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Your business in ChatGPT

ChatGPT connects to MCP servers through connectors. A customer's ChatGPT can book with you through your inbox's public server; yours can run the inbox through the owner server.

  • A customer's ChatGPT books with you

    Your inbox's public MCP server, at /mcp, lets any assistant see your services and free times, book, ask for a quote, order, and answer what you propose. No sign-in. Each request lands as a booking, quote request, order or message, and your rules answer it.

    https://inbox.yourdomain.com/mcp

  • Your own ChatGPT runs your inbox

    The owner MCP server, at /mcp/owner, shows what needs a person, tells an item's whole story, replies to customers, moves items on and edits your services and hours. OAuth 2.1, which your inbox runs itself; ChatGPT registers on its own, so there is nothing to set up by hand.

    https://inbox.yourdomain.com/mcp/owner

Add it in ChatGPT

  1. In ChatGPT's settings, turn on developer mode for connectors.
  2. Create a connector with your inbox's address and choose OAuth: https://inbox.yourdomain.com/mcp/owner to run your inbox, or /mcp for the customer's side.
  3. Sign in on your inbox when ChatGPT sends you there, and approve what it may do.

Plans. Developer mode is on the plans OpenAI offers it on.

Checked 30 September 2026 against OpenAI Help Center. Your inbox speaks every MCP revision from March 2025 to the current one (2026-07-28), so older and newer clients both connect.

Being found

A customer's assistant has to know where you are. Put your inbox's address on your website and in your profiles, and join the Surfing Dog network: a directory assistants search through their own MCP connector, https://network.surfingdog.ai/mcp, which answers with verified businesses near a place or by what they do.

People with no assistant get your page at the same address: book a time, ask for a quote, send a message.

Try it first

Point ChatGPT at the demo bike workshop and ask for a booking: surfingdog.ai/try. When it works, install your own inbox with one line to your AI, and see Connect your AI for every tool the owner server gives it.

Read more: OpenAI's dots can book a table. Can it book with you?, and what a personal AI assistant needs from your business.

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