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Robot jobs, sourced prices with history, providers by country, robot-vs-human costs, and RFQs.
Remote server: your requests and data go to whirrwork.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http whirrwork https://whirrwork.com/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
get_buyer_brief — START HERE for "who can do <job> in <place>, what does it cost, how do I get quotes?". One call returns: the matched robot job (with alternasearch_use_cases — Find the robot job (use case) that matches what the buyer wants, in plain words and in any of 12 languages. Returns matching use cases (id, get_use_case — Everything about one job: what it is, robot types, ways to buy (service/rental/RaaS/purchase), honest buyer tips (including when a robot is list_categories — The 20 job categories with use-case counts, for browsing when the buyer is vague.find_providers — Shortlist providers for a job and place. Ranked: lists the region > lists the country > lists part of the country > headquartered there (HQ get_provider — Full public profile of one provider: website, HQ, service regions and explicit service areas (with sources), jobs, robot types, engagement mcompare_providers — Side-by-side comparison of 2-10 providers: coverage for a country, engagement models, published prices (USD-normalized), HQ, contact routes,get_prices — Current sourced prices for a job (benchmarks + provider-published), or for one provider. Every row has source_url and as_of. Set convert (e.get_price_history — Every price observation we have recorded (append-only; never overwritten) for a job and/or provider, grouped into series with trend (change_estimate_cost — Arithmetic on published prices: unit price × quantity, using exact unit conversions (acre↔hectare, sq ft↔m², mile↔km), preferring benchmarkscompare_robot_vs_human — Cost comparison of human labour (or a human service) against robot options (buy, lease, robots-as-a-service, robot service provider) for onerobot_or_ladder — Does this job need a robot at all? Rule-based verdict from the Ladder Test (the same rules as whirrwork.com/tools/robot-or-ladder/): answer estimate_drone_spraying_cost — Cost of drone crop spraying for the buyer's field: every published per-acre, per-hectare, per-mu (China) and per-10-are (Japan) drone sprayiestimate_drone_show_cost — Cost of a drone light show of N drones: every published per-drone price x drones (best match for the country first, peak-date prices only whbuy_rent_or_hire — Total cost of buying a robot vs renting it (lease / robots-as-a-service) vs hiring a service over a period, with break-even months and the cfind_robots_for_job — Which kinds of robot do a job (primary type first, then alternatives), with the commercial models we have catalogued for each type: maker-puget_robot_model — One commercial robot model: every maker-published spec with its source URL and the date we checked it (unknown specs are absent, never guesscompare_robot_models — Side-by-side specs of 2-4 models of the same robot type: one row per spec with each model's maker-published value and source (null = not publist_countries — For each country: providers that list it as a service area, providers serving parts of it (with sub-regions), and providers headquartered thget_rfq_template — The exact fields to collect from the buyer before submit_rfq: core fields (required flags, formats) plus the job-specific checklist suppliersubmit_rfq — Submit a request for quotes for a real buyer who explicitly agreed to be contacted by matched suppliers (consent=true). Stored, auto-matchedget_rfq_status — Status of a submitted RFQ (received → matched → sent_to_suppliers → quoted → closed) with its status history. Needs the id and the access kesearch_stats — Search Whirrwork Research: 100+ citable statistics on robot adoption, industrial and service robots, humanoids, drones, agriculture, cleaninget_stat — One Whirrwork Research statistic by slug: claim, figure, scope, measure type, primary source with archive link, publication/access/last-veriNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.