19 REAL RUNS · RECORDED 29 OCT 2026
MCP use cases with real runs and real receipts.
An MCP server gives an AI agent tools it can call by itself. Connect one to Claude, Cursor or Codex and the agent can search Google Maps, read reviews, pull keyword volume, read store listings or creator profiles, then reason over what comes back.
Most lists of MCP use cases stop at the idea. Each page below is a real run. It shows the prompt to paste, every tool call with its trimmed response, the calls that failed or came back empty, and what each step cost. Most runs cost less than a cent. The runs are grouped by who they are for: agencies and freelancers, SEO and content teams, social and influencer marketers, ecommerce sellers, founders, and job seekers. Copy a prompt, change the city, the product or the brand, and run it yourself.
An agent made every run through the tapinall CLI. The MCP connection gives your agent the same three moves. catalog_search finds a tool for the job, catalog_get shows its request format and price, and call runs it against your prepaid balance. The agent picked the tools itself, retried when a call failed, and switched providers when one rejected a request.
Pick a job.
See the bill.
Grouped by who runs them. Each job was run once and recorded, failed calls included.
- LOCAL LEADS
Find businesses without websites
3 of 40 auto repair shops in Austin, Texas list no website at all.
Search Google Maps for plumbers and for auto repair shops in Austin, TX. Flag the ones with no website or only a Facebook page, pull the latest reviews for one of them, and summarize what a competitor's website covers.
RAN 20 OCT 2026 $0.0012 - REVIEWS
Pull Google reviews for any place
The stars say 4.5. The review topics say queues and cups.
Find Monmouth Coffee Company at Borough Market, London on Google Maps. Pull its newest reviews and its most relevant reviews, then page through more reviews with a second tool, and tell me what customers praise and complain about.
RAN 20 OCT 2026 $0.0012 - LOCAL SEO
Run a local SEO audit
#9 on Google Maps with 124 reviews. The top 3 average 1,166.
Pick a dentist in Denver, CO that ranks outside the top 3 on Google Maps for "dentist" and run a local SEO audit on it before I pitch them. Check where it ranks on Maps for "dentist" and "emergency dentist" and in the local results, whether its site shows up on Google for "dentist denver" and for its own neighborhood, how its rating and reviews compare with the top 3, and what its homepage gets wrong.
RAN 20 OCT 2026 $0.0018 - B2B LEADS
Find B2B leads by company size
Asked for 11 to 50 staff, one database got 9 rows in 50 right. The other got 5 in 5.
We're a small software house in Jakarta. We build web apps, ERP and CRM systems and AI automation for SMBs. Find Indonesian logistics and wholesale companies with 10 to 50 staff, check the headcount is right, and give me each one's website, LinkedIn page and a business contact route. Company contacts only, no personal emails.
RAN 26 OCT 2026 $0.1486
- SEO
Keyword research in Claude
"pos software" gets 2,400 searches a month in the US. A blog post ranks #2.
Give me the top 10 US keywords around 'pos software' by volume, show who ranks on Google US for 'pos software', and list the backlinks of the #2 result.
RAN 20 OCT 2026 $0.0059 - AI SEARCH
Check if ChatGPT recommends your brand
Perplexity and ChatGPT both pick QuickBooks. Google ranks Zoho first.
Ask Perplexity, ChatGPT, Gemini and Google, from the US, 'What is the best accounting software for small businesses?' Tell me which brands each one recommends, which sources they cite, and where Xero ranks.
RAN 20 OCT 2026 $0.0232 - CONTENT GAP
Run a content gap analysis
Half of Plausible's 20 biggest gap keywords land on one backlinks guide.
We run content for usefathom.com. Do a content gap analysis against plausible.io: pull the biggest keywords each site ranks for on Google US with difficulty under 40, work out which of Plausible's we are missing, then the reverse. Check who ranks for the best gaps, read the Plausible page behind the biggest one, and suggest three articles we could write.
RAN 20 OCT 2026 $0.0033
- CREATORS
Check a TikTok engagement rate
18.3M followers. A median of 492,800 views per video.
Vet @duolingo on TikTok: followers, median views and engagement over their last 20 videos, and transcribe one of their brand collaboration or interview videos.
RAN 20 OCT 2026 $0.0067 - ENGAGEMENT
Calculate an Instagram engagement rate
3,127,714 followers. A median engagement rate of 0.12% per post.
Work out @glossier's Instagram engagement rate over its last 24 posts, check whether a giveaway is inflating it by reading that post's comments, and compare it with their partner @gabwallerdotcom.
RAN 20 OCT 2026 $0.0135 - TRANSCRIPTS
Read a YouTube creator's sponsor reads
Two transcripts, two sponsor reads, both inside the first 10 minutes.
We're thinking of sponsoring @aliabdaal on YouTube. Pull his subscriber count, the views on his last 30 videos and the transcripts of two recent long videos, then find any sponsor read: who it is, where it starts and how long it runs.
