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JustSift MCP connector

Connect JustSift to Elaichi and Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and the Elaichi Agent can search your company directory, open a person's profile and see their photo and fields, with every lookup recorded in an audit log.

  • 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 JustSift to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Two steps, about a minute.

1

In Elaichi

Connect JustSift once

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

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

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

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7shifts
Altera Payroll
BambooHR
Dayforce
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.

JustSift MCP connector for 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.

JustSift MCP connector for 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.

JustSift MCP connector for 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 JustSift 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 JustSift through Elaichi

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

  • HR

    Answer who reports to whom in seconds

    Ask for everyone in a department with their titles, managers and locations, and get the list straight from JustSift profiles instead of exporting a spreadsheet.

  • IT

    Confirm a person before granting access

    When a request comes in, look the person up in JustSift by name or ID and check their team, manager and office before approving anything.

  • Support

    Find the right owner for an escalation

    Search JustSift for the person who covers a product, region or account, and hand the ticket to a named person rather than a shared inbox.

  • Sales

    Find internal experts for a deal

    Ask who in the company has worked in healthcare or speaks German, and pull the matching people from JustSift to loop into the pitch.

  • Operations

    Build a roster for an office or project

    Combine filters such as location, team and start date to list the people who belong on a floor plan, a rota or a project kickoff.

  • Managers

    Put names to faces on a new team

    Pull the photos and profile fields for everyone on a team you have just inherited, so the first one to ones start with the basics already known.

Try asking

  • “Who on the Berlin support team reports to Priya?”
  • “Find engineers with Kubernetes listed in their JustSift profile.”
  • “List everyone in Finance with their titles and office locations.”

See all 5 JustSift tools below

AI tools

JustSift tools for your AI agents

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

See it in Elaichi

What connecting JustSift gets you

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

The agent

Ask who does what, get live JustSift answers.

Find people, teams and managers in plain language, straight from JustSift profiles.

  • people
  • profiles
  • media
  • fields

Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.

Who on the Berlin support team reports to Priya?

Find engineers with Kubernetes listed in their JustSift profile.

List everyone in Finance with their titles and office locations.

Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

MCP clients

One endpoint puts JustSift in every AI client.

Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor connect over OAuth, with no SDK and no shared 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

All 5 JustSift tools, ready with no code.

Search people, open a profile, browse photos and see every field, with nothing to build.

  • List all JustSift complex search people
  • Get single JustSift person by ID
  • List all JustSift search people
  • List all JustSift people media
ElaichiTools
Tool Action Description
List all JustSift complex search people List Search justsift people using complex AND/OR filter logic against person fields, with an optional generic text query and field-based sorting. Returns: id, email. Max 100 per page.
Get single JustSift person by ID Get Get a single person in justsift by their id or email address. Returns the person record including its id and their profile attributes — a mix of standard properties and additional dynamic per-organization fields (the exact key set is listed by the /fields/person route). Required: id.
List all JustSift search people List Perform a simple people search in justsift. Returns a collection of matching people including id, firstName, lastName, pictureUrl, and dynamic per-organization fields. Accepts q plus optional sortBy, sortDirection (asc/desc), orQuery, and exact-match field filters by objectKey (e.g. department=Marketing); filters combine with AND unless orQuery is true.
List all JustSift people media List Retrieve a person's photo from justsift by their id or email. Returns the photo as binary JPEG image data. Required: id_or_email, media_kind.
List all JustSift person fields List List the person profile fields configured in justsift. Returns field definitions including objectKey and searchable; the field list is dynamic per organization.

Toolboxes

Each team gets its own JustSift toolbox.

HR, IT and Support each work from a toolbox scoped to their job.

  • HR
  • IT
  • Support
  • Sales
ElaichiToolboxes
Name Source template Tools Created

HR toolbox

JustSift · people records and reporting lines

JustSift starter 18 Mar 4, 2026

IT toolbox

JustSift · identity checks and directory lookups

— 9 Mar 2, 2026

Support toolbox

JustSift · escalation owners and on-call contacts

— 24 Feb 27, 2026

Sales toolbox

JustSift · internal experts and account owners

JustSift starter 6 Feb 19, 2026

Facilities toolbox

JustSift · office locations and headcount

— 31 Jan 30, 2026

Managers toolbox

JustSift · team rosters and profiles

— 12 Jan 22, 2026

Shared connections

Teammates use JustSift without seeing the API key.

