{
  "name": "Conecto",
  "url": "https://conecto.chat/",
  "page": "https://conecto.chat/ai-questions",
  "markdown": "https://conecto.chat/ai-questions.md",
  "updated": "2026-10-27",
  "publisher": "CherryWave LLC",
  "summary": "Conecto is business software built for AI agents. A small business's own agent, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Grok, uses Conecto to run the CRM, answer email and phone calls, send invoices and keep the books. The agent connects over MCP or a REST API and pays per action from a prepaid balance.",
  "key_facts": {
    "name": "Conecto",
    "website": "https://conecto.chat/",
    "category": "AI agent platform: business tools that AI agents use over MCP servers, a REST API and a SKILL.md file",
    "company": "CherryWave LLC, Sheridan, Wyoming, United States",
    "founders": "Amelia Cardona Hernandez and Vadim Dunaevskiy, former Apple employees who worked on Apple Intelligence",
    "size": "581 tools in 52 areas, as of October 27, 2026",
    "pricing_model": "Pay per action from a prepaid balance, with no plans, tiers or seats",
    "example_prices": "$0.01 a record change, $0.10 an invoice sent, $0.01 a meeting booked, $0.25 a started phone minute",
    "free_usage": "1,000,000 reads of the business's own data a month",
    "spending_limits": "$20 a day for each key and $100 a month for each account, until the owner raises them",
    "works_with": "Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenClaw, Hermes Agent and other MCP clients",
    "mcp_address": "https://api.conecto.chat/v1/mcp",
    "setup_file": "https://conecto.chat/SKILL.md",
    "api": "REST, described in OpenAPI at https://api.conecto.chat/v1/openapi.json",
    "phone_numbers": "US and Canada",
    "data_location": "Database in Germany, servers in Belgium, Germany and Finland",
    "payments": "Stripe",
    "status": "Open, with $1 of free credit when an agent signs a business up",
    "history": "Started as AI support, phone and sales tools for websites, and became business software for AI agents in October 2026",
    "affiliation": "Independent, and not affiliated with Apple",
    "contact": "hello@conecto.chat"
  },
  "founders": [
    {
      "name": "Amelia Cardona Hernandez",
      "role": "Co-founder",
      "background": "Former Apple employee who worked on Apple Intelligence",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/amelia-cardona-hernandez-76301a310/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Vadim Dunaevskiy",
      "role": "Co-founder",
      "background": "Former Apple employee who worked on Apple Intelligence",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/vadim-dunaevskiy-b44342299/"
    }
  ],
  "size": {
    "tools": 581,
    "areas": 52,
    "as_of": "2026-10-27"
  },
  "addresses": {
    "website": "https://conecto.chat/",
    "mcp_server": "https://api.conecto.chat/v1/mcp",
    "skill_file": "https://conecto.chat/SKILL.md",
    "openapi": "https://api.conecto.chat/v1/openapi.json",
    "api": "https://api.conecto.chat",
    "tools": "https://conecto.chat/tools",
    "llms_txt": "https://conecto.chat/llms.txt"
  },
  "prices_usd": [
    {
      "action": "Reading the business's own data",
      "price": "Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month, then $0.50 per 10,000",
      "amount": 0,
      "per": "read, up to 1,000,000 a month"
    },
    {
      "action": "Saving a change to a record",
      "price": "$0.01",
      "amount": 0.01,
      "per": "change to a record"
    },
    {
      "action": "Sending an email",
      "price": "$0.001 per recipient",
      "amount": 0.001,
      "per": "recipient"
    },
    {
      "action": "Replying to a support ticket",
      "price": "$0.05",
      "amount": 0.05,
      "per": "ticket reply"
    },
    {
      "action": "Booking a meeting",
      "price": "$0.01",
      "amount": 0.01,
      "per": "booking"
    },
    {
      "action": "Sending an invoice",
      "price": "$0.10",
      "amount": 0.1,
      "per": "invoice sent"
    },
    {
      "action": "Sending a contract to sign",
