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Deel MCP connector

The Deel connector brings people, contracts, time off, groups and legal entities into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client, so each person can look up and update Deel records within their own access, with every call logged.

  • How it connects. Connects with an API key. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.

  • One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.

  • Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.

How to connect

How to connect Deel to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Two steps, about a minute.

1

In Elaichi

Connect Deel once

  1. Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Deel.

  2. Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.

  3. Paste a Deel API key. One person generates a token in Deel 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.

deel
Deel
360learning
7shifts
BambooHR
Charlie
Gusto
2

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.

Connect Deel to Claude

  1. 1

    Open Customize, then Connectors.

  2. 2

    Press Add.

  3. 3

    Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  4. 4

    Sign in and approve.

On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.

Connect Deel to ChatGPT

  1. 1

    Open Plugins, then press the + button.

  2. 2

    Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.

  4. 4

    Press Create, then sign in and approve.

Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.

Connect Deel to Cursor

  1. 1

    Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json.

  2. 2

    Add the endpoint under mcpServers.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    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 Deel to any MCP client

  1. 1

    Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  2. 2

    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 Deel through Elaichi

Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.

  • People

    See who works where, right now

    Ask for everyone on the team in a given country or group and get the list from Deel without building a report. Pull up one person's record when a question comes in about their start date or entity.

  • People

    Set up a new contract after the offer

    Once a candidate accepts, have the agent create the Deel person and draft their contract with the terms from the offer, then review it before anything is signed.

  • Managers

    Approve and adjust time off in plain language

    Record a team member's vacation in Deel, move the dates when plans change, or remove a request that was entered by mistake, all from the chat you already have open.

  • Finance

    Review contracts before the payroll run

    List every active Deel contract by entity or currency and spot the ones that started, changed or ended this month so the numbers match before payroll closes.

  • Legal

    Keep legal entities current as you expand

    Add a new Deel legal entity when you open in a new country, and update registered details when an address or name changes, so contracts point at the right entity.

  • Operations

    Organize people into the right groups

    Create Deel groups for departments, regions or cost centers, move people between them as teams change, and retire groups that are no longer used.

Try asking

  • “List contractors whose Deel contracts start next month.”
  • “Show approved Deel time offs for the design team.”
  • “Which Deel people have no active contract?”

See all 170 Deel tools below

AI tools

Deel tools for your AI agents

170 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Deel, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.

See it in Elaichi

What connecting Deel gets you

6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Deel account.

The agent

Ask about Deel people, get real answers.

Type a question in plain language and read it off live Deel records.

  • people
  • contracts
  • time offs
  • webhooks

Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.

List contractors whose Deel contracts start next month.

Show approved Deel time offs for the design team.

Which Deel people have no active contract?

Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

MCP clients

Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor reach Deel.

One org MCP endpoint over OAuth, no SDK and no shared Deel API key.

ElaichiMCP clients
Claude ChatGPT Cursor

Copy the endpoint

https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
Client Connected by Status Last used
Claude
E

Emma Laurent

• Connected 4 minutes ago
Cursor
S

Sofia Ricci

• Connected 2 hours ago
ChatGPT
C

Clara Nowak

• Connected Yesterday

Tool catalog

170 Deel tools land ready to call.

People, contracts, time offs and webhooks, with no custom code to write.

  • List all Deel people
  • Get single Deel person by ID
  • Create a Deel person
  • List all Deel contracts
ElaichiTools
Tool Action Description
List all Deel people List List people records in Deel. Returns: id, state, emails, country, is_pwac, timezone, addresses, full_name, job_title, last_name, seniority, worker_id, birth_date, created_at, department, first_name, start_date, updated_at, employments, external_id, hiring_type, hiring_status, nationalities, person_status, work_location, direct_manager, direct_reports, completion_date, new_hiring_status,…
Get single Deel person by ID Get Get a single Deel person record by id. Returns: id, state, emails, country, timezone, addresses, full_name, job_title, last_name, seniority, worker_id, birth_date, created_at, department, first_name, start_date, updated_at, employments, external_id, hiring_type, hiring_status, nationalities, work_location, direct_manager, direct_reports, completion_date, new_hiring_status, additional_details,…
Create a Deel person Create Create a new person record in Deel. Returns: id, employee, employment, compensation_details, created_at, updated_at.
List all Deel contracts List List deel contracts with optional filtering by status, type, team, country, currency, or search term. Returns: id, scale, title, client, status, worker, created_at, signatures, external_id, invitations, is_archived, is_shielded, who_reports, cost_centers, notice_period, fte_percentage, termination_date, amount, reported_by, reviewed_by, approval_requested.
Get single Deel contract by ID Get Retrieve a single deel contract by id. Returns the full contract record including id, title, type, status, created_at, updated_at, start_date, termination_date, client, worker, signatures, invitations, is_archived, special_clause, compensation_details, employment_details, and optional cost_centers. Required: id.

Toolboxes

Every team gets its own Deel toolbox.

Curate one toolbox per team so People Ops and Finance see different Deel tools.

