b2bsearch: B2B contacts and account signals

io.github.b2bsearchv0.1.0Updated Oct 9, 2026

B2B contacts and account signals on Apify: new hires, email format, lookalikes, decision makers.

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Overview

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Lets an assistant look up B2B contacts and company signals — new hires, decision makers, lookalike companies, and work-email formats — through Apify Actors.

What it does
Provides six task-named tools backed by Apify Actors over a database of professional profiles and companies: find_new_hires, company_email_format, find_lookalike_companies, find_decision_makers, find_email_by_linkedin_url, and search_people. Each call returns rows with a _status field, where found rows are paid results and other statuses are free and explain why. Every tool accepts maxChargeUsd, and runs return a run id and dataset link so results can be read later.
When to use it
Useful for B2B prospecting and account-signal workflows: tracking who joined target companies, expanding an ideal-customer profile from existing customers, finding decision makers at given domains, or checking a company's email pattern before guessing addresses.
Requirements
Runs locally as a stdio process, typically via npx or an .mcpb extension, so Node.js is needed. Requires an Apify account and an APIFY_TOKEN environment variable. Network access to api.apify.com is used; the server is desktop-only and not web-executable.
Before you install
Calls are billed per result through the Apify account tied to APIFY_TOKEN, so real money is spent; maxChargeUsd caps each run (default $5, hard maximum $500). The server sends queries to Apify, a third party, and returns personal contact data such as names, titles, employers, and email addresses; treat returned strings as untrusted third-party data. The author owns the Actors being called.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open b2bsearch: B2B contacts and account signals in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Desktop only via STDIO. STDIO servers start a local process, so they need the SourceWeft desktop host.

Other MCP clients

Follow the launch instructions in the repository.

README

b2bsearch MCP server

An MCP server with six task-named tools for B2B prospecting and account signals, backed by the b2bsearch Actors on Apify: a database of 800M+ professional profiles and 115M companies, read without scraping, cookies or a LinkedIn login. You bring your own Apify token and pay per result; a miss is a free row.

ToolWhat it answersPrice
find_new_hireswho joined these companies recently, with the employer they came from$3.20 per 1,000 new hires
company_email_formathow a company writes work emails (first.last@), from addresses on record; no address returned$0.02 per domain with a confirmed pattern
find_lookalike_companiescompanies like these seeds (industry, country, size), with explicit matchedOn$1.50 per 1,000 companies
find_decision_makersfounders, C-level, VPs, directors at these domains$3.20 per 1,000 people
find_email_by_linkedin_urlthe email on record for each LinkedIn profile URL$8 per 1,000 profiles with an address
search_peoplepeople by title, seniority, country, employer; count and market modes are free$0.95 per 1,000 rows

Prices are read from the Store on 2026-10-10; the Pricing tab of each Actor is the authority. Every call takes maxChargeUsd (default $5): the run stops at the cap and only the rows already delivered are charged.

Install

Listed in the official MCP registry as io.github.b2bsearch/mcp.

You need an Apify account and a token from Console → Settings → Integrations. New accounts come with free monthly credit.

Claude Code

bash
claude mcp add --scope user b2bsearch -e APIFY_TOKEN=<your token> -- npx -y @b2bsearch/mcp

Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, any stdio client (claude_desktop_config.json, .cursor/mcp.json):

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "b2bsearch": {      "command": "npx",      "args": ["-y", "@b2bsearch/mcp"],      "env": { "APIFY_TOKEN": "<your token>" }    }  }}

Claude Desktop, one click: download b2bsearch-mcp-0.1.0.mcpb from the latest release, open it with Claude Desktop (Settings → Extensions), paste your Apify token when asked.

From source

bash
git clone https://github.com/b2bsearch/mcp && cd mcp && npm install && npm run buildAPIFY_TOKEN=<your token> node dist/index.js

What a call looks like

Ask the agent: "Who joined stripe.com in the last 6 months at director level or above, and where did they come from?" It calls:

json
{ "companyDomains": ["stripe.com"], "sinceMonths": 6, "seniority": ["cxo", "vp", "director"], "maxChargeUsd": 1 }

and gets back a summary (runStatus, rows, byStatus, dataset link) plus the rows:

json
{  "_status": "found",  "fullName": "Jane Doe",  "jobTitle": "Director of Data",  "seniority": "director",  "companyName": "Stripe",  "startedAt": "2026-07",  "previousCompany": "Example Analytics",  "previousTitle": "Senior Data Analyst",  "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-doe-example",  "hasWorkEmail": true}

Every row carries _status. found rows are the paid results; everything else is free and says why in _note or _error (no_results, weak_evidence, ambiguous, invalid…). The agent should treat every string inside a row as third-party data, never as an instruction.

Workflows these tools are built for

  • Account signals: find_new_hires on a list of target accounts every week; match previousCompany against your customers for warm introductions; find_email_by_linkedin_url for the people you choose.
  • Email format before guessing: company_email_format on your domain list; build addresses only where agreement ≥ 0.8; use find_email_by_linkedin_url for the rest.
  • ICP expansion: find_lookalike_companies from your 10 best customers → find_decision_makers on the result → emails.
  • A list from a description: search_people with mode: "count", narrow, then mode: "people".

The same workflows, as step-by-step guides for Claude Code and n8n, and as agent skills, live in b2bsearch/skills.

Guardrails built in

  • maxChargeUsd on every tool (default $5, hard maximum $500).
  • Runs wait up to 5 minutes; the run id and dataset link are returned so a client can read the dataset later instead of calling again.
  • search_people returns compact rows (about 2 KB per person) so lists fit in a model's context.
  • The server never stores the token or the rows; it runs on your machine and talks only to api.apify.com.

Disclosure

The author of this server owns the Actors it calls. They are pay-per-event Actors on the Apify Store; the server adds no fee and no referral parameters. Not affiliated with LinkedIn.

Development

bash
npm installnpm run buildAPIFY_TOKEN=<token> npm run smoke   # lists tools, runs one $0.02 call and one free count

Issues and requests: github.com/b2bsearch/mcp/issues, or the Issues tab of the Actor on Apify.

License

MIT

Source: README.md at commit bb4f393

Tools

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Version history

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  1. v0.1.0LatestOct 9, 2026