How to connect Beehiiv with ChatGPT

Connect ChatGPT to Beehiiv MCP. Send newsletter to beta-subscribers segment, list recent posts and open rates, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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Beehiiv is a newsletter platform for creating and managing publications and subscribers. It helps grow audience engagement and monetize your mailing list.

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How to connect Beehiiv MCP with ChatGPT

ChatGPT can take action across your apps and files, stay with a project for hours, and turn a goal into finished materials like sheets, slides, and docs, not just answers.

In this guide, I will explain the easiest and most secure way to connect your Beehiiv account to ChatGPT via Composio Connect, so it can manage subscribers, publish posts, segment your audience, schedule newsletters, and fetch open rates through natural language commands without ever putting your account credentials at risk.

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Why use Composio over default connectors?

  • Apps with read and write access. Default connectors mostly can read your data. Composio's Beehiiv integration lets ChatGPT take actions like creating drafts, sending updates, labeling records, and more.
  • 1,500+ SaaS toolkits out of the box. Composio gives you instant access to a vast catalog of pre-built connectors, from Gmail and Slack to Notion, Linear, and Salesforce.
  • One MCP server for every app. Connect any of your applications on demand through a single endpoint, rather than juggling a separate server for each app.
  • Smart, context-aware tool loading. Unlike traditional MCP servers that dump every available tool into the LLM context window, Composio searches for and loads only the tools relevant to the task at hand.
  • Cross-app automation. Chain actions across multiple apps in a single run - fetch a thread, summarize it in Notion, and post highlights to Slack without leaving the conversation.

Prerequisites

Note: Composio connects through OAuth. You will be asked to sign in and approve specific permissions. Review the permission screen carefully if you are using a work account.

Step-by-step: Connect Beehiiv to ChatGPT

1. Install the Composio plugin

Click the button. ChatGPT opens the Composio plugin page. Click Install plugin.

Install in ChatGPT

Composio plugin page in ChatGPT with the Install plugin button

You can also find it inside ChatGPT: go to Settings, open Plugins, search the marketplace for Composio, and click Install plugin.

2. Authenticate

After you install, ChatGPT asks you to authenticate with Composio. Log in and click Allow access to authorize ChatGPT to use your Composio account.

Composio login and Allow access screen for ChatGPT

3. Start using Composio

That is it. Composio tools are now available in ChatGPT. Type @Composio followed by your request, for example @Composio find unread Beehiiv messages and summarize them, and it will run the actions you authorize. On first use it asks you to authorize Beehiiv.

Option 2: Add Composio as an MCP server

If you cannot use the plugin marketplace, add Composio as a custom MCP server instead.

1. Open the MCP settings

In ChatGPT, go to Settings and open the Plugins section. Inside the Plugins page, click the MCP tab.

ChatGPT settings showing the Plugins page with the MCP tab selected

2. Add the server

Click Add server. In the Name field enter Composio, for Type select Streamable HTTP, and in the URL field paste the Composio MCP server URL:

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ChatGPT Add server dialog with the name Composio, type Streamable HTTP, and the Composio MCP URL

Then click Save. The Composio server now appears in your MCP plugins list.

ChatGPT Plugins page showing the Composio MCP server added to the list

3. Authenticate

Click Authenticate on the Composio entry, log in via Composio, and click Allow access. Composio tools are then available in ChatGPT the same way as with the plugin.

What you can do after connecting Beehiiv

  • Send newsletter to beta-subscribers segment
  • List recent posts and open rates
  • Create a subscriber segment for churn-risk

Security + privacy notes (important)

  • Use least-privilege access: Only grant permissions you actually need.
  • Review OAuth permissions before approving: Make sure requested scopes match what you expect Composio and ChatGPT to do.
  • Keep write actions human-reviewed: For actions like sending messages, creating labels, or editing drafts, keep manual confirmation enabled.
  • Be careful with sensitive data: Avoid using this setup with highly sensitive information unless allowed by your personal, company, or client policies.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Beehiiv action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Create Draft Post

Create an unscheduled draft post from HTML content.

Create Segment

Create an audience segment from explicit subscription IDs, explicit emails, or custom-field rules; returns the segment and its initial calculation status.

Create Subscription

Create a new publication subscription without reactivating an unsubscribed address or sending a welcome email; supports attribution, initial custom fields, and newsletter-list assignment.

List Custom Fields

List the custom-field definitions available for subscriber metadata and dynamic audience segments in a publication, returning one page controlled by page and limit with pagination metadata for retrieving additional fields.

List Posts

Search a publication's posts by status, audience, channel, slug, tags, or author and optionally include content, recipients, or statistics.

List Publications

List publications accessible to the API key, optionally including publication statistics; use the returned publication IDs with publication-scoped tools.

List Segment Members

List full subscriber records currently included in an audience segment, optionally including stats, custom fields, referrals, tags, or premium tiers.

List Segments

List audience segments in a publication, filtered by segment type or calculation status, with optional latest statistics.

List Subscriptions

Search a publication's subscriptions by exact email or filter by status and tier, returning one cursor-controlled page of subscriber records.

Update Draft Post

Update content or presentation settings on an existing draft after verifying it is still a draft; refuses confirmed, archived, or sent posts and cannot publish or schedule.

Update Subscription Custom Fields

Set or remove custom-field values on one subscription without changing its email, tier, billing link, or subscribed status.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Beehiiv MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Beehiiv tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Beehiiv and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. ChatGPT fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Beehiiv tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Beehiiv scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Beehiiv data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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