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    "answer inbound chat",
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    "ai chatbot on my site",
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    "live conversational agent for visitors"
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  "evidence_note": "Vendor-reported task matches, not a performance ranking or proof of MCP capability. Confirm current requirements and test the intended workflow.",
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      "name": "Ada",
      "capability": "Enterprise AI customer-experience platform (voice, chat, email) that automates inbound support and sales conversations end-to-end.",
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      "mcp_support": "official",
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        "https://docs.ada.cx",
        "https://docs.ada.cx/_mcp/server",
        "https://www.ada.cx/pricing/"
      ],
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    },
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      "id": "14-chatbase",
      "name": "Chatbase",
      "capability": "No-code AI agent builder for deploying chat/voice/email support-and-sales bots across a website widget and channels like WhatsApp and Slack.",
      "api_access": "paid",
      "mcp_support": "community",
      "last_checked": "2026-09-02",
      "sources": [
        "https://www.chatbase.co",
        "https://www.chatbase.co/pricing",
        "https://www.chatbase.co/docs",
        "https://zapier.com/mcp/chatbase"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "id": "10-chili-piper",
      "name": "Chili Piper",
      "capability": "Inbound lead-routing and instant meeting-booking platform (\"Concierge\") that qualifies web-form leads and books them directly onto the right rep's calendar in real time.",
      "api_access": "paid",
      "mcp_support": "official",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-25",
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        "https://www.chilipiper.com/products/mcp",
        "https://www.chilipiper.com/pricing",
        "https://github.com/Chili-Piper/mcp-assets",
        "https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/chili-piper",
        "https://github.com/hyypeman/chilipiper-mcp",
        "https://apitracker.io/a/chili-piper"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "id": "14-chili-piper",
      "name": "Chili Piper",
      "capability": "Inbound lead routing and meeting-scheduling platform - converts web-form submissions and inbound leads into booked meetings in seconds, with rep-availability and fairness-rule logic.",
      "api_access": "paid",
      "mcp_support": "official",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-25",
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        "https://www.chilipiper.com",
        "https://www.chilipiper.com/products/mcp",
        "https://github.com/Chili-Piper/mcp-assets",
        "https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/chili-piper"
      ],
      "record_url": "https://gtmmcps.com/tools/14-chili-piper"
    },
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      "id": "04-conversica",
      "name": "Conversica",
      "capability": "AI agents that conduct two-way conversations (email, SMS, chat, messaging apps) to research/qualify leads from events, ads, and inbound inquiries, send personalized follow-ups, and book meetings; also runs customer-service and renewal/upsell conversations.",
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      "mcp_support": "none-found",
      "last_checked": "2026-09-02",
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      ],
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      "id": "14-forethought",
      "name": "Forethought (now \"Forethought AI Agents by Zendesk\")",
      "capability": "Omnichannel AI agent (\"Solve\") that resolves customer support and pre-sales issues across chat, email, voice, and a headless API, trained on a company's past tickets and help-center content.",
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      "mcp_support": "unknown",
      "last_checked": "2026-09-02",
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        "https://www.forethought.ai",
        "https://www.forethought.ai/pricing",
        "https://www.zendesk.com/newsroom/press-releases/zendesk-completes-acquisition-of-forethought/",
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      "id": "06-hubspot",
      "name": "HubSpot",
      "capability": "An all-in-one CRM/marketing/sales/service platform with contacts, deals, marketing automation, and a public REST API/developer platform.",
      "api_access": "free",
      "mcp_support": "official",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-24",
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        "https://developers.hubspot.com/ai-tools/mcp",
        "https://knowledge.hubspot.com/ai-tools/use-breeze-ai",
        "https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/api/usage-details",
