How to add the reconnAI MCP connector to Claude Desktop
The reconnAI connector lets you access your brand visibility data directly inside Claude. Once connected, you can ask Claude to generate reports, compare platforms, and analyse citation trends — all without leaving the conversation.
How to connect
Watch the demo below, then follow the steps.
Live demo
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Open Settings in Claude
Click Claude in the menu bar and choose Settings…
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Navigate to Connectors
Select the Connectors tab inside Settings.
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Click "Add custom connector"
Scroll to the bottom of the Connectors tab and click Add custom connector.
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Enter the reconnAI server URL
Type https://reconn-ai.com/mcp in the Server URL field, then click Connect.
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Authorise with your reconnAI account
A browser window will open asking for your reconnAI email and password. Once authorised, Claude will have access to your brand data.
Server details, other MCP clients, and what each of the six tools returns
The reconnAI MCP server gives any MCP-compatible assistant read-only access to your brand's AI visibility data. You ask in plain English; the assistant picks the tool and fills in the parameters.
Server details
Server URL:https://reconn-ai.com/mcp/ (https://reconn-ai.com/mcp also works)
Transport: Streamable HTTP (MCP 2025-06-18; older clients are negotiated down automatically)
Sign-in: OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration and PKCE — you sign in with your reconnAI email and password; there is nothing to copy or configure
Access: read-only, and scoped to the brands on your account — a request for any other brand returns Access denied to this brand
Freshness: metrics come from caches rebuilt nightly at about 04:00 UK time. Every response carries cached_at, plus a cache_note whenever an earlier build or a different comparison had to be used
Other MCP clients
Claude Desktop is covered in Connect › Claude. For everything else, point the client at the server URL — it registers itself and opens the reconnAI sign-in page on first use.
Claude Code
claude mcp add reconnAI --transport http https://reconn-ai.com/mcp/
Cursor — Settings → MCP Servers, add a server with transport HTTP, or in ~/.cursor/mcp.json:
Anything else that supports the Streamable HTTP transport with OAuth can connect the same way. Clients that only speak stdio cannot connect directly.
Check the connection
Ask “List my reconnAI brands”. The assistant calls list_brands and returns each brand with its brand_id — the ID every other tool takes.
The six tools
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list_brands
No parameters. Returns every brand kit your login can see, with the brand_id the other tools need. “What brands do I have access to?”
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get_visibility
brand_id · range 7, 14, 28 or 90 days (default 28) · comparison previous_period or previous_year. Returns the brand's visibility score, share of voice, average mention position, visibility and share-of-voice rank, competitor count and a daily trend, each with its change against the comparison period. “What's my AI visibility over the last 28 days, and is it up or down?”
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get_competitor_comparison
Same parameters. Returns every tracked competitor side by side — visibility, share of voice, average position, ranks, mention counts and change — with your own brand flagged is_main_brand. “Which competitors are mentioned more often than us, and by how much?”
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get_topic_performance
Same parameters. Returns each of your topic areas with visibility score, rank, rank change, average position and the number of prompts behind it. “Which topics am I winning, and which am I losing?”
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get_platform_breakdown
brand_id · range · comparison. Returns visibility per AI platform — ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overview — and per region (UK, US, AU, CA, ZA, NZ). “Break my visibility down by platform.”
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get_citation_metrics
brand_id · range. Returns the domains AI answers cite most when they mention your brand, with citation counts and trend. “Which sources do AI answers cite when they mention my brand?”
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Ranges count back from today and leave out today's crawl, which is still in progress. The previous_year comparison is available for the 28-day range; other ranges fall back to previous_period and say so in cache_note.
Prompts that work well
"List all my brands and their IDs."
"Generate a visibility report for [brand] for the last 7 days."
"Compare our visibility against our top five competitors this month."
"Has our share of voice gone up or down versus last period?"
If you’d like to add filters to your report data, you can do this by adding tags to your prompt set.
Tags group prompts into segments — for example Brand Query, Competitor Comparison or Informational — so you can look at visibility for one type of question at a time rather than the whole set at once.
How to add tags
Open Topics from the sidebar or the tab bar.
Click a topic row to expand it and show the prompts it contains.
Tick the prompts you want to group together.
Choose the tags to apply, then save.
Filtering by segment
Once prompts are tagged, the Tags filter above the topics table lets you narrow the report to a single segment. The table, visibility scores and trend all update to reflect only the prompts carrying that tag.
How to enable reconnAI in a conversation and run your first report
Once the reconnAI connector is added to Claude Desktop, you can enable it in any conversation and start asking questions about your brand data. Here's how.
Enabling the connector and running a report
Watch the demo below to see the full flow — enabling reconnAI from the chat input and generating a visibility report.
Live demo
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Click the + button in the chat input
Start a new conversation and click the + icon at the bottom left. A panel will appear showing your available connectors.
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Toggle reconnAI on
Find reconnAI in the list and click the toggle to enable it. The connector stays active for this conversation only.
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Ask Claude about your brand
Type any question about your brand visibility — for example: "Generate a visibility report for my brand" or "Which platforms cite us most this week?"
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You need to enable the connector each time you start a new conversation. Claude does not enable connectors automatically.
Example prompts to try
Here are some prompts that work well with the reconnAI connector:
"Generate a visibility report for [your brand]"
"Which AI platforms mention us most frequently?"
"Compare our citation volume this week vs last week"