Product
One secure endpoint. Every angle on a UK business.
DataGardener MCP is a Model Context Protocol server from DataGardener Solutions Limited that gives authorised AI agents and applications read-only access to connected UK company, financial, people, ownership, lending, procurement, public-spend, property and economic intelligence, with source and date metadata on records.
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Pick a question. Watch the agent choose tools, query modules and connect evidence.
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Illustrative output. Real tool names.
Question
Find engineering SMEs in the West Midlands that are growing, have won public-sector work and may need additional working capital.
Stage 1 of 5
Understanding the request
The agent breaks the question into the conditions it must satisfy.
- Geography: West Midlands
- Sector: engineering
- Size: SME
- Growth signal
- Public contracts
- Working-capital signal
Each condition maps to one or more DataGardener intelligence layers. Nothing is guessed: if a condition cannot be evidenced, the agent says so.
- Company Intelligence
- Financial Intelligence
- Procurement
- Lending
- Risk
Read this investigation as text
Question: Find engineering SMEs in the West Midlands that are growing, have won public-sector work and may need additional working capital.
Intent: Geography: West Midlands; Sector: engineering; Size: SME; Growth signal; Public contracts; Working-capital signal.
Tools selected: search_companies, execute_ukgaap_query, search_contracts, execute_query.
Modules queried: Company index (Engineering SIC codes, West Midlands, live, SME size bands: 1,284 candidates); UK GAAP financials (Turnover up over two periods, cash down or trade debtors rising: 216 match); Contract Finder index (Awarded supplier in last 24 months, any buyer: 41 match); Company index (No new charge in 36 months, no insolvency event: 27 shortlisted).
Evidence connected: Turnover growth and debtor build-up from two consecutive filings; Contract award notice with buyer and value; Charge history showing age of last secured facility; Company status, incorporation date and SIC description.
Answer: 27 engineering SMEs in the West Midlands match all four conditions. The strongest signal set combines two years of turnover growth with rising trade debtors, a public-sector award in the last 24 months, and a last registered charge older than three years.
Provenance: Source Companies House filings; Contracts Finder; date Filed accounts to 2025; awards to 2026; module Company, Financial, Procurement, Lending; usage 27 company records.
Suggested next questions: Which of these have a director or PSC change in the last 12 months? / Which lenders hold the existing charges? / Who is the finance contact at the top ten?
Architecture
One MCP endpoint with entitled intelligence modules.
DataGardener MCP is not a collection of disconnected servers. It is a single remote server that exposes 34 task-level tools across twelve intelligence layers. Each customer connection is entitled to the modules in its agreement, and the agent sees one connected system joined on company registration number.
Task-level tools
Search tools accept plain parameters such as region, county, industry or value band. Query tools accept full DSL for anything a search cannot express. The agent picks the lightest tool that answers the question.
Server-side defaults
Dissolved and dormant companies are excluded by default from company queries unless the user asks for them, so results reflect the live business population.
Read only
Every tool reads. The server rejects write operations, so an agent can investigate freely without being able to change anything.
Entitled access
Identity travels with the OAuth connection. An agent sees the modules its DataGardener entitlement allows and nothing else.
Metered by record
Record-returning tools are metered per company record returned. Describe and count tools are designed to be used freely before an agent commits to a larger pull.
Knowledge base first
A built-in knowledge base returns the correct field names, nesting rules and KPI templates, so an agent writes correct queries rather than guessing at a schema.
Intelligence Graph
Hover or focus a layer
Each layer is a connected part of one intelligence system, joined on company registration number. When an agent asks a question, only the relevant layers activate, so the answer is an investigation rather than a lookup.
- Company Intelligence
- Financial Intelligence
- People and Directors
- Ownership
- Risk
- Lending
- Procurement
- Public Spend
- Property and Land
- Contacts
- Local and Regional Economy
- International Trade
DataGardener MCP
One connection. Twelve layers.
Company Intelligence
Core profile of every UK registered company: identity, status, SIC codes, addresses, incorporation and filing history, group membership.
- Sample fields
companyRegistrationNumbercompanyStatussicCode07incorporationDateregisteredAddress- Tools
search_companiesexecute_querysearch_group_structuresearch_gs02- Sources
- Companies House; DataGardener company index
- Sample question
- “Which engineering SMEs in the West Midlands were incorporated in the last ten years and are still active?”
Financial Intelligence
Filed accounts across multiple years: turnover, profit, balance sheet, cash, employees, growth and derived ratios, drawn from statutory filings and UK GAAP tagged accounts.
- Sample fields
turnoverprofitAfterTaxnetAssetsnumberOfEmployeesyearEndDate- Tools
search_ukgaapexecute_ukgaap_querysearch_statutory_accountssearch_accounts_data- Sources
- Companies House iXBRL accounts; DataGardener accounts data index
- Sample question
- “Show manufacturing companies in Birmingham whose turnover grew but whose cash position weakened over the last two filings.”
People and Directors
Current and resigned officers, appointments across companies, director networks and recent changes.
- Sample fields
officerNameroleappointedOnresignedOnotherAppointments- Tools
execute_query- Sources
- Companies House officers
- Sample question
- “Which suppliers on this list have had a director resignation in the last 90 days?”
