Ask Claude about the people you met: Linq now works with AI assistants
With Linq Business, connect Claude, Cursor or VS Code to your contacts over MCP. Ask who you met, what's due and who to call, in plain words.
You come back from a conference with sixty new contacts. Some you scanned from badges, some left their details on your kiosk, a few you typed in on the train. They’re all in Linq, filed under the event, with tags and follow-up dates. Now you want to know which of them work in fintech, who you promised to call this week, and how the people you met split by company.
Starting today, you can just ask. With Linq Business, you can connect an AI assistant to your Linq contacts: Claude (Claude Code or Claude Desktop), Cursor, VS Code, or another app that supports MCP, the Model Context Protocol. Your assistant reads your contacts when you ask a question, and adds or updates them when you tell it to.
Things you can ask
- “Who did I meet at Web Summit?”
- “Which follow-ups are due this week?”
- “Add Jane Cooper from Acme, jane@acme.com, met at the trade show.”
- “Mark Daniel as contacted and remind me to call him on Friday.”
- “Group the people I met this month by company.”
- “Draft a short follow-up email to everyone I tagged investor.”
For that last one, your assistant writes the drafts, and you send them yourself. Linq never sends anything on its behalf.
The answers come from your contacts as they are when you ask, so a contact you scanned five minutes ago is already there.
What it can and can’t do
We kept the assistant’s reach small on purpose.
| It can | It can’t |
|---|---|
| Search and list your contacts | Delete contacts |
| See your open follow-ups | Send emails or messages |
| Read a contact in full: notes, tags, answers to your form | See anyone else’s contacts, including your team’s |
| Add contacts to your active card | Change your card |
| Update details, status, tags, notes and follow-up dates | Keep working after you revoke its key |
| List your events, to find who you met where |
What people typed on your contact form reaches the assistant as plain data, and it’s told never to follow instructions found in it. A visitor’s message is something to read, not something to obey.
Set it up in a few clicks
- In Linq, open Integrations and go to Connect your AI assistant.
- Pick your app: Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, or another app.
- Select Create a key for …. Linq makes a key for that app and shows its setup, with the key already in it.
- Copy the setup and paste it where the page says: a terminal command for Claude Code, a settings file for Claude Desktop, Cursor and VS Code. Claude Desktop also needs Node.js installed.
- Open a new chat and ask your first question.
The key is shown once, so copy the setup before you leave the page. The step-by-step guide has the setup for each app, if you’d rather do it by hand.
Keys you control
Each app gets its own key. Under Integrations → API keys, you see when each one was last used, and Revoke stops it at once. A key reads and changes your contacts, so treat it like a password: keep it out of shared files and chats.
If your account leaves Business, your keys stop working, and start again with nothing to redo if you come back.
What doesn’t work yet
Linq connects with a key. Some apps can only connect by signing in (OAuth), and those can’t use a Linq key yet: that includes ChatGPT’s connectors and custom connectors on claude.ai. If you use Claude, Claude Desktop and Claude Code both work today.
Also on Business: the REST API
The same keys work with Linq’s REST API, for your own scripts and tools: list and search contacts, add and update them, list your events, and register a hook that receives every new contact. It’s documented in the REST API guide.
And if you’d rather your contacts went straight to your CRM, Business also connects to Zoho CRM and Slack, for you or your whole team. See Connected apps.
Try it
AI assistants come with Linq Business, which starts with a 7-day free trial on your first subscription. See everything Linq connects to on our integrations page, or go straight to the guide to AI assistants.