Use Claude to Talk to Your Procore Data via CData Connect AI

Stanley Liu
Stanley Liu
Associate Technical Product Marketer
Leverage the CData Connect AI Remote MCP Server to enable Claude to securely answer questions and take actions on your Procore data for you.

Claude is a family of advanced large language models (LLMs) built by Anthropic, an AI research company founded in 2021. These models power the Claude conversational assistant and developer tools.

CData Connect AI offers a dedicated cloud-to-cloud interface for connecting to Procore data. The CData Connect AI Remote MCP Server enables secure communication between Claude and Procore. This allows you to ask questions and take actions on your Procore data using Claude, all without the need for data replication to a natively supported database. With its inherent optimized data processing capabilities, CData Connect AI efficiently channels all supported SQL operations, including filters and JOINs, directly to Procore. This leverages server-side processing to swiftly deliver the requested Procore data.

Step 1: Configure Procore Connectivity for Claude

Connectivity to Procore from Claude is made possible through CData Connect AI Remote MCP. To interact with Procore data from Claude, we start by creating and configuring a Procore connection in CData Connect AI.

  1. Log into Connect AI, click Sources, and then click Add Connection
  2. Adding a Connection
  3. Select "Procore" from the Add Connection panel
  4. Selecting a data source
  5. Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Procore.

    To connect to Procore, register an application in the Procore Developer Portal under My Apps. Add an OAuth component to the Sandbox manifest, set the Redirect URI to https://oauth.cdata.com/oauth/, then promote the manifest to Production to receive usable credentials. Then set the following:

    • OAuth Client Id: The Client ID from your Procore application.
    • OAuth Client Secret: The Client Secret from your Procore application.

    Click Sign In to complete OAuth authentication.

    For service account access, add a Data Connection component to your app instead. Enter the OAuth Client Id and Client Secret — no browser sign-in is required.

    Configuring a connection (Salesforce is shown)
  6. Click Save & Test

Step 2: Connect Claude to CData Connect AI

Follow these steps to add a CData Connect AI connector in Claude:

  1. Sign in to Claude.ai or create a new account.
  2. Expand the left navigation menu.
  3. In the bottom-left corner, click your user name and select Settings from the menu. The Settings screen appears.
  4. In the Settings screen, click Connectors.
  5. Click the button to Browse Connectors.
  6. Search for "CData Connect AI" and click the listing. Adding CData Connect AI
  7. Click "Connect" and sign into your Connect AI account. Connecting to your Connect AI account
  8. After connecting, Claude opens a new chat.

Step 3: Explore Live Procore Data with Claude

  1. You can now start exploring your data with natural language prompts. Claude outlines the steps it uses to retrieve data from the source in CData Connect AI. Refer to CData's prompt library for prompt ideas.
  2. Exploring data with Claude

NOTE: Claude's setup process is subject to change. Refer to Claude's documentation for the latest setup information.

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