Connect your AI assistant

Overview

Connect AMS to the AI assistant you already use, and ask about your products, retailers, leads, and sales without copying anything over. Your assistant can also help with the work, like adding a product or a task, when you allow it.

It takes about a minute. You add AMS to your assistant and approve it once in your browser. There's nothing to copy except your server address. Claude and ChatGPT (in beta) are covered below.

Before you start

• You must be a business admin in AMS to connect an assistant.
• Your AMS subscription must be active or in trial.
• Claude works on Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, and Claude Code. ChatGPT needs a paid plan and works on the web.

Connect Claude

Claude connects to AMS with a one-click approval in your browser. There's nothing to copy except your server address, and Claude keeps itself signed in after that.

Claude.ai

1. In AMS, open Integrations → AI Assistant → Settings → Overview and copy Your server address from the Connect an assistant section.
2. In Claude.ai, go to Customize → Connectors → + Add connector → Add Custom Connector and paste the address. Leave the Client ID and Secret fields (under Advanced) blank. Claude fills those in on its own.
3. Claude opens an AMS approval screen. Check the business and what Claude may do, then click Allow. You're back in Claude with AMS connected.

Claude Desktop

1. Copy your server address from AMS, the same one Claude.ai uses.
2. In Claude Desktop, open Connectors in settings, choose Add custom connector, and paste the address. Leave the Client ID and Secret fields blank.
3. Approve AMS in the browser window that opens, then go back to Desktop.

Claude Code

In a terminal, add AMS with one command:

claude mcp add --transport http ams https://app.artistmanagementstudios.com/api/mcp

The first time Claude Code uses AMS, it opens the approval screen in your browser. Click Allow and you're set.

Connect ChatGPT (Beta)

ChatGPT support is in beta. It works with paid ChatGPT plans (Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu) on the web, at chatgpt.com. Free plans and the phone and desktop apps can't add AMS yet.

1. In AMS, open Integrations → AI Assistant → Settings → Overview and copy Your server address.
2. In ChatGPT, open Settings → Security and login and turn on Developer mode.
3. Go to chatgpt.com/plugins (opens in a new tab), add AMS, and paste your server address.
4. ChatGPT opens an AMS approval screen. When AMS can confirm the request really comes from ChatGPT, it shows a Verified mark. Check the business and what ChatGPT may do, then click Allow.
5. In a chat, pick AMS from the + menu and ask away.

What the approval prompts mean

ChatGPT asks you to confirm before AMS changes anything, like adding a product or a task. Looking things up doesn't ask. That check comes from ChatGPT itself, on top of AMS's own rules, so you always see a change before it happens.

Business info that AMS shares with ChatGPT during a chat follows your own OpenAI data settings.

Other assistants

Any assistant that lets you add a custom connector can use your server address. Add it the same way, and approve AMS when the sign-in screen opens.

Everything on this page works the same whichever assistant you use. Guided workflows on the AI Assistant page open in Claude or ChatGPT, whichever you pick with Open in.

What your assistant can do

• Look things up. Find products, retailers, leads, podcasts, collabs, tasks, and events by name, and pull up the full details of any one of them.
• Sum up your business. Sales, profit, and best-sellers for any dates you name, like last month or this holiday season. It can compare them with the same time last year, or show them month by month. Plus your lead pipeline, a retailer's full history, and how you're tracking against your yearly goals.
• Make changes, if you allow it. Add products and tasks, lay out the steps it takes to make a product, make templates of those steps, set your yearly goals and log each month's numbers, update records, change stock counts, and record what you sold at a market or online. On the Retail plan it can also add leads and their contacts, log outreach, enter a shop's consignment sales report, and mark those sales paid when the shop pays you. It checks stock and sales with you before saving, and asks before deleting a step. Leads and outreach it adds get an AI badge.
• Spot numbers that look off. Ask it to check your data. It flags prices well below your pricing formula, wholesale that barely makes money, missing costs, sales saved with no cost, versions with no code, stock that was never counted, and goals that are behind only because the numbers weren't typed in. It also mentions these before it reports profit or goal progress, so you can fix them first.
• Read your Instagram stats. Once Instagram is connected, ask it to review your Instagram and help plan your next posts. See the Instagram help page.
• Run guided workflows. Step-by-step help like getting set up, a weekly review, or finding new shops and markets to reach out to. See them all on the Premade Skills tab of the AI Assistant page.

Not sure what to ask? Say "What can you do with my AMS?" For the full list with example questions, open the What your assistant can do tab under Integrations → AI Assistant → Settings.

