Koskamo

PE or Not? MCP

An MCP server that allows agents to look up whether local service businesses like dentists, vets, and eye doctors are private-equity backed, corporate-owned, or independent. It provides ownership details, PE backers, confidence levels, and source citations for labels such as 'pe_backed', 'corporate_owned', or 'no_known_pe_ties'.

Endpoint and access

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PE or Not? MCP logo, by TechCrowds, LLCVendor evidenceStreamable HTTPNo sign-inEndpoint checked 2026-11-06Operated by TechCrowds, LLC
MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP)
https://peornot.org/mcp/
Vendor documentation

What its tools do

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

Read-only (3)

3 of 3 have a description · 3 of 3 declare behavior hints · 1 of 3 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 peornot.org ·
  • Passed Endpoint is on the registry namespace domain ·
  • Availability 1 of 1 checks passed in 30 days

What you can do with it

  • Look up if a specific dental practice is PE-backed
  • Find businesses in a city by ownership label
  • Get ownership details and sources for a group

Source and maintenance

Vendor evidenceRegistry 1.0.0
mcp-registry: org.peornot/peornot@1.0.0Project website

Protocol and capabilities

Server
peornot 0.2.0
MCP protocol negotiated in check
2025-11-25
Tools
3 advertised
Resources
Not advertised
Resource templates
Not advertised
Prompts
Not advertised
Server-advertised capabilities
{
  "tools": {
    "listChanged": false
  }
}

Server-provided instructions

Untrusted server output shown for inspection. It is not Koskamo guidance and is excluded from knowledge search.

PE or Not? (peornot.org) says whether a local service business or a consumer brand is private-equity (PE) backed, names the owner or backers, and gives a source for every label. Business data covers dentists, eye doctors, vets, dermatology and GI practices; brand data covers 250+ consumer brands (outdoor and sporting goods, clothing and shoes, pets, baby, beauty and personal care, home and kitchen). Businesses of any kind can be Verified Not PE. Published by TechCrowds, LLC. Use lookup_business for one named business ("is my dentist PE-backed?") or brand ("is Orvis owned by private equity?"), find_businesses for an area ("dentists in Plano with no PE ties") or for brands (industry "brand": "pet food brands with no PE ties"), get_group for an owner group, a practice brand, or a company or PE firm behind consumer brands ("who owns Heartland Dental?", "what brands does Authentic Brands Group own?"). How to answer: - Use the "say" text from the result as written, or stay very close to it, and cite the sources (headline + link) and the data date. - Say "PE-backed" or "affiliated with a PE-backed group" and name the firm. Never say a dental or eye care practice is "owned by" a PE firm: the PE-backed company usually manages it and a dentist or doctor stays the legal owner. - Say "no known PE ties", never "independent" (only practices that certify their ownership are verified). It means none found, not none exist. - label "unconfirmed" = say "Not confirmed" and give the source; don't name the group as owner. - Never say a practice is worse (care, prices) because of who owns it. - Vision Source members and Pearle Vision franchise stores are independently owned: never label them by the network. - If status is possible_matches or multiple_matches, ask the user for the street address before stating a label. - For vets, a business that isn't listed hasn't been checked: say that, rather than "no PE ties". Some find_businesses listings come from clinicians' individual NPI records and aren't confirmed open: mention it when relevant. - Coverage: dentists, eye care, dermatology and GI nationwide (every NPI-registered practice); vets cover the tracked groups' locations only. Mention the coverage note when it matters. - If a result has a "verified" object, the business is Verified Not PE: its owner certified it has no private-equity, corporate, lender or health-system owner, and PE or Not? checked the statement against public records. Say so, say it's a paid listing, and give its page_url. find_businesses lists an area's Verified Not PE businesses under "verified"; mention them when the user asks for businesses with no PE ties. - For a brand, a label describes who owns the brand, not the quality of its products. A brand not on the list is unknown, not "no PE ties". - If the user says a result is wrong, give them the correction_url.

Tools

3 advertised

lookup_business — Is this business PE-backed?
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

Checks whether one specific dentist, eye doctor, vet, dermatology or GI practice is private-equity backed, from its name plus city and state or ZIP. A street address or phone number makes the match surer. Also answers for a consumer brand by name or website (e.g. "Orvis" or "orvis.com"), with its owner, backers and sources. Returns a status (match, multiple_matches, possible_matches, no_match, need_location), a "say" sentence in the site's label wording, and matches with label, owner group, backers, PE stake and deal model, confidence, sources (headline, link, date), coverage and a correction link.

