How FastMCP Became the Fastest-Growing Thing We've Ever Built

Talking with Adam Azzam (VP of Product) and Jeremiah Lowin about how FastMCP went from weekend project to official SDK, and what we learned about who actually uses MCP. CONTENT 00:00 - First reactions to MCP and what it could do 00:38 - Building the SDK over a weekend 01:17 - FastMCP merging into the official SDK 01:28 - April: OpenAI and Google support changes the game 01:44 - Tracking who's using MCP and why 02:05 - Three places agents find answers 02:41 - Data teams keep ending up in charge 03:08 - The self-serve data platform question 03:31 - Why semantic layers didn't work in practice 04:07 - AI deployment as a data platform evolution 04:10 - Context era problems: how do agents find what they need? 04:38 - Automation means you can walk away 05:00 - FastMCP as entry point, Horizon as platform 05:21 - Getting MCP under control in enterprises 05:51 - Making MCP invisible to end users 06:14 - MCP servers as business logic Prefect: prefect.io FastMCP: gofastmcp.com Try Horizon today: prefect.io/horizon