ChatGPT

Connect Patalyze to ChatGPT and you can run patent research from the chat box. Ask it to pull a competitor's filings from the global corpus into a research database, and map those patents against your product, all in plain language. ChatGPT does the work by calling Patalyze's two MCP servers.

The two servers do different jobs:

Global Patents MCP

Read-only access to the global patent corpus and CPC/IPC classifications, powered by the Patalyze Data API.

Patalyze MCP

Full access to your research databases: create and read products, patents, mappings, dashboards, and notes.

Install Global Patents first. It is read-only, so there is nothing to configure and nothing it can break, and pulling up patents is usually the first thing you want from ChatGPT anyway. Add the Patalyze server when you are ready for ChatGPT to work inside your databases.

Both servers authenticate with your Patalyze account over OAuth, so you approve access in the browser with no API key to manage. See MCP for each server's full tool list and scopes.

You add the connectors in ChatGPT on the web (chatgpt.com). They live on your ChatGPT account, so once added they are also available in the mobile apps. Codex keeps its own configuration and is set up separately through its CLI.

ChatGPT on the web#

ChatGPT reaches the servers through developer mode. It registers a remote MCP server as a custom connector and exposes all of its tools. ChatGPT renamed connectors to apps in December 2025, so you will see both words in its settings; they mean the same thing.

Plan requirement

Developer mode is available on the Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans. It is not available on Free or Go.

Turn on developer mode

Go to Settings > Apps (labeled Apps & Connectors on some plans) and open Advanced settings at the bottom of the page. Toggle Developer mode on and accept the warning about unverified connectors. A "Create" button then appears on the apps page.

Add a custom connector

Click "Create" (on some plans, "Create app"). Give the connector a name and a short description, then paste the server URL: https://data.patalyze.com/mcp. Set authentication to OAuth and click "Create". Repeat with the Patalyze MCP URL when you want write access too.

Connect

Approve access in the browser window that opens. Global Patents asks only for read access to patents and classifications; the Patalyze server also requests read and write access to your research databases. The connector is ready once ChatGPT lists its tools.

The description you give a connector matters. ChatGPT reads it when deciding which tools to call, so a clear one helps it pick well.

If Patalyze ships new tools later, open the connector here and choose "Refresh" to pick them up.

Use it in a chat#

Connectors are off by default in each new chat. To turn them on, click the "+" button in the chat composer, open "More" (shown as "Developer mode" on some plans), and toggle the servers on for that chat. A few things to know:

Naming a server in your prompt helps ChatGPT pick the right tools, for example asking it to use Global Patents to find recent lidar patents from Bosch.
Before any Patalyze tool that modifies data runs, ChatGPT shows a confirmation you must accept. Global Patents is read-only and never triggers one.
Memory switches off in these chats. That is developer mode working as designed, not a bug.

On Business plans, only workspace admins can use developer mode. On Enterprise and Edu, an admin must first allow it under Workspace settings > Permissions & roles > Connected data. Authorized members can then switch it on in their own settings, and an admin can publish a vetted connector to the whole workspace.

Not the deep-research path

This is ChatGPT's full MCP connector path, separate from its deep-research connectors. Deep research only accepts tools named search and fetch, which Patalyze does not expose. Developer mode has no such requirement, so use it instead.

ChatGPT desktop apps#

OpenAI documents developer-mode connectors for the web and mobile apps only. If they do not show up in the macOS or Windows desktop apps, open chatgpt.com in a browser, where they are always available.

ChatGPT mobile apps#

There is nothing to install on iOS or Android. Connectors added on the web are available on your phone automatically; enable them for a chat from the "+" menu, the same way as on the web. To add a new server, use chatgpt.com.

Codex#

Codex keeps its own MCP configuration, so connectors you added in ChatGPT do not carry over. Add the servers with the CLI:

codex mcp add global-patents --url https://data.patalyze.com/mcp
codex mcp add patalyze --url https://api.patalyze.com/mcp

Then authenticate. Run codex mcp login global-patents (and the same for patalyze), and a browser window opens for you to sign in to Patalyze and approve access. Confirm the connection with codex mcp list, or run /mcp inside a session to see each server and its tools.

The entries are written to ~/.codex/config.toml and apply to all your projects. The Codex IDE extension reads the same file, so the servers appear there too. To limit a server to one project, put its entry in that project's .codex/config.toml instead.

Try it

With the Patalyze server connected, ask ChatGPT to run an investigation: find patents from Bosch on lidar sensors filed since 2021, add them to a new research database, and map them against your product. It pulls the matches from the corpus into your database, runs the mappings, and pauses for your confirmation on each write.