Connect Aside to Claude, ChatGPT and other AI apps
Aside has an MCP connector. Add it to Claude, ChatGPT or any app that supports MCP, and that app can read your meetings, prepare plans for your next calls and turn your scripts into playbooks.
What it does
The connector lets an AI app you already use work with what Aside knows. It can see your meetings for the next two weeks and write a plan for any of them: a few goals, background on the people you’re meeting, and answers to have ready. It can read past meetings, including the summary and the full transcript with your notes. It can read and write your playbooks, and keep a memory of you, the people you meet and the companies your calls are about. Aside then uses the plan during the call.
The connector URL
Every app connects to the same address. Aside copies it for you when you start from the app, so you rarely type it.
https://mcp.asidehq.app
How sign-in works
The connector signs in with OAuth, and there’s no web password. When you add it, the AI app opens a page that sends you to the Aside app. Aside asks “Allow Claude to use your Aside meetings?” (or whichever app it is), and you click Allow. You need to be signed in to Aside on your computer. If you aren’t, Aside asks you to sign in first and then allow again.
Set it up
Start in Aside: Settings → Account → AI apps. Click Connect, pick the app, and Aside walks you through it, one step at a time. It takes about a minute.
Claude
Works in Claude on the web or the desktop app. Aside is in Claude’s connector directory. More on Claude.
- Open Aside’s page in Claude’s connector directory.
- Click Connect to Claude.
- Claude sends you to the Aside app. Click Allow.
ChatGPT
Works in ChatGPT on the web with a Plus or Pro plan. More on ChatGPT.
- In Aside, click Add next to ChatGPT, then Open ChatGPT. Aside copies the URL and opens ChatGPT.
- Turn on Developer mode if it asks.
- Click +, then Add custom MCP server. Type Aside as the name and paste the URL.
- Save it. ChatGPT sends you to the Aside app. Click Allow.
Other apps
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Gemini, Grok and other apps with MCP each add servers their own way. Paste this prompt into the app’s chat and it adds Aside, then tells you how to sign in. Aside’s Connect sheet has the same prompt behind its Copy prompt button.
Set up Aside for me. Aside is my meeting assistant and has a remote MCP server at https://mcp.asidehq.app (Streamable HTTP, signs in with OAuth). Add it to this app as a remote MCP server called aside, the way this app adds them (a command, a config file or its settings). Don't sign in to it by hand: never run the OAuth flow, call its endpoints or start a callback server yourself. If the app's own command starts the sign-in, let it run (if it stops before I've clicked Allow, tell me the command to sign in again); otherwise tell me how to sign in the app's own way: where to click Connect or Authenticate next to aside in its MCP settings, or the command to run in my terminal (after a reload, if it needs one). A page opens that sends me to the Aside app on my computer, where I click Allow. Once it's connected, list my upcoming meetings to check it works.
What connected apps can read and write
They can read your meetings, upcoming calendar, playbooks, promises and what Aside remembers about you; write your meeting plans, playbooks and memories, and forget memories; and tick off a promise or open it again. They can’t delete meetings or reach your audio.
| Tool | What it does | |
|---|---|---|
| See upcoming meetings | list_upcoming_meetings | Your calendar meetings for the next two weeks: title, time, attendee names, and whether each has a plan. |
| Read a plan | get_meeting_plan | The goals, background and ready answers for an upcoming meeting. |
| Write a plan | set_meeting_plan | Writes goals, background and ready answers, and can name a playbook. Replaces that meeting’s plan. Also works for a call that isn’t on your calendar. |
| Read playbooks | list_playbooks | Each playbook’s name and full text. |
| Save a playbook | set_playbook | Saves a playbook from your script, notes or a document. Saving under an existing name replaces it. |
| List past meetings | list_meetings | Newest first, with date, length and title. |
| Read a past meeting | get_meeting | The summary (goals reached, next steps, follow-up email) and the full transcript with your notes. |
| See promises | list_commitments | What you promised people on your calls and what they promised you. |
| Tick off a promise | complete_commitment | Marks one done when you say so. |
| Save to memory | remember | Facts about you, the people you meet and the companies or projects your calls are about. |
| Read memory | list_memories | What Aside remembers, grouped, with where each fact came from. |
| Forget | forget | Stops using facts that are wrong or out of date. |
Things to ask
Once it’s connected, ask in plain words. The app picks the tools it needs.
It finds the meeting, reads what Aside remembers about Acme and the people coming, and writes goals, background and ready answers. Aside shows them during the call.
Paste the script or attach the doc. It saves a playbook in your words that live guidance follows on calls whose plan names it.
It reads your recent meetings and answers from the transcripts and next steps.
It reads the meeting’s summary and transcript and writes the email in your own chat.
A connected app can read several meetings and answer across them. To find a moment yourself, search your meetings in Aside: it opens the call where it was said.
It saves the fact, replacing the old one, so the next plan for an Acme call starts from it.
Privacy
A connected app only reaches text in your Aside account: meeting titles, transcripts, summaries, notes, plans, speaker names, playbooks and memory. Audio isn’t stored in your account, so no app can get it. What a connected app reads is then handled by that app under its own terms. Read more on the privacy page.
Your calendar
Aside reads your calendar on your computer and never changes it. Only the titles, times and attendee names of the next two weeks sync to your account, so connected apps can plan for them. Each one is deleted once the meeting has ended. Descriptions, links and email addresses stay on your computer.
Disconnect any time
Settings → Account → AI apps lists every app you’ve allowed. Click Connect, then Disconnect next to one, and it loses access.
Questions
What is the Aside MCP connector?
It’s a remote MCP server at https://mcp.asidehq.app. Add it to Claude, ChatGPT or another app with MCP, and that app can read your Aside meetings and write your meeting plans, playbooks and memory.
Do I need an Aside account to connect?
Yes. You sign in to Aside on your computer, and the AI app asks the app for permission. You click Allow there, with no web password.
Can Claude or ChatGPT hear my calls?
No. Audio isn’t stored in your account. Connected apps read text only: titles, transcripts, summaries, notes, plans, speaker names, playbooks and memory.
Which AI apps work with Aside?
Claude on the web or desktop, ChatGPT on the web with Plus or Pro, and any app that supports remote MCP servers, such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Gemini and Grok.
How do I disconnect an AI app?
In Aside, open Settings → Account → AI apps, click Connect, then Disconnect next to the app.