Connect your own AI (MCP API keys and the operate tier)

You can connect your own Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP client to HuntSales with an API key and have it run your CRM for you. This is separate from the built-in Copilot: here you bring your own AI and point it at HuntSales over MCP (Model Context Protocol). Full setup steps are at /docs/mcp.

How to connect: go to Settings, then Developer, and create an API key. When you create a key you choose its scopes, which decide what the connected AI can do, then copy the key (it is shown once) and add it to your AI client. You can revoke a key any time from the same page.

Scopes are opt-in per key, so you can issue a read-only key for one person and a full-operate key for another. There are read scopes and write/operate scopes.

Read scopes let the AI look at your data without changing anything: read your contacts, pipeline and campaign engagement (contacts:read), search the shared Vault prospect pool (people:search), and read your credit balances (credits:read).

Write/operate scopes let the AI run the CRM. contacts:write creates and updates contacts, moves pipeline stages, and creates lists. people:claim claims fresh Vault prospects into your CRM (this spends your claim quota). campaigns:write creates campaigns and sequence steps and enrols contacts. campaigns:send launches campaigns live, which starts real email sending; it is opt-in and off by default, so you only add it when you want hands-off launching.

Safety model: the tools that spend or send (claiming prospects and launching a campaign) always run a dry-run preview first and then wait for your explicit confirm before doing anything. Per-call caps apply: claiming is capped at 500 prospects per call and enrolling at 2,000 contacts per call. Launching a campaign only flips it live; your normal mailbox warm-up, daily and monthly send caps, and send window still pace the actual sending exactly as they do in the app. Every write the AI makes is recorded in the audit log, and revoking the key cuts access immediately.

A typical end-to-end ask, once you have granted the operate scopes, is something like: find HR managers in Singapore in the Vault, claim 200 into a new list, draft a 2-step campaign, preview the launch, and launch it once you confirm.