ChatGPT

Connect ChatGPT to your Fishbowl once. After that, any new chat can read your Fishbowl data and propose changes for you to approve.

Before you start

You need	Notes
Your MCP server URL	ILC hosts ILC MCP and sends you the address. It looks like https://yourmcp.example.com/mcp — use the real one ILC sends you.
Your Fishbowl login	You sign in as yourself. It is never a shared key, and your Fishbowl permissions carry over.
A ChatGPT account	Any plan can read. See the tier note below for writing.

Add the connector

1. Open Settings → Plugins → Browse directory.
2. Open Add and choose Add custom MCP server.
3. Enter a name, paste your MCP server URL, and set Authentication to OAuth.
4. Confirm. ChatGPT warns that custom servers carry risk — expected for any custom connector. Connect only to servers you trust; ILC’s is one you arranged with us.

Sign in

You land on ILC’s sign-in page. Sign in with your own Fishbowl user and grant the scopes shown. The read-only tier grants sql:read and docs:read — read your Fishbowl data, and read prior-session notes plus search Fishbowl’s help. Reading is always allowed; any change still waits for your approval.

Ask your first question

Open a new chat and ask in plain language:

How many customers do we have?

ChatGPT reads Fishbowl and answers from your live data in one turn.

Writing data

Reading never changes anything. When you ask for a change, ChatGPT prepares it and hands you an approval link instead of writing directly — you review and run it yourself. See Using ILC MCP.

Caution

OpenAI limits write-capable connectors to Business, Enterprise, and Edu workspaces. On Plus and Pro, custom connectors are read-only — enough to read your data, but writing needs one of those workspaces.

Using a different tool? See Claude.