Connect your own AI

This part happens in the Finding Horizons app on your phone, and it is the only part that does.

1. 1

   Open the app and go to Profile.

2. 2

   Tap “Bring your own AI”.

3. 3

   Tap “Generate connection key”.

   You get back a web address with your key inside it. It looks like this:

   Your connector URL

   https://www.findinghorizons.ca/api/mcp?key=fh_mcp_…

4. 4

   Save it somewhere you can reach from your computer.

   The key is shown once and never again. Use the Share button to send it to yourself — a note app, a private message to yourself, a password manager. If you lose it, generate a new one; that costs nothing.

Now move to a computer. Everything below happens in a browser.

In a desktop browser, signed in to Claude. This does not work from the Claude iPhone or Android app.

1. 1

   Go to claude.ai and open Connectors.

   Anthropic’s own instructions put it at Customize → Connectors, which you can also open directly: claude.ai/customize/connectors. On a Team or Enterprise plan a workspace owner adds it instead, under Organization settings → Connectors.

2. 2

   Click “+”, then “Add custom connector”.

3. 3

   Paste the whole URL you saved in Step 1.

   The entire thing, including the ?key=fh_mcp_… part. If you paste only https://www.findinghorizons.ca/api/mcp, Claude will ask you to sign in to Finding Horizons in a popup instead — that also works, and means you never handle a key at all.

4. 4

   Click “Add”, then start a new chat and ask it something.

   Try: “What have I saved in Finding Horizons?”

In a desktop browser at chatgpt.com. This does not work from the ChatGPT iPhone or Android app.

ChatGPT keeps custom connectors behind a setting called developer mode, which you have to turn on before the option to create one appears anywhere.

1. 1

   Open ChatGPT’s Settings in a desktop browser.

2. 2

   Turn on developer mode.

   It is a single switch. Once it is on, a button for creating your own connector appears on the connectors/apps screen.

3. 3

   Create a new connector and paste the URL from Step 1.

   It will ask for a name and a description as well as the address — call it Finding Horizons and describe it as your travel places, trips and visa data. Paste the whole URL, ?key=fh_mcp_… included.

4. 4

   Start a new chat and ask it about your saved places.

Anything that can add a remote MCP server can connect, using exactly the same URL. We have not tested those, so we are not going to write click paths for them.

The Gemini app cannot add custom connectors. If you are a developer, the same URL works in Gemini CLI, Claude Code, and any other MCP client that accepts a remote server address.

Treat it like a password. Anyone holding that URL can read and change your Finding Horizons data. Paste it into the connector field and nowhere else — never into a chat message, never into a support ticket, never into a public page, never into a screenshot.

What it can reach

• Your saved places, and your check-in history.
• Your trips, their stops, and their day-by-day itineraries.
• Bookings you have stored, read-only.
• Your trip budget, and budget lines it can add.
• Your progress, rank and daily challenges.
• Reference data that is the same for everyone — visa rules, and cached local intelligence for a city.

What it cannot reach

• Your login. It is not your password and cannot change your email, password or sign-in method.
• Your payment details. Card data lives with Stripe and is not exposed to this connection at all.
• Anybody else’s account. A key is tied to the one account that made it.
• Our AI spending. The two tools that would cost us money to run — replan_day and import_from_url — are refused to a pasted key. They need a permission you can only grant on a consent screen.

It is personal, and it is revocable

The key belongs to your account alone. We never see it again after it is created — only a one-way hash of it is stored — which is why it is shown to you exactly once. You can create more than one and revoke them independently.

To revoke a key today, email support@findinghorizons.ca and we will kill it. Revocation takes effect immediately and the connector stops working on the next call.

Your assistant stops guessing about your trip and starts answering from your actual data. Things you can ask once it is connected:

• “What visa do I need for Thailand on a Canadian passport, and how long can I stay?”
• “Build me a day-by-day plan for my Lisbon trip from the places I’ve saved.”
• “Day three has a four-hour hole in the afternoon. What could fill it?”
• “How much of my Tokyo budget is left, and what have I spent it on?”
• “Push everything on Friday back by a day — the flight moved.”
• “What’s the forecast for the days I’m actually there?”
• “Check me in at the ramen place I saved in Shinjuku.”

Thirty-one tools in total, and all but two of them are plain lookups and edits against your own rows — no model in the loop, no invented answers. When something genuinely is not known, the tool says it is unavailable rather than making a plausible number up.

And because it runs on your assistant, the thinking is billed to your Claude or ChatGPT plan, not to a Finding Horizons quota.

• You are on your phone. That is the big one, and it is at the top of this page for a reason. The connector has to be added from a desktop browser.
• The URL got cut off. Long links get truncated by messaging apps. It must end with your full key and start with https://.
• Your plan does not include custom connectors. ChatGPT requires a paid plan for developer mode. Claude’s support article lists Free as included but limited to a single connector.

Still stuck? Open Profile → Bring your own AI in the app. If your assistant has ever successfully called us, that panel says so and tells you when. If it says no AI has called in yet, the connector is not live.

Anything else: support@findinghorizons.ca