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Start here AI agents & MCP 9 min read By Dan Muse

What Is an MCP Server? A Plain-English Guide for People Who Run a Business

What the protocol is, and why the phrase means very different things at different vendors.

A conceptual diagram: one business instruction travels from an AI client through an MCP server, then returns as a published page, connected booking, CRM capture, and scheduled follow-up in an AXL account.
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Three rules, and what happens when we break one.

Every competitor number is sourced and dated

The vendor's own page and the day we read it, beside the figure. We never claim “X has no CRM.” We report only what their page said on the day it said it. A moved price is corrected.

Missing proof stays visible to the editors

A claim that still needs confirmation is held back or removed before release. We do not fill a missing answer with a guess.

No invented customers, ever

No “Sarah tripled her revenue in six weeks”. A worked example is labelled as one, its numbers as placeholders.

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