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AssemblyAI MCP connector

The AssemblyAI connector lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client upload call recordings, transcribe them, search the words spoken, and pull summaries and subtitles from AssemblyAI, with every request logged by Elaichi.

Connect on Elaichi How to connect

  • How it connects. Connects with an API key. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.

  • One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.

  • Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.

How to connect

How to connect AssemblyAI to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Two steps, about a minute.

1

In Elaichi

Connect AssemblyAI once

  1. Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick AssemblyAI.

  2. Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.

  3. Paste an AssemblyAI API key. One person generates a token in AssemblyAI and pastes it once. Everyone else works through Share with, and never sees it.

The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.

Add connection

Choose a connector.

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In your AI client

Point it at one endpoint

Everyone in the organization uses the same address, and each person only ever reaches what their own account allows.

AssemblyAI MCP connector for Claude

  1. 1

    Open Customize, then Connectors.

  2. 2

    Press Add.

  3. 3

    Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  4. 4

    Sign in and approve.

On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.

AssemblyAI MCP connector for ChatGPT

  1. 1

    Open Plugins, then press the + button.

  2. 2

    Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.

  4. 4

    Press Create, then sign in and approve.

Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.

AssemblyAI MCP connector for Cursor

  1. 1

    Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json.

  2. 2

    Add the endpoint under mcpServers.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elaichi": {
      "url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.

Connect AssemblyAI to any MCP client

  1. 1

    Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  2. 2

    Sign in and approve.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elaichi": {
      "url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.

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Use cases

What teams do with AssemblyAI through Elaichi

Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.

  • Sales

    Turn a discovery call into notes

    Upload the recording after a call, get the transcript back, and ask for the objections, next steps, and who promised what, ready to paste into the deal.

  • Support

    Find every call that mentions a problem

    Search across transcribed support calls for a product name or an error a customer described and pull the matching sentences with timestamps.

  • Marketing

    Get subtitles for a webinar recording

    Transcribe the recording and fetch the subtitle file in the format your video platform expects, then tidy the wording before it goes live.

  • Compliance

    Share a call with card numbers removed

    Pull the redacted version of a recording so a coaching session or a vendor review never hears the card number or address a customer read out.

  • Research

    Summarize a batch of customer interviews

    Transcribe a week of interviews, split each into paragraphs, and ask for the themes that came up more than once across the whole set.

  • Operations

    Clear out old transcripts on schedule

    List transcripts older than your retention period and delete them, so recordings of past hires and former customers are not kept longer than policy allows.

Try asking

  • “List last week's AssemblyAI transcripts and their durations.”
  • “Pull the paragraphs from yesterday's customer call transcript.”
  • “Search transcripts for mentions of pricing and renewal.”

See all 14 AssemblyAI tools below

Compare

Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for AssemblyAI

All three can connect AssemblyAI to an AI assistant, and all three have admin controls. They differ in where access lives and how you pay.

Elaichi compared with Zapier MCP and Composio for AssemblyAI, by what to check
What to check Elaichi Zapier MCP Composio
Where the AI connects One address for the whole organization. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp A server per member, created at sign-in. An MCP endpoint per team, or an SDK.
Control over AssemblyAI tools Allow or restrict single AssemblyAI tools, per role or user. App and action restrictions on the account. Role permissions, down to the action.
Record of calls One audit entry per AssemblyAI call. A History tab of tool calls. A log of every tool call.
Single sign-on SAML or OIDC, plus SCIM, on Gold. SAML on Enterprise. SAML and OIDC on Enterprise.
Price $15 per user per month. 2 tasks per successful call. Billed per tool call.

Sources: Zapier MCP docs, security, usage; Composio docs, gateway, enterprise, pricing. Checked September 2026.

Longer take: Zapier MCP alternative and when you don't need an MCP gateway.

AI tools

AssemblyAI tools for your AI agents

14 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect AssemblyAI, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.

See it in Elaichi

What connecting AssemblyAI gets you

6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your AssemblyAI account.

The agent

Ask about transcripts, get real answers.

Plain language questions run against live AssemblyAI transcripts, sentences and paragraphs.

  • transcripts
  • paragraphs
  • sentences
  • subtitles

Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.

List last week's AssemblyAI transcripts and their durations.

Pull the paragraphs from yesterday's customer call transcript.

Search transcripts for mentions of pricing and renewal.

Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

MCP clients

Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, one endpoint.

Connect any MCP client to AssemblyAI over OAuth, no SDK, no shared key.

ElaichiMCP clients
Claude ChatGPT Cursor

Copy the endpoint

https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
Client Connected by Status Last used
Claude
E

Emily Carter

 • Connected 4 minutes ago
Cursor
M

Megan Brooks

 • Connected 2 hours ago
ChatGPT
R

Ryan Hayes

 • Connected Yesterday

Tool catalog

14 AssemblyAI tools ready to call.

Transcripts, subtitles, word searches and redacted audio, with no custom code written.

  • Create a AssemblyAI upload
  • List all AssemblyAI transcripts
  • Create a AssemblyAI transcript
  • Get single AssemblyAI transcript by ID
ElaichiTools
Tool Action Description
Create a AssemblyAI upload Create Upload a media file to AssemblyAI's servers as raw binary data. Returns the uploaded file object upon success, which can be referenced in subsequent transcription requests.
List all AssemblyAI transcripts List List AssemblyAI transcripts sorted from newest to oldest. Returns: id, status, audio_url. Transcripts are available for the last 90 days of usage.
Create a AssemblyAI transcript Create Create an AssemblyAI transcript from a media file accessible via URL. Returns the transcript object including id and status; processing is asynchronous—poll via get until status is "completed". Required: audio_url.
Get single AssemblyAI transcript by ID Get Get an AssemblyAI transcript by id. Returns the transcript resource including id, status, text, and audio_url; the transcript is ready when status is "completed". Required: id.
Delete a AssemblyAI transcript by ID Delete Delete an AssemblyAI transcript by id, removing all associated data and marking it as deleted. Returns the deleted transcript object. Required: id.

Toolboxes

Every team gets its own toolbox.

Support reads transcripts while research curates paragraphs, each scoped to one AssemblyAI toolbox.

  • Support
  • Sales
  • Product research
  • Compliance
ElaichiToolboxes
Name Source template Tools Created

Support toolbox

AssemblyAI · call transcripts and subtitles

 AssemblyAI starter 18 Mar 4, 2026

Sales toolbox

AssemblyAI · discovery call transcripts

 — 9 Mar 2, 2026

Product research toolbox

AssemblyAI · interview paragraphs and sentences

 — 24 Feb 27, 2026

Compliance toolbox

AssemblyAI · redacted audio and retention

 AssemblyAI starter 6 Feb 19, 2026

Marketing toolbox

AssemblyAI · webinar subtitles and clips

 — 31 Jan 30, 2026

Engineering toolbox

AssemblyAI · uploads and streaming tokens

 — 12 Jan 22, 2026

Shared connections

Teammates use AssemblyAI without the key.

See who connected each account and how many teams and members share it.

  • Support EMEA
  • Sales US
  • Product research
  • Compliance
ElaichiConnections
Connection Scope Status Access
AS

AssemblyAI (Support EMEA)

Connected by Emily Carter

 Personal • Active 1 team · 6 members
AS

AssemblyAI (Sales US)

Connected by Jake Morgan

 Organization • Active 3 teams · 24 members
AS

AssemblyAI (Product research)

Connected by Megan Brooks

 Organization • Active 2 teams · 11 members
AS

AssemblyAI (Compliance)

Connected by Tyler Reed

 Personal • Needs re-auth 1 team · 3 members
AS

AssemblyAI (Marketing)

Connected by Ryan Hayes

 Personal • Active Not shared
AS

AssemblyAI (Engineering)

Connected by Ashley Parker

 Personal • Active 2 teams · 9 members

Audit log

Every transcript call has a name on it.

When, who, what happened, type and resource, appended for each AssemblyAI request.

  • When
  • Who
  • What happened
  • Type
ElaichiAudit log
When Who What happened Type

2 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:10 PM
E

Emily Carter

emily.carter@northwind.io

 Restriction Created Access

8 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:04 PM
J

Jake Morgan

jake.morgan@northwind.io

 Restriction Updated Access

14 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:58 PM
M

Megan Brooks

megan.brooks@northwind.io

 Role Assigned Access

20 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:52 PM
T

Tyler Reed

tyler.reed@northwind.io

 AssemblyAI Users Updated MCP

26 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:46 PM
R

Ryan Hayes

ryan.hayes@northwind.io

 AssemblyAI Transcripts Created MCP

32 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:40 PM
A

Ashley Parker

ashley.parker@northwind.io

 AssemblyAI Transcripts List Toolbox

Launching soon

From answering questions to doing the work

A person no longer has to ask. A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations and live dashboards are launching soon, on the Black plan.

