Instant Expert MCP server

Instant Expert for AI assistants

Instant Expert gets you on the phone with specific people: the VP of Sales at a Series A startup, a head of procurement at a hospital system, a claims manager at a regional insurer. You describe who you want (or paste a lead list), it finds them and their work email, and it sends each one a paid invitation to a 15 to 60 minute call or a written or voice answer to one question. You pay only when someone books or replies.

This repo has the install files for using Instant Expert from Claude, Cowork, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and other MCP clients. The server itself is hosted at https://instant.expert/mcp, so there's nothing to run locally and no API key to manage; you sign in with your Instant Expert account the first time a tool runs.

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What people use it for

• Early customer discovery. "We're building expense software for construction firms. Who should we talk to?" The assistant turns that into a few concrete audiences (say, controllers at US general contractors with 50 to 500 employees), finds them and drafts the ask.
• Outreach to a persona. "Find 30 heads of RevOps at Series B fintechs and invite them to a 15-minute call about pipeline tooling."
• A lead list you already have. Paste LinkedIn URLs or emails (up to 100 per batch). Instant Expert finds work emails where needed and drafts the invitations.
• User testing and interviews. Short paid calls or written answers from a specific kind of professional, for example "five security leads at companies that use Okta".
• Following up. "Did anyone book yet? What did the people who replied say?"

How it works

1. You describe the people (or the problem you're trying to learn about) in plain language.
2. Instant Expert researches and saves a list. A research search often takes a few minutes, and the assistant tells you how many people it found against how many you asked for.
3. The assistant drafts the invitation: your message, call or written answer, price per person and a total cap.
4. You review an order preview (recipients, message, prices, cap, card and terms) and approve it. Nothing is sent or charged before that.
5. Invitations go out by email from Instant Expert. Replies, booked times and transcripts come back to the assistant when you ask.

Pricing

• Searching, importing contacts and preparing drafts are free. They count toward your account's limits.
• You set the price per person ($5 minimum, Instant Expert's fee included), or use each person's suggested price. Typical offers are probably in the $25 to $300 range, depending on seniority and whether it's a call or a written answer.
• A call is charged when the person books it. A written or voice answer is charged when the reply is completed. If nobody accepts, you pay nothing.
• A total cap (maxspendcents) limits spend, so you can invite more people than the cap would cover if everyone said yes.

Install

The MCP endpoint for every client is:

https://instant.expert/mcp

It uses Streamable HTTP with OAuth sign-in. Paid sending is off for a new connection until you allow it (see Permissions).

Claude (claude.ai, desktop and mobile)

Plugin (connector plus the workflow skill), recommended:

1. Open Customize → Plugins → Add → Add marketplace and enter Instant-Expert/instant-expert-plugins.
2. Install Instant Expert.
3. Open the plugin's Connectors tab and connect Instant Expert. Sign in and approve.

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.