Connected Assistants · MCP Server
Ask your AI assistant about your inventory.
Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Viktor or another AI assistant you already use to our MCP server, then ask “what do I need to reorder this week?” and get the answer from your live numbers. Read-only unless you allow changes, no API keys, included on every plan.
Bring the assistant you already use.
Carpe Inventory IQ has its own help assistant, Ledger, for questions about using the app. For questions about your own inventory, bring the assistant you already use: Carpe Inventory IQ is a remote MCP server, the standard way assistants connect to outside data, so yours can read your inventory directly.
Claude
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
ChatGPT
Add it as a custom connector. On business plans, a workspace admin may need to allow custom connectors first.
Codex
In the desktop app: Settings → Plugins → MCPs → Add → Add MCP server. Set Type to Streamable HTTP (required), leave the bearer token empty, then Authenticate.
Viktor
Add it as a custom integration, then ask from Slack or Microsoft Teams.
Any other assistant
Anything that supports custom connectors, sometimes called integrations, apps or MCP servers.
What you can ask
Your assistant can reach seven parts of your account and our help content. Ask in plain words; it works out which to look at.
Stock by location
On hand and the bin in each of your locations, units at Amazon FBA/AWD and Walmart WFS listed separately, quantity on order, and how many kits you could build from components.
- “How many WIDGET-100 do we have, and where?”
- “How much GADGET-200 is at Amazon FBA versus our own warehouse?”
- “How many gift sets could we build from the components on hand?”
- “Which bin is GADGET-200 in at the warehouse?”
SKU details
Name, barcode, MPN, brand, PO short name, reorder settings, suppliers with their part numbers, and what goes into a bundle. Costs and suppliers only if your role can see them.
- “What barcode and reorder point does WIDGET-100 have?”
- “What goes into the BUNDLE-900 gift set?”
Sales velocity
Units per day over 30, 60, 90 or 180 days, across every channel, and days of cover at that pace.
- “How many days of cover do we have on GADGET-200?”
- “Is WIDGET-100 selling faster over the last 30 days than the last 90?”
Reorder suggestions
The same list as your Reorder Suggestions page: urgency, days until stockout, suggested order quantity, lead time and supplier.
- “What do I need to reorder from Acme Supply this week?”
- “Which SKUs are critical right now, and how many should I order?”
Reports
Inventory valuation (overall and by location), COGS by channel, inventory adjustments, the Activity Ledger, BOM production, ABC analysis, MOQ excess, lot expiry and accounts payable.
- “What was our inventory worth by location on June 30?”
- “What were COGS by channel last month?”
- “Which lots expire in the next 60 days?”
Open purchase orders
Everything not yet fully received, soonest expected first, with ordered, received and outstanding quantities.
- “What is still outstanding from Northwind Packaging, and when is it due?”
- “Is PART-300 on any open purchase order?”
- “Make a PO for 50 WIDGET-100 from Acme Supply. (With changes allowed, it shows a preview; reply "yes, create it" and it saves a draft for you to review.)”
Account alerts
Anything on your account that needs attention, such as a channel that needs reconnecting, with what to do about it.
- “Is anything on my account that needs attention?”
- “Do any of my channels need reconnecting?”
How to use Carpe Inventory IQ
Answers how-to questions about Carpe Inventory IQ from the same help content our help assistant, Ledger, uses. It looks at no store data, so every connection has it.
- “How do I create a transfer?”
- “Where do I set lead times for a supplier?”
It can combine them, too.
“Which fast-moving SKUs have under two weeks of cover and nothing on order?”
One question, answered from velocity, stock and open purchase orders together.
If you've allowed changes, ask it to make them too.
“Set WIDGET-100 at Main Warehouse to 40, cycle count”
It's shown a preview first and asked to save only if you agree — most assistants ask you before running a change.
Four steps to connect.
The connector address:
https://app.carpeinventory.com/api/mcpAdd Carpe Inventory IQ as a custom connector
Paste the connector address into your assistant. It is also under Settings → Connected Assistants, with a Copy button.
Sign in with your Carpe Inventory IQ login
Your assistant opens our sign-in page. Use your usual email and password. There is no API key to create, copy or store.
Approve on our screen
The approval screen names the store, lists what the assistant will be able to see, and shows the address you'll return to. Check that it's the assistant you're using, then click Allow.
Ask your question
You land back in your assistant, connected. Ask in your own words; it looks up the answer in your live data.
You stay in control.
Read-only unless you allow changes
By default an assistant can only look things up. If you allow it when connecting, it can also adjust stock, create bundles, edit SKU details and create draft purchase orders for your existing suppliers — each change is previewed first, and the assistant is asked to save it only if you agree. A purchase order is only ever a draft; nothing goes to the supplier until you confirm it. Stock changes show in your Activity Ledger with the assistant's name.
Only what your role can see
The assistant sees what the person who connected it can see. If your role can't view costs, the assistant gets no costs, values or cost reports either.
One store per connection
A connection reads only the store named on the approval screen. Never another store, even if your login belongs to several.
Disconnect anytime
Settings → Connected Assistants → Disconnect in Carpe Inventory IQ (not in your assistant's app), and it stops immediately. A password reset, or deactivating a team member, disconnects their assistants too.
No API keys
Assistants connect by signing in and asking your permission. Nothing to generate, paste into a config file, or rotate.
You decide where your data goes
What an assistant reads is sent to the company that runs it, such as Anthropic for Claude or OpenAI for ChatGPT. That can include costs, supplier pricing and bills of materials.
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