How to integrate The Companies API MCP with Atomic Agent

Connect Atomic Agent to The Companies API MCP. Find a company's tech stack and location, list fortune 500 companies in healthcare, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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The Companies API is a business intelligence service for searching, enriching, and analyzing company data. Use it to discover company profiles, technologies, locations, lists, and related business intelligence.

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Introduction

Atomic Agent is an open-source AI agent that runs on your machine and supports local models through llama.cpp. Connect it to 1,500+ apps through Composio, including The Companies API.

This guide uses Atomic Agent's built-in Composio integration. You need Atomic Agent v0.5.6 or later, your own Composio API key, and a The Companies API account. See the Atomic Agent documentation for installation instructions.

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How Atomic Agent connects to The Companies API

Atomic Agent connects to Composio's Tool Router over Streamable HTTP MCP. It discovers the tools needed for your request, and Composio handles account authentication.

Execution and account-connection tools follow Atomic Agent's configured approval policy. Review any approval prompt before allowing an action on your connected account.

Connect The Companies API to Atomic Agent

  1. Sign up or sign in to the Composio dashboard. Copy your API key.
  2. In Atomic Agent, open the Integrations tab and select Composio. Select API key, press e, paste the key, and press Enter. The tools become available immediately, without a restart.
  3. Ask Atomic Agent to do something in The Companies API. It searches Composio for the right tool.
  4. On first use, open the sign-in link returned in the chat. Connect your The Companies API account, then return to Atomic Agent to continue.

Headless setup

Add the following line to ~/.atomic-agent/.env, replacing YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY with your key. Start Atomic Agent after saving the file.

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY

What is the The Companies API MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The The Companies API MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your The Companies API account. It provides structured and secure access to company profiles, business intelligence, technologies, locations, and company lists, so your agent can search for companies, enrich company details, explore market categories, find similar businesses, and manage company lists on your behalf.

  • Company search and discovery: Have your agent find companies by name, natural language prompts, text queries, or structured business criteria.
  • Company profile enrichment: Let the agent retrieve company profiles by domain, email address, or social profile, along with company facts, source pages, and known email patterns.
  • Market and technology research: Direct your agent to search industries, technologies, geographic areas, and taxonomy values that can support company research and segmentation.
  • Similar company analysis: Instruct your agent to find businesses or industries similar to the companies and market categories you already know.
  • Company list management: Have your agent create empty company lists, review existing lists and their companies, rename lists, or delete lists you no longer need.

Use The Companies API from Atomic Agent

With your account connected, ask Atomic Agent to work with The Companies API in natural language. You can connect more apps through the same Composio integration as you need them.

Visit the Atomic Agent website or inspect the Atomic Agent source code.

Troubleshooting

Why is my API key rejected?

Copy the key directly from the Composio dashboard. Atomic Agent requires ASCII characters because it sends the key in an HTTP header. Remove any extra characters introduced when copying.

Why are Composio tools unavailable after saving a key?

Check that you use Atomic Agent v0.5.6 or later and that Composio is enabled in your configuration. A "composio": { "enabled": false } setting disables the integration while keeping the saved key on disk.

Does Composio have a free plan?

The Hobby plan includes 100,000 tool calls per month. Composio-managed OAuth apps have a lower included allowance. See Composio pricing for the current limits that apply to your connection.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every The Companies API action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Ask Company

Submit a natural-language question about a company and return either its immediate answer or the provider's pending-job details.

Count Companies

Count companies matching text or structured segmentation filters.

Count Companies With Body

Count companies using a JSON segmentation body.

Create List

Create an empty static company list with email notifications disabled.

Delete List

Permanently delete a company list by ID and return the deleted list record.

Enrich Job Title

Normalize a job title and infer its department and seniority classification.

Get Account Context

Return the connected user, current team, subscription state, and remaining credit balance.

Get Company

Return the cached company profile for an exact domain, optionally in a compact form; this tool does not force a paid refresh.

Get Company by Email

Resolve an email address to company data and return parsed email validity details.

Get Company by Social

Resolve one or more company social profile URLs to a company profile.

Get Company Context

Return categorized company facts and their source pages for an exact domain.

Get Company Email Patterns

Return known email-address patterns for an exact company domain.

List Companies In List

Return one page of companies currently contained in a specified company list.

List Lists

Return one page of company lists owned by the connected account.

Rename List

Rename an existing company list without changing its query, synchronization, or notification settings.

Search Cities

Search cities and return company counts and location identifiers.

Search Companies

Search the company database with text or structured segmentation conditions and return one page of matching company profiles.

Search Companies By Name

Search companies by name and return one page of normalized profiles.

Search Companies By Prompt

Search companies using a natural-language prompt and return one page.

Search Companies With Body

Search companies with a JSON segmentation body and return one page.

Search Continents

Search continents and return company counts and location identifiers.

Search Counties

Search counties and return company counts and location identifiers.

Search Countries

Search countries and return company counts and location identifiers.

Search Industries

Search industries and return one page of matching industry records.

Search Similar Companies

Find companies similar to one or more source domains and return one page.

Search Similar Industries

Find industries similar to one or more supplied industries and return one page of matches.

Search States

Search states and return company counts and location identifiers.

Search Taxonomy

Search provider taxonomy values for industries, technologies, or geographic levels and return normalized identifiers for company filters.

Search Technologies

Search technologies and return one page of matching records.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Atomic Agent 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 The Companies API tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which The Companies API 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 The Companies API data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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