Bring Albi
to Claude Desktop
Learn how to connect Albi Restoration to Claude Desktop and start using 12 AI agent tools in minutes. Fully managed, enterprise secure, and ready to use without writing a single line of code.
What is the Albi Restoration MCP Server?
Connect your Albi (albiware.com) account to any AI agent and take full control of your restoration contracting and project management workflows through natural conversation.
What you can do
- Project Lifecycle Orchestration â List and manage all restoration projects programmatically, retrieving detailed high-fidelity statuses, staff assignments, and timelines in real-time
- Financial Insights & KPIs â Programmatically retrieve project-specific financial data, including high-fidelity revenue metrics, costs, and gross margins directly through your agent
- Relationship Management Architecture â Access and manage your entire database of individual contacts, clients, and business organizations to maintain a perfectly coordinated ecosystem
- Inventory & Asset Tracking â Programmatically track physical equipment and specialized restoration gear to oversee your organization's assets and availability efficiently
- Operational Monitoring â Access project activities, monitor active webhooks, and verify API connectivity directly through your agent for instant reporting
How it works
1. Subscribe to this server
2. Retrieve your API Key from your Albi settings (Settings > Integrations)
3. Start orchestrating your restoration business from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client
No more manual logging into field service apps or digging through complex financial spreadsheets. Your AI acts as your dedicated project coordinator and business analyst.
Who is this for?
- Restoration Contractors â instantly retrieve project summaries and update statuses using natural language commands
- Project Managers â monitor staff assignments and track financial KPIs across multiple sites without leaving your workspace
- Operations Leads â automate the oversight of organization-wide inventory and contact directories through simple AI queries
Built-in capabilities (12)
Verify Albi API status
Add a new contact
Requires project name and primary contact. Start a new project
Get details for a specific project
Retrieve financial KPIs for a project
List active webhooks
List available project roles
List assets and equipment
List all tasks and activities
List all contacts
List all organizations
List all restoration projects
Why Claude Desktop?
Claude Desktop is the definitive way to connect Albi Restoration to your AI workflow. Add Vinkius Edge URL to your config, restart the app, and Claude immediately exposes all 12 tools in the chat interface. ask a question, Claude calls the right tool, and you see the answer. Zero code, zero context switching.
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Claude Desktop is the reference MCP client. it was designed alongside the protocol itself, ensuring the most complete and stable MCP implementation available
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Zero-code configuration: add a server URL to a JSON file and Claude instantly discovers and exposes all available tools in the chat interface
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Claude's extended thinking capability lets it reason through multi-step tool usage, chaining multiple API calls to answer complex questions
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Enterprise-grade security with local config storage. your tokens never leave your machine, and connections go directly to Vinkius Edge network
Albi Restoration in Claude Desktop
Albi Restoration and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect Albi Restoration to Claude Desktop through Vinkius don't need to source, host, or maintain individual MCP servers. Every tool call runs inside a hardened runtime with credential isolation, DLP, and a signed audit chain.
Raw MCP | Vinkius | |
|---|---|---|
| Server catalog | Find and host yourself | 3,400+ managed |
| Infrastructure | Self-hosted | Sandboxed V8 isolates |
| Credential handling | Plaintext in config | Vault + runtime injection |
| Data loss prevention | None | Configurable DLP policies |
| Kill switch | None | Global instant shutdown |
| Financial circuit breakers | None | Per-server limits + alerts |
| Audit trail | None | Ed25519 signed logs |
| SIEM log streaming | None | Splunk, Datadog, Webhook |
| Honeytokens | None | Canary alerts on leak |
| Custom domains | Not applicable | DNS challenge verified |
| GDPR compliance | Manual effort | Automated purge + export |
Why teams choose Vinkius for Albi Restoration in Claude Desktop
The Albi Restoration MCP Server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS â a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts. All 12 tools execute in hardened sandboxes optimized for native MCP execution.
Your AI agents in Claude Desktop only access the data you authorize, with DLP that blocks sensitive information from ever reaching the model, kill switch for instant shutdown, and up to 60% token savings. Enterprise-grade infrastructure, zero maintenance.
* Every MCP server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS - a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts optimized for native MCP execution. See our infrastructure
How Vinkius secures
Albi Restoration for Claude Desktop
Every tool call from Claude Desktop to the Albi Restoration MCP Server is protected by DLP redaction, cryptographic audit chains, V8 sandbox isolation, kill switch, and financial circuit breakers.
Frequently asked questions
How do I find my Albi API Key?
Log in to your account, navigate to Settings > Integrations, and click the 'API Key' button to generate or copy your unique token.
Can I track financial KPIs via AI?
Yes! The get_project_financial_kpis tool allows your agent to retrieve high-fidelity revenue, cost, and margin data for any specific project ID.
How do I check available inventory?
Use the list_inventory_equipment tool to retrieve a complete high-fidelity list of all physical assets and specialized gear managed in your account.
How does Claude Desktop discover MCP tools?
When Claude Desktop starts, it reads the claude_desktop_config.json file and connects to each configured MCP server. It calls the tools/list endpoint to fetch the schema for every available tool, then surfaces them as clickable options in the chat interface via the đ icon.
What happens if the MCP server is temporarily unavailable?
Claude Desktop handles disconnections gracefully. if the server is unreachable at startup, the tools simply won't appear. Once the server becomes available again, restarting Claude Desktop will re-establish the connection. There is no timeout penalty or error loop.
Can I connect multiple MCP servers simultaneously?
Yes. You can add as many servers as you need in the mcpServers section of the config file. Each server appears as a separate tool provider, and Claude can use tools from multiple servers in a single conversation turn.
Is there a limit on the number of tools per server?
Claude Desktop can handle hundreds of tools per server. However, for optimal LLM performance, Vinkius servers are designed to expose focused, well-documented tool sets rather than overwhelming the model with too many options.
Does Claude Desktop support Streamable HTTP transport?
Yes. Claude Desktop supports both SSE (Server-Sent Events) and the newer Streamable HTTP transport that Vinkius uses. Simply provide the server URL. Claude auto-negotiates the transport protocol.
Server not appearing after restart
Ensure the JSON is valid (no trailing commas). Check the file path: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\\Claude\\ (Windows).
Authentication error
Verify your Vinkius token is correct. Go to cloud.vinkius.com to regenerate it if needed.
Tools not showing in chat
Click the đ icon at the bottom of the chat input. If it shows 0 tools, the server may still be connecting. wait a few seconds.