Bring Business Automation
to Claude Desktop
Learn how to connect Simplicate 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 Simplicate MCP Server?
Connect your Simplicate account to any AI agent and take full control of your business workflow and project orchestration through natural conversation. Simplicate provides a comprehensive platform for CRM, sales tracking, and project management, and this integration allows you to retrieve organization metadata, monitor sales pipelines, and log hours directly from your chat interface.
What you can do
- CRM & Contact Orchestration — List all managed organizations and persons to maintain a clear overview of your professional relationships programmatically.
- Sales & Pipeline Management — Access and monitor your sales opportunities and retrieve detailed metadata to ensure your funnel is always synchronized directly from the AI interface.
- Project Lifecycle Control — List and monitor active projects and services to track progress and team assignments via natural language.
- Time Tracking Automation — Log work hours and retrieve time-related metadata using simple AI commands to streamline your administrative tasks.
- Operational Monitoring — Access HRM data, monitor invoices, and retrieve organizational profile metadata to ensure your business stack is fully integrated.
How it works
1. Subscribe to this server
2. Enter your Simplicate Domain Prefix, API Key, and API Secret from your settings
3. Start managing your business workflows from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client
No more manual status checking or spreadsheet time logging. Your AI acts as a dedicated operations manager or project coordinator.
Who is this for?
- Agency Owners — quickly retrieve client details and monitor project profitability without switching apps.
- Sales Managers — automate the retrieval of deal statuses and monitor pipeline metrics via natural conversation.
- Operations Teams — streamline the logging of hours and monitor organizational health directly within the chat.
Built-in capabilities (12)
Get authenticated organization profile
Get details for a specific project
Get details for a specific sales opportunity
List all organizations/companies
List all individual contacts
List all company employees
List all invoices
List available project services
List all projects
List all sales opportunities
List time entries
Register new hours worked
Why Claude Desktop?
Claude Desktop is the definitive way to connect Simplicate 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
Simplicate in Claude Desktop
Simplicate and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect Simplicate 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 Simplicate in Claude Desktop
The Simplicate 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 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
Simplicate for Claude Desktop
Every tool call from Claude Desktop to the Simplicate MCP Server is protected by DLP redaction, cryptographic audit chains, V8 sandbox isolation, kill switch, and financial circuit breakers.
Frequently asked questions
Can my AI automatically log hours for a specific project just by providing the project ID and duration?
Yes! Use the log_hours tool. Provide the Project ID, start time, end time, and a description, and your agent will register the work log in Simplicate instantly.
How do I check the current status of a sales opportunity?
Simply ask the agent to run the get_sales_details action with the Sale ID. It will retrieve the detailed metadata, including the current stage in your pipeline.
How do I find my Simplicate API credentials and Domain Prefix?
Log in to your Simplicate account, navigate to Settings > General > API, and you will find your Authentication Key and Secret. Your Domain Prefix is the first part of your Simplicate URL (e.g., 'prefix'.simplicate.nl).
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.