Minds: Synthetic Market Research PanelsVerifiedFeatured

What is the Minds MCP server?

Minds is a synthetic market research platform. This MCP server lets ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and any other MCP client run customer research end to end without leaving the assistant.

Endpoint: https://getminds.ai/mcp (streamable HTTP). Auth: OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, or a Minds API key. Nothing to install.

How it works

Describe an audience in a brief ("German Gen Z grocery shoppers", "enterprise IT buyers in fintech") and the server runs deep web research to ground that audience in government statistics, peer-reviewed studies, and industry reports rather than in generic model priors. Grounded percentages become exact integer quotas, and a seeded deterministic allocator assigns every persona a cohort profile, so the model does not decide proportions.

Then ask the panel a question, run a structured study, and export the results. Studies run durably server side, so a long study survives the chat session that started it.

What teams use it for

• Concept testing and message testing before creative production
• Ad pretesting, landing page audits, and packaging tests with per-segment reactions
• Buyer persona validation and objection discovery for B2B go to market
• Segment comparison and positioning checks across markets
• Screening research hypotheses before commissioning fieldwork with real respondents

Tools

Eighteen tools across audiences, panels, studies and export.

Tool	What it does
list_groups	List your saved Audiences, segments, and persona collections.
create_group_from_brief	Build a grounded synthetic Audience from a population brief via deep web research.
ask_group	Ask, survey, or poll a single Audience and get per-respondent answers.
list_panels	List your panels, studies, surveys, and focus groups.
create_panel	Create a panel or study from a research goal.
ask_panel	Ask one straightforward question across a whole panel.
get_panel_status	Check panel composition and live progress on in-flight questions.
export_panel	Export panel results as PDF, CSV, XLSX, or JSON.
export_mind	Export a branded profile for a single Mind as Markdown, PDF, DOCX, or PPTX.
export_group	Export an Audience brief as Markdown, PDF, DOCX, or PPTX.
export_heatmap	Export a completed website heatmap from a panel message as a ZIP with PDF report.
plan_panel_study	Draft a structured research plan for multi-question studies, asset audits, and MaxDiff.
run_panel_study	Execute a confirmed study plan as a durable server-side run.
get_panel_study	Check durable progress, artifacts, and method calculations for a running study.
list_study_drafts	List unfinished study drafts, or load the full saved planning state for one.
save_study_draft	Save or checkpoint an unfinished Quick or Custom Study without starting research.
list_research_methods	List supported research methods and which of them can actually execute.
get_panel_summary	Return a whole-study summary with semantic blocks and heatmaps.

Research methods: MaxDiff runs through a deterministic adapter. Conjoint is planned and cannot execute yet. Call list_research_methods for the current state rather than assuming.

Setup

ChatGPT — Settings, then Connected Apps, then add https://getminds.ai/mcp and authorize via OAuth. Panel results render as interactive widgets inline.

Claude Desktop and claude.ai — Customize, then Connectors, then add https://getminds.ai/mcp as a remote connector.

Cursor — Settings, then MCP, then add https://getminds.ai/mcp.

Claude Code — claude mcp add --transport http mindsai https://getminds.ai/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer minds_YOUR_API_KEY"

VS Code (Copilot), Windsurf, Langdock, Open WebUI — add https://getminds.ai/mcp as a remote MCP server. Full per-client instructions at https://getminds.ai/mcp/setup

Scope

Minds does not replace representative human fieldwork. It replaces the slow first pass: sharpening the question, surfacing objections, and deciding which assumptions deserve real-respondent validation.

Links

• Product: https://getminds.ai
• MCP docs: https://getminds.ai/mcp
• Registry name: ai.getminds/minds
• Server card: https://getminds.ai/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json