Using the LeadIQ MCP Connector (AI-Powered Prospecting & Enrichment)

Overview

The LeadIQ MCP (Model Context Protocol) Connector lets you use LeadIQ from AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Copilot through natural language. You sign in with your LeadIQ account, and the assistant can enrich contacts and companies, prospect for new leads, manage your prospect lists, verify emails, and export prospects to Salesforce. No coding or API keys required.

This article covers setup on each platform, example prompts, and troubleshooting. The complete technical reference, including the full tool list with per-tool credit costs, lives in the LeadIQ developer documentation.

 

What you can do

Once connected, describe what you want in plain language and the assistant picks the right tool:

Capability	Tools	Credits
Enrich contacts you already know, by LinkedIn URL, work email, or name and company. Returns verified work emails, phone numbers, title, seniority, and employer. Up to 10 per request.	EnrichPeople	Uses credits
Enrich companies by domain, name, or LinkedIn. Returns firmographics, technology categories, revenue, funding, NAICS/SIC, and parent company. Up to 10 per request.	EnrichCompanies	Uses credits
Prospect for new people with ideal customer profile filters: title, seniority, role, industry, company size, revenue, funding, location, technologies.	FindPeople	Uses credits
Build account lists of companies matching firmographic and technographic criteria, each with a count of matching contacts.	FindCompanies	Uses credits
Track job changes and promotions, including filters on the previous title and previous company.	FindJobChanges	Uses credits
Create and browse prospect lists, save prospects into them, and search everything you have saved.	BrowseProspectLists CreateProspectList GetProspectList AddProspectToList AttachProspectToList GetProspect CreateProspect SearchProspects	Free
Verify email deliverability, for any address or for a saved prospect.	VerifyEmail VerifyProspectEmail	0.1 UC per check
Export saved prospects to Salesforce as Leads or Contacts, with duplicate detection and confirmation before anything is written.	ExportProspectToSalesforce	Free in most cases
Check your credit balance, live unlock costs, and the signed-in account.	CheckCredits	Free

Per-tool credit costs and details for every tool are in the developer docs under MCP tools.

In Claude, the connector also includes a guided prompt called icp. It walks you through defining an ideal customer profile, running the search, and saving the top matches into a prospect list, with the credit cost shown and approved up front.

 

Requirements

• An active LeadIQ account. Email/password and Google login are both supported.
• An AI platform that supports MCP. Claude (all plans, including Free), ChatGPT (Plus, Team, or Enterprise), and the Microsoft Copilot ecosystem are supported, along with any MCP client that supports remote servers with OAuth.

Recommended platforms: Claude (Web or Desktop) for chat-based prospecting, and Microsoft Copilot (Copilot Studio, Power Automate, Power Apps, Logic Apps) for automation workflows.

 

Set up in Claude

1. Open Claude and go to Settings → Connectors.
2. Click Add custom connector.
3. Enter the following details:
   • Name: LeadIQ
   • Remote MCP server URL: https://mcp.leadiq.com/mcp
4. Save the connector, then click Connect.
5. A LeadIQ sign-in window opens. Log in with your email and password, or click Sign in with Google.

6. Approve the access request when prompted.

   

7. Back in Claude, make sure LeadIQ is toggled ON in the chat's connector menu.

   

Note for Enterprise SSO users: 

If your organization enforces enterprise SSO (for example, your company's Google domain is linked to LeadIQ), clicking "Sign in with Google" may show an error. In that case, go back and enter your email address directly; the password field will appear and you can log in with your credentials instead.

 

Set up in ChatGPT

Note: this integration requires a paid ChatGPT subscription (Plus, Team, or Enterprise). It is not available on the free tier.

1. Go to Settings and navigate to Apps & Connectors.
2. Enable Developer Mode. This is required to add third-party MCP connectors in ChatGPT.
3. Return to Apps & Connectors and click Create App. Enter the following details:
   • Name: LeadIQ
   • MCP server URL: https://mcp.leadiq.com/mcp

   • Authentication: OAuth

     

4. Save the app and complete the LeadIQ sign-in when prompted. If LeadIQ does not appear right away, log out and back into ChatGPT, or refresh the page.
5. Start a new chat and add LeadIQ as a capability from the connector menu. You can now use the same natural-language prompts listed below.

Set up in Microsoft Copilot

LeadIQ MCP is a certified connector across Copilot Studio, Power Automate, Power Apps, and Logic Apps.

1. In Copilot Studio, Power Automate, Power Apps, or Logic Apps, open the connector gallery and search for "LeadIQ."
2. Select the LeadIQ MCP connector and choose Create connection.
3. Sign in with your LeadIQ account when prompted. No client ID or secret is required; authentication uses OAuth 2.0, and you'll approve access for LeadIQ's standard scopes during sign-in.
4. Add the LeadIQ MCP action to your flow or agent. Any of the connector's tools can be called from this single action.
5. Test the connection with a simple prompt, for example: "Find VPs of Sales at software companies with 100-500 employees."

Notes specific to Copilot:

• The connector is listed under the Sales and CRM and AI categories in Microsoft's connector directory.
• Copilot Studio, Power Apps, and Power Automate list it as a Premium connector; Logic Apps lists it as Standard.
• Government cloud regions (GCC, GCC High, DoD) and Azure China are not currently supported.

 

Credits and costs

Search and enrichment tools draw from the same Universal Credits (UC) as the rest of your LeadIQ plan, and you are only billed for data that is actually returned. Profile data is inexpensive; verified emails, direct phones, and company firmographics cost more. List management and saved-prospect access are always free.

Two things keep you in control:

• The assistant states the estimated cost before a paid call, and asks for your consent before large ones.
• Checking your balance is free. Ask "What's my LeadIQ credit balance and what do unlocks cost?" at any time; the rates it returns are the ones that apply to your plan.

If you unlocked a data point in the past year, looking it up again is free.

Full pricing, with per-data-point rates and worked examples, is in the developer docs under How credits work over MCP.

 

Example prompts to get started

• What can LeadIQ do?
• Enrich [e-mail] and save her to my Q3 Outbound list
• Find VPs of Sales at US software companies with 100-500 employees that use Salesforce
• Build me an account list: fintechs with 200+ employees that have a Head of Payments
• Who became a VP of Marketing at a healthcare company in the last 90 days?
• Verify these three emails before I send my sequence
• Export John Smith from my Q3 Outbound list to Salesforce
• What's my LeadIQ credit balance?

 

Troubleshooting

"Sign in with Google" shows an error

If your organization enforces enterprise SSO, the Google button may fail. Enter your email address directly instead; the password field will appear and you can log in with your credentials.

LeadIQ does not appear in ChatGPT after creating the app

Log out and back into ChatGPT, or refresh the page.

Connection error in Copilot

Confirm you are signing in with an active LeadIQ account and that you have not entered a client ID manually; none is needed for this connector.

Salesforce export fails or reports duplicates

Export requires a Salesforce account connected to LeadIQ and export enabled for your team. If the assistant reports possible duplicates, review them before deciding whether to proceed; the export writes to your CRM and cannot be undone from LeadIQ.

Results look thinner than expected

Results depend on available data and verification status. Enrichment is batched at up to 10 contacts or companies per request.

If you have any questions about the MCP Connector, reach out to the LeadIQ Support Team by clicking Submit a Request at the top right of the help center. Developers integrating directly with the API can contact [e-mail].