Ownership
Persons with significant control, shareholdings, corporate group structures, parents and ultimate parents, and investor relationships.
- Sample fields
pscNamenatureOfControlultimateParentshareholderNamenumberOfSharesIssued- Tools
search_pscsearch_shareholdingssearch_group_structuresearch_investor- Sources
- Companies House PSC register; Confirmation statements; DataGardener group structure
- Sample question
- “Who ultimately owns this supplier, and has control changed since the contract was awarded?”
Risk
Signals that a company's position is changing: charges, CCJs where available, late filings, status changes, insolvency events, and DataGardener risk indicators.
- Sample fields
riskScorechargesOutstandinglateFilingstatusChangeinsolvencyEvent- Tools
execute_querysearch_dgsafe- Sources
- Companies House; Registered charges; DataGardener risk indicators
- Sample question
- “Flag any portfolio companies with new charges or overdue accounts this quarter.”
Lending
Registered charges, lender relationships, charge dates and satisfactions, funding events and refinancing windows derived from charge history and financial change.
- Sample fields
chargeHolderchargeCreatedOnchargeSatisfiedOnlenderNamerefinancingWindow- Tools
execute_querysearch_dgsafe- Sources
- Companies House charges register; DataGardener lending intelligence
- Sample question
- “Which companies in Greater Manchester have a charge created three to five years ago with no newer charge?”
Procurement
UK public-sector contract notices and awards: buyers, suppliers, values, CPV codes, regions, status and SME suitability.
- Sample fields
noticeTitlebuyerawardedSupplierawardedValuecpvCode- Tools
search_contractsexecute_procurement_query- Sources
- Contracts Finder; Find a Tender and Central Digital Platform notices (OCDS)
- Sample question
- “Which construction SMEs in the North West have won public-sector contracts in the last two years?”
Public Spend
Published payment data from UK councils, combined authorities, NHS bodies and government departments, resolved to suppliers.
- Sample fields
buyersupplieramountpaymentDatecategory- Tools
execute_procurement_query- Sources
- Published payments over £500 and £25,000; DataGardener spend data
- Sample question
- “How much have councils in the West Midlands paid this supplier over the last financial year?”
Property and Land
Company-owned titles from HM Land Registry's corporate ownership data, plus price-paid transactions for market context.
- Sample fields
titleNumberproprietorNametenurepricePaiddateProprietorAdded- Tools
search_corporate_landsearch_land_registryexecute_land_registry_query- Sources
- HM Land Registry corporate ownership; HM Land Registry price paid
- Sample question
- “Which freehold titles does this company own, and when were they acquired?”
Contacts
Business contact details for decision-makers where available and permitted, including email, phone and professional profile links, for entitled customers.
- Sample fields
contactNamejobTitlebusinessEmailphoneprofileUrl- Tools
execute_query- Sources
- DataGardener contact data
- Sample question
- “Who is the finance director at each of the shortlisted companies?”
Local and Regional Economy
Business population, sector mix, growth, incorporations and procurement activity aggregated by region, county, local authority, constituency or postcode district.
- Sample fields
regionlocalAuthoritybusinessCountsectorMixgrowthIndicator- Tools
execute_queryexecute_accountsdata_query- Sources
- DataGardener aggregations across company and procurement indexes
- Sample question
- “Show high-growth digital businesses in Croydon founded in the last five years.”
International Trade
UK importers and exporters, trading partners and global firmographics for companies with an international footprint.
- Sample fields
importerExporterFlagtradePartnerCountrycommodityGrouprevenueRangeemployeeRange- Tools
search_global_revenue_companiesexecute_global_revenue_query- Sources
- HMRC importer and exporter data; DataGardener global revenue dataset
- Sample question
- “Which UK manufacturers export to Germany and have grown revenue in the last two years?”
Platform, API or MCP?
The DataGardener platform is for people working interactively. The Company Data API is for deterministic integrations. DataGardener MCP is for AI agents that decide which tools to call. All three use the same intelligence.
MCP vs APIHow it works
A question becomes a plan, the plan becomes tool calls, the tool results become connected evidence, and the evidence becomes an answer with its provenance attached.
Step by stepSecurity and entitlement
OAuth authorisation, read-only tools, per-connection entitlement, UK data storage, ISO/IEC 27001 and Cyber Essentials certification.
Security detailBuilt on intelligence organisations already trust
The same intelligence, now for agents.
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DataGardener MCP: frequently asked questions
Is DataGardener MCP one server or several?
One endpoint. Intelligence modules are entitled per customer behind that endpoint, so an agent sees a single connected system rather than a set of disconnected servers.
Which data is included?
Company identity and status, filed financials across years, directors, persons with significant control, shareholdings, group structures, investors, registered charges and lending signals, risk indicators, UK public-sector contracts and published spend, company-owned land and price-paid property data, business contacts where entitled, local-economy aggregations and international trade data.
How current is the data?
DataGardener states its platform is updated daily. Each record also carries the date of the underlying filing, notice or snapshot so the agent can report freshness per fact.
Can the agent write to DataGardener?
No. All DataGardener MCP tools are read-only and the server rejects write operations.
How is usage measured?
Record-returning tools are metered per company record returned. Describe, count and knowledge-base tools are designed to be used freely so the agent can plan before it pulls records. Commercial terms are agreed per customer.
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