How to connect Ploid with ChatGPT

Connect ChatGPT to Ploid MCP. Research prospects and enrich their identities, find public linkedin intelligence on prospects, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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How to connect Ploid 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 Ploid account to ChatGPT via Composio Connect, so it can research people, enrich identities, find LinkedIn insights, build research briefs, and compare profiles 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 Ploid 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 Ploid 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 Ploid messages and summarize them, and it will run the actions you authorize. On first use it asks you to authorize Ploid.

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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https://connect.composio.dev/mcp
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 Ploid

  • Research prospects and enrich their identities
  • Find public LinkedIn intelligence on prospects
  • Build a people research brief

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 Ploid action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Cancel Person Run

Irreversibly cancel an active deep-person research run.

Cancel People Set

DESTRUCTIVE: irreversibly stop the active search for a preview People Set.

Compile Monitor

Preview a social-monitor plan, resolved targets, relevance rules, and output schema without creating a monitor or scheduling runs.

Create Dataset

Create a persistent typed dataset and fill 1-30 columns for seeded people, companies, or custom entities.

Create Monitor

Create a persistent scheduled social monitor and immediately start a silent baseline run.

Create People Set

Create a persistent preview People Set and start durable verified background work that may continue after this call returns.

Delete Monitor

Destructively and irreversibly disable a monitor.

Enrich Person Contact

Resolve requested work email, personal email, and/or phone fields for one person.

Enrich Social Profile

Resolve one public social profile from a supported platform handle, vanity slug, or profile URL.

Export People Set

Export admitted items from a preview People Set.

Get Account Credits

Return the workspace ACU balance and the calling API key's daily and monthly spending-budget state.

Get Account Profile

Return the signed-in user's WorkOS-linked Ploid account profile.

Get Account Usage

Preferred connection diagnostic for verifying which Ploid workspace and API key are connected.

Get Dataset

Return a dataset's lifecycle status, configured columns, row-processing progress, and rows URL.

Get LinkedIn Company

Fetch public LinkedIn company details by URL, universal name, or search term; provide at least one of those locators.

Get LinkedIn Profile

Fetch one public LinkedIn profile by full URL, vanity slug, or @handle.

Get Monitor

Return one monitor and its current configuration.

Get Monitor Run

Return one monitor run by monitor and run ID, including lifecycle state, usage, error, and webhook delivery outcome.

Get Person

Get an evidence-backed reviewed person record or start a durable research run.

Get Person Run

Get the current state or terminal result of a deep-person research run.

Get People Set

Return a preview People Set's status, progress, and searches, newest first.

List Company Recruiters

Return recruiters and role counts for up to 10 companies.

List Dataset Rows

Return one integer-cursor page of dataset rows in seed order, including rows available before asynchronous processing finishes.

List LinkedIn Company Posts

Return one provider page of posts for a LinkedIn company.

List LinkedIn Posts

Return up to 20 recent posts for one public LinkedIn profile identified by profile URL, vanity slug, or @handle; provide identifier or its url alias.

List LinkedIn Profile Comments

Return one provider page of comments made by a LinkedIn profile.

List Monitor Items

Return one cursor-controlled page of emitted monitor items, optionally limited to one run.

List Monitor Runs

Return one cursor-controlled page of a monitor's runs, newest first.

List Monitors

Return one cursor-controlled page of monitors, newest first.

List People Set Items

Return one caller-controlled page of admitted, criterion-verified people while or after a preview People Set runs.

List People Sets

List the workspace's recent People Sets.

Resolve Person

Resolve a named person plus at least one identity clue to a permanent Ploid person ID.

Run Monitor

Queue a persistent monitor run now.

Search GitHub Accounts

Search Ploid's GitHub account index by profile, repository, language, and activity filters.

Search GitHub People

Search GitHub accounts, link unambiguous accounts to indexed LinkedIn people, and enforce optional LinkedIn filters as hard requirements.

Search LinkedIn People

Return one cursor-controlled page of public LinkedIn people matching structured keyword, location, title, current-company, and school filters.

Search People

Search for up to 150 people and return typed results inline.

Search People Candidates

Search the indexed people directory for up to 10 unverified identity candidates.

Test Monitor

Fetch and evaluate a monitor's current targets without saving a run, items, seen-ledger entries, or snapshots; sending a webhook; or changing its schedule.

Test Monitor Webhook

Immediately send one signed monitor.

Update Account Profile

REAL ACCOUNT MUTATION: replace the signed-in user's WorkOS-linked Ploid profile fields.

Update Monitor

Update, pause, or resume a monitor by providing at least one field to change.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Ploid MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Ploid tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Ploid 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 Ploid tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Ploid 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 Ploid data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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