AI connections
Ask Claude about your HOA.
Connect PorchQ to Claude, then ask about your community or file a maintenance request from the chat. Claude sees only what you can see in PorchQ, in the communities you choose.
Claude opens with PorchQ filled in and a red notice that the connector was suggested by an external link. That is expected: check that the address is https://porchq.com/mcp, then add it. You need a PorchQ account to connect.
Assistants
Start with Claude.
Claude is the assistant that works with PorchQ today.
Claude
AvailableAsk about your community and file maintenance requests in Claude, once you have added PorchQ.
Add PorchQ to ClaudeYou decide what it reaches
Your account, your communities.
Signs in as you
Claude reaches PorchQ through your own account and sees only what you can see there, as your role in each community allows.
The communities you choose
When you connect, you tick the communities Claude may use. It reaches no others.
No money moves
No PorchQ tool in Claude pays, charges or refunds anything.
Disconnect any time
On claude.ai, open Customize → Connectors, choose PorchQ and press Disconnect.
What Claude can do
Same role, same access.
What Claude can reach depends on your role in each community, as in PorchQ itself.
Residents
Can see
- Announcements and upcoming events
- Your own maintenance requests
- Documents the board shares with residents
- Votes that concern you
- A summary of your community
Can do
- File a maintenance request
Board members and managers
Can see
- Everything residents can see
- Every maintenance request
- Documents kept for the board and managers
- The resident directory
- Your community's PorchQ plan and subscription
Can do
- File maintenance requests
- Draft announcements, which wait in PorchQ for a person to publish
- Add and change calendar events
Connect Claude
Three steps, then ask.
You need a PorchQ account in at least one community, and a Claude account.
Press Add PorchQ to Claude
Claude opens its Add custom connector window with PorchQ and https://porchq.com/mcp filled in, and checks the server. Leave the sign-in settings it finds as they are, and press Add.
Press Connect and sign in
Claude shows the PorchQ connector. Press Connect there, and sign in with your PorchQ account if asked.
On the PorchQ page, choose your communities and press Allow
You are back in Claude. Ask your first question.
Or add it by hand: on claude.ai, open Customize → Connectors, press Add custom connector, and enter the name PorchQ and the address https://porchq.com/mcp.
Things to ask
Ask in plain words.
What's happening in my community this week?
Everyone
Report that the sprinkler by unit 12 is leaking.
Everyone
Which maintenance requests are still open?
Board members and managers
Draft an announcement that the pool closes Saturday for repairs.
Board members and managers
For developers
PorchQ runs an MCP server.
PorchQ speaks the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and Claude connects to it at the address below. Each connection signs in with a PorchQ account and sees only the communities the person chooses.
Server address
https://porchq.com/mcpFAQ
Before you ask it your first question.
- Do I need a PorchQ account?
- Yes. Claude connects through your own PorchQ account, so you need access to at least one community in PorchQ.
- What does Claude see?
- Only what you can see in PorchQ, in the communities you ticked when you connected. A resident's Claude, for example, sees the documents the board shares with residents, not the ones kept for the board and managers.
- Can Claude change things in PorchQ?
- A few things, depending on your role. Anyone can file a maintenance request. Board members and managers can also draft announcements, which wait in PorchQ for a person to publish, and add or change calendar events.
- How do I disconnect?
- On claude.ai, open Customize → Connectors, choose PorchQ and press Disconnect.
Get started
Your community, one question away.
Add PorchQ to Claude and ask your first question.
