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🔌 Use Cobrief in Claude

Connect Claude to Cobrief and work with tenders and your pipeline right in the conversation.

Written by Yoki Kahsay

With the Cobrief connector in Claude, you can search tenders, check your inbox and follow your pipeline without opening Cobrief. On a paid plan, Claude can also read and search the competition documents saved on a tender. When you ask, Claude can add tenders to your pipeline, move them, write comments, set the owner and update tasks. Claude fetches the data from your workspace while you talk and uses it in its answers.

The connector is built on MCP (Model Context Protocol), an open standard that lets AI tools fetch data from other services. The address of the Cobrief server is:

https://mcp.cobrief.com/mcp

The connector is available on every Cobrief plan. On the free plan, Claude can search notices from the last 12 months, read the inbox and change the tender search, but not its relevance threshold. Relevance scores aren't included, and Claude can make up to 100 calls an hour. You sign in with your own Cobrief user, and Claude can only see and do what you can in Cobrief. Every role can read and comment, including contributors. To add and move tenders in the pipeline, and to set the owner and members, you need the administrator or member role, or a custom role that can change the pipeline. To see and update tasks, you need the administrator or member role, or a custom role that can work on bids. Read more about roles and permissions.

What Claude can do

Read

  • Check your inbox: open tenders that match your search profile and aren't in your pipeline yet. On a paid plan, the most relevant come first. On the free plan, the newest come first, without relevance scores.

  • Search all tenders: public tenders from Norway and the rest of Europe, plus your workspace's own private tenders. You can narrow by keywords, CPV codes, country, buyer and deadline.

  • Get one tender: description, buyer, CPV codes, deadline, estimated value, award and qualification criteria, Cobrief's summary and where to find the competition documents.

  • Read and search the competition documents: on a paid plan, Claude can list the documents saved on a tender, search the text and read excerpts with their source. The free plan does not include this. If the documents are not saved in the workspace, you can ask Claude to start the brief. That uses the workspace's usual brief allowance. If it finds no documents, upload them in Cobrief.

  • Read the brief: the analysis saved in the workspace, with sources. Reading does not start a new analysis.

  • See your pipeline: the tenders you're working on, with status, owner, contract value, deadline and a link to the tender in Cobrief.

  • Read comments: the internal comments on a tender, with who wrote them and when.

  • See tasks: your tasks across your tenders, or all the tasks on one tender, with status, who they're assigned to and due date.

  • Explain relevance: every tender comes with its relevance score from Cobrief and what it's based on.

Market intelligence with Ultra and Enterprise

With Cobrief Ultra or Enterprise, you can use Claude to explore public tenders, buyers, suppliers and contract awards. For example, ask “Which buyers published the most public tenders in Norway in 2025?”

During the trial, market intelligence in Claude is available once we have verified your company. Message us in the chat in Cobrief, and we'll sort it out.

Change

Claude only changes something when you ask, and gives you a link so you can check the change in Cobrief.

  • Add a tender to the pipeline: from the inbox, from hidden tenders or straight from a search, in the status you choose.

  • Move a tender: to another status in the pipeline, such as Go or No-go, or out of the pipeline to the inbox or to hidden tenders. Your reason is saved as the comment on the move.

  • Register the result: the contract value in a won, lost or cancelled status, and why you lost, such as on price or quality.

  • Write a comment: your colleagues see it on the tender in Cobrief. Claude can't @mention anyone, so nobody gets notified.

  • Update a task: change its title, description and due date, set it to in progress or completed, or assign it to yourself or a colleague. Your colleague is notified in Cobrief and by email. Claude can also remove the due date or the assignee.

  • Set the owner and members: choose who owns the tender, or add and remove members. Colleagues are notified, as in Cobrief.

  • Change the tender search: an administrator can change keywords, codes, countries, places and buyers. On the free plan the search can be changed, but not its relevance threshold.

  • Change tender alerts: an administrator can create and change email alerts. You can subscribe or unsubscribe yourself. New alerts require a paid plan.

  • Create a private tender: when the tender is not already in Cobrief. This requires a paid plan. The tender is visible only in the workspace, with you as the owner and the status being evaluated, unless you say otherwise.

