

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

Claude Desktop connectors screen with Add custom connector selected

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

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https://connect.composio.dev/mcp
Add custom connector dialog with Composio MCP server URL

2. Authorize in your browser

Click Connect. You'll be redirected to a browser window where you can authorize Composio to continue.

Composio authorization screen for Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork

3. Connect your Akta account

Back in Claude, ask it to connect to Akta or give it any Akta-related task.

For example, ask Claude to:

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

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Claude, and your Akta account is ready to use.

What is the Akta Claude Connector, and what's possible with it?

The Akta MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Akta account. It provides structured and secure access to company intelligence, enrichment, business signals, news, and targeted company lists, so your agent can research companies, track workforce and web trends, find relevant news, assess market signals, and build prospect lists on your behalf.

  • Company discovery and list building: Have your agent turn a natural-language description or structured criteria into a targeted company list, with supported industries, regions, and company filters.
  • Company research and enrichment: Let the agent find companies and retrieve selected company details or a concise overview for faster research.
  • Growth and demand signals: Direct your agent to examine headcount trends, workforce functions, website traffic, acquisition sources, and current job posts.
  • News and social monitoring: Instruct your agent to search company, industry, or topic news by date, sentiment, quality, and other supported criteria, retrieve full articles, and review company social posts and engagement.
  • Company reputation research: Have your agent review workplace ratings, employee feedback, product catalogs, product ratings, and customer reviews.

Troubleshooting

1. Why does Claude not use the Composio connector for Akta?

The connector can show as connected, but Claude must use it in each Akta conversation.

  • Click + at the lower left of the chat, or type /.
  • Hover Connectors.
  • Turn on Composio.
  • Ask Claude to connect to Akta again.

2. Why does Claude show an MCP server error before Akta connects?

Claude can show Couldn't reach the MCP server or Authorization with the MCP server failed when you add the connector for Akta.

  • Check that the connector URL is https://connect.composio.dev/mcp.
  • Connectors run from Anthropic's cloud, so your device network is usually not the problem.
  • Add the connector again from Customize > Connectors, then ask Claude to connect Akta.
  • If it fails again, send the error and the ofid_ reference id to support@composio.dev.

3. Why does the Akta authorization link not work?

The Composio connector is one server. Your Akta account connects separately when Claude asks for it.

  • If the browser does not open, or the link expires, ask Claude to retry the Akta connection.
  • Composio creates a fresh Akta authorization link.
  • Open that link in your browser and finish the Akta sign-in.

4. Why do Akta actions fail after they worked before?

The Akta connection can expire or lose permission.

  • Ask Claude to inspect the Akta connection.
  • If the connection is unhealthy, disconnect it when Claude prompts you.
  • Reconnect the Akta account and retry the action.
  • If Claude shows a permission prompt, approve it before Claude changes data in Akta.
  • If the action still fails with a permission error, check that the connected account has that permission in Akta itself.

5. How do I switch to a different Akta account?

Claude can manage the Akta connection for you.

  • Ask Claude to disconnect or delete the current Akta account.
  • Ask Claude to connect Akta again.
  • Open the new Composio authorization link for Akta.
  • Sign in with the other Akta account in the browser.
  • After the account connects, ask Claude to retry the Akta task.

6. Why is my Akta connection missing in Claude Desktop or on a Team plan?

The connector belongs to your Claude account, so your Akta connection works in Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork.

  • In Claude Desktop, open Customize > Connectors.
  • Next to Composio, click ⋮ and click Clear cache.
  • If Akta tools still do not appear, click ⋮, disconnect, remove the connector, and add it again.
  • On Team or Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner must enable the connector before you can connect Akta.
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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