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Add InstaBids to your AI assistant

Add the InstaBids connector to your AI assistant once, sign in to your InstaBids account, and you can start a home job and see its bids from inside your chat. Claude, Cursor and VS Code have a one-click button; for the others you copy the connector URL and follow their steps.

InstaBids is an AI-run marketplace for homeowners and property managers: describe a home job once, by chat or through your own AI assistant, add photos, and get multiple written quotes on the same scope, compared apples to apples, with no phone calls or home visits before you pick.

Updated 2026-10-28

InstaBids assistantAI · builds your written scope with you

What home job do you need done in your home? Describe it once to start your written scope.

Start from a common job
You choose who gets your number
Or send it from your own AIChatGPTClaudeGrokGeminiMore ways
  1. Describe it onceBy chat, or through your own AI assistant, and add photos.
  2. Post it and send itContractors bid in writing on that scope.
  3. Compare line by lineEvery quote is written against the same scope.
  4. You chooseContact details stay hidden until you pick and they confirm.
InstaBids

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MCP connector · REST API · plain HTML

Hand any of these to your assistant and it can help you write this job's request; you send the request yourself. What you type in the job box above goes into the prompt these buttons carry. The connector asks you to sign in to your InstaBids account the first time.

  • MCP connector URLhttps://instabids.ai/api/agent/mcp
  • Agent API (OpenAPI)https://instabids.ai/openapi.json
  • Start-request linkhttps://instabids.ai/intake?from=us-add-to-assistant&utm_source=us&utm_medium=page&utm_campaign=add-to-assistant
Open it in your assistantAdd InstaBids as a connector

Every page is plain HTML. Steps for every assistant: add to your assistant.

The connector URL

https://instabids.ai/api/agent/mcp

Starting a job and the public tools work without an account; your jobs and bids need sign-in.

Steps follow each assistant's own help page, linked under it. Sources read 2026-10-22. Menus change; if a step looks different, the help page has the current one.

Claude (claude.ai, Claude Desktop and the Claude mobile app)

Add to Claude

  1. Use the Add to Claude button: it opens Claude's Add custom connector form with the name and URL filled in. Or open Customize, Connectors, +, Add custom connector, name it InstaBids and paste the connector URL.
  2. Choose Continue, then Sign in now, and sign in with Google.
  3. Choose Add. The connector also shows up in Claude Desktop, the Claude mobile app and Claude Code.

On Team and Enterprise plans an Owner adds it first (Organization settings, Connectors, Add, Custom, Web); members then choose Connect.

Source: Claude Help Center: custom connectors

ChatGPT

  1. Copy the connector URL.
  2. On the web, open chatgpt.com/plugins, choose +, then Add custom MCP server.
  3. Give it the name InstaBids, paste the URL, choose OAuth sign-in, tick I understand and want to continue, then Create as a plugin.
  4. Sign in with Google when ChatGPT asks.

Starting a job works only where your plan allows custom connectors with actions, not only read and fetch. Which ChatGPT plans can add a custom MCP server, and with what permissions, differs by plan; on Business only admins and owners can add one. See OpenAI's page.

Source: OpenAI: connect a plugin to ChatGPT

Gemini

  1. Copy the connector URL.
  2. On gemini.google.com, open Settings, Connected Apps, Add a custom app.
  3. Paste the URL, choose Next, then sign in with Google. It then works in the Gemini mobile app too.

Google says custom apps need a personal Google account (not work or school), age 18 or over, the US, English and Keep Activity on.

Source: Gemini Apps Help: custom apps

Perplexity

  1. Copy the connector URL.
  2. Open Customize, Connectors (or Plugins), Add custom, Connector, Add MCP connector, Remote.
  3. Name it InstaBids, paste the URL, set Authentication to OAuth 2.0, tick the box, then Add.
  4. Choose the InstaBids card to sign in with Google.

Source: Perplexity Help Center: custom connectors

Cursor

Add to Cursor

  1. Use the Add to Cursor button: Cursor opens and asks you to install the InstaBids server.
  2. Sign in with Google when Cursor asks.

Source: Cursor docs: MCP install links

VS Code

Add to VS Code

  1. Use the Add to VS Code button, or open the Command Palette, choose MCP: Add Server, then HTTP, and paste the connector URL.
  2. Sign in with Google when VS Code asks.

Source: VS Code docs: MCP servers

Claude Code

  1. Run the command below in your terminal.
  2. Type /mcp in Claude Code and sign in with Google in the browser. A connector added on claude.ai shows up here too.

claude mcp add --transport http instabids https://instabids.ai/api/agent/mcp

Source: Claude Code docs: MCP

Gemini CLI

  1. Run the command below in your terminal, then sign in with Google when asked.

gemini mcp add --transport http instabids https://instabids.ai/api/agent/mcp

Source: Gemini CLI docs: MCP servers

Microsoft Copilot Studio

  1. Copy the connector URL.
  2. In your agent, open Tools, Add a tool, New tool, Model Context Protocol.
  3. Name it InstaBids, paste the URL, choose OAuth 2.0 with Dynamic discovery, then Create and Add to agent.

This is Copilot Studio, Microsoft's agent builder, which needs a Copilot Studio licence; we found no way to add a custom connector to the everyday Copilot app.

Source: Microsoft Learn: add an MCP server to an agent

Any other MCP assistant

  1. Copy the connector URL and add it as a remote (streamable HTTP) MCP server with OAuth sign-in.
  2. Sign in with Google when your assistant asks.

Source: InstaBids MCP discovery file

For developers

The tools, the sign-in flow and the REST API are documented at https://instabids.ai/developers.

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