September 29, 2026
MCP servers for freelancers and agencies
A ten-person agency has a researcher, a designer, a developer, a QA person, a project manager and someone who writes the report. A freelancer has a laptop and a deadline. The gap between those two is mostly handoffs and lookups, and that’s exactly what MCP shrinks.
The stack below is organized the way a project actually runs: research, design, build, verify, report. Each server takes the slow, mechanical piece of that stage and hands you back the thinking time.
Disclosure, up front: we build Enrichr, so it appears on this list. We’ve tried to say exactly why, and to be straight about where the others are the better tool.
01 Enrichr, research and competitive teardownour pick
Day one of most projects is looking at what the client’s competitors and inspirations are doing. Enrichr turns that into a repeatable step: give it a URL and get design tokens, motion, tech stack and structure back, or run crawl_site across a whole competitor. It turns a half-day of browsing into a few prompts and a brief you can share with the client. Use references for insight, and deliver original work.
02 Figma
Read the client’s (or your own) design file directly so builds match the spec. No more eyeballing an export.
03 GitHub
Code, issues and PRs across client repos in one interface, and a clean audit trail of what you changed.
04 Context7
Current docs for whichever framework the client happens to use. Every project has a different stack, and this keeps Claude honest about each.
05 Playwright
QA on demand: click through the flow, check the states, take the screenshots. The tester you don’t have.
06 Chrome DevTools
Performance evidence for the report. “Your page loads faster” is a claim; a trace is proof.
07 Notion
Project briefs, meeting notes and client feedback in one searchable place Claude can read, so it works from what was actually agreed.
08 Gmail and Google Drive
Find the thread and the file in seconds, draft the status update from what really happened this week.