Application Development
Envoy MCP connector
Connect Envoy to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client and manage visitor invites, sign-in entries, work schedules, and locations from a chat, with every action running inside that person's own Envoy access.
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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.
44 tools
How to connect
How to connect Envoy to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
Two steps, about a minute.
In Elaichi
Connect Envoy once
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Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Envoy.
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Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
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Paste an Envoy API key. One person generates a token in Envoy 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.
Envoy
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 Envoy to 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.
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Sign in and approve.
On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.
Connect Envoy to 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.
Connect Envoy to 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 Envoy 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 Envoy 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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Front desk
Pre-register tomorrow's visitors before they arrive
Paste a guest list from an email and have the invites created in Envoy for the right location and host, so badges are ready when people walk in.
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Workplace
See who is in the office right now
Ask which visitors have signed in today at a given location, who is hosting them, and which sign-in flow they came through.
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Executive assistants
Set up a recurring visitor in one step
An advisor or contractor who comes every Tuesday gets a single recurring invite in Envoy instead of a new invite each week, and it can be updated when the schedule shifts.
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Security
Confirm whether a visitor was expected
Look up an invite by name, check it against today's entries, and fix the details if the visitor's name or host was entered wrong.
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People
Plan which days people are on site
Create work schedules in Envoy for new hires and team days, remove them when plans change, and see who is scheduled at each location.
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Facilities
Compare sign-in traffic across locations
Pull entries by location and flow to see which offices are busiest on which days, then adjust front desk staffing to match.
Try asking
- “Which Envoy entries at the London location are still signed in?”
- “List all Envoy invites expected tomorrow by location.”
- “How many employees are registered at our Austin Envoy location?”
AI tools
Envoy tools for your AI agents
44 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Envoy, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
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See it in Elaichi
What connecting Envoy gets you
6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Envoy account.
The agent
Ask about today's Envoy entries in plain language.
Questions about invites, entries and locations are answered from live Envoy records.
- invites
- entries
- locations
- employees
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
Which Envoy entries at the London location are still signed in?
List all Envoy invites expected tomorrow by location.
How many employees are registered at our Austin Envoy location?
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
MCP clients
Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor reach Envoy together.
One org MCP endpoint over OAuth, no SDK and no shared API key.
ElaichiMCP clientsClaude
ChatGPT
Cursor
Copy the endpoint
Tool catalog
44 Envoy tools cover invites, entries and locations.
Read and write Envoy invites, entries, employees and companies with no custom code.
- List all Envoy companies
- List all Envoy invites
- Get single Envoy invite by ID
- Create a Envoy invite
ElaichiToolsToolboxes
Every team gets its own Envoy toolbox.
Workplace, Security and People teams each see a toolbox scoped to their work.
- Workplace
- Security
- People
- Front Desk
ElaichiToolboxesShared connections
Teammates use Envoy without seeing a credential.
See who connected each Envoy account and how many teams and members share it.
- Workplace EMEA
- Security
- Front Desk
- People Ops
ElaichiConnectionsAudit log
Every Envoy invite and entry call is logged.
When, who, what happened, type and resource, appended and never edited.
- When
- Who
- What happened
- Type
ElaichiAudit logLaunching 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 turns Envoy entries into an approved digest.
Six steps fetch Envoy entries, group them, draft a digest, await approval, then post back.
Envoy 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 invites
Envoy
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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
Envoy
Queued
Collections and dashboards
Envoy invite volume is computed, not requested.
Four metrics, 14 days of created entries and a team breakdown, refreshed on schedule.
Envoy health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the invites collection
Invites
1,284 ↓ 12%
Entries
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Invites created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
Workplace EMEA 34%
Security 27%
Front Desk 21%
People Ops 18%
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How do I connect Envoy to Claude?
Connect Envoy in Elaichi first, which means pasting an API key from your Envoy account; there is no OAuth app to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Then in Claude go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste the endpoint https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Sign in with your Elaichi account and Envoy invites, entries, locations, and work schedules are available in Claude.
Does Envoy work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Once Envoy 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 Envoy once and every client picks it up.
What can an AI agent actually do with my Envoy data?
With Envoy connected, an agent can create, update, or cancel visitor invites, set up recurring invites for regular guests, look up who signed in at a location and when, record an entry, and create or remove work schedules for employees. It can also list your Envoy companies, locations, employees, and sign-in flows to answer questions like who is hosting the 2pm visitor. Because Envoy exposes many actions, short concrete asks such as invite Dana Lee to the Austin office tomorrow at 10 work better than long paragraphs.
Does connecting Envoy give the AI access to every location and every visitor?
No. The agent works inside the Envoy access of the person who signed in, so it sees the locations, invites, and entries that person can already see in Envoy. Elaichi can narrow that further, for example to read-only or to specific actions, but it can never grant more than the person's Envoy account allows.
Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Envoy?
Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi apply per action, so you can allow reading Envoy invites and entries while blocking deleting invites or removing work schedules. A blocked action is never advertised to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any other client, so no prompt can reach it.
What happens to an Envoy connection when someone leaves?
Offboarding that person in Elaichi ends their access to Envoy through every client at once. A shared Envoy connection keeps working for everyone else on the team. If you disconnect Envoy in Elaichi, it disappears from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and every other client in one step.
Put Envoy in front of your team
Fourteen days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.