--- title: "Connect HigherGov and Lead Forensics - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Pursuit Added\" fires in HigherGov, your agent runs \"Find businesses by assigned user\" in Lead Forensics." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/highergov-to-lead-forensics" --- # Connect HigherGov and Lead Forensics When **Pursuit Added** fires in [HigherGov](https://apiant.ai/connections/highergov), your agent runs **Find businesses by assigned user** in [Lead Forensics](https://apiant.ai/connections/lead-forensics), or **New Visit** in Lead Forensics to **Find Agencies** in HigherGov. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. HigherGov **1** trigger HigherGov **10** actions Lead Forensics **2** triggers Lead Forensics **9** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want HigherGov and Lead Forensics to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Zed Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Any other MCP client Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What HigherGov and Lead Forensics can do together ### From HigherGov to Lead Forensics - When **Pursuit Added** in HigherGov then **Find businesses by assigned user** in Lead Forensics - When **Pursuit Added** in HigherGov then **Find pages by visit** in Lead Forensics ### From Lead Forensics to HigherGov - When **New Visit** in Lead Forensics then **Find Agencies** in HigherGov - When **New Visit Filtered** in Lead Forensics then **Find Awardees** in HigherGov Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with HigherGov and Lead Forensics ## Triggers and actions 3 triggers · 19 actions - Trigger **Pursuit Added** Triggered when a new pursuit is added to your HigherGov pipeline. - Action **Find Agencies** Returns U.S. government agencies from HigherGov, with each agency's ID, name, abbreviation, type and place in the agency hierarchy. Supply an agency ID to look up a single one. - Action **Find Awardees** Returns companies that hold U.S. government awards, with each company's name, Unique Entity ID, CAGE code, address, contacts, industry codes and SAM registration dates. Filter by Unique Entity ID, CAGE code, parent company or industry code. - Action **Find Contract Vehicles** Returns U.S. government contract vehicles, each with its name, description, type, status, award date and the awarding and funding agencies. - Action **Find Federal Contracts** Returns U.S. federal contract awards, each with its Award ID, winning company, awarding and funding agencies, dollar values, performance dates, industry codes and place of performance. Filter by company, agency, industry code, contract vehicle or a saved HigherGov search. - Action **Find Federal Grants** Returns U.S. federal grant awards, each with its Award ID, recipient organization, awarding and funding agencies, grant program number, dollar amounts and dates. Filter by recipient, agency, program number or a saved HigherGov search. - Action **Find Opportunities** Returns open U.S. government contract and grant opportunities, each with its title, description, posting agency, source, posted and due dates. Filter by agency, source, posted date or a saved HigherGov search. - Action **Find People** Returns federal, state and local government contacts, each with their name, title, email, phone and agency. Supply an email address to look up one specific person. - Action **Find Pursuits** Returns the pursuits your team is tracking in HigherGov, each with its keys, name, stage and related opportunity details. Filter to a single pursuit by its key or your own reference ID. - Action **Find State and Local Contracts** Returns U.S. state and local government contract awards, each with its buyer, supplier, award amount and start and end dates. Filter by date range or a saved HigherGov search. - Action **Get Opportunity Documents** Returns the documents attached to a government opportunity, each with its file name, type, size, posted date, download link and extracted text. - Trigger **New Visit** Triggers when a new visit to your website by an identified business is recorded in Lead Forensics. - Trigger **New Visit Filtered** Triggers when a new website visit matches one of your Lead Forensics trigger reports. - Action **Find businesses by assigned user** Returns the businesses assigned to a chosen Lead Forensics user that visited your website within a date range. - Action **Find businesses by category** Returns the businesses in a chosen Lead Forensics category that visited your website within a date range. - Action **Find pages by visit** Returns the pages viewed during a Lead Forensics visit, with the time, address, title and referring site of each page view. - Action **Find visits by business** Returns the website visits made by a given business, optionally limited to a date range. - Action **Find visits by conversion** Returns the website visits that reached the chosen conversion, optionally limited to a date range. - Action **Get business** Returns a business identified by Lead Forensics, including its address, phone, website, industry and size. - Action **Get visit** Returns a single website visit by its id, including the visiting business, start and end times, page count, keywords and referrer. - Action **List businesses** Returns every business that visited your website within the date range you choose. - Action **List visits** Returns the visits businesses made to your website, optionally limited to a date range. ## Each app on its own - [ **HigherGov** HigherGov is a market intelligence platform for federal, state, and local government contractors and grant...](https://apiant.ai/connections/highergov) - [ **Lead Forensics** Lead Forensics is software for turbo-charged lead generation.](https://apiant.ai/connections/lead-forensics) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from HigherGov - [ **HigherGov to Hyperstack Certificates** Hyperstack helps you easily create and manage digital certificates & badges for your events or courses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/highergov-to-hyperstack-certificates) - [ **HigherGov to timeBuzzer** timeBuzzer is a simple time tracker and timesheet app to track hours worked across projects in real time.](https://apiant.ai/connect/highergov-to-timebuzzer) - [ **HigherGov to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/highergov-to-hubspot) - [ **HigherGov to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/highergov-to-salesforce) - [ **HigherGov to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/highergov-to-gmail) - [ **HigherGov to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/highergov-to-stripe) ## More into Lead Forensics - [ **HubSpot to Lead Forensics** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-lead-forensics) - [ **Google Sheets to Lead Forensics** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-lead-forensics) - [ **Gmail to Lead Forensics** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-lead-forensics) - [ **Google Calendar to Lead Forensics** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-lead-forensics) - [ **Google Drive to Lead Forensics** Google Drive is a cloud storage solution for uploading, sharing, and collaborating on files across devices...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-drive-to-lead-forensics) - [ **ActiveCampaign to Lead Forensics** ActiveCampaign is a marketing automation, email marketing, and CRM platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/activecampaign-to-lead-forensics) Questions ## HigherGov and Lead Forensics, answered ### ### What can start an automation from HigherGov? Any of HigherGov's 1 trigger in the catalog, including Pursuit Added. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Lead Forensics when something happens in HigherGov? Any of Lead Forensics's 9 actions, including Find businesses by assigned user, Find businesses by category, Find pages by visit and Find visits by business. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Lead Forensics to HigherGov? Yes. When something happens in Lead Forensics, your agent can act in HigherGov too. This page covers both directions: Lead Forensics's triggers and HigherGov's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for HigherGov or Lead Forensics? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use HigherGov and Lead Forensics without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.