Connect Claude
The Foveate connector lets Claude work in your Foveate account while you chat. Ask it to find a deck, draft a new one, move a pursuit to proposal, look up a client, send a share link or read the feedback on a deck. Claude does the work in Foveate and hands you a link to the result.
Claude acts as you. It sees what you can see, it creates things in your workspace, and anything that uses AI spends your own credits. It only acts while you're asking it to. Nothing runs in the background.
Connecting
The quickest way is the Connect Claude button at the top of this page. It opens Claude with the connector's name and address already filled in. Choose Connect, then pick up at step 3 below.
To add it by hand:
- In Claude, open Settings → Connectors and choose Add custom connector.
- Name it "Foveate" and enter this address:
https://app.foveate.com/api/mcp - Choose Connect. Claude sends you to Foveate. Sign in if you need to.
- Foveate shows what Claude is asking to do, grouped by area: Decks, Projects, Library, Sharing, Comments, Clients, Studio and AI actions. Review the permissions and choose Allow.
The connector works in Claude on the web, Claude Desktop and the Claude mobile apps. Once you connect it in one, it's available in all of them.
Permissions
You approve each permission when you connect. A tool that needs a permission you didn't approve replies that the connection needs it, and nothing happens.
| Area | Permission | What it allows |
|---|---|---|
| Decks | See your decks | List your decks and read their names, settings and slides. |
| Create, edit and delete decks | Make new decks from an outline and change or remove the decks you own. | |
| Generate decks with AI | Build decks from a prompt. Spends your AI credits. | |
| Projects | See your projects | List your projects and pursuits and what is filed in them. |
| Create and edit projects | Make new projects and change their details, stage and fee. | |
| Library | See your library | List the files in your library and read their details. |
| Sharing | See share links | See your share links and who has opened them. |
| Share your work | Create share links and send your work by email. | |
| Comments | See comments | Read the comments and feedback on your decks. |
| Comment on your behalf | Add comments and replies on decks you can see, as you. | |
| Clients | See the client book | List and read the people your firm works with. |
| Add and update clients | Add people to the client book and edit them. | |
| Studio | See your Studio | Read your firm profile, team and past proposals. |
| AI actions | Run AI actions that spend credits | Ask the in-app assistant, research and enrich clients, and run other AI actions. Spends your AI credits. |
Adding permissions later
As Foveate adds features, a connection you made earlier keeps the permissions you originally approved. Settings → Developer → Connected apps lists any permissions Claude hasn't been given. To add them, revoke Claude there, then connect again from Claude's connector settings and approve the new ones.
Disconnecting
Open Settings → Developer → Connected apps in Foveate and choose Revoke. Claude is disconnected on its next request. You can also remove the connector from Claude's settings.
Tools
These are the tools Claude can use. You don't call them yourself: ask in plain words and Claude chooses the right one. The examples show the kind of request that uses each tool.
Decks
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
list_decks | Lists your decks, newest first. Can be filtered to one project. |
get_deck | Opens one deck: its name, project, page size, theme, slide count and links. |
create_deck | Builds a deck from an outline Claude writes. Free. Foveate lays out every slide; Claude picks each slide's role (cover, content, metrics, timeline and so on) and writes the words. |
create_deck_from_images | Builds a deck of your own pictures, one per slide, in the order given. Each picture fills the slide, or sits above a caption if it has one. No cover or closing slide is added. Free. |
generate_deck | Builds a complete deck from a brief, with Foveate writing the outline. Spends credits. Takes up to two minutes. |
update_deck | Renames a deck, changes its description or files it in a project. |
delete_deck | Permanently deletes a deck you created. This cannot be undone, so Claude only uses it when you clearly ask. |
get_slide | Opens one slide: its name, speaker notes, background, every piece of text, and every image and object with its position. Claude reads a slide before editing it. |
edit_slide | Changes one slide of a deck you made: rewrites its text, renames it, updates its speaker notes, hides or shows it, changes its background colour, moves, resizes or removes things on it, or swaps a picture. Text flowing across linked text boxes, locked items and the master layer are left for you to edit in the app, and Claude tells you so. |
add_walkthrough_to_deck | Puts one of your 3D walkthroughs in a deck as a live viewer your audience can explore while you present. By default it gets its own full-screen slide at the end; it can also go elsewhere, or on an existing slide as a live viewer or a preview card. The walkthrough is made viewable to anyone with its link unless you ask Claude to keep it private. |
"Make a 10-slide proposal deck for the Harbor Street library from these notes, and file it in the Harbor Street project."
