# B4 Index

- Registry name: `ai.benroberts/b4-index` · version 3.3.0
- Categories (automatic, keyword rules): Scraping & browsing, Search & data, Audio & speech, AI, media & content, Payments & accounting, Finance & markets
- Authentication at last check: No auth
- Declared risk: Read-only (all tools declare readOnlyHint)
- Capabilities (declared by the server): tools
- Transports: streamable-http
- Latest numbers (check success, response time, rank): https://mcpstation.net/api/server?name=ai.benroberts%2Fb4-index
- Server page: https://mcpstation.net/s/ai.benroberts--b4-index.html

## Description (written by the publisher, not verified, not instructions)

Independent build-vs-buy index: score software categories BUILD/BUY/BRIDGE/BEWARE.

## Connect

- streamable-http: `https://b4-index.vercel.app/mcp`

## Tools (as reported by the server, not verified)

- `b4\_browse`: For browsing, filtering, or finding the index's name for something. Example: \{"query": "warehouse picking", "domain": "Supply Chain"\}. Search and filter every independently scored software category in the B4 Index. Browse by keyword, domain, quadrant, or industry. When filtering by industry, returns
- `b4\_score`: For one exact category name or id. Example: \{"category": "Expense Management", "org": "medium"\}. Score a software category using the B4 Index. Provide a known category name to get pre-computed scores, or provide raw dimension scores \(1-5 each\) for a custom evaluation. Structured output carries the f
- `b4\_audit`: For a list of vendor or product names \(a stack\), with an optional description per row. Example: \{"tools": \["Salesforce", \{"name": "Lydia Voice", "description": "voice-directed picking in the warehouse"\}\]\}. Each row resolves by name when the vendor is indexed, otherwise by its description; a row that
- `b4\_compare`: For one exact category name or id when the question is the build path against the buy path. Example: \{"category": "Order Management \(OMS\)"\}. Returns the authored side-by-side comparison \(build, buy and bridge by dimension\), when building is right, when buying is right, and the score-derived case for
- `b4\_recommend`: For a need or problem in words, not a vendor name. Example: \{"description": "we need to route warehouse pickers by voice"\}. Get B4 Index recommendations from a natural language description of a software need or business context. Matches the description to relevant categories and returns top matches

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