fylings

Fylings is an African company-intelligence platform for searching, verifying and monitoring businesses across official company registries.

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What it can do

  • Search Companies: Search verified companies across 18 African registries by name or registration number — results are ranked by quality (listed and best-detailed companies first). Returns each match's
  • Get Company: Fetch one company's full record by country code and registration number — legal name, status, entity type, incorporation date, registry source, and any officers held.
  • Get Company Procurement: List the government procurement contracts a company has won (from open-contracting data): the awarding body, contract title, value and date. Strong signal of what a company ac

What data it sees

Do you need an account

No: the server works without sign-in

Fylings is an African company-intelligence platform for searching, verifying and monitoring businesses across official company registries.

We turn the public registers that already exist across the continent into clean, free company pages — each with the official source, the date it was last checked, and a confidence signal, so anyone can confirm a business is real before they transact with it.

How to connect

How to connect fylings to Claude

The server address to paste into Claude settings:

https://fylings--mansamarkets.run.tools

  1. Open Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app).
  2. Go to Settings → Connectors.
  3. Click Add custom connector.
  4. Paste the server address copied below into Remote MCP server URL and click Add.
  5. In a chat, click + → Connectors and switch the new connector on.

Custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (Free is limited to one). On Team and Enterprise an organization Owner adds the connector first under Organization settings → Connectors.

Authorization

After you click Add, a sign-in window for the service opens. Sign in with your own account and approve access. Claude never sees your password.

How to connect fylings to ChatGPT

The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:

https://fylings--mansamarkets.run.tools

  1. Open ChatGPT in a browser (chatgpt.com). A Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan is required.
  2. Turn on developer mode once: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode.
  3. Open Settings → Connectors and click Create.
  4. Fill in the form: Name (anything), Description (one line about what the service does), MCP server URL (copy it below).
  5. Under Authentication choose OAuth if the service requires sign-in, otherwise None. Click Create.
  6. In a new chat open + → Apps/Connectors and enable the connector.

OpenAI has renamed this section before (Connectors → Apps/Plugins). If the label differs, search settings for "developer mode". On Business/Enterprise workspaces an admin must allow custom connectors first.

Authorization

On first use ChatGPT opens the service's sign-in window. Sign in and approve access.

How to connect fylings to Cursor

The server address to paste into Cursor settings:

https://fylings--mansamarkets.run.tools

Fastest: click Open in Cursor below and confirm the prompt.

Manually:

  1. In Cursor open Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP and click Add new global MCP server.
  2. Paste the JSON copied below into ~/.cursor/mcp.json (per project: .cursor/mcp.json in the repo root).
  3. Save the file. The server appears in the MCP list; authorize it there if asked.

Authorization

If the service needs sign-in, an authorize button appears next to the server in the MCP list.

Server tool list (4)

Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.

search_companiesSearch verified companies across 18 African registries by name or registration number — results are ranked by quality (listed and best-detailed companies first). Returns each match's legal name, registration_no, country, status and registry source, plus the total count. To get the full record of any result, call get_company with that result's country and registration_no.
get_companyFetch one company's full record by country code and registration number — legal name, status, entity type, incorporation date, registry source, and any officers held.
get_company_procurementList the government procurement contracts a company has won (from open-contracting data): the awarding body, contract title, value and date. Strong signal of what a company actually does.
screen_sanctionsScreen a company or person name against the OFAC SDN, OFAC Consolidated and UN Security Council lists. Returns any matches with a name-match confidence.