One person connects JustSift, shares it with teams, and the key stays with them.

  • People Ops
  • IT Helpdesk
  • Support
  • Sales
ElaichiConnections
Connection Scope Status Access
JU

JustSift (People Ops)

Connected by Emma Laurent

Personal • Active 1 team · 6 members
JU

JustSift (IT Helpdesk)

Connected by James Whitfield

Organization • Active 3 teams · 24 members
JU

JustSift (Support)

Connected by Sofia Ricci

Organization • Active 2 teams · 11 members
JU

JustSift (Sales)

Connected by Daniel Ortega

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

JustSift (Facilities)

Connected by Clara Nowak

Personal • Active Not shared
JU

JustSift (Finance)

Connected by Michael Brennan

Personal • Active 2 teams · 9 members

Audit log

Every JustSift lookup names who made it.

When, who, what happened and which person record, kept in an append-only log.

  • 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]

JustSift Users Updated MCP

26 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:46 PM

C

Clara Nowak

[email protected]

JustSift People Created MCP

32 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:40 PM

M

Michael Brennan

[email protected]

JustSift 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 turns JustSift changes into a digest.

A schedule pulls new JustSift people, groups them by team, and a person approves the digest.

JustSift digest

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

  1. ✓

    Schedule

    Every weekday at 08:00

    0.2s
  2. ✓

    Fetch people

    JustSift

    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

    JustSift

    Queued

Collections and dashboards

Live JustSift headcount, computed without a model.

People counts, new profiles over 14 days, and a breakdown by team, refreshed on a schedule.

JustSift health

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

Live

People

1,284 ↓ 12%

Profiles

96 ↓ 8%

Needs attention

3 ↑ 2

Updated this week

412 ↑ 9%

People created

Last 14 days

By team

Share of activity

People Ops 34%

IT Helpdesk 27%

Support 21%

Sales 18%

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do I connect JustSift to Claude?

First, connect JustSift in Elaichi by pasting your JustSift API key; there is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Then open Claude, go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp as the endpoint. Sign in to Elaichi when Claude asks, and JustSift people search is available in your next conversation.

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

Yes. Once JustSift 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 JustSift once and every client picks it up.

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

Through this connector an agent can search JustSift for people by name, team, location or any profile field, combine several filters into one search, open a single person's full profile, see their photo and other media, and check which fields your JustSift directory holds. In practice that means asking who is on a team, who someone reports to, or who has a particular skill. Short, concrete asks such as "everyone in Finance in Austin" work better than long sentences.

Does connecting JustSift give the AI everything in the directory?

No. Access through Elaichi follows the JustSift API key that was connected and the person who signed in to Elaichi, so an agent can only see the JustSift people and fields that connection can already see. Elaichi can narrow that further with roles and restrictions, and it can never widen it beyond what JustSift itself allows.

Can my team share one JustSift connection?

Yes. One person connects JustSift with the API key and shares the connection with a team in Elaichi, and nobody else on the team ever sees or handles that key. Each teammate still signs in to Elaichi as themselves, so every JustSift lookup in the audit log carries the name of the person who made it.

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

Nothing in this connector can change or delete anything: all five JustSift actions look people, profiles, media and fields up, and none of them write back. If you also want to hide a particular lookup, such as browsing photos, an Elaichi restriction removes it per action, and a restricted action is never shown to the AI client at all, so no prompt can reach it.

What happens to a JustSift connection when someone leaves?

Offboarding a person in Elaichi ends their access to JustSift through every AI client at once. A JustSift connection they shared with a team keeps working for everyone else on that team. If you want the connection gone entirely, disconnecting JustSift once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and every other client together.

Does the JustSift MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?

Yes. JustSift 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 JustSift in front of your team

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

Works with
Claude ChatGPT Cursor 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.