RAN 20 OCT 2026 $0.0132
- PRODUCT RESEARCH
Amazon product research for a niche
5 of the 9 stretch lid listings with over 1,000 reviews rate under 4 stars.
I'm thinking about selling silicone stretch lids on Amazon US. Search Amazon for the niche, read the first two pages of results with price, rating, review count and which listings are sponsored, then open the most-reviewed stretch lid set and read 12 of its reviews. Tell me whether there is room for a better product.
RAN 20 OCT 2026 $0.0710 - REVIEWS
Analyze Amazon reviews of a competitor
8 of 24 reviews of two stretch lid sets say the lids do not fit or stay on.
Analyze the Amazon reviews of three silicone lid sets: B09DY613QL, B08RD4HLPK and B0B9SGNR8M. Pull the product details for the first one, read 12 reviews of each, and group what buyers complain about with counts. Quote the reviews that explain the problem. If a set's reviews will not load, use another big stretch lid set.
RAN 20 OCT 2026 $0.0042 - COMPETITOR PRICES
Amazon competitor analysis
Two brands fill 5 of the 10 unpaid results for dog cooling mats.
I sell a dog cooling mat on Amazon US. Search 'dog cooling mat' and list every result with price, rating, review count and whether it is an ad. Open the pages of the three biggest rivals and compare their prices, stock and claims. Then check the leader's listing on Amazon UK.
RAN 20 OCT 2026 $0.0469
- CUSTOMER RESEARCH
Reddit market research
7 of 25 replies in the biggest freelance invoicing thread pitch an app the commenter built.
I'm thinking about building an invoicing app for freelancers. Search Reddit for what freelancers say about invoicing software, read the comments on the biggest thread, check how many invoicing tools launched on Hacker News, and tell me how many people search for this on Google in the US.
RAN 20 OCT 2026 $0.0253 - APP REVIEWS
Analyze a competitor's App Store reviews
A 4.47 average on the App Store. 17 of the 25 newest reviews give 1 or 2 stars.
I'm building a budgeting app. Find the big budgeting apps on the US App Store, pull the newest App Store and Google Play reviews for the one with the most ratings, and sort what users complain about into themes.
RAN 20 OCT 2026 $0.0012 - COMPETITORS
Run an AI competitor analysis
Rocket Money lists 7 funding rounds and the most ratings. Monarch, founded 2019, rates higher: 4.89.
Compare Monarch, YNAB, Copilot Money, Rocket Money and PocketGuard. For each, find the founding year and company size, look up funding and Product Hunt launches, and get its US App Store rating. Put it in one table.
RAN 20 OCT 2026 $0.0015
- PROFILE AND JOBS
Optimize a LinkedIn profile for the jobs you want
The best-fit job asked for n8n, LLM APIs, webhooks and MCP. The profile named n8n and none of the rest.
Find related jobs based on my LinkedIn profile, and give me suggestions to improve my LinkedIn profile. My profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/your-name
RAN 29 OCT 2026 $0.0166 - JOB SEARCH
Search several job boards with an AI job finder
LinkedIn showed pay on 0 of 50 cards. Glassdoor showed it on 22 of 30, but only 3 were posted this week.
Find remote senior frontend engineer jobs for me on LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor and this month's Hacker News Who is hiring thread. I live in the US. Drop duplicates and remote jobs limited to other countries, then list the rest with the salary.
RAN 29 OCT 2026 $0.0043 - JOB DATA
Pull LinkedIn jobs with a LinkedIn jobs API
Asked for data analyst jobs in Chicago, one tool returned 25 local jobs and the other 20 remote ones. They shared 2.
Pull this week's LinkedIn jobs for data analyst in Chicago into a table with title, company, location, date and link. Try two LinkedIn job tools and tell me which fits better. Then read the top 3 posts and sum up the salary, applicants and required skills.
RAN 29 OCT 2026 $0.0059
Charges are what each run settled at, in US dollars. Calls that failed or returned nothing were not charged.
Billing, hosts
and failed calls.
How am I billed for these runs?
Per call, from prepaid credits. Your agent sees each tool's price before it calls, and your usage ledger lists every charge. Credits never expire.
Which agents can run these prompts?
Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI and any client that speaks MCP. One setup line installs the tools.
What happens when a call fails?
You are not charged. Several runs here include failed calls with their HTTP status, and calls that came back empty at $0.0000. The agent retried or switched tools.
Do the prompts work outside the US?
Yes. Every tool takes a country, a language or a place in the query, so the same prompt works for London, Berlin, São Paulo or Jakarta. Data depth varies by market. In our research the keyword databases covered US terms best, and Google Maps lists only businesses that keep a profile.
Can an MCP server call another MCP server?
A server can act as a client of other servers, but you rarely need that. Here one MCP server stands in front of many providers, so a single connection reaches Maps, keyword, review, AI search and TikTok tools.
Pick a prompt.
Run it yourself. ✳
One token for the whole catalog.
No subscription. Credits never expire.