How to integrate Akta MCP with Hermes

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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

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows.

This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Akta account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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What is Composio Connect?

Composio Connect is a consumer offering that lets anyone plug 1,700+ applications directly into their agent harness — including Hermes. It can:

  • Search and load tools from relevant toolkits on-demand, reducing context usage.
  • Chain multiple tools to accomplish complex workflows via a remote workbench, without excessive back-and-forth with the LLM.
  • Manage app authentication end-to-end with zero manual overhead.

Integrating Akta with Hermes

Using Composio Connect CLI

1. Install the Composio CLI

Run the install script directly, or paste https://composio.dev/hermes into your Hermes chat box to have it installed for you.

bash
curl -fsSL https://composio.dev/install | bash
Hermes authenticating with Composio

2. Authenticate

Once the CLI is installed, ask Hermes to authenticate with Composio.

3. Connect to Akta

Ask your agent to connect to Akta, or simply request any Akta-related task. Hermes will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

4. Done. You're all set with a new Akta connection.


Using Composio Connect MCP

1. Get your MCP URL and API Key

Go to dashboard.composio.dev and copy your Connect MCP URL and API key.

Copy MCP URL and API key from Composio dashboard

2. Open the Hermes config file

bash
nano ~/.hermes/config.yaml

3. Add the Composio Connect MCP server

bash
mcp_servers:
  composio:
    url: "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    headers:
      x-consumer-api-key: "YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY"
    connect_timeout: 60
    timeout: 180

Save with Ctrl + O, Enter, then exit with Ctrl + X.

4. Restart your Hermes agent

Once restarted, ask your agent to connect to Akta or request any Akta-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

What is the Akta MCP server, 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.

Way Forward

With Akta connected, Hermes can now act on your behalf whenever it detects a relevant task or you ask it to.

From here, you can extend Hermes further:

  • Connect more apps: Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear, and hundreds of others are available through the same Composio Connect setup. Each new integration compounds what Hermes can do for you.
  • Build workflows across tools: Once multiple apps are connected, Hermes can chain actions together — turn an email into a calendar invite, a Slack message into a Linear ticket, or a meeting note into a follow-up draft.
  • Let it learn your patterns: The more you use Hermes, the better it gets at anticipating how you'd handle recurring tasks. Give it feedback on drafts and decisions, and it will adapt.

If you run into trouble or want to share what you've built, join the community or check out the Docs for deeper configuration options.

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

Screen companies using a natural-language query or structured filters, with optional enrichment.

Get Account Status

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

Get Company Assessment

Return Akta's structured assessment of a company's market position, strengths, weaknesses, competitive moat, risks, highlights, customer concentration, and peers.

Get Company Business Model

Return a company's business-model data, including how it sells, generates revenue, and reaches its market.

Get Company Customer Profile

Return a company's customer segments, ideal customer profiles, and named customers.

Get Company Digital Presence

Return a company's websites, social profiles, mobile apps, and other digital presence.

Get Company Enrichment

Get company-data sections together in structured form, render selected sections as Markdown, or request Akta's fixed concise overview; section availability depends on account entitlement.

Get Company Filter Values

Resolve allowed label/value choices for one or more fixed-value company-list filters in a single free batch request.

Get Company Financial Estimate

Return a company's estimated revenue and valuation bands.

Get Company Firmographic

Return a company's core identity and firmographic facts, including its name, website, founding details, and company type.

Get Company Funding Details

Research a company's recent funding history, including funding stage, total raised, round dates and types, and named investors when available.

Get Company Headcount Trends

Evaluate hiring and workforce momentum from a company's current headcount, monthly history, growth periods, and function-level employee breakdown.

Get Company Hierarchy

Return a company's parent organization, subsidiaries, and corporate hierarchy.

Get Company Industry

Return a company's industry classifications, industry codes, and descriptive keywords.

Get Company Location

Return a company's headquarters, office locations, and geographic markets.

Get Company Logo

Return Akta's hosted logo image URL for a company.

Get Company Management Profile

Return a company's founders, executives, and board member profiles.

Get Company M&A and Investments

Research a company's recorded acquisitions and investments, including targets, counterparties, announced dates, deal details, and sources when available.

Get Company Partnerships

Return a company's partnerships and strategic relationships, including partner UUIDs, relationship types, strategic tiers, announcement dates, and sources.

Get Company Peers

Find curated peer companies for competitor research or to seed manual customer-lookalike research.

Get Company Product Offering

Return a company's products, brands, value propositions, and competitive differentiators.

Get Company Product Reviews

Research product perception and recurring review themes from ratings, star distributions, aggregated pros and cons, pricing, and review text.

Get Company Strategic Signals

Return a company's recent strategic moves, leadership changes, and other business signals.

Get Company SWOT

Return a focused company assessment covering strengths, weaknesses, key risks, and key highlights with supporting details and sources.

Get Company Technology

Research a company's technology posture from its stack, AI maturity and capabilities, API and app availability, and integrations when available.

Get Company Trust Signals

Return company trust indicators such as certifications, regulatory records, compliance evidence, and awards.

Get Company Website Traffic

Return a company's website engagement, monthly visit estimates, and acquisition-source mix.

Get News Articles

Fetch available enrichment and full article text, when available, for up to 10 Akta news IDs returned by AKTA_SEARCH_NEWS.

Get Request Status

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

List Company Employee Reviews

Research employee sentiment and workplace themes from overall and dimension-level ratings plus individual review pros, cons, roles, and dates.

List Company Filters

List the structured filter fields accepted by company-list generation and identify fields whose values come from fixed lookups, nested objects, or same-array-element matching semantics.

List Company Job Posts

Research hiring signals from a company's current LinkedIn and Indeed openings, including role, location, skills, experience, compensation, and remote status when available.

List Company Social Posts

Return one caller-controlled offset page of a company's social posts with content classification and engagement metrics.

Request Company Addition

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

Search Companies

Resolve a company name, website, or Akta UUID to matching Akta company identities for use with company-data tools.

Search Industries

Resolve free text to similarity-ranked Akta industry taxonomy codes for company-list and news filters.

Search News

Search company, industry and other news using topic, date, entity, news-type, sentiment, quality and publisher filters, returning one offset page of enriched articles with optional full text.

Search Regions

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

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Akta MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Akta tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Akta and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Hermes fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Akta tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Akta scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Akta data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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