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Trace API & MCP

Web-technology detection and vendor intelligence, available as a REST API and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.

Trace crawls websites, identifies the technologies in use, and maps them to the vendors and companies behind them. You can reach that intelligence two ways: a conventional REST API for your own services, or an MCP server that lets AI agents query it as tools.

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Two ways in

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REST API

Look up a company’s technographics, find companies using a technology or vendor, explore the partnership graph, and build target lists — all over HTTPS with an API key.

MCP server

Connect Claude, Cursor, VS Code, and other AI clients so agents can query Trace’s technographic and vendor intelligence directly as tools.

What you can do

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  • Company technographics — resolve any domain to its detected technology stack, firmographics, and partnership counts.
  • Reverse lookup — find every company running a given technology or vendor.
  • Partnership graph — traverse the relationships between companies and surface shared partners.
  • Target lists — create and manage saved company lists from your own criteria.

Quickstart

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Every authenticated request carries your API key in the X-API-Key header. Look up a company by domain:

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curl https://api.tracedata.ai/v1/companies/stripe.com \
  -H "X-API-Key: $TRACE_API_KEY"

Built for agents

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The full OpenAPI description is published at https://api.tracedata.ai/v1/openapi.json, so agents and codegen tools can discover every endpoint, parameter, and response shape automatically. For agentic workflows, the MCP server exposes the same intelligence as first-class tools — no glue code required.