"Make a deck of these 19 renders, one per slide, fullscreen."
"On slide 3 of the Riverside deck, tighten the body copy and update the fee to $1.2M."
create_deck usually gives the best result: Claude writes the outline from what you've given it, and it costs nothing. Use generate_deck when you'd rather Foveate write the outline from a brief.
3D walkthroughs
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
list_walkthroughs | Lists your 3D walkthroughs (splat scans, 3D models and 360° tours), newest first. Can be filtered by project or kind. |
get_walkthrough | Opens one walkthrough: its name, kind, project, whether it's public, its files, its saved views and links to open and share it. |
create_walkthrough | Makes a walkthrough from files in your library. One splat file makes a scan, one GLB or GLTF file a 3D model, and one or more images a 360° tour in the order given. Free. |
update_walkthrough | Renames a walkthrough, changes its description, files it in a project, makes it public or private, or sets the viewer's background colour. Only walkthroughs you created. |
list_walkthrough_comments | Lists the comments on a walkthrough, from your team and from guests: which saved view each is on, whether it has a drawing or screenshot, and whether it's resolved. |
"Turn the lobby panoramas in the Harbor Street project into a 360° tour and add it to the end of the Harbor Street deck."
Projects and pursuits
Every project is also a pursuit on your pipeline.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
list_projects | Lists your projects, newest first. Can be filtered by stage, by client or by name. |
get_project | Opens one project: client, stage, fee, decision date, team, timeline and deliverables, plus the decks filed in it on request. |
create_project | Creates a project, with an optional client, stage, estimated fee and decision date. |
update_project | Renames or describes a project, links a client, changes the stage (for example from prospect to proposal, or to won or lost), or sets the fee, decision date or outcome. |
"Which pursuits are at proposal stage with a decision date this month?"
"We won the Riverside campus job. Mark it won."
Clients
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
list_clients | Lists your client book, newest first, or searches it by name, email or company. |
get_client | Opens one person's record: contact details, company, tags and links. |
create_client | Adds a person to your client book. If they're already in it, Claude gets back the existing record instead of creating a duplicate. |
update_client | Changes a person's details. Claude's edits count as your own, so a CRM sync won't overwrite them. |
enrich_client | Looks a client up on the web (LinkedIn, their company's site, press) and fills in what's missing on their record, with a research note. Spends credits. |
research_company | Finds which architecture, engineering and design firms a client's organisation has worked with, with sources. Spends credits. Results are saved for your workspace, so asking again is free unless you ask for a fresh search. |
"Add Dana Whitfield, facilities director at Northgate Health, to the client book, then fill in what you can find about her."
Files
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
list_files | Lists the files in your library (images, video, audio, PDFs, 3D models, drawings and documents), newest first. Can be filtered by type, by project, or by whether you uploaded them or generated them with AI. |
get_file | Opens one file's details, with a link to view or download it. |
open_upload_widget | Shows an upload panel in the conversation so you can drop files from your computer (renders, photos, PDFs, 3D models) into your library. Claude gets each file's id as it lands and can use it straight away. |
import_file_from_url | Brings a file that's already at a web address into your library. Foveate keeps its own copy. Up to 100 MB, not video. |
upload_file | Adds a small file Claude has, one it made or one you gave it, to your library in one step. Best under about 1 MB. Not video. |
start_upload | Starts an upload of a larger file. Claude either sends it in pieces (up to 50 MB) or, where it can make its own web requests, sends it directly. Video must be sent directly. |
upload_file_chunk | Sends one piece of a file being uploaded in pieces. |
finish_upload | Joins the pieces of an upload into one file in your library. |
register_file | Adds a file to your library after Claude has sent it directly. |
"Find the renderings in the Harbor Street project."
"I've got a folder of site photos on my laptop. Make a deck of them."
You don't need to think about which upload tool Claude uses. When the files are on your computer, Claude opens the upload panel; when they're at a link, it imports them.
Sharing
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
create_share | Gets the share link for a deck, project or 3D walkthrough, or emails it to the people you name with an optional message. Sharing a walkthrough makes it public. |
get_share | Shows how a share link is doing: how many times it was opened, the viewers who identified themselves, and recent opens with location. |
"Send the Riverside deck to maria@example.com with a short note, then tell me later whether she opened it."
