Use FedScope in ChatGPT or Claude

FedScope plugs into the AI assistant you already use. Once connected, you ask FedScope questions right inside ChatGPT or Claude, and the answers come back with links to the federal records behind them.

Connecting it

1. 1
   Copy your connector link

   Sign in to FedScope and copy the connector address from your dashboard.

2. 2
   Add it in your assistant

   Paste it into the connector or app settings of ChatGPT or Claude.

3. 3
   Approve the connection

   Sign in once to confirm it is you. Your assistant never sees your FedScope password.

Your connector address is:

https://fedscope.io/api/mcp

You will find your personal link on your FedScope dashboard under AI connectors.

What to ask it

You do not need special phrasing. Ask the way you would ask a knowledgeable colleague.

Finding work

• "Which federal management-consulting opportunities are open now?"
• "Which engineering opportunities are open regardless of certification status?"

Finding and checking partners

• "Which HUBZone construction firms have a real federal award history?"
• "What prime-to-sub history backs up this company's teaming claims?"
• "Which engineering firms are worth vetting after a sole-source award?"

Research and compliance

• "Who keeps winning this market?"
• "How do awarded labor rates compare for this kind of work?" (FedScope website)
• "Which FAR or DFARS changes affect our contracts?" (FedScope website)
• "Where are our subcontracting goals behind?" (FedScope website)

Staying on top of deadlines and decisions

• "What deadlines are coming up for me?"
• "What's due in the next couple of weeks?"
• "Where does my team stand on the Army training recompete?"

The connector pulls the response deadlines of opportunities matching your watches and, for a shared workspace, how each teammate has weighed in (Pursue, Pass, or Team) alongside the official decision. Those are individual opinions shown by name, not a vote count.

Some jobs are marked FedScope website. Those need screens, controls, or confirmations that do not fit in a chat window, so the assistant will hand you a link to the right place in FedScope rather than half-answer.

Answers you can trust — including "I don't know"

Every answer about public data includes a source link, and each one passes through the hallucination shield before it reaches you. When the record cannot support a claim, FedScope withholds it rather than inventing something plausible.

That means the connector will sometimes tell you the record cannot answer your question. That is the feature working, not a failure.

Getting told when you show up in someone's results

If you have claimed and verified your company, you can turn on a weekly match digest — a count of how often your company appeared in other people's partner searches.

What the digest contains:

• How many times your company appeared, and a link to your profile.

What it never contains:

• Who searched, what they typed, which filters they used, or any part of their conversation.

You get at most one digest a week, and only after at least three new appearances. Turn it off from your FedScope dashboard or any digest email. See alerts.

Claiming your company

Creating a FedScope login does not make you the owner of your company's profile — that takes a separate verification step, and it is deliberately harder than clicking a link.

You pick your company

Choose it from its official federal record, so there is no doubt which company you mean.

We email the record contact

Not you — the contact already published in the company's government record.

Verified badge

That contact approves the request, and your company profile is yours to manage.

If that does not work

No usable contact in the record, someone else already claimed the company, or a disputed request — a person at FedScope reviews it by hand and may call your company on a number we look up ourselves. A number you give us is not enough on its own.

"Verified" means FedScope confirmed authority through your company's official government record channel. It is not a check of any individual's legal identity. Full detail is in the claiming and verification guide.

Private documents stay on the website

Uploading your own past-performance material is intentionally not something the connector can do. That workflow lives on the FedScope website so the warnings, sharing terms, and recipient controls stay visible and explicit — those are decisions that deserve a real screen, not a chat message.

FedScope currently accepts two kinds of document:

1. Past-performance write-ups.
2. CPARS-derived summaries, and their source files for direct controlled sharing only.

Anything you upload is private by default. See the vault guide for how sharing and revoking work.

Google Drive

Google Drive will be the first way to bring in your own files. When it ships, you will pick the exact files to import through Google's own file picker — FedScope will not ask for access to your whole Drive or crawl your folders. Until then, upload directly in FedScope.

Usage limits

The Team ceiling exists to keep the service reliable, not to meter your work.

No plan allows scripted extraction, scraping, shared logins, or working around service safeguards, and no plan is a bulk-data license. Automated extraction, resale, contact harvesting, or rebuilding the FedScope dataset is not permitted.