This has been my experience with MCP servers as well. As useful as I think my Last.fm MCP server is, I can’t see it every having more than a dozen users. But internal company servers are massively useful:
MCP is being used especially heavily by internal data and platform teams to give internal users access to systems. These are systems that these users perhaps already had access to, but it was either too complex or too broad, or needed a lot of documentation or special skills to use.
Wiki search is so much better now that I can use our internal MCP server for it via Windsurf.
Source: Building MCP servers in the real world →