        "https://github.com/HubSpot/hubspot-mcp-plugins"
      ],
      "record_url": "https://gtmmcps.com/tools/06-hubspot"
    },
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      "id": "12-hubspot",
      "name": "HubSpot (AI Forecasting)",
      "capability": "HubSpot's forecasting tool inside Sales Hub/Service Hub, turning pipeline data into revenue predictions via weighted-pipeline calculations plus an \"AI forecasting\" layer shown in-product. See 06-revops-infra.md for HubSpot's full platform entry (Breeze AI agents, official MCP servers, free API tier) - this entry covers only the forecasting-specific angle.",
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      "mcp_support": "none-found",
      "last_checked": "2026-09-02",
      "sources": [
        "https://www.hubspot.com/products/sales/forecasting"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "id": "14-intercom",
      "name": "Intercom (Fin)",
      "capability": "Customer service/helpdesk platform whose \"Fin\" AI agent resolves support and pre-sales chat conversations autonomously across a website widget, email, and other channels.",
      "api_access": "paid",
      "mcp_support": "official",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-24",
      "sources": [
        "https://www.intercom.com",
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercom_(company",
        "https://developers.intercom.com/docs/guides/mcp",
        "https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/intercom",
        "https://fin.ai"
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    },
    {
      "id": "14-landbot",
      "name": "Landbot",
      "capability": "No-code visual builder for chatbots deployed on websites, WhatsApp, and Messenger, blending rule-based flows with LLM-powered conversation.",
      "api_access": "free",
      "mcp_support": "community",
      "last_checked": "2026-09-02",
      "sources": [
        "https://landbot.io",
        "https://landbot.io/pricing",
        "https://composio.dev/toolkits/landbot",
        "https://zapier.com/mcp/landbot"
      ],
      "record_url": "https://gtmmcps.com/tools/14-landbot"
    },
    {
      "id": "06-ortto",
      "name": "Ortto",
      "capability": "A combined customer data platform and marketing automation tool for building multi-channel journeys across email, SMS, push, in-app and live chat.",
      "api_access": "paid",
      "mcp_support": "official",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-25",
      "sources": [
        "https://help.ortto.com/a-910-ortto-mcp",
        "https://help.ortto.com/a-911-using-ortto-mcp-with-claude",
        "https://ortto.com/"
      ],
      "record_url": "https://gtmmcps.com/tools/06-ortto"
    },
    {
      "id": "14-pylon",
      "name": "Pylon",
      "capability": "\"Agentic\" B2B customer support platform (Slack, Teams, email, chat, SMS, WhatsApp, phone) where AI agents and humans jointly investigate, resolve, and act on support signals.",
      "api_access": "unknown",
      "mcp_support": "official",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-24",
      "sources": [
        "https://usepylon.com",
        "https://usepylon.com/mcp",
        "https://usepylon.com/pricing",
        "https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/pylon",
        "https://docs.usepylon.com/pylon-docs/developer/api"
      ],
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    },
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      "id": "14-qualified",
      "name": "Qualified",
      "capability": "Website chat/pipeline-generation platform built for account-based and inbound motions - its \"Piper\" AI SDR agent engages known target-account visitors in real time, qualifies them, and books meetings, then follows up over email and Slack.",
      "api_access": "enterprise-only",
      "mcp_support": "none-found",
      "last_checked": "2026-09-02",
      "sources": [
        "https://qualified.com/",
        "https://qualified.com/pricing",
        "https://qualified.com/api",
        "https://www.qualified.com/plus/articles/qualified-agentforce-better-together",
        "https://www.qualified.com/plus/articles/6-key-ways-to-use-the-qualified-reporting-api"
      ],
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      "capability": "A conversational AI agent (\"Piper\") that engages inbound website visitors in real time (text/voice/video chat), sends follow-up nurture emails, and books meetings for qualified visitors.",
      "api_access": "enterprise-only",
      "mcp_support": "none-found",
      "last_checked": "2026-09-02",
      "sources": [
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        "https://www.qualified.com/ai-sdr",
        "https://qualified.com/pricing"
      ],
      "record_url": "https://gtmmcps.com/tools/04-qualified"
    },
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      "id": "06-salesforce-agentforce",
      "name": "Salesforce (core CRM/platform) + Agentforce",
