Moonlings — Local Business Intelligence

Measured conclusion: Deep-tested. L2 outcome: tools_ok.

AI visibility + fact-checks (ChatGPT/Perplexity), review gaps & competitor scans, local SEO.

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Copy this into your MCP client config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Moonlings — Local Business Intelligence": {
      "url": "https://moonlings.ai/api/mcp",
      "transport": "streamable-http"
    }
  }
}

Measured tools (8)

• ping read-only

  Returns server status, the price list, and (when authenticated) your credit balance. Free — call it to check connectivity and see what this server offers.

  Hints: read-only yes · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

• check_visibility read-only

  Ask ChatGPT and Perplexity live (with web search) who they'd recommend in a business's category and city, and report whether THIS business appears. Returns honest appearance counts (never an invented metric), a per-engine split, who gets recommended instead, and which local sites the AI answers cite. AI answers vary substantially between runs — one check is a snapshot, not a stable measurement; re-check over time for the real picture. Call this when a user wants to know if AI assistants recommend a local business. Takes ~10-30 seconds. Price: $0.79 per delivered check.

  Parameters:

  • businessName (required) — string — The local business to check
  • location (required) — string — City and state/region, e.g. "Cincinnati, OH"
  • businessType (required) — string — Category anchor, e.g. "gym" — the AI assistants are asked category questions, so this is required
  • website — string — Optional: the business website — a cited domain counts as an appearance

  Hints: read-only yes · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

• review_gap read-only

  Compare a local business's Google rating and review count against the top same-category rivals nearby, with the gap math done: who leads, the rating delta, the review-volume ratio, and a verdict (leading / rated_equal_or_better_but_outreviewed / trailing). Live Google Maps lookup at call time. Call this when a user wants to know how a business's reviews stack up against local competitors. Takes a few seconds. Price: $0.39 per delivered comparison.

  Parameters:

  • businessName (required) — string — The local business to check
  • location (required) — string — City and state/region, e.g. "Cincinnati, OH"
  • businessType (required) — string — Category anchor, e.g. "dentist" — rivals are the top Google Maps results for this category nearby
  • address — string — Optional: street address of the SPECIFIC location to compare, e.g. "332 Ludlow Ave" — use for chains/multi-location businesses so the right branch anchors the comparison

  Hints: read-only yes · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

• check_facts read-only

  Find what AI assistants get WRONG about a local business. Asks ChatGPT and Perplexity live (with web search) about the business's hours, address, phone, and category, then verifies each stated fact against Google Business ground truth. Returns a severity-ranked list of conflicts (with the AI's value vs. the trusted value and source) plus discrepancies to check. Conservative by design: a claim with no trusted source is 'unverifiable' (never an error), and a conflict is only counted when it reproduces across engines — so it won't cry wolf. Call this when a user asks whether AI has the right info about a business, or 'why does ChatGPT say we're closed'. Takes ~15-30 seconds. Price: $1.49 per delivered check.

  Parameters:

  • businessName (required) — string — The local business to fact-check
  • location (required) — string — City and state/region, e.g. "Cincinnati, OH"
  • website — string — Optional: the business website — if an AI answer cites this domain, a mismatch is treated as a possibly-stale discrepancy rather than an error
  • businessType — string — Optional category anchor, e.g. "restaurant" — helps resolve the business; not required

  Hints: read-only yes · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

• run_scan read-only

  A live competitor scan: a research agent finds the business's strongest same-category rival nearby and scouts it (offer, pricing signals, review positioning, what they do that this business doesn't), while two ground-truth lookups run in parallel: ChatGPT/Perplexity sampling for AI-assistant visibility, and a direct Google Places review comparison (reviewSnapshot — the authoritative numbers; finding source URLs are verified against what the agent actually retrieved). The AI-visibility portion is a single-run snapshot — AI answers vary substantially between runs. BLOCKING and slow: typically 2-4 minutes — only call it from contexts that tolerate a long tool call. Price: $1.99 per delivered scan; a failed scan is never charged.

  Parameters:

  • businessName (required) — string — The local business to scan
  • location (required) — string — City and state/region, e.g. "Cincinnati, OH"
  • businessType (required) — string — Category anchor, e.g. "ice cream shop" — rival discovery and AI sampling are both category-anchored
  • address — string — Optional: street address of the SPECIFIC location to scan, e.g. "332 Ludlow Ave" — use for chains/multi-location businesses so the right branch anchors the review comparison

  Hints: read-only yes · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

• start_deep_report

  Launch a full overnight-grade research report on a local business: an autonomous research crew maps the competitive landscape, reads the business's and rivals' web presence, and delivers a long-form graded report with structured findings and an action list. ASYNC: this tool returns a slug immediately; the report takes roughly 10-20 minutes. Poll check_report_status, then fetch with get_report_result. Price: $9.99, charged when the report launches; if the report fails, the charge is refunded automatically. Each call starts a NEW report — do not retry a call that already returned a slug.

  Parameters:

  • businessName (required) — string — The local business to research
  • location (required) — string — City and state/region, e.g. "Cincinnati, OH"
  • businessType (required) — string — Category anchor, e.g. "dentist" — competitor discovery is category-anchored
  • brief — string — Optional research focus, e.g. "we're losing weekend foot traffic — figure out why"
  • website — string — Optional: the business website, read to ground services and positioning

  Hints: read-only no · destructive no · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

• check_report_status read-only

  Poll a deep research report by slug. Free. Returns status (generating / ready / failed); a failed report triggers the automatic refund of its launch charge. Deep reports typically take 10-20 minutes — poll every few minutes, not every few seconds.

  Parameters:

  • slug (required) — string — The slug returned by start_deep_report

  Hints: read-only yes · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

• get_report_result read-only

  Fetch a completed deep research report by slug. Free. Returns the long-form report (markdown), a structured-findings JSON block, the action list, and the report card. If the report is still generating you get its status instead; if it failed, the launch charge is refunded automatically.

  Parameters:

  • slug (required) — string — The slug returned by start_deep_report

  Hints: read-only yes · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

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