I Built a UK Business Intelligence MCP Server — Here's How

Last month I needed UK business data for a project I was building. Company records, Google ratings, whether their website was actually live, social media links — the full picture. The options were grim. Wire up 4 separate APIs yourself (Companies House, Google Places, DNS lookups, web scraping), each with different auth methods, rate limits, and response formats. Or pay an enterprise vendor like Creditsafe or OpenCorporates — starting at £2,250/year for API access. I wanted something in between. A single API call that returns everything, at a price a solo dev can afford. So I built it. What It Does Send a business name and location. Get back a complete profile from 4 data sources: curl -X POST https://ukbusinessintel.com/api/v1/enrich \ -H "X-API-Key: ukb_your_key_here" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"business_name": "Greggs", "location": "Newcastle"}' The response combines data from Companies House, Google Places, DNS/SSL checks, and social media scraping into a single J