Crantec — connect your AI

Check what your assistant's plan allows before you start

A free ChatGPT account works — we connected one ourselves. Claude keeps custom connectors behind a paid plan, so a free Claude account cannot add one at all. Gemini we reach through its CLI and have not tried on a free Google account yet, so we will not promise it. Whichever you use, the AI subscription is the only part of this you buy from somebody else.

What happens

Step one

Copy your site's address

One line, the same for every customer. It is what your assistant talks to.

Step two

Paste it into your AI

Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini all take a custom connector. Every step is written out below for each of them.

Step three

Sign in once, with your token

The personal token in your welcome email. That sign-in is the boundary — it scopes your assistant to your sites and nothing else.

Step four

Then just talk to it

“You're connected to my new site — what can you actually do?” is a good opening line. After that, ask for the website you actually want.

What happens then

Six questions, then a choice

Your AI interviews you first — six plain questions, about ten minutes. Have two or three phone photos handy; none is fine, and most first sites launch with two or three real ones. Then it describes a few directions for your site in plain words, and you pick the one that feels like your business.

Connect your AI

Pick the assistant you use

You only need one. The same address and the same token work for all three, so you can add the others later without changing anything.

Anthropic — claude.ai, Claude Desktop (Mac and Windows) and Claude mobile.

Paid plan needed

Custom connectors are not on Claude's free tier. You need Pro, Max or a Team seat before the Connectors screen will let you add one.

Open Claude's settings
On claude.ai, click your name at the bottom-left, then Settings. In Claude Desktop it is the Claude menu → Settings.
Go to Connectors
In the settings list choose Connectors. Scroll past the ready-made ones to the bottom and choose Add custom connector.
3
Paste your site's address
This is the same address for every customer — what makes it yours is the sign-in on the next step.
```
https://mcp.thedesignerscode.cloud/mcp
```
Sign in with your token
Claude opens a Designers Code sign-in page. Paste the personal token from your welcome email. There is nothing else to fill in, and no password to choose.
Let it use the tools
Claude shows what the connector can do and asks before using it. Choose Always allow, or it will ask again on every single change.
6
Say hello
Start with: "You're connected to my new site — what can you actually do?" — it reads your site and your plan and answers honestly, including about what it cannot do.
```
You're connected to my new site — what can you actually do?
```

Custom connectors need a paid Claude plan — they are not on the free tier.

OpenAI — chatgpt.com and the desktop app.

A free account works

We connected a free ChatGPT account ourselves on 1 September 2026. Custom connectors were a paid-only feature for a long time, so if you cannot find the option, update the app before assuming it is missing.

Open ChatGPT's settings
Click your profile picture, then Settings.
Find Connectors
Look for Connectors — some versions call it Apps. If you cannot see an option to add your own, turn on developer or advanced mode in settings first; custom MCP servers are hidden until you do.
Add a custom connector
Choose Add, then the custom or MCP option rather than one of the listed apps.
4
Paste the server address
Paste this as the server URL. Leave any other field at its default.
```
https://mcp.thedesignerscode.cloud/mcp
```
Sign in with your token
A Designers Code sign-in page opens. Paste the personal token from your welcome email.
6
Allow the tools, then say hello
Approve the tools when asked, then start with: "You're connected to my new site — what can you actually do?"
```
You're connected to my new site — what can you actually do?
```

Custom MCP connectors need a paid ChatGPT plan, and the option arrives in different regions at different times. If you cannot find it, check for an app update before assuming it is missing.

Google — best supported through Gemini CLI today.

Free tier not tested yet

Gemini CLI signs in with an ordinary Google account. We have connected it, but not on a FREE Google account, so we will not tell you it works there until we have tried it. Google's own usage limits apply either way.

1
Install Gemini CLI
If you have Node installed, this one line does it. Otherwise follow Google's own install page first.
```
npm install -g @google/gemini-cli
```
Open your Gemini settings file
It lives at ~/.gemini/settings.json in your home folder. If it is not there yet, create it — an empty file is fine to start from.

Add this site as a server

Paste this inside the file. If the file already has content, add the mcpServers block alongside what is there rather than replacing it.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "thedesignerscode": {
      "httpUrl": "https://mcp.thedesignerscode.cloud/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE" }
    }
  }
}

Put your token in
Replace YOUR-TOKEN-HERE with the personal token from your welcome email. Keep the word Bearer and the space after it.
5
Restart Gemini CLI
Close it and open it again, then type /mcp to list what it can reach. Your site should be in the list.
```
/mcp
```
6
Say hello
Start with: "You're connected to my new site — what can you actually do?"
```
You're connected to my new site — what can you actually do?
```

Gemini CLI and the Gemini API speak MCP today. Support in the consumer Gemini app is still arriving, so the CLI is the reliable route for now.

Where things live

Your website

https://crantec.thedesignerscode.cloud/
This page, until you replace it.

Your console

https://portal.thedesignerscode.cloud/
Enquiries, photos, releases and your token. Sign in with your email address — there is no password.

Your token

In your welcome email. We cannot read it back, so if it goes missing you rotate a fresh one in the console.

If something goes wrong

The six ways this actually gets stuck

I cannot find Connectors anywhere in my AI's settings

Three things hide it, in order of likelihood: you are on a free plan (custom connectors are a paid feature on both Claude and ChatGPT), the app needs updating, or the feature has not reached your region yet. Check the plan first — it is the usual one.

It is asking me to sign in and I do not have a token

Your token is in your welcome email. If that email is gone, sign in to your console at https://portal.thedesignerscode.cloud/ with your email address — no password, we send you a link — then go to Settings, find Your AI's connection, and press rotate. That mints a fresh token and shows it once. The old one stops working immediately, so any assistant already connected will need the new value.

It says it cannot connect, or the address is wrong

Copy the address again with the button rather than typing it — the commonest cause is a missing /mcp on the end or a stray space at the start. The address is the same for every customer; it is your token that makes the connection yours.

It connected, but it says it cannot see any sites

That is almost always an expired or mistyped token. Ask it to run the connection check — that tool reports in plain English what your sign-in can actually reach. If it comes back empty, remove the connector, add it again, and paste a freshly rotated token.

Can I connect more than one AI?

Yes. The same address and the same token work everywhere, and you can have Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini all pointed at the same site. They will not tread on each other: every change lands in a draft and nothing goes public until you say so.

Is any of this visible to anyone else?

No. Your token scopes an assistant to your sites and your plan. Other customers' sites are not hidden from it — they are unreachable, which is a different and stronger thing.

Then

Ask for the website you actually wanted

Describe the business rather than the design. “A site for my bakery, warm and simple, with a booking form and the market photos from Saturday” is a better brief than a list of pages. You get a preview before anything goes public, and you can put it back the way it was at any time.

You're connected to my new site — what can you actually do?