Briefs Briefs

Quick reference

The cheat-sheet

Everything you need during the day.

Rules

The one rule

Your build has to use the Briefs MCP. You have access to live platform data and admin-parity tools — anything you can do in the admin, an agent can do through the MCP.

  • No restrictions on tools or process — Claude, OpenWork, whatever moves you fastest.
  • Pair up if you want, or fly solo.
  • It can just be a presentation. A sharp idea beats a half-working demo.

Money-management / budgeting tool — deferred by the team. Keep this day focused on the MCP.

Schedule

  1. Mon AM

    Kickoff + tech setup

    Connect the Briefs MCP, sort any access issues, form pairs if you want one.

  2. Mon all day

    Build

    Explore the MCP, pull live platform data, chase the idea. Go as late as you like — Monday night is fair game.

  3. Tue 12–1 PM

    Present

    Each team shows their idea. Demo, deck, or both. Then we vote and pick what's worth building for real.

Categories

Best Internal Idea

Turn admin work into agent work — moderate the community, generate modules, enable members, spot churn before it happens.

Judged by Jaspreet

Best Customer Idea

Something a member would feel: live scores, watchlist intelligence, answers to the questions they actually ask.

Judged by Jaspreet

People's Choice

The room decides. The idea everyone wants to see ship next, regardless of who it's for.

Voted by everyone

Ownership of the asset. Plus a $TBD gift card per winning category.

Kickoff kit

Connect the MCP, paste the prompt, go. Two steps.

1 Connect the Briefs MCP

https://mcp-nonprod.briefs.co/mcp

Add this as a custom MCP connector in Claude (or your client), then authenticate with your Briefs account.

2 Paste-ready prompt
You are my brainstorming partner for the Briefs Innovation Day hackathon.

Briefs is an investing education + community platform. I'm connected to the Briefs MCP — live platform data plus admin-parity tools (read/post the community feed, list/read Academy modules, read watchlists, pull Briefs Scores and stock fundamentals, see who I am and my scopes).

First, interview me — one question at a time, max 3:
1. What's your role / what do you work on at Briefs?
2. What part of that do you wish was automated or better?
3. Internal tools, customer-facing, or open?

Wait for each answer. Then call whoami, list_modules, and get_community_feed to ground yourself, and propose 5 ideas tailored to my answers, split INTERNAL (turn admin work into agent work) and CUSTOMER (something a member would feel).

For each: one-line pitch · MCP tools it uses · the 5-minute demo version · why only Briefs could build it.

Be concrete and a little contrarian. Skip budgeting / money-management tools — out of scope. Then ask which one to go deep on.

MCP tool cheat-sheet All 14 tools

Admin-parity. Anything you can do in the admin, an agent can do here. writes = mutates platform state.

Community

Read the feed, follow threads, post.

  • get_community_feed

    Recent visible posts; pinned + announcements first.

  • get_post_thread

    A post and all its replies.

  • create_community_post writes

    Publish a new post to the feed.

Academy

Discover and read educational content.

  • list_modules

    All active Academy modules + lesson counts.

  • get_module_lessons

    Ordered lessons for a module.

  • get_lesson_content

    Content items (video, PDF, audio) for a lesson.

Watchlists

The member's tracked stocks (Pro).

  • list_watchlists

    All watchlists with item counts.

  • get_watchlist_items

    Stocks in a watchlist with live price data.

  • manage_watchlist_item writes

    Add / update / remove a watchlist stock.

Scores & Stocks

Briefs Score + fundamentals (Pro).

  • get_briefs_score

    Overall score, letter grade, and 6 factor sub-scores.

  • get_stock_key_metrics

    Revenue, 52-week range, ROE, YoY growth.

  • get_stock_peers

    Comparable companies for a ticker.

  • compare_competitor_metrics

    Side-by-side metrics vs. up to 3 peers.

Identity

Who's connected, and what they can do.

  • whoami

    Authenticated user: tier, role, and admin scopes.