Most AI tools have no idea who you are.
You open ChatGPT or Claude, ask a question, and get a solid answer. But that answer is built on general knowledge and whatever you typed in. It knows nothing about your firm. Nothing about the deals you are tracking. Nothing about the relationships your team has spent years building.
So when you ask it to help you prepare for a meeting, it works from scratch. Not from the notes your analyst logged after the last call. Not from the interaction history in your CRM. Not from the relationship your partner has with the management team.
You still have to go find all of that yourself.
That is the problem we built this to solve.
Today, we are introducing the 4Degrees MCP Connection.
First, What Is MCP?
MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. You do not need to know much about it technically, but the concept is worth understanding.
It is a standard that allows AI tools to connect to external systems and pull in live data from them.
Before MCP, AI tools only worked with what you typed. Now, with the right connection in place, they can also draw from systems your firm already uses. In this case, 4Degrees.
The result is that when you ask a question in ChatGPT or Claude, the AI can work from your firm's actual data. Your pipeline. Your deal history. The interactions your team has logged. The relationships behind each opportunity.
MCP is the bridge that makes that possible.
The Problem With AI Tools in Private Markets
Deal work runs on context.
Before a portfolio review, you need to know how a relationship has evolved. Before a first meeting with a founder, you want to know if anyone at your firm has a prior connection. Before sourcing outreach, you need to understand which relationships are actually warm.
All of that context lives in your CRM.
The trouble is that AI tools have never had access to it. You could paste notes into a prompt. You could summarize a deal manually. But that process is slow, and what you remember to include is never the full picture.
Most people end up doing two things at once. The AI tool opened in one tab, and the CRM opened in another. Copying back and forth.
That is the version of the workflow this replaces.
What Changes With the 4Degrees MCP Connection
Once connected, ChatGPT and Claude can see your firm's data in real time.
You can ask about your pipeline and get answers grounded in what is actually there. You can prepare for a meeting by asking the AI to surface everything your team knows about a company or contact. You can look for relevant connections in your network without switching to your CRM to run a search.
The AI tools you already use every day can now work with the same data your team relies on to source deals, manage relationships, and track activity.
Nothing changes about how you use those tools. They just have a lot more to work with.
Why This Is Not the Same as Describing the Situation Yourself
There is a version of this where you paste context into a prompt by hand. A lot of teams do it. It works, sort of.
The problem is that your memory of what to include doesn't match what is actually in the system. You might remember the headline but forget the detail that changes the answer. A relationship you did not know about sits in your CRM and never makes it into the prompt.
With the MCP connection, the AI draws from the full record. Not from what you happened to think of when you sat down to write the prompt.
For work where the right context is often the difference between a sharp answer and a generic one, that gap matters.
Available Now
The 4Degrees MCP Connection is now available, supporting both ChatGPT and Claude.
Setting up takes a few minutes to connect your account. After that, your firm's data is available directly inside whichever tool you use.
If your team is already using AI for deal work, this is what makes those tools genuinely useful for the moments that count.
The data has always been in 4Degrees. Now it goes where you are.
Request a demo to see it in action.