      "capability": "A cloud CRM/platform for managing sales, service, and marketing records via a database, APIs, and a low-code app layer, with Agentforce as a layer on top for configuring autonomous AI agents that read Salesforce data, decide on an action, and execute it or hand off to a human.",
      "api_access": "enterprise-only",
      "mcp_support": "official",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-24",
      "sources": [
        "https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/2025/06/introducing-mcp-support-across-salesforce",
        "https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/2026/04/salesforce-hosted-mcp-servers-are-now-generally-available",
        "https://github.com/salesforcecli/mcp",
        "https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/hosted-mcp-servers/guide/hosted-mcp-servers-overview.html",
        "https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/2026/07"
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      "id": "04-salesforce-agentforce",
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      "mcp_support": "none-found",
      "last_checked": "2026-09-02",
      "sources": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agentforce"
      ],
      "record_url": "https://gtmmcps.com/tools/04-salesforce-agentforce"
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      "id": "08-tavus",
      "name": "Tavus",
      "capability": "Developer platform for building real-time, two-way conversational AI video agents (\"Conversational Video Interface\") - positioned for GTM use cases like greeting website visitors and booking meetings, not primarily batch personalized-outbound video.",
      "api_access": "free",
      "mcp_support": "official",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-24",
      "sources": [
        "https://www.tavus.io/",
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        "https://docs.tavus.io/llms.txt",
        "https://docs.tavus.io/sections/agent-tools/mcp-server.md",
        "https://github.com/rakeshdavid/Tavus-MCP",
        "https://coldiq.com/blog/tavus-video-prospecting"
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      "record_url": "https://gtmmcps.com/tools/08-tavus"
    },
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      "id": "14-tidio",
      "name": "Tidio",
      "capability": "Customer-service platform combining live chat, a help desk, and an AI agent (\"Lyro\") that resolves routine support/sales questions automatically.",
      "api_access": "free",
      "mcp_support": "official",
      "last_checked": "2026-09-02",
      "sources": [
        "https://www.tidio.com",
        "https://github.com/TidioPoland/tidio-mcp-connector",
        "https://tid.io/mcp",
        "https://www.tidio.com/ai-agent/build-and-integrate/"
      ],
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    },
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      "name": "Trellus AI",
      "capability": "A hybrid AI calling platform: a parallel dialer embedded in Salesloft/Outreach/HubSpot with real-time AI coaching for live reps, plus separate fully-autonomous voice agents for inbound call handling, appointment setting, and FAQ response.",
      "api_access": "unknown",
      "mcp_support": "none-found",
      "last_checked": "2026-09-02",
      "sources": [
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        "https://trellus.ai/pricing"
      ],
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      "name": "Warmly",
      "capability": "A website-visitor de-anonymization and intent platform that identifies companies (and increasingly named individuals) visiting a customer's site from IP/behavioral signals, then enriches those visitor records with firmographic and contact data for follow-up.",
      "api_access": "free",
      "mcp_support": "official",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-24",
      "sources": [
        "https://www.warmly.ai/launches/warmly-mcp-and-api-are-live",
        "https://www.warmly.ai/p/pricing-copy-2",
        "https://gzconsulting.substack.com/p/warmly-website-enrichment-via-claude"
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      "record_url": "https://gtmmcps.com/tools/01-warmly"
    },
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      "id": "05-warmly",
      "name": "Warmly (Warmly.ai)",
      "capability": "De-anonymizes website visitors at the person and company level from site traffic, and aggregates first-party (web/product/CRM), second-party (social/job-change), and third-party (Bombora intent, keyword research) signals into a unified account/contact view.",
      "api_access": "free",
      "mcp_support": "official",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-24",
      "sources": [
        "https://www.warmly.ai/launches/warmly-mcp-and-api-are-live",
        "https://www.warmly.ai/p/resources/launches",
        "https://opps-widget.getwarmly.com/pricing.html",
        "https://softwarefinder.com/customer-service-software/warmly",
        "https://www.leadpipe.com/blog/warmly-review-2026/"
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}