Leads, retailers, outreach, podcasts, collabs, orders, and consignment sales are part of the Retail plan. On the Maker plan, your assistant tells you when something needs Retail instead of doing it.

Changes an assistant makes to your leads, shops, products and their steps, tasks, events, and goals are listed on the Change History tab with the assistant's name, like Claude or ChatGPT. Many can be undone there with one click, including a sale it marked paid. Sales and stock counts it records show up on the Sales and Stock pages instead.

Shared documents

Your assistant can keep written notes for your business in AMS, like a brand guide, a yearly business plan, or its own running notes. Because they live in AMS, every assistant you connect reads the same notes, so your business story follows you from one chat to the next.

• Read documents — list, read, and search them. Your assistant opens a full document only when it needs it.
• Write documents — add and update them. You keep one brand guide and one business plan; other notes can be added freely.
• Archive documents — put one away. Older versions are kept.

The Documents tab on the Integrations → AI Assistant page shows every document and its past versions. You can download any version as a Markdown (.md) file. Documents are admin-only unless you ask your assistant to make one visible to your team.

Managing connections

The Connections tab under Integrations → AI Assistant → Settings lists everything that can reach your AMS. Each row shows:

• The name, and the admin who created it
• What it's allowed to do
• The App: the assistant you approved (like Claude or ChatGPT), or Access key for an older connection
• The first few characters of the key (Key starts with)
• When it was last used, and when it was created

Any business admin can click Remove access on any row, for example when someone leaves or a laptop goes missing. It stops working right away, and the assistant asks you to connect again.

You can have up to 25 connections at a time, counting approved assistants and older access keys together. At 25, remove one before you connect another.

Activity log

The Activity tab shows everything your assistants have done in AMS: when, which connection, what it did (like "Searched" or "Created lead"), and whether it worked. Filter by connection, result, or date. Every admin sees the same log.

Security

• Nothing to copy or leak. When you approve in the browser, the assistant gets a short-lived pass that renews itself. There's no long-lived secret for you to store or share by mistake.
• Keys can't be read back. For older connections made with an access key, AMS keeps only a scrambled fingerprint, never the key itself.
• Only what you allow. An assistant only sees the actions you granted. Without permission to add leads, it can't even see that option.
• Your business only. Every connection is tied to one business, and AMS decides which one. An assistant can't ask for someone else's data.
• Removing access is instant. The next request after you click Remove access is refused.
• Encrypted and speed-limited. Every request travels over a secure connection, and each connection is limited to 60 requests a minute, with up to 40 of them being changes. If your assistant goes over, it's told how many seconds to wait, then carries on.
• Your assistant's own settings apply. What Claude or ChatGPT keeps from a chat follows that company's data settings in your account with them.

Troubleshooting

The connector won't add, or says it couldn't register — Check that you pasted the exact server address from the Connect an assistant section (it ends in /api/mcp), and that the Client ID and Secret fields are blank. Filling those in can stop the connection.

It says the connection was removed or isn't valid — The connection was removed. Remove AMS from your assistant and add it again, then approve the connection.

It says your subscription isn't active — Your AMS subscription has ended or a payment is overdue. Renew it on the Subscription page, then try again.

It says it doesn't have permission — The connection wasn't allowed to make that kind of change. Remove it, add it again, and allow the change on the approval screen.

It says it's being slowed down — More than 60 requests came in within a minute. Wait a minute and ask again.

"Server unavailable", or tools suddenly stop working — Some assistants hide AMS's message and show a general error instead. The usual cause is a removed connection. Check the Connections tab; if the row says Removed, remove AMS from your assistant and add it again, then approve the connection.

The assistant doesn't see AMS — Restart it after connecting, and check the server address matches the one in AMS exactly. On Claude.ai, check the connector under Customize → Connectors and make sure you finished the AMS approval screen.

I set AMS up with an access key before — It still works. To switch to the simpler sign-in, add AMS as a custom connector (see Connect Claude), then remove the old key on the Connections tab and take AMS out of your Claude settings file.

I don't see Developer mode in ChatGPT — It's only on paid plans (Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu), and only on the web at chatgpt.com. On a Business, Enterprise, or Edu plan, your workspace admin may need to turn it on for you.

ChatGPT keeps asking me to approve — That's expected when AMS is about to change something, like adding a product. It's ChatGPT's own safety check. Looking things up shouldn't ask; if it does, remove AMS in ChatGPT and add it again so it picks up the latest version.

ChatGPT doesn't use AMS in a chat — Pick AMS from the + menu in that chat first, then ask your question.