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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https://www.instilus.com/mcpWhat its tools do
8 tools, grouped by the hints the server advertises. Hints are self-declared, not verified behavior.
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
- 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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{
"tools": {}
}Tools
8 advertised
forge_business_valuation_estimate
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.
{
"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
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.
{
"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
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.
{
"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
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.
{
"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
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.
{
"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
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.
{
"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
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.
{
"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
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.
{
"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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Resources
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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.
- 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
claude mcp add --transport http instilus-mcp https://www.instilus.com/mcpCodex
codex mcp add instilus-mcp --url https://www.instilus.com/mcpCursor
{
"mcpServers": {
"instilus-mcp": {
"url": "https://www.instilus.com/mcp"
}
}
}Cline
{
"mcpServers": {
"instilus-mcp": {
"type": "streamableHttp",
"url": "https://www.instilus.com/mcp",
"disabled": false
}
}
}VS Code
{
"servers": {
"instilus-mcp": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://www.instilus.com/mcp"
}
}
}Gemini CLI
gemini mcp add --transport http instilus-mcp https://www.instilus.com/mcpClaude Desktop
https://www.instilus.com/mcpWindsurf
{
"mcpServers": {
"instilus-mcp": {
"serverUrl": "https://www.instilus.com/mcp"
}
}
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