MCP Company Researcher -- Full Domain Intelligence Report: Website, Tech Stack, SSL, News & HN Mentions

Need to research a company before a sales call, investment meeting, or partnership discussion? Manually checking their website, looking up their tech stack, searching Google News, scanning Hacker News -- it takes 30 minutes per company. What if you could get a complete company intelligence profile from just a domain name in under 30 seconds?

MCP Company Researcher takes a single company domain and returns a structured intelligence report: website metadata (title, description, Open Graph), technology stack detection, DNS records, SSL certificate details, latest Google News mentions, and Hacker News discussions. One domain in, full company profile out. Built for AI sales agents, competitive intelligence pipelines, and due diligence automation.

What You Get

• Website metadata -- page title, meta description, Open Graph title/description/image
• Technology stack -- detects WordPress, Next.js, Shopify, Google Analytics, Stripe, HubSpot, Intercom (7 technologies)
• DNS records -- resolved IP addresses via Google DNS-over-HTTPS
• SSL certificate -- issuer organization, expiration date, validity status
• Recent news -- up to 5 latest Google News articles with sources
• Hacker News mentions -- top 5 HN stories mentioning the company with points and URLs

Key Features

• Single domain input -- no URL formatting needed, just stripe.com
• 6 intelligence sections -- website, tech stack, DNS, SSL, news, HN mentions
• Real-time data -- news and HN results are live, not cached
• SSL security check -- instantly see if a company's cert is valid and who issued it
• MCP-native -- designed for Model Context Protocol AI agent integration
• No API key needed -- all data from public endpoints
• Fast -- full report in under 30 seconds

Output Data Example

{
  "domain": "stripe.com",
  "website": {
    "title": "Stripe | Financial Infrastructure for the Internet",
    "description": "Stripe powers online and in-person payment processing and financial solutions for businesses of all sizes.",
    "ogTitle": "Stripe | Financial Infrastructure for the Internet",
    "ogDescription": "Stripe powers online and in-person payment processing...",
    "ogImage": "https://stripe.com/img/v3/home/social.png"
  },
  "techStack": [
    "Next.js",
    "Google Analytics",
    "Stripe"
  ],
  "dns": {
    "ips": ["185.166.143.28", "185.166.143.29"]
  },
  "ssl": {
    "issuer": "DigiCert Inc",
    "validTo": "Apr 15 23:59:59 2027 GMT",
    "isValid": true
  },
  "recentNews": [
    {
      "title": "Stripe launches new AI-powered fraud detection",
      "source": "TechCrunch"
    },
    {
      "title": "Stripe valued at $91B in latest funding round",
      "source": "Bloomberg"
    }
  ],
  "hackerNewsMentions": [
    {
      "title": "Stripe's new developer documentation approach",
      "points": 342,
      "url": "https://stripe.com/blog/new-docs"
    },
    {
      "title": "How Stripe handles billions in transactions",
      "points": 289,
      "url": "https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/..."
    }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-03-19T14:30:00.000Z"
}

Use Cases

1. Sales call preparation -- get a complete company snapshot before every prospect meeting
2. Competitive intelligence -- research competitor technology choices, news coverage, and community sentiment
3. Investment due diligence -- verify SSL security, check recent news, assess technical maturity
4. Partnership evaluation -- understand a potential partner's tech stack and market presence
5. Lead qualification -- check if a company uses technologies compatible with your product (e.g., Stripe users for a fintech tool)
6. AI agent enrichment -- give your AI SDR real-time company data for personalized outreach
7. Security auditing -- quickly check SSL certificate validity and issuer for any domain
8. Journalist research -- find recent news coverage and tech community discussions about a company

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
domain	string	Yes	--	Company website domain (e.g., stripe.com, notion.so). No https:// prefix needed.

How It Works

1. You provide a company domain (e.g., stripe.com)
2. The actor runs 6 research modules in sequence:
   • Website crawl -- fetches homepage, extracts title, meta tags, Open Graph data, and detects 7 technology signatures
   • DNS lookup -- resolves A records via Google's DNS-over-HTTPS API
   • SSL inspection -- connects to port 443, reads the peer certificate (issuer, expiry, validity)
   • Google News search -- fetches RSS feed for latest 5 news articles mentioning the domain
   • Hacker News search -- queries Algolia HN API for top 5 stories with points and URLs
3. All results are combined into a single structured JSON object
4. Total execution time: typically 10-30 seconds depending on target site response time

Detected Technologies

Technology	Detection Method
WordPress	wp-content/ in HTML
Next.js	_next/ static paths
Shopify	cdn.shopify.com references
Google Analytics	googletagmanager or gtag
Stripe	js.stripe references
HubSpot	hubspot.com references
Intercom	intercom.com references

Combining with Other MCP Servers

For deeper research, chain this with other tools:

• Run MCP Company Researcher first to get the overview
• Then use MCP Lead Finder to extract emails and social links from the same domain
• Use MCP SEO Analyzer to audit the company's SEO health
• Feed results into MCP Market Research Server to understand the company's industry

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• Browse all our actors on the Apify Store
• Source code and more MCP servers on GitHub
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