Automations

A schedule turns transcripts into a digest.

Fetch AssemblyAI transcripts, group them, draft a digest, approve, post it back.

AssemblyAI digest

Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emily Carter

  1. ✓

    Schedule

    Every weekday at 8:00 AM

    0.2s
  2. ✓

    Fetch transcripts

    AssemblyAI

    1.4s
  3. ✓

    Group by owner

    Transform

    0.1s
  4. ✓

    Draft the digest

    Agent step

    Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary

    6.2s

  5. Approve the digest

    Needs approval

    Assigned to Michael Brennan

    Approve

  6. Post the digest

    AssemblyAI

    Queued

Collections and dashboards

Transcript numbers arrive before anyone asks.

Four metrics, 14 days of transcripts created and a team breakdown, refreshed on schedule.

AssemblyAI health

Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the transcripts collection

Live

Transcripts

1,284 ↓ 12%

Paragraphs

96 ↓ 8%

Needs attention

3 ↑ 2

Updated this week

412 ↑ 9%

Transcripts created

Last 14 days

By team

Share of activity

Support EMEA 34%

Sales US 27%

Product research 21%

Compliance 18%

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do I connect AssemblyAI to Claude?

In Elaichi, choose AssemblyAI and paste the API key from your AssemblyAI dashboard, which is the whole sign-in step, since there is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Then open Claude, go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Claude asks you to sign in to Elaichi as yourself, and AssemblyAI is available in your next conversation.

Does AssemblyAI work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?

Yes. Once AssemblyAI is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client, and the Elaichi Agent. You connect AssemblyAI once and every client you use picks it up.

What can an AI agent actually do with my AssemblyAI data?

It can upload a recording to AssemblyAI, start a transcript, and fetch it back as full text, sentences, or paragraphs with timestamps. It can search transcripts for particular words, fetch a subtitle file, pull the redacted version of a recording, and answer questions about what was said, such as listing the action items from a call. It can also list and delete transcripts in your AssemblyAI account.

Does connecting AssemblyAI give the AI access to every transcript in my account?

An AssemblyAI API key covers the account it belongs to, so the AI sees the transcripts that account can already see, and nothing beyond that. Elaichi can narrow that further, for example by allowing transcription but not deletion, or by limiting who in the organization can use the AssemblyAI connection at all. Elaichi never widens what the key itself allows.

Can my team share one AssemblyAI connection?

Yes. One person connects AssemblyAI with the API key and shares the connection with a team in Elaichi, and nobody else on the team ever handles the key. Each teammate still signs in to Elaichi as themselves, so the audit log records which person transcribed, searched, or deleted a recording.

Can I stop an agent from deleting transcripts in AssemblyAI?

Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi apply per action, so you can allow uploading and transcribing in AssemblyAI while blocking deletion entirely. A blocked action is never advertised to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any other client, so no prompt, however worded, can reach it.

What happens to an AssemblyAI connection when someone leaves?

When you offboard a person in Elaichi, their access to AssemblyAI through every client ends at once. If they had shared the AssemblyAI connection with a team, it keeps working for everyone else on that team. If you want the connection gone, disconnecting AssemblyAI once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and every other client at the same time.

Does the AssemblyAI MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?

Yes. AssemblyAI is reached over the same MCP endpoint every client uses, so anything that speaks MCP can call it — Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cline, Zed and OpenCode among them — alongside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and the Elaichi Agent. The tools on offer and the access behind them are identical whichever client asks. Only the setup screen differs.

Is Elaichi an alternative to Zapier MCP for AssemblyAI?

Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use AssemblyAI. Zapier MCP fits a team that already automates in Zapier, since each person signs in and acts as themselves in that account. Elaichi fits when IT wants one address for the whole company, per-tool rules by role, and a record of every AssemblyAI call.

How is Elaichi different from Composio for AssemblyAI?

Composio gives AI agents tools and sign-in handling across 1,000+ apps, for developers building agents or people using an assistant, billed per tool call. Elaichi gives a company's own people governed access to AssemblyAI: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.

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