A custom MCP (Model Context Protocol) server makes Notion, GitHub, Linear, your wiki, your CRM, your internal APIs into first-class Claude tools. The agent reads, writes, searches, and updates — without you ever leaving the conversation.
Your team uses Claude. Your team also uses six other tools.
The team has built a Claude habit. Code review, spec drafting, ticket triage, project planning — Claude is in the loop. But Claude doesn't know what's in Notion. Doesn't know which tickets are open. Doesn't know what the wiki says about the API.
So every interaction is a copy-paste roundtrip. Paste the spec. Paste the ticket. Paste the wiki excerpt. Then ask the question. Then context-switch back to actually do the thing.
An MCP server fixes this at the protocol level. Notion becomes notion_read. GitHub Issues becomes github_issues. The wiki becomes wiki_search. Native Claude tools, callable from any surface, no middleware.
The agent does the reading. The agent does the searching. The agent drafts the update and posts it. You stay in one conversation.
One human-gated intake. Three production stages. One human-gated handoff. Server lives on your infrastructure from day one.
Which systems to expose. Which operations are read-only. Which require write-access auth. Which auth flow (OAuth, PAT, service account, internal token). Scoped before we touch code.
Each tool spec'd to the MCP contract: name, description, structured input schema, structured output, error envelope. Description quality is the ranking signal Claude uses — we write them carefully.
HTTP + SSE endpoints. Auth middleware. Rate limiting. Structured logging. Deployable to Railway, Fly.io, Vercel, or self-hosted on your stack.
Install instructions for Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and the API. Config snippets ready to paste. Smoke tests for each surface.
You wire it into your team's daily flow. One revision pass included. 30-day support covers auth-rotation breakage and platform updates.
The server lives on your infrastructure. Your auth. Your data. If you want to move to a different host next year, you copy the repo to the new host and run it. No platform-as-a-service hosting your gateway.
And we don't add tools we couldn't defend. Every tool has a clear scope, a documented use case, and a typed schema. Claude's tool-selection logic ranks well-written tools higher — vague tool descriptions hurt more than they help.
Pick by integration count and auth model. Single read-only system at Entry. Multiple systems with writes at Standard. Full team MCP architecture at Premium.
notion_read, github_issues, wiki_searchA 4-person product team using Claude for code review, ticket triage, and project planning — with three context-switch roundtrips per task. Paste the spec from Notion. Paste the ticket from GitHub. Paste the wiki excerpt. Then ask the question.
The MCP server exposed all three systems as Claude-native tools. notion_read fetches any page or database entry by title or ID. github_issues reads, creates, and updates tickets. wiki_search does semantic top-3 retrieval across the internal wiki.
Ticket triage dropped from 8 minutes to 90 seconds. Claude reads the ticket, searches the wiki for prior context, suggests a fix, and drafts a GitHub comment — all in one conversation. Team adopted a "spec-first" workflow: every feature now starts with a Notion spec fetched into Claude, reviewed, and refined before any code is touched.
Submit the form. Scoping call within 24 hours. We'll review the systems and auth model before scoping a tier.