Claude can't delete anything. You can always move a tender Claude moved back again.

How to connect

Claude on the web, Claude Desktop and mobile

  1. Open Cobrief in the Claude directory, or go to Customize → Connectors and search for Cobrief.

  2. Select Connect.

  3. Sign in to Cobrief the way you usually do, and approve access.

  4. When you're back in Claude, Cobrief shows as connected.

On Claude Team or Enterprise, an Owner in your organization first adds Cobrief under Organization settings → Connectors. Each member then connects with their own Cobrief user. On the Team plan, you can select Request to ask an Owner to add it.

If you can't find Cobrief in the directory, you can add it yourself with the address above. Select Add custom connector under Customize → Connectors (or Add → Custom under Organization settings → Connectors on Team and Enterprise). Paste https://mcp.cobrief.com/mcp and select Add. You don't need a client ID or client secret.

Claude Code

Run this command in your terminal:

claude mcp add --transport http cobrief https://mcp.cobrief.com/mcp

Start Claude Code, type /mcp, choose Cobrief and sign in.

What you approve

When you connect, you approve that Claude can read and update your data in Cobrief. Claude never gets more access than your role allows.

Use Cobrief in a conversation

Turn on Cobrief for the conversation under + → Connectors. Then ask the way you'd ask a colleague. For example:

  • "What's in my Cobrief inbox this week?"

  • "Find cloud services tenders from Norwegian municipalities with a deadline after 1 December."

  • "Which tenders are we evaluating, and who owns each one?"

  • "Summarize the requirements and award criteria in this tender, and tell me where to find the competition documents."

  • "Search the competition documents for the qualification requirements, and show me where they are."

  • "Add the first tender to the pipeline as being evaluated."

  • "Mark this tender as No-go. Reason: we don't have references from the health sector."

  • "We won the tender. Move it to won with a contract value of NOK 2.4 million."

  • "We lost this tender on price. Register it."

  • "Add a comment to the tender saying the site visit is on 12 November."

  • "Which of my tasks aren't completed yet?"

  • "Set the task about the tax certificate to completed."

If you're a member of several workspaces, Claude fetches the list and asks which one you mean. You can also name the workspace in your question.

Before Claude moves a tender, changes its contract value, sets the owner or updates a task, it asks for your permission. You control the rest under Customize → Connectors → Cobrief, where each tool can run without asking, need your approval, or be blocked. If you want Claude to ask before it writes a comment too, set that tool to need your approval.

Security and privacy

  • You sign in with your own Cobrief user. Claude gets the same access as you, never more.

  • Claude can only change something after you've given it permission to update your data. Claude can't delete anything.

  • Changes Claude makes show in Cobrief under your name, as if you'd made them yourself.

  • We log which tool was used, by whom, in which workspace and which tenders and tasks were changed. We don't log what you search for or what Claude gets back.

  • What Claude fetches from Cobrief becomes part of your conversation in Claude, where Anthropic's terms and privacy policy apply.

Read more in our privacy policy and in our Trust Center.

Disconnect

In Claude, go to Customize → Connectors, choose Cobrief and disconnect. Claude then loses access to your Cobrief user. You can connect again at any time.

Troubleshooting

  • Claude says a tool isn't included in your plan. Your workspace is on the free plan, which only covers searching notices, the inbox and the tender search. An administrator can upgrade, see Manage your Cobrief subscription.

  • Claude says market intelligence requires Ultra or Enterprise. Check that Claude is using the right workspace. An administrator can check its subscription under Prices and plans in Cobrief. If you are in the trial, we need to verify your company first. Message us in the chat in Cobrief.

  • Claude says you don't have access. Your role in the workspace doesn't allow this. Contributors, for example, can't change the pipeline or see tasks. Ask an administrator to check your role.

  • Claude can't change anything. You need to approve that Claude can update your data. Ask Claude to try again, and approve when you're asked.

  • Claude can't find your workspace. Check that you signed in with the same user as in Cobrief. Disconnect and connect again if you've switched users.

  • Claude says you've made too many requests. Wait a moment and try again.

  • The connection has expired. Connect again under Customize → Connectors.

Still stuck? Message us in the chat in Cobrief or at [email protected].

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