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Connect ChatGPT to your search.

Turn on Developer mode, add SoloSearcher as a remote MCP server, and approve access in your browser. Developers can also call the Responses API directly.

What you need: a paid ChatGPT account on the web (Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, or Education). Nothing on our side — no plan or API key.

In ChatGPT #

Developer mode is ChatGPT's route for adding a remote MCP server like SoloSearcher.

In ChatGPT, open Settings → Security and login and turn on Developer mode. (Available on the web for Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education accounts.)
Open Plugins, choose + to create a developer-mode app for a remote MCP server, name it SoloSearcher, paste the server URL, and choose OAuth for authentication:
```
https://app.solosearcher.com/mcp
```
ChatGPT opens SoloSearcher in your browser. Sign in, choose read-only or read-and-write access, and approve.
In a chat, open the + menu, choose Developer mode, and turn SoloSearcher on for the conversation; then ask ChatGPT to use SoloSearcher.

The app appears under Drafts in ChatGPT's app settings. Write actions ask for confirmation before they run.

From the API #

Call the Responses API yourself and SoloSearcher is a tool block rather than an app — for a server, a container, or a CI job that cannot open a browser.

Create an API key in Settings → Connections → API keys and copy it right away — it is shown once.

Pass SoloSearcher as a tool on the request, with your key in place of YOUR_API_KEY:

{
  "type": "mcp",
  "server_label": "solosearcher",
  "server_url": "https://app.solosearcher.com/mcp",
  "authorization": "YOUR_API_KEY"
}

Ask the model to list SoloSearcher tools to confirm the server answered.

That authorization value is sent as a Bearer token on every call, so treat it like a password.

Choose what ChatGPT can do #

Every connection is scoped when you approve it. Read-only lets ChatGPT search and read your companies, notes, contacts, and financials. Read-and-write also lets it save its work — finished reports, notes, and updates land on the company record instead of staying in the chat.

A read-only connection can still run any skill; it returns the analysis to you in the conversation rather than storing it. You can revoke access at any time, and every request is recorded in the product audit trail.

First thing to try #

One prerequisite: skills stay locked until you've saved a Buyer Profile — your display name plus at least one of your background, your thesis, or a target range. Two minutes, once. See Buyer Profile for what it unlocks and exactly how to set it. Skills are scored against your criteria, which is why the profile comes first.

Then ask the model for something you actually want to know:

List my highest-rated companies, then run a risk analysis on the top one and save the report.

With read-and-write access, the result of a skill run saves onto the company record as a report — run it again later and you get a new version next to the old one. On a read-only connection the analysis comes back in the conversation instead.

Connect ChatGPT to your search.

In ChatGPT #

From the API #

Choose what ChatGPT can do #

First thing to try #

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