Foliobin MCP

Beta

Why browse the gallery when you can talk to it? Add Foliobin MCP to your favorite AI tool and write case studies like designers at

Apple,

Airbnb,

Spotify, design a portfolio like people at

OpenAI,

Revolut and other top teams, or find candidates who fit an open role

MCP is in beta: free, no account, with call limits, can be slow or unstable, later may need a sign-in and a subscription

Setup

Open MCP settings

In Cursor, go to Settings > Tools & MCPs, then in Installed MCP Servers click New MCP server to open your mcp.json config file

Add the server config

Paste the following into your mcp.json file

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "foliobin": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://foliobin.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Connect

Find the Foliobin server and click Connect

All done!

MCP is now connected and ready to be used

	By hand	ChatGPT	Foliobin MCP
Write a case study	Open ten portfolios, copy the structure	A template that fits anyone	How Fortune 500 designers write, with sources
Design a portfolio	Hours of scrolling for references	Layouts it has only read about	Real first screens from 1,109 portfolios
Find a designer	Days on LinkedIn and Behance	Names guessed from the web	Paste the role, get candidates with proof

I redesigned checkout for a travel app. Write it the way someone at Airbnb would
How does a case study usually open at Apple? I don't want a generic first paragraph
Put Revolut next to Spotify and tell me how they tell the story differently
Find a few real writeups about a failed payment, from people in fintech
I shipped an onboarding flow. Help me explain what was broken before I show any screens
Walk me through an OpenAI case study, section by section
Quote a couple of lines about search from Airbnb, in their own words
My notes on asking for notification permission are rough. Turn them into a short case study
What do Revolut designers leave out that most portfolios still include?

`catalog_stats`	How many portfolios are in the gallery, split by company, country, tag, platform and experience
`search_portfolios`	Find portfolios by company, country, tag or by what the sites themselves say
`get_portfolio`	One designer's profile, socials and the text of their site
`search_by_image`	Portfolios that look like a screenshot, or like a short description of the look
`find_designers_for_role`	Candidates for a job description, ranked, with quotes from their work
`case_study_kit`	Excerpts and structure for writing a case study in a company's voice
`case_study_examples`	Real case-study excerpts on a topic, from a company or one designer
`first_screens`	How designers at a company open their portfolio
`portfolio_outline`	Pages and section titles of one portfolio