No. 007
The Claude connectorsworth adding first.
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The Claude connectors worth adding first.

Connect Claude to the apps you already run your business on, from your inbox to your shop. Sixteen connectors grouped by job, each with a prompt to try today.

Takes
30 minutes
Needs
A Claude account and the apps you already use
Costs
Connectors work on every Claude plan. Some apps need their own paid plan
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Ask Claude how last month’s sales went, which leads have gone quiet, or what a client said on yesterday’s call, and it checks the real app and tells you. Pick the apps you use, connect them once, and leave with a prompt for each one written for your business.

What you’ll need.

Get these set up first. Everything below uses them.

Some of these are affiliate links. If you sign up through one, I may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. See every tool I use.

01

Tell this page which apps you use

Your answers build your own prompt sheet in the last step, with only the apps you picked. They stay in your browser.

Start with three. Connect the three apps you open most. You can add the rest any time, and with fewer switched on in a chat, Claude has fewer places to look.
02

Learn how connecting works

Every connector in this guide connects the same way. Learn it once.

  1. Go to claude.ai and sign in.
  2. Open Customize, then Connectors.
  3. Click the + next to Connectors to browse the directory.
  4. Click the app you want, then Connect (some say Install).
  5. The app opens and asks you to sign in and approve access. Use the account your business runs on.

Then switch it on in a chat

  1. Start a new chat.
  2. Click the + below the message box, hover over Connectors, and switch on the apps you want for this chat.
Works everywhere you use Claude. Connectors are on every Claude plan, in the browser, the desktop app and the phone app. On a Team or Enterprise plan, the account owner switches each one on for the organisation first.
Read before Claude sends. Every prompt below asks Claude to show you drafts and plans first. Keep that habit with any connector that can send, post or change things.
03

Your inbox, diary and files

Start here. These three cover most of a working day.

Gmail

Claude searches your inbox, sums up long threads and drafts replies for you to check.

Try this in Gmail
Search my Gmail for emails from customers or leads in the last 7 days that I haven't replied to. List who, what they asked and when. Then draft a short reply to each, signed [HOW YOU SIGN YOUR MESSAGES]. Show me the drafts here. Don't send anything.

Google Calendar

Claude reads your diary, spots clashes and finds free time.

Try this in Google Calendar
Look at my Google Calendar for next week. Flag any back-to-back calls with no break, tell me which day has the longest free block, and list any meeting with no agenda.

Google Drive

Claude finds and reads any doc, sheet or PDF in your Drive.

Try this in Google Drive
Find the latest version of my [what the file is about] in Google Drive. Give me the link, when it was last changed, and a five-line summary.
Want more Google prompts? My guide "Let Claude read your inbox, calendar and Drive" walks through these three in detail, with seven prompts for your week.
04

Your notes, team and calls

Where the knowledge in your business lives. Claude can now look it up for you.

Notion

Claude searches your workspace, reads pages and databases, and creates or updates pages.

Try this in Notion
Search my Notion for everything I've written about [topic]. Show me an outline for one tidy page that brings it together. When I say OK, create it as a new page called "[page title]".

Slack

Claude searches and reads channels and threads, and can post messages or create canvases when you ask.

Try this in Slack
Read the last 7 days in my #[channel name] Slack channel. Give me the decisions made, the open questions, and anything waiting on me. Don't post anything.

Fireflies

Claude reads your call transcripts and summaries, so you can ask what was said on any call.

Try this in Fireflies
Find my last call with [name] in Fireflies. Tell me what they want, any worries they raised, and every follow-up I promised. Then draft my follow-up email, signed [HOW YOU SIGN YOUR MESSAGES]. Don't send it.

Tella

Claude edits your Tella recordings by chat: cut by quoting the transcript, remove silences and filler words, add zooms and layouts.

Try this in Tella
Open my most recent Tella video. List the silences, filler words and mistakes you'd cut, with timestamps. Wait for my OK, then make the cuts.
05

Your pages and forms

Describe what you want in plain words and Claude builds it inside the tool you already use.

Lovable

Claude creates Lovable projects, makes changes to them and publishes them. Building uses your Lovable credits.

