Whimbrel: Medtech ResearchData
FDA clearances, PMA approvals, De Novo grants, Breakthrough marketing authorizations, HDE approvals, NIH and NSF awards, federal medical R&D contracts, and ClinicalTrials.gov device trial registrations. Updated every morning. Each event links to its public source.
Whimbrel covers US medical device companies and suppliers. Companies Whimbrel covers: US medical device makers and the suppliers that build, sterilize, test or engineer for them, placed there from FDA's device registration and premarket records and settled by a model reading the evidence, with name variants folded into one. A name with a public signal that Whimbrel does not cover is not counted.
The files above describe the archive and publish aggregates, not events. Querying the archive over MCP or HTTP takes an active Whimbrel plan.
The same data answers over the Model Context Protocol
(Streamable HTTP). Connecting opens the Whimbrel Connect screen:
create an account or log in with an emailed code, then start your free
month. HTTP discovery (/v1/about,
/.well-known/*) is open; data tools need an active
subscription.
https://data.whimbrelresearch.comBefore signing in you can only call about_the_data, get_access (methodology and Subscribe). Whimbrel: Medtech Research. Whimbrel saves you hours of research on medical device companies, inside the AI app you already use, like ChatGPT or Claude. After Subscribe, the AI reads your firm's website and
sets up your profile (account), then you prove the install
with one ask: who should I reach out to this week (find:
US medical device companies ranked for your firm, each with the evidence,
its source and why it fits). There is nothing to log:
remember keeps what you mention in passing about your firm,
so Whimbrel ranks better for you.
The assistant sees these tools, one per step of the job: news, find, company, rank_list, trade_show, watch_space, check_watches, remember, forget, account, opening_line_facts, deep_record, research_status, crm_export, about_the_data, get_access, add_target, remove_target, list_targets, mark_seen, watch_company, list_watches, unwatch, pass_company, restore_company, list_ranked_sets, open_ranked_set.
find is one search over the companies Whimbrel covers and
their evidence: a device, technology or space, a role being hired, a
state, a date, a kind of evidence. It covers the
full trial-registration history (ClinicalTrials.gov device trial
registrations), Breakthrough marketing authorizations, HDE approvals,
FDA clearances and approvals, and company news; who got funded is a
find search too, and NIH awards
are the evidence. company is the rundown on one company:
whether Whimbrel covers it and why, its events with sources, and your
status for it (a client, or not a fit). rank_list orders a
pasted list for your firm; trade_show ranks a show's
exhibitor list into the booths to visit;
watch_space watches a space (a find search) for you and
check_watches shows what is new on every watch.
opening_line_facts gives the facts to write an opening line
from. deep_record is the full record on one company (it asks
before starting a new one) and crm_export shapes it into HubSpot or Salesforce
import files. Only these tools answer over MCP. The older tools
(who_got_funded, weekly_pulse,
latest_signals, find_signals,
quick_company, company_timeline and the rest) were
retired on October 13, 2026, and their HTTP routes on October 17, 2026.
Whimbrel saves you hours of research on medical device companies, inside the AI app you already use, like ChatGPT or Claude.
Your plan lets you
rank companies for your firm (find), rank one you already have
(rank_list), see
what is new in a space (check_watches),
or get a rundown on a company (company). Call get_access and start your
free month via Subscribe. The server ships ready-made
whimbrel_ prompts, including
whimbrel_first_run, so clients that surface prompts as
slash commands get a command palette on connect.
Setup steps for Claude, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code and other MCP clients: https://whimbrelresearch.com/connect/. Connect with OAuth and start your free month. HTTP data routes below need the same active subscription.
Three routes, for readers that do not speak MCP. Each runs a live
tool's handler, so the answer matches what the tool gives in the AI app.
A route never starts a new company record; that stays in the app. Anyone
with an active plan sends Authorization: Bearer
with their Whimbrel access token to this host; a request without one gets
401 and a link to start your free month. Agents use
https://agents.whimbrelresearch.com with no account and pay
per request over x402. Until Cloudflare's payment gateway opens for that
host, agents are not served.
/v1/company/{company} | the rundown on one company: whether Whimbrel covers it and why, what it makes, and its events on file, each with its source (the company tool) |
/v1/company/{company}/research | the company research on file, as stored: company facts, named partners, evidence and gaps (deep_record, with no new research run) |
/v1/find | US medical device companies ranked for the firm you describe (services, device_areas, customer_stage), or by about, role, state and since (the find tool) |
/v1/subscribe?plan=<name> redirects to sign-up, where a
person enters their work email and the 6-digit code Whimbrel sends, then picks
the plan and starts the free month. With no plan named it sends a person to the
setup page, where starting the free month on the Connect screen signs the app in
at the same time.
Discovery and terms are free and stay free: the x402 catalogue lists the routes, their parameters and price, and whether agent payment is switched on, and /v1/about states the terms in prose. Read the price from the catalogue rather than from this page.
An active plan (the free month included) unlocks every
tool the assistant sees except about_the_data and
get_access: news, find, company, rank_list, trade_show, watch_space, check_watches, remember, forget, account, opening_line_facts, deep_record, research_status, crm_export, add_target, remove_target, list_targets, mark_seen, watch_company, list_watches, unwatch, pass_company, restore_company, list_ranked_sets, open_ranked_set.
A rundown on a company returns whether Whimbrel covers it and why, what
it makes, and its dated events, every line linked to its source. research_status tracks a queued deep_record run.
crm_export
shapes a finished record into ready-to-import HubSpot or Salesforce
files. Whimbrel has one plan, billed monthly or yearly, and it starts
with a free month. Buying for a team of 5 or more?
Contact us.
Create an account or log in on the Connect screen your app opens; the
free month connects the app at the same time. The Account page at
app.whimbrelresearch.com holds billing (on Stripe), team members and
connected apps. What the plan is and who it serves:
https://whimbrelresearch.com/connect/.