Use InstaBids in your AI
Connection notes for your AI assistant, with source dates and the choices on the InstaBids consent screen.
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.
Homeowners anywhere in the US can post a job; once you send it, InstaBids finds contractors to bid on it.
The connection address
Paste this address when your assistant asks for the server address.
https://instabids.ai/api/agent/mcp
Your assistant
Gemini
- Open Settings, then Connected Apps, then Custom apps.
- Choose Add a custom app and paste the address above.
Gemini source — read 18 October 2026
Connect it with the steps below.
Perplexity
- Open Settings, then Connectors (or Plugins), then Add custom.
- Choose Remote and use OAuth to connect with the address above.
Perplexity source — read 18 October 2026
Connect it with the steps below.
Its help page describes HTTP and SSE. InstaBids answers over streamable HTTP, so it may not connect yet.
Claude
Open the InstaBids connector link for Claude
Connect it with the steps below.
Link built by InstaBids (own-code).
ChatGPT
Connect it with the steps below.
Third-party pages describe developer mode. Some plans cannot add custom connectors; others may only read.
Grok
Connect it with the steps below.
Microsoft Copilot Studio
Connect it with the steps below.
With your permission
- Your assistant can start a draft from your description.
- Your assistant can read bids under labels such as Contractor A.
- Your assistant can check whether a draft is complete; this pauses its edits for thirty minutes.
- Your assistant can ask the next question about your draft.
- Your assistant can get a link for you to add a job photo on your phone.
- Your assistant can ask for your approval to send a prepared job.
Photo choice on the consent screen: Let my assistant add job photos
You decide
Only you can send a job to contractors or pick a contractor, by confirming in InstaBids.
Your assistant cannot pay anyone.