Try this in Lovable
Create a new Lovable project: a one-page waitlist site for [YOUR BUSINESS IN ONE LINE], for [WHO YOUR CUSTOMERS ARE]. Include a headline, three short benefits and an email sign-up form. Use [FROM ME] wherever you need a real fact. Send me the preview link when it's built.

Jotform

Claude creates and edits forms, then reads and sums up the answers people send in.

Try this in Jotform
Create a client intake form in Jotform for [YOUR BUSINESS IN ONE LINE]. Ask for: name, email, what they want help with, their biggest challenge right now, and how they heard about me. Show me the form before you finish.
06

Your sales and follow-ups

The numbers and the leads. Ask a question and get the answer from your real data.

Shopify

Claude reads your orders, products, customers and stock, and runs reports on your store.

Try this in Shopify
Look at my Shopify store for the last 30 days. Give me total sales, my top 5 products, how many orders came from returning customers, and any product that's low on stock.

Stripe

Claude reads your payments, balance and sales figures from your Stripe account. It can also make changes, so say "read only" when you just want answers.

Try this in Stripe
Using Stripe, tell me how much I took in the last 30 days, my top products by revenue, and any failed payments I should follow up. Read only: don't change anything in my account.

Klaviyo

Claude reads your campaigns, flows, lists and results, and can create new campaigns for you to review.

Try this in Klaviyo
Pull my Klaviyo campaign results for the last 90 days. Put them in a table with open rate, click rate and revenue, best first. Then list my flows and flag any that are switched off. Don't change anything.

GoHighLevel

Claude works with your HighLevel contacts, conversations, pipelines and calendars. HighLevel isn’t in Claude’s directory, so you add it as a custom connector using the address from HighLevel’s own help pages.

  1. In Claude, open Customize, then Connectors.
  2. Click + Add, then Add custom connector.
  3. Name it HighLevel and paste the address below, then continue.
  4. Sign in to HighLevel when it asks, and approve access.
HighLevel connector address
https://services.leadconnectorhq.com/mcp/anthropic/v2
On the free Claude plan? Free plans can add one custom connector. Pro and above can add more.
Try this in GoHighLevel
In HighLevel, find every opportunity in my pipeline that hasn't moved in 14 days. List the contact, the stage and their last activity. Then draft a short follow-up message for each, signed [HOW YOU SIGN YOUR MESSAGES]. Don't send anything.
07

Your automations and research

For the apps not on this list, and for data that lives on other people’s websites.

Zapier

Claude runs actions in the thousands of apps Zapier connects to: add a spreadsheet row, create a task, update a contact. When you first connect, Zapier gives you a short setup prompt to paste back into Claude to finish. Each action Claude runs uses two tasks from your Zapier plan.

Try this in Zapier
Using Zapier, create a task in [your to-do app] called "Send this week's invoices", due this Friday. Tell me which Zapier action you used.

Apify

Claude runs Apify’s ready-made tools to pull data from websites, like business listings, reviews or product pages, into a table. In the Claude desktop app, find Apify in the connector directory. In the browser, add it as a custom connector with the address below and sign in to Apify.

Each run uses your Apify usage. The free plan includes a small monthly allowance.

Apify connector address
https://mcp.apify.com
Try this in Apify
Use Apify to pull the Google Maps listings for [type of business] in [town or city]: name, website, rating and number of reviews. Put them in a table, highest rated first. Tell me how much Apify usage it took.
That’s it. Claude can now check the apps your business runs on and answer from your real data.
08

Take your downloads

Tick what you want. Your prompt sheet only includes the apps you said yes to in step 1.

Your tools, one more time.

If something goes wrong.

Claude says it can’t see my app

Check the connector is switched on in this chat: click +, hover over Connectors and toggle it on. Then ask again, naming the app: "Using Notion, find..."

I can’t find an app in the directory

Search the directory by name. HighLevel and (in the browser) Apify are added as custom connectors with the addresses in this guide. On a Team or Enterprise plan, your account owner may need to allow it first.

It asks me to sign in again

Go to Customize, then Connectors, open that app, disconnect it and connect it again. That refreshes the sign-in.

Claude used the wrong app

Switch off the connectors you don’t need for that chat, and name the app at the start of your message.

Zapier or Apify says I’m out of usage

Both run on their own plan’s allowance. Check your usage in your Zapier or Apify account, and upgrade there if you need more.

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