Access FTW Hub from your AI

Once connected, your AI assistant can read your hub and make changes on your behalf:

• Search & filter investors — "List foodtech investors in the US that write $250k+ checks and focus on Seed."
• Read full profiles — funds and startups, including teams and known investments.
• Score fit — "How good a fit is this fund for my startup, and why?"
• Manage your Pipeline — add funds, move stages, log notes, set your contact.
• Add leads — drop in a fund we don't have yet.
• Request intros — and edit your own profile (these always ask you to confirm first).

It only ever sees and changes your own data — exactly what you'd see logged into the Hub.

• An existing FTW Hub account — the same login you use at the Hub. For fit and pipeline questions, your account needs a linked startup profile.
• An AI assistant that supports custom / remote MCP connectors (availability depends on your plan with that provider — see each section below).

Everywhere below, the server address you paste is the same:

https://ftw-api-844313891425.us-central1.run.app/mcp

You sign in with your FTW Hub account (email + password, or Continue with Google). You only do this once — it stays connected and refreshes in the background.

Claude is the smoothest place to start. It works on claude.ai, Claude Desktop, and the mobile apps (custom connectors are available across Free, Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans; Free is limited to one connector).

1. Open Customize → Connectors. (Customize is its own item in the Claude menu — it's not inside Settings.)
2. Click +, then Add custom connector.
3. Name it FTW Hub and paste the server URL above. (You can ignore the optional OAuth Client ID / Secret under Advanced — FTW handles sign-in for you.)
4. Click Add, then sign in with your FTW Hub account in the window that opens.
5. It shows Connected. In any chat, make sure FTW Hub is enabled in the tools menu, then ask away.

Team / Enterprise: an Owner adds it for the whole org under Settings → Organization settings → Connectors.

ChatGPT supports full custom MCP connectors through Developer Mode (a beta feature on Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans, on the web).

1. Go to Settings → Apps → Advanced settings and turn on Developer mode.
2. Create a new connector / app and paste the server URL above.
3. Choose OAuth for authentication and sign in with your FTW Hub account.
4. In a chat, enable FTW Hub from the Developer Mode tool menu and ask away.

Developer mode is powerful — it can run write actions — so review anything it proposes before approving. FTW always confirms the billed/visible actions (requesting an intro, editing your profile) regardless.

The consumer Gemini app doesn't yet support adding arbitrary remote custom connectors. For now, you can reach FTW Hub from Gemini via:

• Gemini CLI — add FTW Hub to your ~/.gemini/settings.json under mcpServers, pointing httpUrl at the server URL above. The CLI supports OAuth and will prompt you to sign in on first use.
• Gemini Enterprise — register it as a custom MCP server data store in the Google Cloud console.

We'll add a simpler path here as soon as Google ships native connector support in the Gemini app.

• "Search FTW Hub for Astanor Ventures and pull their full profile and team."
• "List Seed-stage alt-protein investors in Europe that write $500k+ checks."
• "How good a fit is that fund for my startup, and why?"
• "What's on my Pipeline? Move Astanor to Due Diligence and log a note that we met their partner."
• "Request an intro to that fund." (asks you to confirm — intros are billed only on success)

Your assistant asks permission the first time it uses each tool — approve it and you're off.

• It acts as you. Same tier, same matches, same redaction as the website — nothing more.
• Other people's data stays private. Internal FTW notes, who hid or favorited a fund, and other founders' pipelines and intro requests are never exposed.
• Writes are confirmed where it matters. Requesting an intro (billed on success) and editing your public profile always ask first, and it can only ever change your own data.
• FTW+ gates still apply — e.g. the written fit rationale is FTW+ only — exactly as on the web.

Trouble connecting? If Google sign-in fails, use email + password. If a connector gets stuck, remove it and re-add it, then sign in again. Still stuck — email support@foodtechweekly.com.

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