Spend Management
Cledara MCP connector
The Cledara connector brings your software applications, card transactions and invoices to Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor through one governed endpoint, so anyone on your team can ask about spend and get answers from live Cledara records.
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How it connects. Connects with an API key. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.
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One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.
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Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.
How to connect
How to connect Cledara to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
Two steps, about a minute.
In Elaichi
Connect Cledara once
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Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Cledara.
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Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
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Paste a Cledara API key. One person generates a token in Cledara and pastes it once. Everyone else works through Share with, and never sees it.
The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.
Add connection
Choose a connector.
In your AI client
Point it at one endpoint
Everyone in the organization uses the same address, and each person only ever reaches what their own account allows.
Cledara MCP connector for Claude
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Open Customize, then Connectors.
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Press Add.
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Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Sign in and approve.
On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.
Cledara MCP connector for ChatGPT
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Open Plugins, then press the + button.
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Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.
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Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.
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Press Create, then sign in and approve.
Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.
Cledara MCP connector for Cursor
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Open
~/.cursor/mcp.json. -
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Add the endpoint under
mcpServers.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.
~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.
Connect Cledara to any MCP client
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Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.
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Sign in and approve.
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.
Use cases
What teams do with Cledara through Elaichi
Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.
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Finance
Explain a charge before month-end close
Ask what a Cledara transaction was for, which application it belongs to and who owns it, then pull the invoice link without opening another tab.
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Accounting
Fetch the invoice behind any card charge
Give the AI a transaction and get the Cledara invoice link straight back, ready to attach to the ledger entry.
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IT
See every application the company pays for
List the applications in Cledara, spot the ones nobody on the team recognizes, and start the conversation about switching them off.
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Procurement
Spot overlapping tools before renewal
Ask which Cledara applications do similar jobs and what each has cost this year, so the renewal decision is made with the numbers in front of you.
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Operations
Answer what we pay for something
When someone asks how much the company spends on a tool, the answer comes from live Cledara transactions rather than a spreadsheet from last quarter.
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Leadership
Summarize this quarter's software spend
Ask for a plain-language rundown of Cledara transactions grouped by application, and get a picture of where software money went without waiting on a report.
Try asking
- “Which Cledara applications renewed this month and what did each cost?”
- “List last week's Cledara transactions over 500 dollars.”
- “Pull the invoice for the Notion charge from Tuesday.”
AI tools
Cledara tools for your AI agents
3 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Cledara, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
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See it in Elaichi
What connecting Cledara gets you
6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Cledara account.
The agent
Ask about Cledara spend in plain language.
Answers come from live Cledara transactions and applications, not from a stale export.
- transactions
- invoices
- applications
- subscriptions
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
Which Cledara applications renewed this month and what did each cost?
List last week's Cledara transactions over 500 dollars.
Pull the invoice for the Notion charge from Tuesday.
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
MCP clients
One endpoint brings Cledara to every client.
Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor reach Cledara through one governed endpoint, no SDK, no shared key.
Copy the endpoint
Tool catalog
All 3 Cledara tools ready with no code.
Transactions, invoice links and applications are covered without writing any custom code.
- List all Cledara transactions
- Get single Cledara transaction invoice URL by ID
- List all Cledara applications
Toolboxes
Every team gets its own Cledara toolbox.
Finance, IT and Procurement each work from a toolbox scoped to their own team.
- Finance
- Accounting
- IT
- Procurement
Shared connections
Teammates use Cledara without seeing the key.
One person connects Cledara, shares it with teams, and nobody else handles the API key.
- Finance
- Accounting
- IT
- Procurement
Audit log
Every Cledara call names who made it.
When, who, what happened and which transaction, in a log nobody can edit.
- When
- Who
- What happened
- Type
Launching soon
From answering questions to doing the work
A person no longer has to ask. A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations and live dashboards are launching soon, on the Black plan.
Automations
Cledara spend digests run on a schedule.
Transactions are fetched, grouped and drafted into a digest a person approves before it posts.
Cledara digest
Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emma Laurent
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Schedule
Every weekday at 08:00
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Fetch transactions
Cledara
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Group by owner
Transform
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Draft the digest
Agent step
Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary
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Approve the digest
Needs approval
Assigned to Michael Brennan
Approve Deny -
Post the digest
Cledara
Queued
Collections and dashboards
Cledara spend health, computed without a model.
Four metrics, 14 days of transactions and a team breakdown, refreshed on a schedule.
Cledara health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the transactions collection
Transactions
1,284 ↓ 12%
Invoices
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Transactions created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
Finance 34%
Accounting 27%
IT 21%
Procurement 18%
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How do I connect Cledara to Claude?
Connecting Cledara takes two steps. In Elaichi, choose Cledara and paste in an API key from your Cledara account, then in Claude go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste the endpoint https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. There is no OAuth application to register in Cledara and no client ID or secret to generate.
Does Cledara work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Once Cledara is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client and the Elaichi Agent. You connect Cledara once and every client picks it up.
What can an AI agent actually do with my Cledara data?
With Cledara connected, an agent can list your transactions, list the applications your company pays for, and fetch the invoice link for any single transaction. That means you can ask what a charge was for, which tools renewed this month, or for the invoice behind a specific card payment. Short, concrete asks such as "list Cledara transactions from last week" work better than long paragraphs.
Does connecting Cledara give the AI everything in my account?
No. Every request to Cledara runs inside the access of the person who signed in to Elaichi, so the AI sees what they could already see in Cledara and nothing more. Elaichi can narrow that access further with restrictions, and it can never widen it.
Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Cledara?
Restrictions in Elaichi work per action, so you decide exactly which Cledara actions each team can use. A restricted action is never advertised to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor at all, so no prompt can reach it. This Cledara connector only reads transactions, applications and invoice links, and you can narrow even that further.
What happens to a Cledara connection when someone leaves?
Offboarding a person in Elaichi ends their access to Cledara through every client at once. A shared Cledara connection keeps working for everyone else on the team. If you disconnect Cledara in Elaichi, it disappears from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and every other client in one step.
Does the Cledara MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?
Yes. Cledara is reached over the same MCP endpoint every client uses, so anything that speaks MCP can call it — Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cline, Zed and OpenCode among them — alongside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and the Elaichi Agent. The tools on offer and the access behind them are identical whichever client asks. Only the setup screen differs.
Put Cledara in front of your team
14 days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.
- Works with
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and any other MCP client, or the Elaichi Agent.
- When the trial ends
- Nothing is deleted. Connections, roles and the audit log stay where they are, so subscribing picks up exactly where you left off.