New: MCP access

Put PainBase inside your AI.

Connect PainBase to Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, or any MCP-compatible client. Ask natural-language questions and get evidence-backed startup pain points without leaving your AI workspace.

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Search real pain points

Ask your AI to find public complaints by topic, audience, category, platform, or severity.

Explore the database

Discover the exposed tables, schema, relationships, and page through structured results.

Read-only by design

MCP can browse public research data. It cannot write to PainBase or access private user fields.

3-minute setup

Connect once. Research everywhere.

Open your AI client

Go to the MCP, connectors, or integrations settings.

Add the PainBase server

Paste the connection configuration and replace the API key placeholder.

Ask a research question

Try: “Find painful workflow problems for independent designers.”

mcp.jsonStreamable HTTP

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "painbase": {
      "type": "streamable-http",
      "url": "https://painbase.space/api/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_MCP_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your connection key is supplied by your PainBase workspace administrator. Keep it private and never commit it to source control.

What can you ask?

Find pain points for freelance designers

Show severe complaints about invoicing

Compare pain points across platforms

Give me the schema for the public dataset

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