Podium MCP connector
The Podium connector brings your Podium contacts, appointments, campaigns, locations and users to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot and any MCP client, so your team can look up customers, book appointments and set up campaigns from a chat, inside each person's own Podium access.
- Connects over OAuth
- Free 14-day trial
- No credit card
List Podium campaigns launched at our Denver location this month
Working in Podium with Elaichi
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List all Podium users
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Get single Podium user by ID
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Get single Podium organization by ID
How to connect Podium to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot
Step by step, for each AI app
Podium 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.
Podium MCP connector for Claude Code
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In a terminal, run
claude mcp addwith the endpoint.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Start Claude Code and run
/mcp. -
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Pick elaichi, then sign in and approve in the browser.
Terminal
$ claude mcp add --transport http elaichi --scope user https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
Use --scope project instead to share it with the repository through .mcp.json.
Podium 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.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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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. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.
Podium 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.
Podium MCP connector for Microsoft Copilot
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In Copilot Studio, open your agent, then Tools, Add a tool, New tool and Model Context Protocol.
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Paste the endpoint into Server URL, choose OAuth 2.0, then Dynamic discovery, and press Create.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Create a new connection, sign in and approve, then press Add to agent.
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Under Channels, open Teams and Microsoft Copilot and make the agent available in Microsoft Copilot.
- Server URL
- https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0
- Type
- Dynamic discovery
Microsoft Copilot was called Microsoft 365 Copilot. Keep the tool on end-user credentials, so each person signs in as themselves.
Connect Podium to any MCP client
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Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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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.
What teams do with Podium through Elaichi
Ask in plain English. Each person’s AI can do only what they’re allowed to, and every action it takes in Podium is logged.
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Front desk
Book the appointment while the caller waits
Add the new customer to Podium and create their appointment at the right location in one ask, without switching screens mid-call.
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Support
Know who is texting before you reply
Pull up a customer's Podium contact record, their tags and their custom attributes so the reply fits the person and their history.
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Marketing
Set up the next text campaign
Create a Podium campaign, adjust its details, and review the list of campaigns already running at each location before anything goes out.
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Sales
Tag leads so the right rep follows up
Create a Podium contact tag for a new promotion or lead source and add the day's new leads as contacts already carrying that tag.
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Operations
Keep location details current across every branch
Update a Podium location's hours, address or contact details when a branch changes, and check all locations read consistently afterward.
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Management
See who has a seat at each location
List Podium users and locations to check that new hires appear at the right branch and that departed staff no longer hold a login.
Try asking
- “List Podium campaigns launched at our Denver location this month”
- “Which Podium contacts have appointments booked next week”
- “Compare appointment volume across all Podium locations this quarter”
What connecting Podium gets you
6 screens from Elaichi, each doing one job for your Podium account.
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
List Podium campaigns launched at our Denver location this month
Which Podium contacts have appointments booked next week
Compare appointment volume across all Podium locations this quarter
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot
The agent
Ask about Podium campaigns, get real answers.
Plain language questions answered from live Podium locations, contacts and appointments.
Copy the endpoint
AI apps
Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Microsoft Copilot reach Podium.
One governed MCP endpoint over OAuth, no SDK and no shared API key.
Tool catalog
85 Podium tools ready without custom code.
Browse Podium locations, campaigns, contacts and appointments with their resources and methods.
Toolboxes
Every team gets its own Podium toolbox.
Support, marketing and front desk each work from a toolbox scoped to them.
Shared connections
Teammates use Podium without seeing credentials.
See who connected each Podium account and how many teams and members share it.
Audit log
Every Podium call is written down.
When, who, what happened, type and resource for each Podium campaign or appointment change.
From answering questions to doing the work
A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations, collections and live dashboards come with the Black plan.
Podium digest
Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emily Carter
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Schedule
Every weekday at 8:00 AM
0.2s -
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Fetch campaigns
Podium
1.4s -
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Group by owner
Transform
0.1s -
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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 Jake Morgan
Approve Deny -
Post the digest
Podium
Queued
Automations
A schedule drafts your Podium digest.
Podium campaigns are fetched, grouped, drafted by an agent, approved, then posted back.
Podium health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the campaigns collection
Campaigns
1,284 ↓ 12%
Contacts
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Campaigns created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
Support West 34%
Marketing 27%
Front desk 21%
Sales EMEA 18%
Collections and dashboards
Podium health, counted on a schedule.
Four metrics, 14 days of Podium records created, and a breakdown by team.
For IT and engineering
Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for Podium
All three can connect Podium 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 Podium tools | Allow or restrict single Podium 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 Podium 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 | Free for one person; $15 per user per month on Gold. | 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.
Podium tools for your AI agents
85 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Podium, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
No tools match your search.
Questions, answered
How do I connect Podium to Claude?
Connecting Podium to Claude takes two steps. First, connect Podium in Elaichi: this connector uses an OAuth application you register inside your own Podium account, so the first person to connect pastes in that client ID and secret once, and after that everyone else simply signs in with their own Podium login. Then in Claude open Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp as the endpoint.
Does Podium work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Once Podium is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, any other MCP client and the Elaichi Agent. You connect Podium once and every client your team uses picks it up.
What can an AI agent actually do with my Podium data?
With Podium connected, an agent can look up a contact and see their tags and custom attributes, add a new contact, create an appointment at a location, and list, create, update or delete text campaigns. It can also create and update contact tags and attributes, update a location's details, and list the users and locations in your Podium organization. Short, specific asks such as "book Maria Lopez for Tuesday at the downtown location" work better than long paragraphs.
Does connecting Podium give the AI every location and every contact?
No. Every request to Podium runs as the person who signed in, so an agent sees only the Podium locations, contacts and campaigns that person can already reach in Podium itself. Elaichi can narrow that further, for example to read-only or to a single team's toolbox, but it can never grant more than the person's own Podium access.
Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Podium?
Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi apply per action, so you can allow looking up Podium contacts and booking appointments while restricting deleting campaigns, deleting contact attributes or editing location details. A restricted action still appears in Elaichi's tool search, flagged as restricted, but Claude, ChatGPT or any other client cannot run it, whatever the prompt says.
What happens to a Podium connection when someone leaves?
When you offboard a person in Elaichi, their access to Podium through every AI client ends immediately, and a shared Podium connection keeps working for everyone else on the team. If you ever want to remove Podium entirely, disconnecting it once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot and every other client at the same time.
Does the Podium MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?
Yes. Podium 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, Microsoft Copilot, 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 Podium?
Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use Podium. 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 Podium call.
How is Elaichi different from Composio for Podium?
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 Podium: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.
Put Podium in front of your team
14 days of Black, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.
When the trial ends, nothing is deleted. You move to the free Personal plan, and connections, roles and the audit log stay where they are.
Add one link to your AI app
The same link for everyone on your team.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
ChatGPT
Claude
Cursor
Microsoft Copilot