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The Brains

The Brains: The smartest brains on earth, in an MCP. Every answer cited.

Our verdict

Best for: Builders who want MCP-accessible advice from specific founders and investors with citations

Useful when you want advice grounded in a specific operator’s public corpus. Confirm install limits or paid access in-product; public pricing was unclear.

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Last verifiedOctober 22, 2026
Reviewed byDirHunt AI EditorialDirHunt AI Editorial

Introduction

The Brains packages founders, CEOs and investors as searchable MCP servers built from their talks, essays and posts. You add a brain to Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT and every answer cites the underlying source.

At scrape time the catalog listed 39 brains and 8,154 cited sources, with filters such as indie hackers, AI builders, CEOs and investors. The homepage does not publish a clear paid price list.

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What The Brains can do

01

MCP brains

Each person is an MCP server you can add to common AI tools.

02

Cited answers

Responses point back to talks, essays or posts.

03

Large catalog

Dozens of brains across founders and investors.

04

Searchable topics

Search people or topics such as pricing.

Pros

  • Citations for every answer
  • Works via MCP with popular AI tools
  • Broad catalog

Cons

  • No clear public pricing page
  • Unofficial brains may lag primary sources
  • Quality varies by corpus curation

The Brains pricing

Public pricing is unclear; presented as MCP brains you can browse and install.

Pricing verified on October 22, 2026.

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Facts checked on October 22, 2026.

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