Halverson IQ Data
[status] [mcp] [price]
One paid MCP server for US public records, federal grants, and federal contracts. Companies, SEC filings, court dockets, spending awards, licenses, Grants.gov opportunities, and SAM.gov contract notices share a single API key and a single bill.
What this server includes
This repository is the combined Halverson IQ Data server.
Not part of this server: business-intel and outdoor datasets (separate or retired), and web-page fetching (a different pipeline with its own fetchers and cache).
One customer key is checked on every tool. Free tier is 30 calls/day across the whole server. Pro is unlimited on the same key. Upgrade: https://mcpize.com/pubrecords-mcp
Pricing
Keys are issued per user. Ask the operator for a key, or have them mint one with POST /admin/keys. Examples below use the placeholder YOUR_API_KEY.
Tool reference
Public records
Grants and federal contracts
focus_areas on the REST route is a comma-separated string. The MCP tool accepts a list.
Contract tools call SAM.gov only when SAM_API_KEY is set. If it is missing they return {"success": false, "error": "SAM_API_KEY is not configured"} and do not send a request.
Install in Claude
Note the trailing slash on /mcp/. Without it the gateway issues a 307 that drops the POST body, breaking the JSON-RPC handshake.
Then set the API key in your client:
Python SDK
A thin Python wrapper for non-MCP integrations lives in pubrecords-sdk/:
REST surface
Every MCP tool is also available over plain HTTP. Send the same X-API-Key on each call.
Production URL: https://mcp-pubrecords-production.up.railway.app
GET /usage returns the remaining daily quota for that key. GET /health is unauthenticated.
Issuing a customer key
POST /admin/keys and POST /billing/upgrade return 403 unless PUBRECORDS_ADMIN_TOKEN is set and the X-Admin-Token header matches it. There is no default admin token.
Promote that same key to the paid tier (this is the single billing switch):
Local development
Run tests:
Environment variables (see .env.example):
Data freshness
Responses are cached for 24 hours by default.
For fresher queries, set PUBRECORDS_CACHE_TTL=300 (5 minutes). That multiplies upstream traffic.
Data gaps and source limits
The server returns a structured error envelope instead of invented rows when a query is outside coverage.
- UCC filings — there is no uniform federal UCC API.
get_ucc_filings returns {"error": "not_implemented"} until per-state adapters land.
- State professional licenses — healthcare (NPI) and FCC are covered. Bar, real estate, contractor, and CPA licenses are state-by-state.
- OpenCorporates rate limits — anonymous traffic is capped. Set
OPENCORPORATES_TOKEN for production.
- SEC EDGAR full-text — broad terms return wide sets. Combine with
form_type.
- CourtListener — federal PACER/RECAP. State courts are not guaranteed.
- SAM.gov — contract tools do nothing until
SAM_API_KEY is set in the environment. Apply at https://sam.gov. The key is not embedded in this repo.
- SAM award history —
search_awards reads Award Notice rows from the opportunities API. Deeper recipient rollups stay on lookup_federal_spending (USASpending).
- Match scores —
match_opportunities is deterministic token overlap on title and agency. It does not call a model.
- No consumer PII — entity-level public records only.
License and compliance
This server proxies and caches public records that are already free to access from federal and public sources. Cached payloads are kept for 24 hours and can be flushed by deleting the SQLite file. Customer API keys and the admin token belong in the environment and the SQLite key store. Do not commit them.