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Connect your own AI

If you already work with an AI agent — Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code — you can hand it the keys to your startupjs.ai projects. Once connected, "build me a booking site on startupjs.ai" typed into your AI does exactly what the AI Builder would do, without you opening the dashboard.

What your AI can do once connected

  • Everything the AI Builder can — create and modify sites, pages, design, data, plugins' features, tests.
  • Manage the project shell — rename it, change settings, connect a domain, adjust compute, restart.
  • Create new projects and list existing ones.
  • Run the full bring-your-own-app loop — create a BYO project, configure the repo, deploy, read the failure diagnosis, fix, redeploy.

Your AI keeps its own memory and style — many people prefer their daily agent, with its context about their business, over a separate chat.

Connecting

  1. Open Connect your AI in the dashboard sidebar.
  2. Pick your client — each has a short walkthrough. In all cases you add a connector named startupjs.ai using one address: https://startupjs.ai/mcp.
  3. Your AI's first use triggers a sign-in and consent screen — you approve access once, from your own browser session.

The page also offers ready-made starter prompts for the common first moves (new site, existing project, host-your-own-app).

For the technically curious: the connector speaks MCP (Model Context Protocol), the open standard for agent-tool connections, with standard OAuth sign-in. Available on paid plans.

Safety and boundaries

  • Your AI acts as you, on your projects only. The connection is scoped to your account; approving it never exposes other people's projects, and revoking your AI's access is one click in your AI client.
  • Tools are labeled. Read-only operations are marked as such, and destructive ones are flagged so well-behaved agents ask you before, say, deleting anything. The truly destructive actions (delete, export) aren't executed by the connector at all — it hands your AI a dashboard link for you to confirm in person.
  • One project at a time can be driven while its own chat is busy — if you're mid-conversation in the AI Builder, outside changes wait rather than colliding.

Also worth knowing

Everything your connected AI does is mirrored into the project's chat history, marked as external — so the AI Builder stays fully aware of the project's state, and you can pick up in either place with nothing lost.