Marketing Wisdom MCP: Free Semantic Search for Startup Insights

Marketing Wisdom MCP is a free remote MCP server that provides semantic search access to 6,700 startup insights extracted from two popular business podcasts. The tool indexes content from 1,040 episodes—911 from My First Million and 129 from Starter Story—and makes it queryable through Claude AI interfaces.

What it does

The MCP server exposes four tools:

• search_insights — semantic search across all 6,700 content chunks. Example queries include "how did bootstrapped founders get their first 100 customers" or "what distribution channels work for developer tools"
• get_episode — retrieve all insights from a specific episode by title
• list_episodes — browse the indexed episodes
• get_stats — view breakdown including categories, date range, and chunk counts

Insights are pre-structured into categories like Growth & Marketing Tactics, Business Ideas, Revenue Models, and Frameworks & Mental Models. Search results return sourced bullet points with episode references.

Example query results

When asked "how do developer tool founders get first users," the tool returned specific examples:

• A founder who gained thousands of users in one day from a single Hacker News post by targeting where their users already congregated
• A founder who grew an open-source tool to 32k GitHub stars, then leveraged that community for R&D—contributors found bugs, shipped features, and became advocates

Setup and connection

The MCP server is remote and requires no installation. To connect:

For Claude Desktop, add this to your config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "marketing-wisdom": {
      "type": "sse",
      "url": "https://marketingwisdommcp.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

For Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport sse marketing-wisdom https://marketingwisdommcp.com/api/mcp

The creator built this tool to solve their own problem while developing a Chrome extension—needing faster access to distribution strategies and marketing wisdom buried in hundreds of podcast episodes.