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Mar 2026VentureBeat reported that Manufact had only three employees and had not yet demonstrated a scalable revenue model, despite its $6.3M seed round.
SourceOpen source SDK & cloud infrastructure for MCP Servers & ChatGPT Apps
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Manufact (formerly mcp-use) is a Y Combinator S25, San Francisco–based developer platform for the Model Context Protocol: an open-source mcp-use SDK plus Manufact Cloud for building, testing, deploying, and monitoring MCP Apps and MCP Servers. Public materials do not show a separately named CEO; the founders are Luigi Pederzani and Pietro Zullo.
Primary product
Manufact Cloud plus the open-source mcp-use SDK for building and deploying MCP Apps and MCP Servers
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Developer tools / AI infrastructure / MCP infrastructure
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
Zurich, Switzerland
Business model
Open-source SDK
Usage-based cloud hosting
Enterprise/custom pricing
Advisory / book-a-call support
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$6.9M
Latest round
Seed · Feb 2026
Latest amount
$6.3M
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder
Co-Founder
Founding Engineer
Work & culture
Open-source, developer-first, and founder-led, with a strong emphasis on shipping quickly, MCP-native infrastructure, and practical tooling for deployment, testing, and observability.
Compensation
Public YC job posts show base salary ranges of $100K-$180K for Senior Infrastructure Engineer, $100K-$150K for Marketing & Events Lead, and $100K-$160K for Developer Advocate & Partnerships, plus roughly 0.10%-0.70% equity depending on role. Some roles are listed as San Francisco or Remote.
Product & market
Pricing
Usage-based pricing with monthly credits and pay-as-you-go overages across Free, Hobby, Startup, and Enterprise tiers; enterprise uses custom pricing.
Differentiators
- —MCP-native vertical platform
- —Open-source SDK plus cloud in one stack
- —GitHub-connected auto-deploys
- —Cross-client testing across ChatGPT and Claude
- —Publishing checks for app-store / connector review
- —Cloud Inspector for live tracing and replay
- —Built for MCP Apps, not just generic hosting
- —TypeScript and Python support
Technology
TypeScript
Python
JavaScript
Docker
GitHub integrations
OAuth 2.0 / Dynamic Client Registration
OpenAPI
JSON-RPC
MCP
React widgets
Hot reload
Branch previews
Cloud Inspector
Customers
NASA
LangChain
AgentMail
iAhorro
Meilleurtaux
item
Simera
NVIDIA
SAP
Competitors
Anthropic MCP SDK
FastMCP
Vercel
Render
Fly.io
Cloudflare Workers
LangChain
Mastra
Vercel AI SDK
MCP registries / hubs
Signals & risks
Latest news
Manufact Blog · Jul 2026
Case study showing AgentMail using Manufact infrastructure for production MCP hosting, handling more than 100,000 tool calls per week and reaching production within about a week.
Manufact Blog · Jul 2026
Explains how OpenAI's ChatGPT/Codex merge affects MCP builders and says Manufact is built for the new workflow, with mcp-use for app metadata and Manufact Cloud for production deployment.
Manufact Blog · May 2026
Describes iAhorro shipping a ChatGPT mortgage-simulation app in four working days with mcp-use and Manufact Cloud, using publishing checks and hosted deployment.
Manufact Blog · May 2026
Covers Meilleurtaux's ChatGPT mortgage app launch, built with mcp-use and Manufact Cloud, and the role of publishing checks and analytics in getting to production.
VentureBeat · Mar 2026
Reports Manufact's $6.3M seed round led by Peak XV, with participation from Liquid 2 Ventures, Ritual Capital, Pioneer Fund, and Y Combinator, and notes the company was still small and early.
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