  • People Ops
  • Finance
  • Engineering Managers
  • Talent Acquisition
ElaichiToolboxes
Name Source template Tools Created

People Ops toolbox

Deel · people and onboarding

Deel starter 18 Mar 4, 2026

Finance toolbox

Deel · contracts and payments

9 Mar 2, 2026

Engineering Managers toolbox

Deel · time offs and team records

24 Feb 27, 2026

Talent Acquisition toolbox

Deel · new hires and offers

Deel starter 6 Feb 19, 2026

Compliance toolbox

Deel · contract terms and documents

31 Jan 30, 2026

Platform toolbox

Deel · webhooks and integrations

12 Jan 22, 2026

Shared connections

Teammates use Deel without seeing credentials.

Each connection shows who connected it and which teams and members share it.

  • People Ops
  • Finance EMEA
  • Contractors US
  • Engineering
ElaichiConnections
Connection Scope Status Access
DE

Deel (People Ops)

Connected by Emma Laurent

Personal • Active 1 team · 6 members
DE

Deel (Finance EMEA)

Connected by James Whitfield

Organization • Active 3 teams · 24 members
DE

Deel (Contractors US)

Connected by Sofia Ricci

Organization • Active 2 teams · 11 members
DE

Deel (Engineering)

Connected by Daniel Ortega

Personal • Needs re-auth 1 team · 3 members
DE

Deel (Talent)

Connected by Clara Nowak

Personal • Active Not shared
DE

Deel (Compliance)

Connected by Michael Brennan

Personal • Active 2 teams · 9 members

Audit log

Answer who changed which Deel contract.

Every call is logged with time, person, action, type and Deel resource.

  • When
  • Who
  • What happened
  • Type
ElaichiAudit log
When Who What happened Type

2 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:10 PM

E

Emma Laurent

[email protected]

Restriction Created Access

8 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:04 PM

J

James Whitfield

[email protected]

Restriction Updated Access

14 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:58 PM

S

Sofia Ricci

[email protected]

Role Assigned Access

20 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:52 PM

D

Daniel Ortega

[email protected]

Deel Users Updated MCP

26 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:46 PM

C

Clara Nowak

[email protected]

Deel People Created MCP

32 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:40 PM

M

Michael Brennan

[email protected]

Deel People List Toolbox

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

A schedule fires and Deel work finishes.

Fetch contracts, group them, draft a digest, get approval, post back to Deel.

Deel digest

Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emma Laurent

  1. Schedule

    Every weekday at 08:00

    0.2s
  2. Fetch people

    Deel

    1.4s
  3. Group by owner

    Transform

    0.1s
  4. Draft the digest

    Agent step

    Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary

    6.2s
  5. Approve the digest

    Needs approval

    Assigned to Michael Brennan

    Approve
  6. Post the digest

    Deel

    Queued

Collections and dashboards

Deel headcount numbers arrive before anyone asks.

Four metrics, 14 days of new people and a team split, computed on schedule.

Deel health

Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the people collection

Live

People

1,284 ↓ 12%

Contracts

96 ↓ 8%

Needs attention

3 ↑ 2

Updated this week

412 ↑ 9%

People created

Last 14 days

By team

Share of activity

People Ops 34%

Finance EMEA 27%

Contractors US 21%

Engineering 18%

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do I connect Deel to Claude?

In Elaichi, choose Deel and paste in the API key from your Deel account; that is the whole sign-in step, and there is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Then in Claude open Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste the endpoint https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Claude signs you into Elaichi over OAuth and your Deel records are available in the conversation.

Does Deel work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?

Yes. Deel is connected once in Elaichi, and the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, is added to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client and the Elaichi Agent. Each client signs in over OAuth, so there is nothing separate to set up per client.

What can an AI agent actually do with my Deel data?

With Deel connected, an agent can list the people in your organization and open any one of them, create people and contracts, update a contract, and record, change or remove time off. It can also manage groups and legal entities and set up webhooks that notify other systems when something changes in Deel. Short, concrete asks work best, such as "list contracts in the Germany entity" rather than a long paragraph.

Does connecting Deel give the AI access to everyone's contracts and pay details?

No. Every request to Deel runs under the access of the person who signed in, so an agent sees only the people, contracts and entities that person could already see in Deel. Elaichi can narrow that further, for example to read-only or to a subset of actions, and it never widens what Deel itself allows.

Can my team share one Deel connection?

Yes. One person adds the Deel API key in Elaichi and shares the connection with a team, and nobody else ever sees or handles the key. Each teammate still signs into Elaichi as themselves, so the audit log records who made each Deel request by name.

Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Deel?

Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi apply per action, so you can allow reading Deel people and contracts while blocking the actions that create contracts, delete time off or remove legal entities. A blocked action is never advertised to Claude, ChatGPT or any other client, so no prompt, however worded, can reach it.

What happens to a Deel connection when someone leaves?

When a person is offboarded in Elaichi, their access to Deel through every client ends at once. A Deel connection shared with a team keeps working for everyone else, because the key was never in that person's hands. If you want Deel gone entirely, disconnect it once in Elaichi and it disappears from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and every other client together.

Put Deel in front of your team

Fourteen days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.