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Cerca + AI assistants

Your places, inside Claude and ChatGPT

Connect Cerca to your AI assistant and it plans trips around the places you've loved, the ones you've been meaning to try, and your friends' favorites. Tell it where you ate last night and it adds it for you.

Add to Claude

Opens Claude with Cerca filled in. Sign in to Cerca and choose Allow. Using ChatGPT? See the steps

Or paste the connector URL

https://www.cerca.me/mcp
Create a free account Free. Connect it to your assistant after you sign up.

What you can ask

Talk to your assistant the way you'd talk to a friend who knows where you've been.

  • Plan a trip

    “I'm in Lisbon for four days. Plan it around my want-to-go list and places my friends loved.”

  • Remember what you loved

    “What did I love in Tokyo? Anything I should skip this time?”

  • Save a find

    “Save Taberna da Rua in Lisbon to my list. Note: go for lunch.”

  • Log a trip

    “Back from Mexico City. Loved Contramar and Rosetta, Pujol was just okay. Add them.”

  • Bring in a list

    “Import this Google Maps list: https://maps.app.goo.gl/…”

  • Borrow your friends' taste

    “Where do my friends go for coffee in Chicago?”

Connect in a minute

Every assistant uses the same connector URL. You'll sign in to Cerca once and choose Allow.

Claude

claude.ai, desktop, and mobile
Add to Claude

Or add it by hand:

  1. 1 On claude.ai, open Customize → Connectors and choose Add custom connector.
  2. 2 Name it Cerca and paste the connector URL.
  3. 3 Click Connect, sign in to Cerca, and choose Allow.

Free Claude plans can add one custom connector. Once it's set up, Cerca works in the Claude iPhone app too.

ChatGPT

Developer mode, web only
  1. 1 On chatgpt.com with a Plus, Pro, Business or Enterprise plan, open Settings → Apps → Advanced settings and turn on Developer mode.
  2. 2 Choose Create app, name it Cerca, paste the connector URL, and pick OAuth.
  3. 3 Sign in to Cerca, choose Allow, then turn Cerca on from the tools menu in a chat.

ChatGPT has no one-click install for custom apps yet, and developer mode is only on the web.

Claude Code

Terminal
  1. 1 Run the command below.
  2. 2 In Claude Code, run /mcp, choose cerca, then Authenticate.
  3. 3 Sign in to Cerca in the browser window that opens and choose Allow.
claude mcp add --transport http cerca https://www.cerca.me/mcp

Cursor and others

Any remote MCP client

Add the connector URL as a remote (Streamable HTTP) MCP server. If your tool can't sign in with OAuth, create a personal access token in Settings → AI assistants and send it as an Authorization: Bearer header.

Make it part of your travel planning

Plan trips in a Claude Project or a ChatGPT project? Add this to the project's instructions so every conversation starts from your places.

## Cerca = my place memory
Before recommending anything for a destination, call cerca get_travel_context.
- Treat my "loved" places as the strongest taste signal; rank new picks by similarity.
- Never recommend places I rated disliked or meh.
- Put my want-to-go places there first; show friends' loved places as trusted picks.
- When I say I went somewhere or loved something, offer to rate_place it in Cerca.

What it can see and do

  • It can read your want-to-go list, the places you've rated, your notes, your taste profile, and places that people you follow liked or loved.
  • When you ask, it can save, rate, add notes to, and remove places, and import Google Maps lists.
  • Rating notes show on your public profile. Want-to-go notes stay private.
  • Cerca only sees the requests your assistant makes to Cerca, not your conversation.
  • Disconnect any assistant anytime in Settings → AI assistants.

Questions

Does it cost anything?

No. Connecting an assistant to Cerca is free. Your assistant's own plan is separate.

Which assistants work?

Any assistant that supports remote MCP servers, including Claude, ChatGPT in developer mode, Claude Code, Cursor, and VS Code.

Do I need a Cerca account?

Yes. Your assistant connects to your Cerca account, which is where your places live. Signing up is free.

Can it see my friends' private places?

Only for people you follow who approved your request: the same places you can already see in Cerca.

Is there a limit?

Adding a place by name looks it up on Google Maps, and each account gets 50 of those lookups a day. Everything else, including trip planning from places already in Cerca, is unlimited.