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About Build Vault

Transforms The Build Podcast into a searchable knowledge base using hybrid vector and full-text search, providing semantic search across business ideas, frameworks, products, and expert insights from podcast episodes with speaker-specific filtering and analytics resources.

What you can use it for

  • ai ml
  • analytics data
Connection and setup
Hosting
Remote hosted service
Transport
streamable-http
Endpoint
https://mcp.buildaipod.com/mcp
Authentication
No credentials were configured; the tested read-only tool “list_products” succeeded in an isolated environment. Other tools may have additional requirements.

Requirements

  • An MCP client with Streamable HTTP support.
  • The public endpoint passed an unauthenticated smoke test.

Setup steps

  1. Use the public HTTPS MCP endpoint https://mcp.buildaipod.com/mcp.
Tools 18

18 documented tools match 18 stored tool rows; resources/prompts are separate MCP primitives.

  • list_products

    List AI insights from vault.buildaipod.com with optional filtering.

    Parameters: limit, offset, episode_id
    01
  • search_products

    Semantic search for AI insights using natural language.

    Parameters: query, limit, similarity_threshold
    02
  • get_product_details

    Get detailed information about a specific AI insight by ID.

    Parameters: product_id
    03
  • find_similar_products

    Find insights similar to a given insight using vector similarity.

    Parameters: product_id, limit, similarity_threshold
    04
  • search_by_date_range

    Find AI insights from episodes published within a date range.

    Parameters: start_date, end_date, limit
    05
  • search_by_category

    Search AI insights by category (frameworks, points_of_view, business_ideas, stories, quotes, products).

    Parameters: category, limit
    06
  • search_by_timeframe

    Search insights within a within-episode timestamp range.

    Parameters: start_timestamp, end_timestamp, episode_id, limit
    07
  • get_timeline_insights

    Get chronological insights across episodes (newest first).

    Parameters: episode_id, limit
    08
  • list_episodes

    List podcast episodes ordered by date with numbers, titles and metadata.

    Parameters: limit, order
    09
  • search

    Search AI insights, episodes and topics from the Build AI Pod vault for deep research.

    Parameters: query
    10
  • fetch

    Retrieve complete content with full context and metadata for deep research and citation.

    Parameters: id
    11
  • list_products_catalog

    Browse the curated AI product catalog (approved products), most-mentioned first.

    Parameters: category, limit, page
    12
  • search_products_catalog

    Find products in the catalog by natural-language query (semantic when available).

    Parameters: query, limit, similarity_threshold
    13
  • get_catalog_product

    Get detailed information about a product from the catalog by ID.

    Parameters: product_id
    14
  • search_segments

    Semantic search over podcast transcript segments.

    Parameters: query, limit, similarity_threshold
    15
  • list_episode_links

    List enriched links/resources referenced across episodes (Spotlight).

    Parameters: category, limit
    16
  • insights_by_domain

    Filter insights by technical domain and/or implementation difficulty (1-5).

    Parameters: domain, difficulty
    17
  • insights_by_tool_category

    Filter insights by tool category.

    Parameters: tool_category
    18
Limitations and notes
  • Runtime verification covered one read-only tool call (list_products); other listed tools were not individually exercised.
Original sources

Documentation checked 2026-10-28T00:00:00Z. Connection has not been runtime tested.