Koskamo

Instilus MCP

An MCP server providing tools for small business valuation, EBITDA calculation, break-even analysis, freelancer rate estimation, acquisition affordability, and Shopify store auditing. It computes answers from supplied figures without storing data or requiring accounts.

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Instilus MCP logo, by InstilusVendor evidenceStreamable HTTPNo sign-inEndpoint checked 2026-11-06Operated by Instilus
MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP)
https://www.instilus.com/mcp
Vendor documentation

What its tools do

8 tools, grouped by the hints the server advertises. Hints are self-declared, not verified behavior.

8 of 8 have a description · 0 of 8 declare behavior hints · 8 of 8 with parameters document them all

Checks and signals

Each line is separate evidence, not a trust score.

  • Passed Endpoint answered the live check ·
  • Passed Official MCP Registry namespace is tied to instilus.com ·
  • Passed Endpoint is on the registry namespace domain ·
  • Availability 1 of 1 checks passed in 30 days

What you can do with it

  • Estimate small business value using normalized EBITDA
  • Calculate EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA with add-backs
  • Determine break-even sales volume for target profit
  • Audit Shopify storefronts for speed, SEO, and trust

Source and maintenance

Vendor evidenceRegistry 1.0.1
Maintenance checked

Protocol and capabilities

Server
forge 1.0.0
MCP protocol negotiated in check
2025-06-18
Tools
8 advertised
Resources
Not advertised
Resource templates
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Prompts
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Server-advertised capabilities
{
  "tools": {}
}

Tools

8 advertised

forge_business_valuation_estimate
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

Estimate what a small business is worth using Normalised EBITDA and typical small-business earnings multiples. Answers "how much is my business worth?" from real figures — revenue, cost of goods sold, operating expenses, owner pay and a fair-market salary for the owner role — rather than a generic rule of thumb. Produces an indicative enterprise value range, not a professional appraisal.

forge_business_valuation_estimate input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "annualRevenue",
    "costOfGoodsSold",
    "operatingExpenses",
    "ownerPay",
    "fairMarketSalary"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "ownerPay": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Total owner compensation taken from the business."
    },
    "annualRevenue": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Annual revenue."
    },
    "costOfGoodsSold": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Annual cost of goods sold."
    },
    "fairMarketSalary": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "What it would cost to hire someone to do the owner role."
    },
    "operatingExpenses": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Annual operating expenses, excluding owner pay."
    }
  }
}
forge_ebitda
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

Calculate EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA for a small business. Answers "what is my EBITDA?" and "what is my adjusted EBITDA after add-backs?" from real figures — revenue, cost of goods sold, operating expenses, and add-backs such as owner pay above a market salary, one-off costs and personal expenses run through the business.

forge_ebitda input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "annualRevenue",
    "costOfGoodsSold",
    "operatingExpenses"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "addBacks": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Total add-backs: owner pay above market, one-offs, personal expenses. Optional."
    },
    "annualRevenue": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Annual revenue."
    },
    "costOfGoodsSold": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Annual cost of goods sold."
    },
    "operatingExpenses": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Annual operating expenses, including owner pay."
    }
  }
}
forge_break_even
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

Work out how many sales a month a business needs to cover its costs, and how many to hit a target profit. Answers "what is my break-even point?" from fixed monthly costs, price per sale and variable cost per sale.

forge_break_even input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "fixedCostsPerMonth",
    "pricePerSale",
    "variableCostPerSale"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "pricePerSale": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "What one sale brings in."
    },
    "fixedCostsPerMonth": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Monthly fixed costs: rent, salaries, software, anything paid whether or not you sell."
    },
    "variableCostPerSale": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "What one sale costs to deliver."
    },
    "targetProfitPerMonth": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Monthly profit to aim past break-even. Optional."
    }
  }
}
forge_profit_margin
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

Convert between profit margin and markup, and work out the price a target margin requires. Answers "what is my profit margin?", "what is the difference between margin and markup?" and "what should I charge for a 40% margin?" from cost and price.

forge_profit_margin input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "cost"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "cost": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "What the item costs you."
    },
    "price": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "What you sell it for. Optional if targetMarginPercent is given."
    },
    "targetMarginPercent": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "The margin you want, as a percentage. Optional."
    }
  }
}
forge_freelance_rate
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

Work out the hourly or day rate a freelancer or consultant needs to charge, once unbillable time is accounted for. Answers "what should I charge per hour?" from target annual income, business costs, working weeks and realistic billable hours.

