StitchGrid in Claude and ChatGPT
Connect one URL, and the assistant you already use can price a garment, check a quote, and compare countries with StitchGrid's own numbers instead of a guess. With a StitchGrid key, it can also draft tech packs and follow your production.
01What it can do
Ask in your own words
Without an account
Free, and nobody needs to sign up.
“What would 500 heavyweight hoodies cost to make?”
A should-cost range built from fabric, sewing time, and labor rates, with the arithmetic shown.
estimate_cost
“Is $14 a unit from this factory fair?”
Places a quote against what the style should cost, so you know whether to push back.
check_quote
“Is it cheaper to make this in Portugal or Vietnam?”
The same style priced across the countries that span the cost curve.
compare_countries
“Who can make knit cardigans at 300 units?”
How much of the vetted network fits, as counts and ranges. It never names a factory.
find_manufacturers
“Get me quotes for this.”
Hands the request to the StitchGrid production office, with your permission to contact you.
start_sourcing_request
Signed in to StitchGrid
Every public tool, calibrated by your own quote history, plus your workspace.
“Draft the tech pack for this brief.”
Drafts a tech pack from a brief or a product page into your workspace, for you to review.
draft_tech_pack
“The factory just messaged that PO-1042 slips to the 12th.”
Files the update as a proposal in your inbox. Nothing changes until a person approves it.
log_factory_update
“What needs me today?”
The briefs, samples, and orders waiting on you, most urgent first.
needs_attention
“Where is the HT12236 sample?”
Finds and reads any brief, sample, tech pack, or order your role can see.
search and fetch
02Connect it
One URL, about a minute
The server speaks Streamable HTTP. Add the first URL with no sign-in for the public tools. Add the second and sign in to StitchGrid for your workspace.
https://www.stitchgrid.com/api/mcphttps://www.stitchgrid.com/api/mcp/workspaceClaude, on the web or desktop
- Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector.
- Paste the first URL for the public tools.
- For your workspace, paste the second URL instead, and sign in to StitchGrid when asked.
On Team and Enterprise plans, an admin adds it under Organization settings.
ChatGPT
- Turn on developer mode in ChatGPT's settings, on the web.
- Create an app with the first URL and no authentication for the public tools.
- For your workspace, use the second URL with OAuth, and sign in to StitchGrid when asked.
Developer mode is on ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, and Edu, where an admin or owner creates the app.
Grok
- On grok.com, open Connectors and choose New Connector, then Custom.
- Paste the first URL for the public tools.
- For your workspace, paste the second URL instead, and sign in to StitchGrid when asked.
On Grok Business and Enterprise, an admin adds it for the team from the xAI console first.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http stitchgrid https://www.stitchgrid.com/api/mcp/workspaceThen run /mcp to sign in. Use the first URL instead for the public tools.
Cursor and other clients
Add a remote server with the second URL and sign in when asked. A client that cannot sign in can send the header Authorization: Bearer followed by a StitchGrid API key.
Every assistant you connect is listed in StitchGrid under Integrations, where you can disconnect it. For a script or a client that cannot sign in, an admin can make an API key there instead. Open Integrations.
03What it will not do
An assistant that stays inside the lines
An assistant can ask for anything. These are the limits the server holds, whoever is calling.
Nothing anonymous calls a model
Without a key there is nobody to bill and nobody to review a draft, so tech packs are drafted only for members. A public request for one goes to a person instead.
No factory is named
The public finder reports the network as counts, countries, and ranges, and stays silent about any group small enough to identify a factory.
No approvals from a chat
An assistant can propose a change to an order. Approving it stays with a person in StitchGrid, where the evidence is.
No emails on your behalf
Chasing a factory goes through StitchGrid, where it is recorded, never as a message sent from inside a chat.
Factory prices only
Cost answers are FOB at the factory door and say so. Freight and duty are left out until the tariff tables can be trusted.
Keys stay bounded
A key acts as the person who made it, with their current role. Keys expire within a year, are read or write, and every write is recorded against the key.
04Questions
Common questions
- Is there an MCP server for apparel manufacturing?
- Yes. StitchGrid runs one at https://www.stitchgrid.com/api/mcp. Without an account it prices garments, checks quotes, compares countries, and starts sourcing requests. Signed in to your workspace, it also drafts tech packs and reads and updates your briefs and production.
- Which assistants does it work with?
- Any client that supports remote MCP servers over Streamable HTTP. That includes Claude on the web and desktop, Claude Code, ChatGPT with developer mode turned on, Grok, and Cursor. None of them needs a directory listing: you add the URL yourself.
- What does it cost?
- The public tools are free and need no account. Member tools run under your workspace's plan, and drafting a tech pack uses AI credits the same way it does in the app.
- Can I use my StitchGrid account from ChatGPT?
- Yes. Add https://www.stitchgrid.com/api/mcp/workspace in ChatGPT and sign in to StitchGrid when it asks. You choose the workspace and what the assistant may do, and you can disconnect it from Integrations at any time.
- Will the assistant see my factories' names?
- Your own suppliers, yes, once you sign in, because they are yours. Factories in the StitchGrid network are always masked.
Try it
Ask what it should cost.
Add the URL to your assistant and ask what your next style should cost to make. When you want the answer in your own workspace, make a key.