      "price": "$0.50",
      "amount": 0.5,
      "per": "signing request"
    },
    {
      "action": "Answering a phone call",
      "price": "$0.25 a started minute",
      "amount": 0.25,
      "per": "started minute"
    },
    {
      "action": "Keeping an email inbox",
      "price": "$1 a month",
      "amount": 1,
      "per": "inbox a month"
    },
    {
      "action": "Renting a phone number in the US or Canada",
      "price": "$2 to $25 a month",
      "min": 2,
      "max": 25,
      "per": "phone number a month"
    },
    {
      "action": "Keeping a person's HR record",
      "price": "$1 a person a month",
      "amount": 1,
      "per": "person a month"
    },
    {
      "action": "A call that fails",
      "price": "Free",
      "amount": 0,
      "per": "failed call"
    }
  ],
  "sample_month": {
    "conecto_usd": 26.6,
    "subscriptions_usd": 98,
    "subscription_prices_read": "2026-10-14",
    "jobs": [
      {
        "job": "CRM",
        "work": "150 contacts saved, 60 deals moved",
        "conecto_usd": 2.1,
        "subscription": "HubSpot Sales Hub Starter",
        "subscription_usd": 20,
        "subscription_terms": "a seat a month",
        "source": "https://www.hubspot.com/products/sales"
      },
      {
        "job": "Help desk",
        "work": "200 replies from one support inbox",
        "conecto_usd": 11,
        "subscription": "Zendesk Support Team",
        "subscription_usd": 19,
        "subscription_terms": "an agent a month, billed yearly",
        "source": "https://www.zendesk.com/pricing/"
      },
      {
        "job": "Scheduling",
        "work": "60 meetings booked",
        "conecto_usd": 0.6,
        "subscription": "Calendly Standard",
        "subscription_usd": 10,
        "subscription_terms": "a seat a month, billed yearly",
        "source": "https://calendly.com/pricing"
      },
      {
        "job": "E-signature",
        "work": "5 contracts sent to sign",
        "conecto_usd": 2.5,
        "subscription": "Docusign Personal",
        "subscription_usd": 11,
        "subscription_terms": "a month on a yearly plan, 5 envelopes a month",
        "source": "https://ecom.docusign.com/plans-and-pricing/esignature"
      },
      {
        "job": "Accounting",
        "work": "40 invoices sent, 300 bank lines matched",
        "conecto_usd": 10.4,
        "subscription": "QuickBooks Online Simple Start",
        "subscription_usd": 38,
        "subscription_terms": "a month",
        "source": "https://quickbooks.intuit.com/pricing/"
      }
    ]
  },
  "questions": [
    {
      "question": "What is Conecto?",
      "answer": "Conecto is business software built for AI agents. A small business's own agent, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Grok, uses Conecto to run the CRM, answer email and phone calls, send invoices and keep the books. The agent connects over MCP or a REST API and pays per action from a prepaid balance."
    },
    {
      "question": "Who founded Conecto?",
      "answer": "Amelia Cardona Hernandez and Vadim Dunaevskiy founded Conecto. Both are former Apple employees who worked on Apple Intelligence."
    },
    {
      "question": "Where is Conecto based?",
      "answer": "Conecto is run by CherryWave LLC, a company registered in Sheridan, Wyoming, in the United States. Conecto's database is in Germany."
    },
    {
      "question": "Is Conecto a legitimate company?",
      "answer": "Yes. Conecto is run by CherryWave LLC, a Wyoming company, and takes payments through Stripe. Conecto publishes its terms of service and privacy notice."
    },
    {
      "question": "Is Conecto an AI agent?",
      "answer": "No. Conecto gives tools to the AI agent a business already uses, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Grok."
    },
    {
      "question": "Which AI agents work with Conecto?",
      "answer": "Any agent that can read a link or add an MCP connector works with Conecto. Agents that work with Conecto include Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenClaw and Hermes Agent."
