How to connect Equal House to Claude or another AI assistant

Connecting Equal House to Claude takes about a minute: in Claude open Settings → Connectors, choose Add custom connector, paste https://mcp.equal.house/mcp, and sign in with your Equal House account when prompted. There are no tokens to copy and nothing to install. You need an active Equal House Pro subscription, and you can disconnect at any time.

Once it is connected you can plan family life by asking — “what has Priya got on Thursday?”, “who is doing more this week?”, “move the bins to Sam” — without opening the app.

Before you start

You need two things:

• An Equal House account with Pro. The connector is part of Equal House Pro. If your subscription lapses the connection pauses on its own, and starts working again the moment you resubscribe — you do not have to set it up twice.
• An AI assistant that supports custom connectors. Claude does. So does any other assistant that speaks MCP, the open standard this is built on.

You do not need a developer account, an API key, or anything installed on your computer.

Connect it, step by step

1. In Claude, open Settings → Connectors.
2. Choose Add custom connector.
3. Paste the connector address: https://mcp.equal.house/mcp
4. Sign in with your Equal House account when prompted.

That is the whole thing. You sign in through Equal House’s own secure login — your assistant never sees your password, and there is no token to copy from one window to another and accidentally leave sitting in a chat.

What you can ask it

Once connected, your assistant can read your household’s plan and, if you let it, make changes:

• See what’s coming up — “what’s on this week?”, “is anyone free on Saturday morning?”
• Check the balance — “who’s carrying more at the moment?”
• Add and adjust — “add swimming on Tuesday at five”, “move the recycling to Alex”
• Tick things off — “I’ve done the shopping”

It only ever sees the one household you signed in with. The AI connector page lists everything it can read and change, and what stays out of its reach.

Changes you approve first

If you would rather nothing changed without you seeing it, ask your assistant to suggest rather than do. Suggestions land in More → Waiting for You → Suggestions in the app (and, from version 1.16.0, on Bric’s page too), where a grown-up approves or turns down each one. Nothing reaches the family calendar until someone taps approve, and a suggestion nobody answers within 7 days expires.

This is worth knowing if you are handing an assistant access to a calendar other people depend on. A mis-heard “cancel Thursday” is a very different thing when four people have already planned around Thursday.

Turning it off

Disconnect the Equal House connector in your assistant’s settings and it can no longer read or change anything. There is nothing to clean up in Equal House afterwards.

What your assistant can see

Your assistant is a separate company’s product, not part of Equal House, and it handles your family’s information under its own privacy policy and terms. That is worth a moment’s thought before you connect one: the household data it can reach includes your children’s first names, their schools and their schedules.

Only connect an assistant you would be comfortable trusting with that. Our side of it is set out in full in the privacy policy, including exactly what the connector can and cannot reach.

Bric, and how he is different

Equal House also has Bric, an assistant built into the app itself and included in Pro. Bric only ever works with your own household’s data, and there is nothing to connect. To answer you, your question and the parts of your plan he needs are sent to Amazon Bedrock, our AI provider, which processes them in the UK and the EU. An assistant you connect yourself is different: its own company runs it, under its own terms, wherever that company operates.

The two do different jobs. Bric is there when you are already in the app. The connector is for when you are somewhere else entirely and would rather just ask.