Grain MCP connector
The Grain connector brings your recorded meetings, transcripts, AI notes and action items into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and the Elaichi Agent, so each person can search, summarize and clip calls inside their own Grain access.
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How it connects. Connects over OAuth. 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 Grain to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
Two steps, about a minute.
In Elaichi
Connect Grain once
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Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Grain.
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Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
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Approve it in Grain. Grain's own window opens. Whoever approves it decides what this connection can reach.
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.
Grain 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.
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Sign in and approve.
On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.
Grain 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.
Grain 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 Grain 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 Grain 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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Sales
Catch up on a deal before the next call
Ask for the AI notes and open action items from the last three Grain calls with an account, then walk in knowing what was promised and by whom.
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Customer Success
Pull every commitment from a renewal conversation
List the action items across a quarter of Grain meetings with one customer and check which ones are still outstanding before the renewal review.
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Support
Find the moment a customer described the bug
Search Grain transcripts for the error a customer mentioned, read the exact wording, and clip that passage to attach to the ticket.
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Product
Gather feature requests from the week's calls
Search Grain meetings for mentions of a feature, tag the ones that matter, and collect the clips into a playlist the product team can watch.
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Marketing
Turn customer calls into a highlight reel
Find Grain meetings where customers describe results in their own words, create clips, and add them to a playlist for the case study team.
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Enablement
Build a coaching playlist from real calls
Pick strong objection handling moments from Grain transcripts, clip them, and manage a playlist that new reps watch in their first week.
Try asking
- “Summarize action items from this week's customer calls.”
- “Find meetings where pricing came up and clip those moments.”
- “Add yesterday's demo recordings to the onboarding playlist.”
Compare
Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for Grain
All three can connect Grain to an AI assistant, and all three have admin controls. They differ in where access lives and how you pay.
| What to check | Elaichi | Zapier MCP | Composio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where the AI connects |
One address for the whole organization.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
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A server per member, created at sign-in. | An MCP endpoint per team, or an SDK. |
| Control over Grain tools | Allow or restrict single Grain tools, per role or user. | App and action restrictions on the account. | Role permissions, down to the action. |
| Record of calls | One audit entry per Grain call. | A History tab of tool calls. | A log of every tool call. |
| Single sign-on | SAML or OIDC, plus SCIM, on Gold. | SAML on Enterprise. | SAML and OIDC on Enterprise. |
| Price | $15 per user per month. | 2 tasks per successful call. | Billed per tool call. |
Sources: Zapier MCP docs, security, usage; Composio docs, gateway, enterprise, pricing. Checked September 2026.
Longer take: Zapier MCP alternative and when you don't need an MCP gateway.
See it in Elaichi
What connecting Grain gets you
5 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Grain account.
The agent
Ask about any recorded call in plain language.
Search Grain meetings, read transcripts and AI notes, and pull action items by asking.
- meetings
- transcripts
- clips
- playlists
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
Summarize action items from this week's customer calls.
Find meetings where pricing came up and clip those moments.
Add yesterday's demo recordings to the onboarding playlist.
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
MCP clients
Grain works in every MCP client you use.
Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor reach Grain through one governed endpoint, no SDK, no shared API key.
ElaichiMCP clientsClaude
ChatGPT
Cursor
Copy the endpoint
Toolboxes
Each team gets its own Grain toolbox.
Give Sales, Support and Product their own Grain toolboxes, each scoped to one team.
- Sales
- Customer Success
- Support
- Product
ElaichiToolboxesShared connections
Share one Grain connection, keep the credential private.
Teammates work through a shared Grain account and never see a password or token.
- Sales EMEA
- Sales Americas
- Customer Success
- Support
ElaichiConnectionsAudit log
Every Grain action is logged, with a name.
When, who, what happened and which meeting or clip, in an append-only log.
- 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 Grain calls into a digest.
New Grain meetings are fetched, grouped, drafted into a digest, approved, then posted back.
Grain digest
Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emily Carter
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Schedule
Every weekday at 8:00 AM
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Fetch meetings
Grain
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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
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Post the digest
Grain
Queued
Collections and dashboards
Grain meeting health, computed, not asked for.
Four metrics, 14 days of meetings recorded and a team breakdown, refreshed on schedule, no model.
Grain health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the meetings collection
Meetings
1,284 ↓ 12%
Transcripts
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Meetings created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
Sales EMEA 34%
Sales Americas 27%
Customer Success 21%
Support 18%
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How do I connect Grain to Claude?
Connect Grain in Elaichi first, then in Claude go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste the endpoint https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Grain connects over OAuth, so you sign in to your own Grain account in a browser window and approve the connection. There is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate.
Does Grain work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Once Grain is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client and the Elaichi Agent. You connect Grain once and every client picks it up.
What can an AI agent actually do with my Grain data?
An agent can search your Grain meetings, read transcripts and AI notes, and list the action items that came out of a call. It can also create clips, tag meetings and manage playlists on your behalf. Short concrete asks such as "action items from Tuesday's onboarding call" work better than long sentences.
Does connecting Grain give the AI access to every recording in the workspace?
No. Every call runs inside the Grain access of the person who signed in, so the agent sees only the meetings, transcripts and clips that person can already open in Grain. Elaichi can narrow that access further with roles and restrictions, and it can never widen it.
Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Grain?
Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi work per action, so you can allow reading Grain transcripts and notes while blocking tagging, clipping or playlist changes. A restricted action is never advertised to the AI client, so no prompt can reach it.
What happens to a Grain connection when someone leaves?
Offboarding that person in Elaichi ends their access to Grain through every client at once. A Grain connection they shared keeps working for everyone else on the team. Disconnecting Grain once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and every other client at the same time.
Does the Grain MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?
Yes. Grain 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.
Is Elaichi an alternative to Zapier MCP for Grain?
Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use Grain. Zapier MCP fits a team that already automates in Zapier, since each person signs in and acts as themselves in that account. Elaichi fits when IT wants one address for the whole company, per-tool rules by role, and a record of every Grain call.
How is Elaichi different from Composio for Grain?
Composio gives AI agents tools and sign-in handling across 1,000+ apps, for developers building agents or people using an assistant, billed per tool call. Elaichi gives a company's own people governed access to Grain: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.
Put Grain 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.