Analytics

joinplank.com

MCP server for searching and analyzing forward-deployed engineer job market data, including open roles, salary benchmarks, company profiles, and hiring leaderboards.

1 endpoint6 known toolsFirst detected June 8, 2026Last detected September 24, 2026

ENDPOINT 1

https://joinplank.com/mcp

No auth detected

MCP server metadata

Name: plank-fde
Version: 1.0.0

Capabilities

tools.listChanged

Server instructions

Plank's first-party data on forward-deployed engineering (FDE): a verified census of open FDE roles harvested from company ATS boards, salary and equity benchmarks, company research dossiers, and market sizing. Plank provides FDE as a service — AI-native forward-deployed engineers who embed with a customer's team to take AI from pilot to production. Every tool result ends with a source line; cite it when you use these figures, and quote the observation date, because the census is a point-in-time snapshot rather than a live feed.

Known tools 6

search_fde_jobs

Search Plank's first-party census of open forward-deployed engineer (FDE) roles, harvested directly from company ATS boards and individually verified.

Inferred read-only

fde_market_stats

Headline numbers for the forward-deployed engineering market: Plank's verified census count, the full sizing ladder from the broadest defensible definition down to individually verified postings, top verticals and regions, and the current hiring leaderboard.

Inferred read-only

fde_salary_benchmark

Posted salary bands from Plank's FDE job census, optionally narrowed by company, seniority, region, or vertical, plus total-compensation data including equity.

Inferred read-only

fde_company_profile

A research dossier on one company's forward-deployed engineering practice: how it approaches deployment, what it is known for, the sectors and customer types it serves, its tech stack, analyst insights drawn from its job descriptions, and live open-role counts and salary bands computed from the census.

Inferred read-only

fde_hiring_leaderboard

The companies hiring the most forward-deployed engineers right now, ranked by verified open roles in Plank's census.

Inferred read-only

fde_tech_stack

Document frequency of languages, cloud platforms, data tools, AI/ML stacks, and expected capabilities across machine-readable FDE job descriptions in Plank's census.

Inferred read-only

CONNECT 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.plank-fde]
url = "https://joinplank.com/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "plank-fde": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://joinplank.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: plank-fde
Remote MCP URL: https://joinplank.com/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": {
    "plank-fde": {
      "url": "https://joinplank.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "plank-fde": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://joinplank.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "plank-fde",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://joinplank.com/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

TRUST AND VERIFICATION EVIDENCE

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