How AI assistants get access to your systems.
An AI assistant only sees what you paste into it. A connector lets it use your systems, limited to the actions you allow.
What an assistant cannot see
Many teams now work with an AI assistant such as Claude. It writes and summarises well, but it knows nothing about your customers, your documents or your orders until someone copies them into the chat. That copying takes time and has to be repeated in every chat.
What a connector is
A connector is a small service in front of one of your systems. It tells the assistant which actions exist, for example “look up a customer” or “create a draft quote”, and carries one out when the assistant asks. The technical name is MCP server. MCP is an open standard supported by Claude and other assistants.
How I build one
I give a connector few actions. What the assistant should not do, such as paying or deleting, stays in the system itself.
Each person connects the assistant to their own account and approves the access once. The assistant then acts as that person and can reach only what that person may see.
Every action states whether it only reads or also changes something, so the assistant can ask before it acts. If an action costs something, its description says so.
An example: the ThesisCheck connector
I built a connector for ThesisCheck, my research product. It has been listed in the official MCP Registry since August 2026. Buying credits, sharing a report and cancelling a check stay on the website. The assistant can do three things.
- Start a check of an investment thesis
- Fetch the status of a check and, once it is finished, the full report
- Show how many credits are left
What you can use
If your team should work with an assistant on your own data, start like this.
- Connect things the assistant only reads, such as documents, the product catalogue or open orders
- Give each person their own sign-in, so you can see who did what
- Keep the list of actions short and add one when someone needs it
- Have the assistant ask first before anything that costs money or goes to a customer