lookup_business input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "zip": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "5-digit ZIP code."
    },
    "city": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Business name as the user or a map listing gives it, e.g. \"Aspen Dental\" or \"Smile Magic of Garland\"."
    },
    "phone": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Phone number in any format."
    },
    "state": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Two-letter state code (TX) or state name."
    },
    "address": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Street address, or a full address like \"1476 W Buckingham Rd, Garland, TX 75040\"."
    },
    "industry": {
      "enum": [
        "dental",
        "eye",
        "vet",
        "derm",
        "gi",
        "brand"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "dental, eye (optometry, ophthalmology, optical), vet, derm, gi, or brand (a consumer brand). Leave out to infer it from the name."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
lookup_business annotations
{
  "title": "Is this business PE-backed?",
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
find_businesses — Find businesses in an area by ownership
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

List dentists, eye care practices, vets, dermatology or GI practices in a ZIP code, city or state, optionally filtered by ownership label. With industry "brand", list consumer brands instead (no location needed), filtered by label and by words in the brand, owner, backer or category (name), e.g. pet food brands with no known PE ties. Covers requests like "dentists in Plano, TX with no PE ties" (label=no_known_pe_ties) or "PE-backed eye doctors in 75024" (label=pe_backed,lender_owned). Labels: pe_backed, lender_owned (PE-backed, now lender-controlled), corporate_owned (not PE, owned by a company), health_system_owned, group_practice (owned by its dentists/doctors, no outside investor), vc_backed, no_known_pe_ties, unconfirmed, not_labeled; aliases pe and no_pe. Returns counts by label for the area, total, a page of results (limit up to 100, then next_offset) with each one's label wording and source, and the coverage note. Dental and eye care cover every NPI-registered practice; vet, derm and GI list only the tracked groups' locations. Some listings come from clinicians' individual NPI records and aren't confirmed open.

find_businesses input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "zip": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "5-digit ZIP code."
    },
    "city": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Only businesses whose name contains these words. For brands, words in the brand, owner, backer or category (e.g. \"pet food\", \"Sycamore Partners\")."
    },
    "label": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "One or more labels, comma-separated, e.g. \"no_known_pe_ties\" or \"pe_backed,lender_owned\"."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 100,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Results per page, default 20."
    },
    "state": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Two-letter state code or state name. Needed with city unless the city name is unique."
    },
    "offset": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 0,
      "description": "Start of the page (use next_offset)."
    },
    "industry": {
      "enum": [
        "dental",
        "eye",
        "vet",
        "derm",
        "gi",
        "brand"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "dental (default), eye, vet, derm, gi, or brand (consumer brands)."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
find_businesses annotations
{
  "title": "Find businesses by ownership",
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
get_group — Who owns or backs this group?
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

Get an owner group's ownership details: label and consumer wording, owner or PE backers and since when, PE stake (majority or minority), how it holds practices (buyout, partnership, joint venture, de novo), parent and brands, every source with its headline and date, and known locations by state. Covers questions like "who owns Heartland Dental?" or "is Aspen Dental private equity?" (brand names work). Also answers for consumer brands ("Orvis") and for the companies and PE firms behind them ("Authentic Brands Group", "Sycamore Partners"): the brands on our list they own or back.

get_group input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Group id from another result, e.g. \"dental:heartland-dental\"."
    },
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Group, brand, company or PE firm name, e.g. \"Heartland Dental\", \"MyEyeDr\", \"Orvis\", \"Sycamore Partners\"."
    },
    "industry": {
      "enum": [
        "dental",
        "eye",
        "vet",
        "derm",
        "gi",
        "brand"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "dental, eye (optometry, ophthalmology, optical), vet, derm, gi, or brand (a consumer brand). Leave out to infer it from the name."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
get_group annotations
{
  "title": "Who owns this group?",
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}

Prompts

Not advertised

No prompt definitions available.

Resources

Not advertised

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
577 ms
95th percentile latency
577 ms

Maintenance history

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

  • · probe · passed · 577 ms · metadata changed · 3 tool(s)

Connect from your client

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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 pe-or-not-mcp https://peornot.org/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 pe-or-not-mcp --url https://peornot.org/mcp/

Cursor

Merge this server into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, then enable pe-or-not-mcp in your MCP settings.
Cursor configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pe-or-not-mcp": {
      "url": "https://peornot.org/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

Cline

Merge this into cline_mcp_settings.json (Cline → MCP Servers → Configure).
Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pe-or-not-mcp": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://peornot.org/mcp/",
      "disabled": false
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Merge this server into .vscode/mcp.json. Use MCP: List Servers to start pe-or-not-mcp and inspect its tools.
VS Code configuration
{
  "servers": {
    "pe-or-not-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://peornot.org/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 pe-or-not-mcp https://peornot.org/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://peornot.org/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": {
    "pe-or-not-mcp": {
      "serverUrl": "https://peornot.org/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

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