MCP Overview
Connect Ternary to ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, VS Code, and other AI assistants to ask questions about your live technology spend.
Connect Ternary to the AI assistant you already use. Then ask about technology spend in plain language. You do not export a spreadsheet or rebuild the analysis somewhere else. Your assistant retrieves the numbers from Ternary — with your existing access.
What you can do
Ternary MCP can help you:
- Analyze actual technology spend
- Break spend down by provider, service, team, or another available dimension
- Review budget health and projected month-end spend
- See which cost alerts have fired
- Compare a dashboard across two periods
- Find and read saved reports
- Review current savings recommendations
- Weigh AI spend against revenue
- Save an analysis as a private report when you explicitly ask
For example:
What did we spend last month, grouped by provider?
Which budgets are at risk or over budget?
What changed on our Executive dashboard compared with the previous period?
Which cost alerts fired this month?
What are our largest current savings opportunities?
How does our AI spend compare with revenue this month?
How it works
Ternary uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — an open standard that lets AI assistants connect to external tools and data.
Once you connect Ternary:
- You sign in with your existing Ternary account.
- You ask a financial question in your assistant.
- The assistant retrieves the relevant Ternary data and answers in the conversation.
You do not need to know Ternary's MCP tool names or the underlying billing schema. Ask the question you want answered. The assistant chooses the right Ternary capabilities.
Choose your AI assistant
Start with the setup guide for the client you use:
Regular ChatGPT conversations with Developer mode.
Claude on the web and desktop.
GitHub Copilot in Agent mode.
Cursor desktop, with Ternary's OAuth client ID.
Anthropic's coding agent in the terminal.
Codex, Cline, Gemini CLI, Kiro, OpenCode, Zed, Goose, and more.
Your Ternary account and permissions
Ternary MCP uses OAuth. When you connect an assistant, it opens a Ternary sign-in page. Sign in with your existing account and approve access. No Ternary API key is required.
The connection does not create a Ternary account. Your user must already exist in the region you are connecting to.
Every request runs with your existing Ternary permissions. If you cannot see a tenant, report, or cost figure in Ternary, your assistant cannot see it through MCP either.
Updated 3 days ago