forge_freelance_rate input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "targetAnnualIncome",
    "workingWeeksPerYear",
    "billableHoursPerWeek"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "targetAnnualIncome": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "What you want to earn in a year, before tax."
    },
    "annualBusinessCosts": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Annual business costs: software, insurance, accountant, equipment."
    },
    "workingWeeksPerYear": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Weeks worked a year, after holiday and illness."
    },
    "billableHoursPerWeek": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Hours a week genuinely billed, not hours worked."
    }
  }
}
forge_acquisition_affordability
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

Check whether a business being bought can pay for its own purchase out of profit, and what happens if it underperforms. Answers "can I afford to buy this business?" from asking price, deposit, loan terms and the annual profit of the business being bought.

forge_acquisition_affordability input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "askingPrice",
    "deposit",
    "interestRatePercent",
    "loanYears",
    "annualProfit"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "deposit": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Cash paid up front."
    },
    "loanYears": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Years to repay."
    },
    "askingPrice": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "The asking price."
    },
    "annualProfit": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Annual profit of the business being bought, before financing."
    },
    "interestRatePercent": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Annual interest rate on the borrowed balance."
    }
  }
}
forge_competitor_research_method
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

The method for researching competitors or a market before committing money, and what each finding is worth. Answers "how do I do a competitor analysis?", "how do I research a market before entering it?" and "what will an investor ask me about competitors?" — returns the steps, the six things a competitor publicly reveals, and how to turn a finding into a decision rather than a grid.

forge_competitor_research_method input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "question"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "question": {
      "enum": [
        "competitors",
        "market-entry",
        "fundraise"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Which decision this is for: researching competitors, deciding whether to enter a market, or answering the competition question in a raise."
    },
    "competitorCount": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "How many competitors are being considered. Optional."
    }
  }
}
forge_shopify_store_audit
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

Audit a real Shopify store from its public pages and score it out of 100 for speed, SEO, trust and product pages. Answers "why is my Shopify store not converting?", "how fast is my store?" and "what should I fix on my Shopify store first?" — reads only what a shopper can see, needs no login or app install, and returns the fixes in the order worth doing them.

forge_shopify_store_audit input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "domain"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "domain": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The storefront address, for example mystore.com or mystore.myshopify.com."
    }
  }
}

Prompts

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No prompt definitions available.

Resources

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No resource definitions available.

90-day uptime

A lightweight connection check about every six hours, sampled on hosts with many listings. It shows the server answered, not that its tools work.

Too few checks for a percentage yet (1 of 1 answered).

  1. 2026-11-07: 1 of 1 checks answered

30-day availability

Aggregated from read-only remote checks; this is not a tool-execution or security guarantee.

Successful checks
1 of 1 (100%)
Average latency
974 ms
95th percentile latency
974 ms

Maintenance history

Public check and source-refresh events. Editorial and ownership records remain private.

  • · probe · passed · 974 ms · metadata changed · 8 tool(s)

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Claude Code

Run this once in a terminal. It registers the remote server. Use --scope project to write .mcp.json for the repo.
Claude Code configuration
claude mcp add --transport http instilus-mcp https://www.instilus.com/mcp

Codex

Run this once. Codex stores MCP servers in ~/.codex/config.toml (or .codex/config.toml in a trusted project).
Codex configuration
codex mcp add instilus-mcp --url https://www.instilus.com/mcp

Cursor

Merge this server into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, then enable instilus-mcp in your MCP settings.
Cursor configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "instilus-mcp": {
      "url": "https://www.instilus.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cline

Merge this into cline_mcp_settings.json (Cline → MCP Servers → Configure).
Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "instilus-mcp": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://www.instilus.com/mcp",
      "disabled": false
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Merge this server into .vscode/mcp.json. Use MCP: List Servers to start instilus-mcp and inspect its tools.
VS Code configuration
{
  "servers": {
    "instilus-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.instilus.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Gemini CLI

Run this once. It writes .gemini/settings.json in the current project; pass --scope user for ~/.gemini/settings.json.
Gemini CLI configuration
gemini mcp add --transport http instilus-mcp https://www.instilus.com/mcp

Claude Desktop

Open Claude Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector, enter this server URL and enable it for the conversation. This is a manual remote-connector handoff, not a desktop JSON configuration.
Claude Desktop configuration
https://www.instilus.com/mcp

Windsurf

Merge this into ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json, then refresh MCP in Cascade. Windsurf remote servers use serverUrl, not url.
Windsurf configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "instilus-mcp": {
      "serverUrl": "https://www.instilus.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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