How to connect Builtwith to Claude Cowork

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Builtwith account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to get all websites using Shopify in 2024, show historical tech changes for example.com, find online stores selling Nike shoes, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

Connecting Builtwith to Claude Cowork

1. Open Customize

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

2. Add the Composio MCP server

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agent for general knowledge work. It can use your computer, files, and connected applications to complete longer-running tasks across your work tools.

With Composio Connect, Cowork can securely access apps like Builtwith through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

The Builtwith MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your BuiltWith account. It provides structured and secure access to web technology profiling and competitive intelligence data, so your agent can perform actions like analyzing website tech stacks, discovering competitor technologies, generating domain lists, and recommending similar sites on your behalf.

• Comprehensive website technology profiling: Instantly analyze the current and historical tech stack of any website, including CMS, analytics, hosting, and more.
• Bulk domain and technology list generation: Have your agent create and export lists of domains using specific technologies, or generate tailored files for large-scale research or outreach.
• Competitor and product discovery: Identify financial, e-commerce, or product data for domains and uncover new market entrants or online retailers selling specific products.
• Technology usage trends and datasets: Query historical datasets to track how specific technologies have been adopted across the internet over time, supporting market research and technology forecasting.
• Intelligent site recommendations: Request suggestions for websites with similar technology profiles to a given domain, helping expand prospecting or research lists with relevant leads.