Find the companies others miss.
Describe the companies. Canonical returns structured, verified shortlists — not a page of links — in the app, the API, or any agent.
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Model Context Protocol
Find companies without leaving the chat.
Add Canonical to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor — or any MCP-compatible client. Ask in plain English; your assistant runs a verified company search and works with the results, right in the conversation.
Connect in one click
OAuth handles sign-in — no API keys to copy or rotate. Add the connector once and you're in.
Five tools your agent calls
Search, find similar, look up by name, pull a full company profile, and check your credit balance.
Read-only by design
It searches your catalogue and nothing else — never your account, billing, team, or saved work.
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How it works
Use it in the app, or build on the API.
Plain-English query in. Structured, verified companies out.
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01 Input
“Vertical SaaS in Germany with 100–500 employees”
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02 Engine
Industry, geography, size, funding stage, signals.
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03 Output
Ranked companies with funding, leadership, and firmographics.
Canonical preview
From prompt to criteria you can inspect
Canonical translates a natural-language search into structured criteria before results are generated.
Your query
Fast-growing vertical SaaS companies in Germany with 100–500 employees
Interpreted criteria
Capabilities
What Canonical understands
Search the way you already think about companies — by profile, funding, leadership, similarity, and exclusions.
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Company profile
Market, location, size, and operating profile.
“Private fintech companies in Singapore with 100–500 employees”
- Industry · Fintech
- Ownership · Private
- HQ · Singapore
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Funding
Stage, investors, round size, and growth signals.
“AI customer support startups Series A or B in the US”
- Industry · AI customer support
- Funding stage · Series A or B
- Geography · United States
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People & leadership
Founders, executives, prior companies, and team signals.
“B2B SaaS companies with repeat founders”
- Industry · B2B SaaS
- Founder signal · Repeat founders
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Similar companies
Start from a known company and find adjacent ones.
“Similar to Stripe”
- Anchor · Stripe
- Mode · Similar companies
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Exclusions
Tell Canonical what to skip.
“AI customer support startups Series A or B in the US, excluding Intercom, Zendesk and Drift, not consulting”
- Industry · AI customer support
- Funding stage · Series A or B
- Geography · United States
Examples
Explore real company searches
Preview public searches built from natural-language criteria. See the top results, review the interpreted criteria, and run your own when you want to go deeper.
Benchmark
They search the same web.
We find different companies.
Same query across Canonical, Exa, and Parallel. Canonical surfaced 48 companies the others missed.
50 companies found by Canonical.
The broadest shortlist from the same query.
48 only found by Canonical.
Long-tail companies missing from the other result sets.
Canonical returned the broadest shortlist from the same query.
The benchmark pooled 96 companies across all platforms. Canonical surfaced 50 of them, more than either alternative.
Almost zero overlap.
Only 3 companies appeared on more than one platform. Canonical surfaced 48 companies no other platform returned.
| Canonical | Exa | Parallel | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canonical | 48 | 2 | 0 |
| Exa | 2 | 28 | 1 |
| Parallel | 0 | 1 | 17 |
Diagonal shows companies only found by that platform. Off-diagonal cells show pair overlap.
More results, less waiting.
Canonical returned a broader evidence-backed shortlist in under 10 seconds, while alternatives took minutes to return fewer results.
Different indexes, different companies.
A sample of what each platform surfaced for the same query.
Niche companies purpose-built for the query.
- 01 Schematic
- 02 Togai
- 03 Andra Labs
- 04 Flowglad
- 05 Kickplan
- 06 Stykite
- 07 Amberflo
- 08 RevenueCat
- 09 DevCycle
+ 41 more
Mid-tier developer tools with strong web presence.
- 01 Ably
- 02 Replit
- 03 Cursor
- 04 Weights & Biases
- 05 Contentful
- 06 n8n
- 07 Tabnine
- 08 AssemblyAI
- 09 Chargebee
+ 22 more
Large, well-known companies many developers could name from memory.
- 01 AWS
- 02 Microsoft Azure
- 03 Google Cloud Platform
- 04 Stripe
- 05 Twilio
- 06 OpenAI
- 07 Docker
- 08 Sentry
- 09 Vercel
+ 9 more
Workflow
From question to shortlist
Describe the companies
Write the search the way you’d describe it to a colleague.
Review interpreted criteria
Industry, geography, size, funding. Edit anything before it runs.
Get a structured shortlist
A scannable table — domain, HQ, size, founding year, industry, and funding.
Open the full profile
Funding history, leadership, and firmographics — plus one-click find-similar.
Integrations
Available everywhere your team builds.
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Find the companies others miss.
Start with a plain-English query. Review the criteria, open full company profiles, and build a shortlist you can trust.