GrantIQ for ChatGPT and Claude

Eligibility-first grant discovery, inside the chat you already use.

Install the GrantIQ MCP server in ChatGPT or Claude and ask “what UK and EU grants can my charity actually win?” Every answer ships with citations to the funder's own page — no hallucinated awards, no fabricated success rates, and an honest competition_risk: "unknown" when we don't have the data to back a claim.

What this is

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server hosted at grantiq.co.uk/mcp. ChatGPT and Claude can connect to it via OAuth, then use six tools — complete_profile, search, fetch, find_opportunities, should_apply, explain_opportunity — to set up your organisation profile and then discover and qualify grants from 100+ UK and EU sources. Free for casual use; paid tiers raise the per-month tool quotas.

Install in ChatGPT

1. Open ChatGPT → Settings → Connectors → Browse connectors.
2. Add a new MCP server with URL https://grantiq.co.uk/mcp.
3. Approve the OAuth consent screen — you'll be asked to grant discovery:read, opportunity:read, and profile:match.
4. First time only — set up your profile. Tell GrantIQ about your organisation, e.g. “complete my GrantIQ profile: UK charity working on homelessness, looking for £50k–£500k.” It calls complete_profile and confirms what it saved. Personalised matching needs this — without it, find_opportunities replies needs_profile and tells you what to add.
5. Then ask “use GrantIQ to find me 5 grants my charity can apply for this quarter” — if you see no results, GrantIQ will suggest broadening your sectors or geography.

Install in Claude

1. In Claude Desktop or via the CLI, run:

   claude mcp add --transport http grantiq https://grantiq.co.uk/mcp

2. Approve the OAuth consent screen — same scopes as ChatGPT.
3. First time only — set up your profile. Ask Claude to “complete my GrantIQ profile” with your organisation details (type, location, sectors, focus). It calls complete_profile; matching can't run until this is done.
4. Then ask Claude to use the find_opportunities tool. GrantIQ guides you if your profile is incomplete or if nothing matches yet.

What it does

complete_profile

Fills in your organisation's matching profile through chat (type, location, sectors, focus areas, funding range) — partial-update, so you can build it up over several messages. Do this first; the other personalised tools need it.

find_opportunities

Runs your profile through the same eligibility-first ranking engine the GrantIQ web app uses (4-stage funnel + LLM judge). Returns the top N grants with a fit score and rationale.

should_apply

Opinionated yes / borderline / no decision for a single (you, grant) pair. Includes effort estimate with confidence band and competition-risk label — or an honest unknown when the funder data isn't there.

explain_opportunity

Plain-English unpack of a single grant: summary, what it funds, target applicant, hidden constraints (state aid, consortium requirements), application mechanics. Cached after the first call.

search and fetch

Free-text grant discovery and full-record retrieval — designed for ChatGPT deep research workflows.

Pricing

Source-of-truth in our main pricing page. MCP Free is the steady state for casual / first-time users — there is no time-limited trial.

Already on GrantIQ Starter (£39/mo) or Professional (£149/mo)? You already have the corresponding MCP tier included — see the full pricing page.

Privacy

GrantIQ stores your organisation profile (sectors, location, size) and a per-tool-call usage event (timestamp, tool name, outcome — never the prompt body or response body). Webhook events from Stripe are stored idempotently for billing audit.

Heads up: if you're connecting from ChatGPT Free / Plus / Pro or Claude consumer plans, your prompts may be used to train the host AI unless you've opted out in the host's settings. For confidential client work, use ChatGPT Business / Enterprise / Edu or the Claude API.

Demos

Demo videos shipping with the W7 design-partner pilot. In the meantime, the install steps above are self-contained — you can be running your first find_opportunities call within ~2 minutes of connecting.

Available on

Find and install the GrantIQ MCP server from the registries: Smithery, mcp.so, and the official MCP Registry as uk.co.grantiq/mcp (DNS-verified).