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Ask your AI assistant about supply chain technology. Get PreShiftIQ's payment-blind answer.
PreShiftIQ matches vendors to a buyer's completed operational assessment: you answer current-state and future-state questions, a payment-blind engine removes the vendors that cannot serve the documented operation, scores the rest on measured fit against interview-validated scorecards, and records every match immutably. The PreShiftIQ connector puts that mechanism inside Claude, ChatGPT, and any assistant that speaks the Model Context Protocol: when you ask about transportation management, dock scheduling, ELD, carrier vetting, or fleet management technology, the assistant answers from PreShiftIQ's live coverage, the same counts and rosters the website reads, instead of from whatever it happens to remember.
It is a matching platform, not a directory or review site. The connector is free, needs no account, and reads nothing from your conversation.
How do I connect it in Claude?
- Open Customize, then Connectors.
- Choose the plus button, then Add custom connector. Name it PreShiftIQ and enter the server URL below. Leave the advanced OAuth fields empty; the connector needs no authentication.
- Choose Add. Six tools appear under the connector.
- In a new chat, open the plus menu, choose Connectors, and switch PreShiftIQ on. Then ask your question.
Server URL
https://mcp.preshiftiq.com/mcp
Custom connectors are available on Claude Free (one connector), Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise; on Team and Enterprise an Owner adds the connector under Organization settings and members connect to it. These steps connect the server directly; a one-click listing inside Claude follows Anthropic's review.
How do I connect it in ChatGPT?
- Open Settings, then Security and login, and turn on Developer mode.
- Go to chatgpt.com/plugins, choose the plus button, and create a developer-mode app for a remote MCP server. Name it PreShiftIQ and enter the server URL below.
- Set authentication to No Authentication and save.
- In a new chat, choose Developer mode from the plus menu and select PreShiftIQ. Then ask your question.
Server URL
https://mcp.preshiftiq.com/mcp
Developer mode is available to Pro, Plus, Business, Enterprise, and Education accounts on the web. These steps connect the server directly; a listing inside ChatGPT follows OpenAI's review.
What can the connector do?
Six tools, each read-only, each answering from the same live readers the website uses. The connector holds no copy of the catalog.
- Describe PreShiftIQ. What the platform is, how matching works, and how it is paid, in the platform's own words.
- List covered technology categories. The five covered categories, each with its live vendor count.
- List covered vendors in one category. The alphabetical catalog for one category, as coverage: no scores, no participation status, no order other than alphabetical, and each vendor carries its permanent PreShiftIQ identifier.
- Explain how matching works. Disqualification first, then measured-fit scoring against interview-validated scorecards, payment-blind, with the live tier thresholds and every match recorded immutably.
- How PreShiftIQ is paid. Buyers pay nothing. Vendors pay one published rate, due only when a matched buyer becomes their customer, and that payment never enters the matching math.
- Start an assessment. A link into the free assessment for the category you choose. Nothing is created until you complete it.
What does the connector not do?
It does not read your conversation, your files, or anything else in your assistant. It needs no account and creates none. It does not return match results: those appear only inside the PreShiftIQ application, to the buyer who completed the assessment, masked until a matched vendor accepts. And nothing a vendor pays can change what the connector returns, because the mechanism that produces catalog and match outputs cannot read the mechanism that produces fees.
Is the connector free?
Yes, for everyone. There is no charge to connect it, no charge to use it, and no charge to buyers at any point in the assessment or match. Vendors pay one published rate, 5 percent of first-year contract value, only when a matched buyer becomes their customer; the full terms are on the How We Are Paid page.
What does the connector send to my assistant?
Only what preshiftiq.com already publishes: the platform description, the category list with live counts, the alphabetical catalog per category, the matching and payment explanations, and the assessment link. Public tool results contain no personal information. PreShiftIQ records each tool call as an append-only event with the tool name, a timestamp, and a one-way hash of the arguments, never the arguments themselves; what your assistant's provider retains from tool results is governed by that provider's own policy. Details are in the Privacy Policy, section 5B.
Does a vendor in the catalog participate or pay?
Catalog inclusion is factual: the vendor sells into this vertical. It is sourced from public information and interviews, is not removable on request, and is never an endorsement or a statement of participation. Corrections to name, ownership, or product line are always accepted at info@preshiftiq.com.
Which assistants are supported?
Any client that speaks the Model Context Protocol to a remote server over HTTPS, on the 2026-07-28 revision or the 2025 revisions before it, which includes Claude and ChatGPT. If your assistant asks for a server URL, use the one on this page.
I run a consulting practice. Can my clients use it?
Yes, and the coverage and the assessment link are the same for everyone, so it is a fair starting point for a client conversation. Consultant tools that run a client's assessment through the engine as a what-if, before any vendor is contacted, are on the roadmap and will require a signed-in connection.
Rather skip the assistant?
The assessment is one link away and takes most buyers less time than they expect.