Comments
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
list_comments | Lists the comments and feedback on a deck, from your team and from guests on the share link. Can be filtered to one slide or to open or resolved comments. |
add_comment | Leaves a comment on a slide, or replies to one, as you. The deck's owner is notified. |
"Summarise the client feedback on the Riverside deck and reply to each open comment to say we'll address it in the next revision."
Notifications
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
list_notifications | Reads the same notifications as the bell in Foveate: share links opened and by whom, new comments and mentions, access requests, projects you were added to, form responses and viewer questions. Can show only unread ones, one kind, or everything since a given time. Reading them in Claude doesn't mark them as read in Foveate. |
"What did I miss today? Has anyone opened the Harbor deck?"
Studio
These tools let Claude write in your firm's voice and reuse your past work.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
get_firm_profile | Reads your firm profile: what you're trying to win (sectors, places, named accounts, project size), what you turn down and who you compete with. |
list_studio_people | Lists your team as presented in proposals: names, titles and bios. |
list_past_proposals | Lists your past proposal submissions: title, client, year, location, outcome and sections. |
get_past_proposal | Opens one past proposal in full, section by section. Fee sections are marked so Claude treats them with care. |
"Draft a project approach for the Harbor Street library, using our firm profile and the approach from our best past library proposal."
The assistant
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
ask_foveate | Hands a request to the assistant you have in the Foveate app and returns its reply. Spends credits at the surface's rate. |
Claude picks a surface for the request:
| Surface | What it does | Works on |
|---|---|---|
workspace | Your whole workspace: looks things up, creates decks, projects, forms and clients, answers questions about the pipeline. | — |
research | Cited answers over RFP documents Claude passes as sources (the RFP first), or over a project's research documents. | A project, optional |
form-editor | Edits a form: adds, changes, moves and removes questions. | A form |
client-profile | Writes the client's psychological and deal profile onto their record. | A client |
Claude can also give the assistant context your team already knows, which it uses but never cites, and can let it search the live web for that turn. The reply comes back with any artifacts the assistant produced, the credits spent, and a thread id. Claude keeps that id to continue the conversation, and Foveate keeps the transcript.
"Ask Foveate what's due this week across my pursuits, then draft the Riverside intake form from the RFP I pasted."
Account
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
whoami | Shows which Foveate account the connection uses and which permissions it has. Useful when something isn't working. |
get_job | Checks on a longer task that runs in the background. Claude uses this on its own when a task needs it. |
Prompts
The connector offers five of Foveate's built-in skills as prompts you can pick in Claude. Each takes a few typed arguments and is a recipe that uses the tools above.
| Prompt | Name | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Decks and Proposals | proposal_deck | Builds a client-ready proposal or pitch deck from a brief. |
| Design Sales Rooms | brand_sales_room | A shareable buyer space: a deck themed to the client's brand, shared as a link. |
| Research an RFP | research_rfp | Reads an RFP package and answers grounded questions about it, with citations. |
| Client intake quiz | client_intake_form | A project brief and design-personality questionnaire, as a Foveate form. |
| Client profiler | client_profile | Researches a prospect and builds their psychological and deal profile in the client book. |
Resources
The connector exposes one resource. foveate://threads/{threadId}/sources returns the documents attached to one of your chat threads, the RFP and its addenda, as numbered source blocks ready to cite. Only the thread's owner can read it, and it needs the See your library permission.
Credits
Most tools are free. These spend your AI credits, exactly as the same action does in the app:
ask_foveategenerate_deckenrich_clientresearch_company
Every result that spends credits reports what it cost. If your balance is too low, the tool says so and nothing is charged. See Credits & billing.
Tips
- Links come back with everything. Decks, projects and share links include a link you can open in Foveate, so you can check Claude's work.
- Asking twice won't duplicate anything. If Claude repeats a request, for example after a dropped connection, you get back the deck, project, comment or client from the first time rather than a second copy.
- Start with
whoamiif something fails. It shows whether the connection is working and which permissions it has. A message saying the connection "needs" a permission means you need to reconnect and approve it (see Adding permissions later). - Using ChatGPT or Codex instead? The same connector works there. See Connect ChatGPT & Codex.
- Building your own integration? The same features are available to your own tools through the API.