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Connect Artistu to Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini

Artistu connects directly to AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. Once connected, you can ask your AI assistant about your bookings, create new ones, check artist availability, pull invoices and agreements, and a lot more. All through normal conversation, without touching the Artistu interface at all.

This works through a technology called MCP (Model Context Protocol), an open standard that lets AI assistants securely read from and write to external tools like Artistu. You do not need to understand how MCP works to use it. Think of it as a secure bridge between your AI assistant and your Artistu data.

What the Artistu AI Assistant can do

Instead of copying and pasting booking details into a chat window, your AI assistant gets a live, authenticated connection to your Artistu account.

You can ask things like:

  • "Plan the entire routing for my artist this weekend: list every show, check the travel time between venues, and flag any connections that are too tight."
  • "Generate a heatmap of all our shows this year, grouped by country and city, so I can see where we are strongest."
  • "Find a free Saturday for one of my artists in Q3 and suggest three cities where we have not played recently."
  • "Create a confirmed booking for my artist next month, set the artist fee, attach the promoter, and draft the invoice."
  • "Summarise the financial status of every confirmed booking this quarter, sorted by outstanding balance."
  • "What is the advancing status of my next three shows, and which ones are missing a rider or travel details?"

The assistant reads Artistu's live data to answer accurately. No hallucinations, no stale information.

Why this matters for booking agencies

Booking management has always been detail-intensive. Fees, statuses, rider requirements, travel logistics, invoice tracking: each piece of information normally requires navigating to a specific screen. With the Artistu MCP integration:

  • Speed. Accomplish in seconds what previously took minutes of navigation.
  • Accuracy. The AI reads live data from your account, so there is no risk of working from outdated information.
  • Multi-step workflows. Ask the AI to check availability, create a booking, set fees, and attach a client in a single conversation.
  • Hands-free access. Ideal when you are on the phone with a promoter and need information fast.
  • Team-wide productivity. Every team member with access can use their own AI assistant connected to the same live data.

Artistu is the most technologically advanced booking agency platform available today, and the MCP integration is the proof.

Capabilities

The Artistu AI Assistant supports the following operations via MCP:

Bookings

  • List, search, and filter bookings by artist, date range, status, or keyword
  • Get full booking details including fees, costs, notes, location, and travel itinerary
  • Create new bookings with date, time, venue, status, and artist fee
  • Update booking status, notes, time, location, fees, and costs
  • Check artist availability across a date range with weekday filters
  • Check exclusivity conflicts for proposed dates

Invoices and Agreements

  • List and retrieve invoices with full line item details
  • Get direct PDF download links for invoices and agreements
  • Create invoices and update invoice status
  • List and retrieve agreements with signing status

Artists and Contacts

  • List artists managed by your agency
  • Retrieve artist profiles
  • List and search clients and contacts

Advancing and Logistics

  • Retrieve advancing details and itinerary for any booking
  • Access logistics event data

Access

The Artistu AI Assistant is currently in public beta and free to use while we are testing. No request or approval needed.

Find your personal MCP server URL in Artistu under Settings → Integrations. It looks like this:

https://artistu.io/api/mcp?orgId=your-org-id

Copy it straight from the settings page (the orgId is filled in for you) and use it in the setup steps below.

Connect to Claude.ai (web)

Claude.ai supports MCP through its Integrations feature, available on Pro and Team plans.

Step 1: Go to Settings and then Integrations

In Claude.ai, open your profile menu and navigate to Settings and then Integrations.

Step 2: Add a new integration

Click Add integration and enter your MCP server URL from Settings → Integrations. Give it the name Artistu and save.

Step 3: Authorise

Claude will redirect you to Artistu to authorise the connection. Log in with your Artistu credentials and approve.

Step 4: Enable in conversations

When starting a conversation, enable the Artistu integration from the tools menu. You can now ask Claude about your bookings, artists, and finances directly.

For more detail, see Claude's custom connectors documentation.

Connect to ChatGPT

ChatGPT supports custom MCP connectors through Developer Mode, currently in beta. It is available to Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu accounts on the web.

Step 1: Enable Developer Mode

In ChatGPT, go to Settings → Connectors → Advanced and turn on Developer mode.

Step 2: Create the connector

Back in Settings → Connectors, click Create. Enter:

  • Name: Artistu
  • Server URL: your MCP server URL from Settings → Integrations
  • Authentication: OAuth

Tick the trust confirmation box and click Create.

Step 3: Authorise

ChatGPT redirects you to Artistu to authorise the connection. Log in with your Artistu credentials and approve.

Step 4: Enable it in a chat

Custom connectors are enabled per conversation. In a new chat, click the + button, open More → Developer mode, and select the Artistu connector. It stays active for that conversation.

Write actions (creating a booking, sending an invoice) require manual confirmation each time, by design.

For more detail, see OpenAI's developer mode and MCP connectors documentation.

Connect to Gemini

Google's consumer Gemini app does not yet support adding custom remote MCP connectors from the web interface. Until it does, there are two supported ways to reach Artistu from the Gemini ecosystem:

Option A: Gemini CLI

The Gemini CLI connects to MCP servers through its settings.json. Add Artistu under mcpServers using your server URL from Settings → Integrations:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Artistu": {
      "url": "your-mcp-server-url"
    }
  }
}

The CLI opens a browser window to authorise on the first connection.

Option B: Gemini Enterprise

If your organisation uses Gemini Enterprise, you can register Artistu as a custom MCP server data store from the Google Cloud console. This is configured by an administrator and is currently in preview. See Google's custom MCP server documentation for the current steps.

Connect to Cursor

If you use Cursor and want access to Artistu data while building integrations or automations, you can add the MCP server to Cursor as well.

Open or create .cursor/mcp.json in your project and add an entry using your MCP server URL from Settings → Integrations:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Artistu": {
      "url": "your-mcp-server-url"
    }
  }
}

Restart Cursor and authorise through the browser prompt that appears.

For more detail, see the Cursor MCP documentation.

Connect to other MCP-compatible clients

Any AI client that supports the Model Context Protocol (SSE transport) can connect to Artistu using your server URL from Settings → Integrations. Authentication uses OAuth 2.0, so the client will open a browser window for you to authorise access to your Artistu account on the first connection.

Security and permissions

  • The AI assistant only has access to data within your organisation. It cannot access other agencies' data.
  • Each user authenticates with their own Artistu credentials. Permissions are enforced: a user without bookings.write access cannot create or modify bookings through the AI assistant either.
  • You can revoke access at any time from your Artistu account settings.

Tips for best results

  • Be specific about the artist. Mention the artist's name and the AI will look them up automatically. You never need to know an artist's internal ID.
  • Use natural date ranges. "Next month", "Q3 2026", "the week of June 10th" all work fine.
  • Combine actions. "Check if my artist is free the first weekend of September and, if so, create a booking at a venue in Berlin and set the fee" works as a single request.
  • Ask for analysis, not just lookups. "Plan the most efficient routing for my artist's three shows next week" or "show me a heatmap of our busiest regions this year" turn raw data into decisions.
  • Ask for summaries. "Summarise the financial status of all confirmed bookings this quarter" gives you a quick overview without opening individual records.

For questions or feedback, contact [email protected].