Bring Reputation Management
to Claude Desktop
Learn how to connect Birdeye to Claude Desktop and start using 6 AI agent tools in minutes. Fully managed, enterprise secure, and ready to use without writing a single line of code.
What is the Birdeye MCP Server?
Connect your Birdeye account to any AI agent and take full control of your online reputation management and customer experience workflows through natural conversation.
What you can do
- Review Orchestration — List and manage customer reviews across multiple platforms (Google, Facebook, etc.) programmatically, retrieving detailed high-fidelity comments and ratings in real-time
- Automated Check-ins — Programmatically trigger review requests (check-ins) via SMS or Email to coordinate high-fidelity feedback collection from your recent visitors
- Sentiment Intelligence — Access complete customer profiles and retrieve detailed sentiment history to maintain a perfectly coordinated overview of your brand health
- Survey & Feedback Architecture — Programmatically dispatch custom surveys to specific customers and monitor their high-fidelity responses directly through your agent
- Multi-Location Visibility — Retrieve complete directories of all your business branches and locations to coordinate your organizational reputation programmatically
How it works
1. Subscribe to this server
2. Retrieve your API Key and Business ID (bid) from your Birdeye dashboard (Settings > Integrations > API)
3. Start managing your customer experience from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client
No more manual logging into individual review sites or missing critical feedback. Your AI acts as your dedicated reputation manager and customer success coordinator.
Who is this for?
- Marketing Managers — instantly retrieve high-level review summaries and monitor brand sentiment using natural language commands
- Customer Success Teams — automate the dispatch of review requests and track customer satisfaction without leaving your workspace
- Multi-Location Owners — monitor reputation performance across all branches and coordinate surveys through simple AI queries
Built-in capabilities (6)
Add a new customer profile
Trigger a review request (Check-in)
Get full customer profile
List all business locations
List customer reviews
Send a custom survey to a customer
Why Claude Desktop?
Claude Desktop is the definitive way to connect Birdeye to your AI workflow. Add Vinkius Edge URL to your config, restart the app, and Claude immediately exposes all 6 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
Birdeye in Claude Desktop
Birdeye and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect Birdeye 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 Birdeye in Claude Desktop
The Birdeye 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. All 6 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
Birdeye for Claude Desktop
Every tool call from Claude Desktop to the Birdeye 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 Birdeye API Key and Business ID?
Log in to your account, navigate to Settings > Integrations > API, and you will find your API Key and the Business ID (bid).
Can I request a review via AI?
Yes! The customer_checkin tool allows your agent to record a customer visit and automatically send a review request via their preferred channel.
How do I check review ratings programmatically?
Use the list_reviews tool and provide an optional rating filter (1-5) to retrieve specific categories of feedback directly from the platform.
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 🔌 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 🔌 icon at the bottom of the chat input. If it shows 0 tools, the server may still be connecting. wait a few seconds.