Analytics
hillsignal.com
Provides search, aggregation, and entity resolution for federal contract awards and related records to support spending analysis.
ENDPOINT 1
https://www.hillsignal.com/api/mcp
MCP server metadata
- Name
- hillsignal
- Version
- 1.0.0
HillSignal answers questions about the U.S. federal government and the market from the public record: contract awards, what agencies are about to buy, congressional stock trades and board seats, PAC and super PAC money, insider trades, private raises, bills and executive orders, themes, and its own verified track record. Companies are matched to tickers by exact match only; a miss is reported as a miss. Every row carries a source URL and a date. Cite the URLs. Start with resolve_entity or get_entity for a company, get_politician for a member of Congress, search_awards for specific contracts and award_totals for "who won the most" questions (it counts every match), search_opportunities for upcoming purchases, latest_events for what just happened. Money questions: money_trail for one donor ("how much did Musk give"), super_pacs for the biggest super PACs or one committee's donors and spending, outside_money for who is spending for or against a candidate, pac_lookup and pac_totals for corporate PACs. search_awards returns total_matching; page with offset when it exceeds what was returned.
Known tools 22
resolve_entityMap an organization name (a contract recipient, a subsidiary, a PAC sponsor, a Form D issuer) to its public-company ticker.
Inferred read-onlyget_entityOne company in the federal record: contracts won, PACs, patents, private raises, members of Congress who hold board seats there, insider trades, and its connections graph.
Inferred read-onlysearch_awardsSearch federal contract awards (USAspending, $10M+) by recipient, ticker, awarding agency, keyword, date range or minimum amount.
Inferred read-onlyaward_totalsAggregate every matching federal award (same filters as search_awards) into totals per recipient, per resolved ticker, or per awarding agency: award count, total dollars, share, first and last award, largest award.
Inferred read-onlycongressional_tradesStock trades disclosed by members of Congress (House and Senate Periodic Transaction Reports), by member name, ticker, transaction type or date.
Inferred read-onlyget_politicianA member of Congress: committees, board seats and other positions from annual Financial Disclosures (with resolved tickers), recent stock trades, and top PAC contributors from FEC data.
Inferred read-onlyinsider_tradesSEC Form 4 insider transactions by ticker or insider name; filter to buys or sells, minimum value, date.
Inferred read-onlysearch_billsFull-text search over bills, contract awards and other government events with their analysed sector and ticker exposure.
Inferred read-onlyexecutive_ordersExecutive orders, proclamations and memoranda with affected sectors and tickers.
Inferred read-onlypac_lookupCorporate and trade-association PACs linked to a public company (by ticker) or found by committee name, with the candidates they fund.
Potential side effectspac_totalsWhich PACs give the most: contributors to tracked candidates ranked by total dollars (FEC Schedule A), by election cycle, with donor-processing conduits like ActBlue and WinRed separated out.
Inferred read-onlymoney_trailHow much a person or organization gave, to which committees, and what those committees did with it.
Inferred read-onlysuper_pacsWhich super PACs are pulling the strings: the largest by money raised, spent or on hand for a cycle, from the FEC's own committee totals.
Inferred read-onlyoutside_moneyOutside money on a candidate: every super PAC and other filer spending independently to support or oppose them, with totals, from FEC Schedule E.
Inferred read-onlydata_coverageRow counts and the latest dated row for every dataset behind these tools, plus entity-resolution coverage.
Inferred read-onlylist_themesThe themes the government is currently funding across bills, contracts, solicitations and filings, each with a permanent page and a verdict.
Inferred read-onlyget_themeOne theme in full: the setup, the dated chronology with each beat linked to its source record, why it matters, what to watch, and the evidence.
Inferred read-onlylatest_eventsThe newest events across every source (awards, trades, filings, bills, orders, themes), with provenance.
Inferred read-onlytrack_recordEvery forward call HillSignal made since May 2025, verified against SPY 30 days later, with the inclusion rules and the miss rate.
Inferred read-onlyinstitutional_holdersLargest institutional holders of a ticker from 13F-HR filings HillSignal has ingested, latest position per institution.
Inferred read-onlyform_d_raisesSEC Form D private placements of $5M and up, by issuer name, resolved ticker, date or minimum amount.
Inferred read-onlyCONNECT WITH APPROVAL
Client installation
Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.
Codex
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.hillsignal]
url = "https://www.hillsignal.com/api/mcp"
enabled = true
Claude Code
.mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"hillsignal": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://www.hillsignal.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}
Claude Desktop
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector
Name: hillsignal
Remote MCP URL: https://www.hillsignal.com/api/mcp
Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.
Cursor
.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"hillsignal": {
"url": "https://www.hillsignal.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}
Visual Studio Code
.vscode/mcp.json
Add to Visual Studio Code{
"servers": {
"hillsignal": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://www.hillsignal.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}
Generic MCP
Client-specific MCP configuration
{
"name": "hillsignal",
"transport": "streamable-http",
"url": "https://www.hillsignal.com/api/mcp"
}
MCP Inspector
Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.
TRUST AND VERIFICATION EVIDENCE
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