Integration · CRM & sales
Connect Claude & ChatGPT to Cognism
Ask your AI to find finance leaders at a list of companies, reveal their contact details, or fill in a profile from an email address in Cognism. It can search contacts and companies, redeem previews into full details, enrich contacts by email and companies by website, check your credit balance and see whether an email has opted out. You see previews first and decide which contacts to reveal.
Free plan, no credit card. Takes about a minute.
Try asking
“Find CFOs at Acme and Nordic Foods in the Nordics.”
The AI searches by job title, company and region and returns previews with redeem IDs. Contact details stay hidden until you redeem them.
“Reveal email and phone for the first three.”
It redeems those contacts and returns their full details. This uses Cognism credits.
“How many contact credits do we have left?”
It reads your contact credit entitlement: how many redeems you have and how many are used.
What your AI can do
Search
Search contacts by name, job title, region or company, and companies by name or domain. Results come back as previews.
Redeem and enrich
Reveal full contact and company details from search previews, and enrich a contact from an email or a company from a website.
Credits and opt-outs
Check contact and company credit balances, list valid region values and check whether an email address has opted out.
“Fill in the profile for [email protected].”
It enriches the contact from the email address. This may use credits.
“Get the company profile for acme.com.”
It enriches the company from its website. This may use credits.
“Has [email protected] opted out of being contacted?”
It checks the email address against Cognism's opt-out list.
10 tools for Cognism
These tools are switched on when you connect. You can switch any of them off, or require your approval before it runs.
check_email_opt_outCheck whether an email address has opted out of being contacted, by `email`.enrich_companyChanges dataLook up a company's full profile from its `website`. May use Cognism credits.enrich_contactChanges dataLook up and fill in a contact's full profile from their `email`. May use Cognism credits.get_company_creditsShow your company credit entitlement: how many company redeems you have and have used.get_contact_creditsShow your contact credit entitlement: how many contact redeems you have and have used.list_regionsList the region values you can use in the `regions` filter of contact search.redeem_companiesChanges dataReveal full company details for companies found by search, by their `redeem_ids`. May use Cognism credits.redeem_contactsChanges dataReveal full contact details (email, phone) for contacts found by search, by their `redeem_ids`. Uses Cognism credits.search_companiesChanges dataSearch Cognism for companies by `names` or `domains`. Returns previews with redeem IDs.search_contactsChanges dataSearch Cognism for B2B contacts by `first_name`, `last_name`, `job_titles`, `regions` or company (`account.names`). Returns previews with redeem IDs; contact details are not revealed until redeemed.
Set up in three steps
- 1
Pick the app
Create a free PipMCP account and choose Cognism from the app list.
- 2
Paste your key
Paste a Cognism API key. API access must be part of your Cognism subscription. Generate the key in Cognism Prospector (or Cognism Refresh), or ask your Cognism contact to enable it. Keys expire after 6 months.
- 3
Add the link to your AI
You get a personal MCP link. Add it to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor:
- Click your name, then Settings › Connectors › Add custom connector.
- Paste your link as the Remote MCP server URL.
- Switch it on from the + menu in a chat.
Questions
What can the AI do in Cognism?
It can search Cognism for contacts and companies, redeem search previews into full contact and company details, enrich a contact from an email address and a company from a website, check your contact and company credits, list region values and check whether an email has opted out.
Does the AI see my Cognism API key?
No. Your Cognism API key is encrypted at rest and never shown to the AI. After you save it, it is not shown again, not even to you. The AI only sees the results of the tools it calls.
Can I control what the AI is allowed to do?
Yes. You choose which tools are switched on, so you can start with search and credit checks only. Redeeming and enriching can use Cognism credits, so those tools can require your approval before they run. Every tool call is logged.
Does it work with ChatGPT?
Yes. In ChatGPT go to Settings › Apps & Connectors › Advanced and turn on Developer mode, then add your PipMCP link. Developer mode needs a paid ChatGPT plan: Plus, Pro, Business or Enterprise. The same link also works in Claude (Settings › Connectors › Add custom connector), Cursor and other MCP clients.
What does it cost?
PipMCP has a free plan with no credit card required. Paid plans bill per completed task. You also need a Cognism subscription that includes API access. Credits used for redeems and enrichment come from your Cognism account.
Does the AI use my Cognism credits?
Revealing contact details uses Cognism credits, and redeeming companies or enriching contacts and companies may use credits too. Search returns previews first, so you see who matches before anything is revealed. The AI can also check your credit balance before it redeems.
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