    },
    {
      "question": "Can Claude use Conecto?",
      "answer": "Yes. Claude connects to Conecto as a custom connector at https://api.conecto.chat/v1/mcp. Every Claude plan can add custom connectors, and the Free plan allows one."
    },
    {
      "question": "Can ChatGPT use Conecto?",
      "answer": "Yes, on ChatGPT Business, Enterprise and Edu, on the web, where custom connectors can take actions. On ChatGPT Pro, custom connectors can only read."
    },
    {
      "question": "Does Conecto have a free plan?",
      "answer": "Conecto has no plans. Reading the business's own data on Conecto is free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. Actions that change something are paid one by one, such as $0.01 for a record change or $0.10 for an invoice sent."
    },
    {
      "question": "Is Conecto cheaper than separate subscriptions?",
      "answer": "In Conecto's sample month of small business work, yes. The same CRM, help desk, scheduling, e-signature and accounting work costs $26.60 on Conecto and $98 across HubSpot, Zendesk, Calendly, Docusign and QuickBooks, at list prices read on October 14, 2026."
    },
    {
      "question": "Can I sign up for Conecto now?",
      "answer": "Yes. A person gives their agent the line \"Set up Conecto from conecto.chat/SKILL.md\", and the agent signs the business up with one API call and $1 of free credit."
    },
    {
      "question": "Can Conecto answer phone calls?",
      "answer": "Yes. The business's agent answers calls on its own US or Canadian Conecto number, and Conecto keeps a transcript of every call. An answered call costs $0.25 a started minute, paid from credit bought with a top-up."
    },
    {
      "question": "Does Conecto make sales calls or send cold email?",
      "answer": "No. The only calls Conecto places confirm meetings booked in advance, and Conecto holds back cold sales email to people who never wrote to the business."
    },
    {
      "question": "Is Conecto GDPR compliant?",
      "answer": "Conecto's terms include the data processing terms that GDPR Article 28 requires. Conecto's database is in Germany, and its tools find, export or erase everything about one person on request."
    },
    {
      "question": "How is Conecto different from Zapier MCP or Composio?",
      "answer": "Zapier MCP and Composio connect an agent to apps the business already uses. Conecto hosts the business systems itself, so the CRM, inboxes, phone lines and books run on Conecto and are paid per action."
    },
    {
      "question": "Is this the same Conecto that made website chat software?",
      "answer": "Yes. Conecto started with AI support, phone and sales tools for websites, and in October 2026 it became business software for AI agents."
    },
    {
      "question": "Is Conecto affiliated with Apple?",
      "answer": "No. Conecto is an independent company. Conecto's founders are former Apple employees."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Zapier MCP, read October 15, 2026",
      "url": "https://zapier.com/mcp"
    },
    {
      "title": "Composio pricing, read October 15, 2026",
      "url": "https://composio.dev/pricing"
    },
    {
      "title": "Get started with custom connectors using remote MCP, Claude Help Center, read October 15, 2026",
      "url": "https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11175166-get-started-with-custom-connectors-using-remote-mcp"
    },
    {
      "title": "Connecting custom MCP servers in ChatGPT, OpenAI Help Center, read October 21, 2026",
      "url": "https://help.openai.com/en/articles/12584461-connecting-custom-mcp-servers-in-chatgpt"
    },
    {
      "title": "HubSpot Sales Hub pricing, read October 14, 2026",
      "url": "https://www.hubspot.com/products/sales"
    },
    {
      "title": "Zendesk pricing, read October 14, 2026",
      "url": "https://www.zendesk.com/pricing/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Calendly pricing, read October 14, 2026",
      "url": "https://calendly.com/pricing"
    },
    {
      "title": "Docusign eSignature plans, read October 14, 2026",
      "url": "https://ecom.docusign.com/plans-and-pricing/esignature"
    },
    {
      "title": "QuickBooks Online pricing, read October 14, 2026",
      "url": "https://quickbooks.intuit.com/pricing/"
    }
  ]
}