An MCP server is a connector that lets ChatGPT or Claude read a data service and act on it from the chat. For a ticket seller it means the assistant answers from today's listings instead of from memory, and can save an alert for you.
MCP in one paragraph
MCP, the Model Context Protocol, is an open standard that Anthropic published in November 2024. A service that speaks it describes its tools, such as "find an event" or "read section prices", and any assistant that speaks it can call those tools when your question needs them. Claude and ChatGPT both take custom connectors built on MCP.
What Ticker MCP gives a seller
- Find an event by name, performer, venue or date.
- Read section prices and tickets listed, now and over time.
- Compare the lowest price on each resale marketplace.
- Read primary seats on sale, section by section.
- Screen many events against a rule, such as a falling floor.
- Watch an event and get an email when a price moves past your line.
Every number on this site comes from the same data: 6,083 priced sections across 100 events. At Usher and Chris Brown, it lines up 453 primary seats on sale in Lower Level 119 against 477 resale tickets in the same section.
Set it up
You add Ticker from Claude's connector directory or from ChatGPT's Plugins screen, then sign in with your Ticker account. The Ticker MCP page walks through both, step by step, and the Ticker skills add ready-made jobs on top, such as a full check of one event.
What to ask first
Start with the prompts that need current section data: price my tickets in one section, lowest price on each marketplace, and primary seats on sale against resale, section by section. Then save a watch with watch a section's price. Each prompt page shows the answer a connected assistant should give, worked on real events.
Questions
What is a connector?
A connector is an add-on that lets an AI assistant call an outside service: read its data, run its tools, or save something there. Most connectors today speak MCP, the Model Context Protocol.
What data can Claude access through connectors?
Whatever the connector exposes, and only after you add it and sign in. A ticket data connector exposes events, section prices, marketplace floors and alerts. A calendar connector exposes your calendar.
Can you give some examples of data connectors?
Connectors exist for calendars, email, file storage, code hosts, help desks and market data. For ticket sellers, Ticker MCP connects an assistant to Ticker’s ticket market data.
Connect Ticker MCP to ChatGPT or Claude.
Prompts in this guide
- Primary seats on sale against resale, section by section
- Lowest price on each marketplace
- Watch a section's price
- Price my tickets in one section