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Connect an AI assistant with MCP

Let Administrators connect an AI assistant, such as Claude, to read your organisation's outcomes, and approve or revoke the assistants that connect.

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Backed's MCP connection lets an Administrator connect an AI assistant, such as Claude, to read your organisation's outcomes as themselves. Assistants can only read; they can't change anything. Set it up under Settings > Profile and terms, on the API & MCP tab.

Before you start

You need the Can access Organisation settings permission to see the tab, and the permission to manage integrations to change it. Without that, the page says You can see these settings. Changing them needs permission to manage integrations.

Turn on MCP access

  1. Go to Settings > Profile and terms and open the API & MCP tab.
  2. Turn on Allow AI assistants to connect (MCP). It is off by default. While it is off, no assistant can connect and every connected assistant is refused.
  3. Copy the MCP endpoint with Copy. Give this address to your assistant when you add a connector.

Approve an assistant

An assistant that registers itself waits under Pending approval until someone who manages integrations approves it. Select Approve on its row. You see that it is approved and Administrators can now connect it.

Connect as yourself

  1. Add the MCP endpoint as a connector in your assistant. It sends you to Backed's Connect an AI assistant page.
  2. The page names the assistant and the address it Returns to. If it is Waiting for approval and you manage integrations, select Approve this assistant.
  3. Select Allow, or Cancel to stop.

The assistant sees only what you can see. The connection lasts 30 days.

Revoke an assistant

Connected assistants lists each approved assistant: Assistant, Returns to, Registered, Approved, Connected people and Last used. Select Revoke and confirm. It is disconnected for everyone who connected it, straight away, and can't be approved again: it has to register afresh.

What assistants can use

Tools assistants can use lists each tool. Each reads what the connected person can already see on the matching screen, and nothing more.

See also

This page uses Backed's default terms, such as Funding Round and Application Template. An organisation may rename them, so read each as your organisation's own term if you've renamed it.