Explorium enriches the companies and people you already track with external data: firmographics, technographics, and buying signals pulled from across the web. Connecting Explorium to clariBI lets the planner add that external context to your own accounts and pipeline.
Why connect Explorium
Enrichment data usually arrives as a one-time CSV append and goes stale, disconnected from the CRM records it describes.
With Explorium connected, you can ask "Which of our open opportunities match our best-customer firmographic profile?", "Which accounts show hiring signals this month?", or "Enrich these domains with employee count and tech stack" and the AI engine reads it live.
How the connection works
clariBI talks to Explorium through its hosted MCP server at https://mcp-github-registry.explorium.ai/mcp. Authentication uses an OAuth flow that clariBI registers itself for (no developer console setup on your side). Tokens stay encrypted server-side and never leave clariBI in clear form.
sequenceDiagram
actor U as You
participant C as clariBI
participant V as Explorium
U->>C: Click Authorize with Explorium
C->>V: Open OAuth authorization
V-->>U: Grant read access?
U->>V: Approve
V-->>C: Authorization code
C->>V: Exchange code for tokens
V-->>C: Access + refresh tokens
C->>C: Encrypt and store credentials
C-->>U: Connection ready
Available tools
clariBI exposes the read-only Explorium tools that the vendor's MCP server publishes at connection time. Write operations (create, update, delete, send, refund) are filtered out by a name-pattern blocklist before any tool reaches the analysis engine, so connecting Explorium cannot modify data on the vendor side.
The exact tool inventory depends on the Explorium features your account has access to. After connecting, try a few natural-language questions to see what Explorium data clariBI can pull.
Data flow during analysis
When you ask a question that maps to Explorium, the AI engine routes to the right tool, reads the result, and pairs the answer with a chart you can pin to a dashboard.
sequenceDiagram
actor U as You
participant C as clariBI
participant AI as AI engine
participant V as Explorium
U->>C: Ask a question about B2B enrichment and firmographic data
C->>AI: Plan the analysis
AI->>V: Call the right tool
V-->>AI: Tool result
AI->>AI: Summarize and chart
C-->>U: Answer plus visual
Setting up the connection
- Open Data Sources in the clariBI sidebar.
- Click Add data source.
- Open the MCP Servers tab.
- Click the Explorium card.
- Click Authorize with Explorium.
- Sign in to Explorium in the popup window and grant the requested read scopes.
- Back in clariBI, give your data source a name.
- Click Finish.
Permissions and data access
clariBI connects through Explorium's OAuth flow and inherits the connected user's account access and entitlements. The catalog exposes read tools only (matching and reading enrichment attributes and signals); clariBI never writes back to Explorium. Disconnect anytime from Settings → Integrations in clariBI.
Troubleshooting
| Error | Cause | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| "No match for a company" | The domain or company name did not resolve to an Explorium entity, or it is outside your entitlement. | Pass a clean primary domain rather than a marketing subdomain, and confirm the dataset is included in your plan. |
| "Signals are empty" | The requested signal type is not enabled on your account, or the entity has no recent activity. | Check the enabled signal types in Explorium and widen the lookback window. |