The Apollo.io MCP server integrates Apollo.io's B2B sales intelligence API into AI assistants that support the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling users to directly query prospect and company information through natural language.
Primary Uses
- Prospect search: Find target people based on criteria such as job title, location, and company.
- Contact information enrichment: Supplement detailed information such as email, phone, and LinkedIn for known names, emails, or company domains.
- Company information retrieval: Query a specific company's size, industry, tech stack, funding status, and more.
- Company discovery: Filter companies by industry, employee count, location, and other criteria to uncover sales leads.
Main Capabilities
- People search (apollo_search_people): Supports filtering by keyword, job title, location, and organization ID, and can return a paginated list of contacts.
- Person enrichment (apollo_enrich_person): Returns detailed personal profile based on name, email, domain, or company name, including email, phone, LinkedIn, and work information.
- Organization enrichment (apollo_enrich_organization): Retrieves detailed company data via company domain, such as size, industry, technology, funding, and more.
- Organization search (apollo_search_organizations): Finds companies by criteria such as keyword and employee count range, and returns company information, size, and location.
- Data coverage: Provides access to Apollo's B2B database of more than 275 million contacts.
How to Use
- Get an Apollo.io API key: Log in to Apollo.io, go to Settings → Integrations → API, and copy the API key.
- Configure the MCP client: Add the server to Claude Desktop or another MCP-compatible client configuration. The Mac path is ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json, and the Windows path is %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json.
- Interact via natural language: After configuration is complete, you can issue instructions directly in natural language, such as "Find CTOs in San Francisco working at Series A startups", "Enrich this email: john@example.com", or "Tell me about apollo.io".
Use Cases
- Sales teams finding and verifying prospects.
- Recruiters looking up candidate contact information.
- Market researchers analyzing target companies.
- Any scenario that requires quick access to Apollo B2B data through natural language.
Limitations
- Requires a valid Apollo.io API key and may be subject to Apollo's API terms of use and quota limits.
- Only supports clients compatible with the MCP protocol.
- Specific details about charges, pricing, data accuracy, or platform compatibility are not provided in the materials.
