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1.Add Perception
Open Customize > Connectors, choose Add custom connector, and name it Perception. Paste this server URL.
Claude Free includes one custom connector. Team and Enterprise users may need their workspace owner to add it.
Server URL
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https://mcp.perception.to/mcp
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2.Sign in and authorize
Choose Connect for Perception and complete the browser sign-in. Enable Perception from the connectors menu in your conversation.
Use Google, or create an account with your email. Review the connection and choose Allow connection. Your free account includes 5 weighted credits per day.
Manual setup with an API key
If your client requires a bearer token, open a Perception account and generate a key in Settings > Integrations. Add it to your client as Authorization: Bearer <your-key>.
3.Ask your first question
Use Perception to find the reporters and thought leaders discussing stablecoin payments. Include the original sources and dates.
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How do Circle and Fireblocks approach AI agent payments differently?

Claude

Two routes into agent payments

Circle · developer tools

Agent Stack combines wallets, paid-service discovery, and a CLI for agents transacting in USDC.

Fireblocks · payment providers

Its suite gives fintechs and payment providers merchant payment acceptance and wallets with delegated spending permissions for agents.

2 sources

[1] Circle · Agent Stack announcement11 May 2026 [2] Fireblocks · Agentic Payments Suite20 May 2026

Comparison of company announcements. The distinction describes product positioning; adoption and performance require further evidence.

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Company signals

Ask your AI about hiring, fundraising, and capital

Dedicated hiring tools read public job boards. Fundraising searches trace capital raises and funding announcements back to cited mentions.

Company hiring

perception_get_hiring

See open roles, hiring posture, and where a company is adding capacity.

Hiring leaderboard

perception_hiring_leaderboard

Rank tracked companies by open roles, sector, and job function.

Fundraising announcements

perception_search_mentions

Find cited funding rounds, capital raises, and investor announcements across the public record.

Capital exposure

perception_get_capital_exposure

Review 13F holdings, treasury positions, and beneficial ownership for an entity.

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Specifications

Tools you can use

33 registered Perception MCP tools: 31 metered tools plus unmetered taxonomy and usage helpers.

Tool Name	Category	What it does
`perception_get_usage`	Usage	Returns the current weighted-credit balance, reset time, funding source, and overage status without consuming credits.
`perception_daily_radar`	Daily context	Surfaces sentiment shifts, volume anomalies, and emerging narratives vs 7-day baselines.
`perception_narrative_momentum`	Trend Analysis	Tracks narrative topic acceleration, velocity, steady status, or fade.
`perception_compare_entities`	Signal Compare	Compares 2-5 entities side-by-side on sentiment score and mention volume.
`perception_search_mentions`	Company Signals	Finds cited mentions of fundraising rounds, capital raises, partnerships, launches, and other company events.
`perception_get_trends`	AI Extraction	Extracts narrative clusters, signal strength deltas, and mention weights.
`perception_search_companies`	Entity Matching	NLP company mention recognition for precise tracking beyond keywords.
`perception_get_sentiment`	Sentiment Data	Fetches daily sentiment breakdown by day and by outlet.
`perception_get_index`	Index Data	Returns the Perception Index with drivers and velocity.
`perception_get_market`	Market Context	Returns asset pricing, volume, cap, and chain reference metrics.
`perception_get_categories`	Thematic Share	Returns active narrative category distributions and weights.
`perception_get_subject_taxonomy`	Discovery	Returns canonical subject labels and aliases without consuming a call or credit.
`perception_top_mentions`	Trend Analysis	Ranks top entities or topics by mention volume within a date range or publication.
`perception_cohort_sentiment`	Voice Cohorts	Splits sentiment by speaker role: executives, developers, analysts, media.
`perception_get_evadometer`	Earnings Signals	Scores earnings-call directness: how directly management addresses analyst questions.
`perception_guide`	Onboarding	Provides pre-built question templates and workflow routing by role.
`perception_get_entity_profile`	Intelligence Profile	Provides analyst ratings, narrative timelines, and mention scope.
`perception_media_radar`	Outlet Metrics	Exposes outlet-level mention volume and sentiment distributions.
`perception_get_analyst_ratings`	Equity Research	Tracks Wall Street consensus, price targets, and upgrades/downgrades for crypto stocks.
`perception_search_regulatory`	Compliance	Monitors regulatory filings, enforcement actions, and policy documents by agency and jurisdiction.
`perception_get_article`	Full Text	Extracts full-text articles from curated publications.
`perception_save_research`	Storage	Saves key findings and narrative data states across active sessions.
`perception_recall_research`	Recall	Retrieves saved research notes to build institutional memory.
`perception_scenario_analysis`	Event Analogues	Compares active mentions and sentiment spikes with historical event analogues.
`perception_get_insider_activity`	SEC Form 4	Monitors insider trade patterns, scheduled sales, and corporate cluster alerts.
`perception_get_earnings_intelligence`	Corporate Disclosure	Retrieves AI-analyzed earnings call summaries, management tone classifications, and Q&A directness scores.
`perception_get_intelligence_digest`	Signal Briefing	Ranks sentiment spikes, regulatory filings, analyst changes, and commits into a daily ranked feed.
`perception_search_voices`	Voice Search	Searches earnings transcripts, conferences, and podcasts for keywords, with snippets and timestamped occurrences.
`perception_get_brains_corpus`	Corpus Access	Returns bulk post and statement archives for a tracked voice or entity.
`perception_get_divergences`	Divergence	Flags where narrative and capital positioning disagree.
`perception_get_capital_exposure`	Capital Flows	Returns 13F holdings, treasury positions, and beneficial ownership for an entity.
`perception_get_hiring`	Hiring Signals	Returns open roles and hiring posture for a company from its public ATS board.
`perception_hiring_leaderboard`	Hiring Signals	Ranks companies by open roles across the tracked universe, by sector and function.

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