Your compliance intelligence, available to any AI agent.
Seif exposes its regulatory knowledge graph as MCP tools. Your AI assistant gets the same structured, explainable, auditable compliance intelligence that powers the Seif dashboard — delivered as tool calls, not screenshots.
What is MCP?
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard for connecting AI assistants to external data sources and tools. Instead of copying information into prompts or building custom integrations, MCP lets a language model discover and call tools directly — the same way a web browser discovers and loads web pages.
An MCP server publishes a catalog of tools, each with a name, a description, and a typed input/output schema. When a user asks a question, the AI assistant reads the catalog, decides which tools are relevant, calls them, and incorporates the results into its response. The user never needs to know which tools were called or how the retrieval was structured.
MCP is supported by Claude (Anthropic), Cursor, Windsurf, and a growing ecosystem of AI applications. Any client that implements the protocol can use any MCP server — including Seif.
Why MCP for compliance?
Compliance intelligence has always lived behind login screens. A compliance officer opens a platform, navigates to the right dashboard, and reads the answer. That works — but it means the intelligence is only available when someone is actively looking at it.
MCP changes this. The same regulatory knowledge graph that powers the Seif dashboard can power an AI agent — answering compliance questions in a chat window, running gap analyses as part of an automated workflow, or monitoring regulatory changes overnight. The intelligence moves from a destination you visit to a capability your tools have.
Every MCP response carries the same explainability envelope as the dashboard: answer tier, confidence score, reasoning chain, source citations, and audit hash. Your AI assistant does not just get the answer. It gets the evidence.
Three tiers of access
Each tier adds tools to the MCP server. Discovery tools are free and available immediately. Professional and Enterprise tools require an API key tied to your firm.
Discovery
Explore multi-jurisdiction compliance intelligence with no commitment. Query obligations, look up definitions, and get regulatory guidance — ideal for evaluating Seif with your AI assistant.
- query_compliance — Natural language compliance queries
- lookup_definition — Regulatory term definitions
- get_regulatory_guidance — Obligation guidance by topic
- get_change_history — Track regulatory changes
- get_entity — Entity details by ID
Professional
Build compliance into your daily workflows. Your AI assistants access firm-scoped data, run gap analyses, and assess obligations against your policies.
- Everything in Discovery
- get_firm_obligation_register — Firm-specific obligations
- assess_obligation — Obligation status assessment
- list_firm_gaps — Gap analysis results
- get_gap_detail — Detailed gap information
- compare_regulatory_versions — Version comparison
- search_obligations — Advanced obligation search
Enterprise
Full programmatic access for enterprise compliance workflows. Multi-entity coverage, audit trail access, and batch processing for automated compliance pipelines.
- Everything in Professional
- generate_compliance_report — Automated reports
- get_audit_trail — Hash-chained audit access
- batch_assess_obligations — Bulk assessment
- get_cross_reference_map — Cross-reference analysis
- export_obligation_register — Register export
Connect in 60 seconds
Add the Seif MCP server to your Claude Desktop configuration. Replace
YOUR_API_KEY with your key — or omit the
Authorization header entirely to use the free Discovery
tier.
Once configured, Claude will automatically discover Seif's compliance tools and use them when you ask regulatory questions.
{
"mcpServers": {
"seif": {
"url": "https://mcp.getseif.com/mcp",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
}
}
}
}Start building with compliance intelligence.
Get an API key to unlock Professional and Enterprise tools, or start with the free Discovery tier today.