Use with ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini

Connect No Stairs Please to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. Your AI gets live access to the most up-to-date small music venue database in the United States, with real show listings, multi-stop tour routing, and verified booking contacts in all 50 states.

What you can do with it

General AI models guess at small-town music venues from outdated training data. Connecting the No Stairs Please MCP server lets your AI search real, source-backed records from venue websites, calendars, and social posts.

Route multi-stop tours: Give your AI a sequence of stops (such as Seattle, WA -> Spokane, WA -> Missoula, MT -> Boise, ID -> Salt Lake City, UT). The MCP server calculates the real driving corridor along the highway, lists every matching venue in stop-to-stop progression order, and gives you a one-click link that opens the drawn route directly on the No Stairs Please map.
Filter by capacity & night: Ask for 50-to-200 capacity listening rooms, breweries, or dive bars that book original music on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Find where bands played: Look up any band or solo songwriter across every listed show to see which rooms booked them, what dates they played, and who shared the bill.
Sync your Favorites: Save promising venues straight from ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini into your No Stairs Please Favorites list, or ask your AI to build a routing sheet from the venues you already starred on the map.

Managing booking emails with your AI

When you pair No Stairs Please with an email integration in ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini (or an email agent that reads and drafts from your inbox), your AI assistant can handle the repetitive legwork of receiving, fielding, and sending out booking emails.

Sending out pitches: Instead of copying and pasting addresses one by one, ask your AI to pull the dedicated music-booking email (kept separate from general and private-event contacts), check the room’s usual music nights, capacity, and recent bands, and draft or send out personalized hold requests for each stop on your route.
Receiving & fielding replies: When a booker replies with available dates, a question about your set, or a request for local support acts, your AI can cross-reference the venue’s record in No Stairs Please, check how the new date fits your driving route between towns, and prepare a reply or update your tour calendar.
Following up: Ask your AI to check which venues on your saved route haven’t replied after 10 days, verify their booking window and secondary contacts in No Stairs Please, and queue polite follow-up emails.

How to set it up

ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini connect to the same remote MCP server URL using OAuth 2.1. You can start searching immediately with 4 free venue reveals, one time, before signing in, or sign in during the connection flow to link your free account (10 reveals, one time) or All Access pass.

MCP Server URL: https://nostairsplease.com/mcp
ChatGPT (OpenAI): Open ChatGPT Settings → Apps & Connectors (or Developer Mode / Custom Connectors), add a new MCP connector with URL https://nostairsplease.com/mcp, and authorize your No Stairs Please account when prompted.
Claude Web & Desktop: Open Claude Settings → Integrations → Add custom integration, paste https://nostairsplease.com/mcp as the remote MCP server URL, and complete the sign-in prompt.
Claude Code / CLI: claude mcp add --transport http nostairsplease https://nostairsplease.com/mcp
Gemini app: Open Gemini Settings → Connected Apps → Custom apps → Add a custom app, paste https://nostairsplease.com/mcp, and approve the sign-in prompt. Custom apps are available on personal Google accounts in the US.
Gemini CLI: gemini mcp add --transport http nostairsplease https://nostairsplease.com/mcp, then run /mcp auth nostairsplease in Gemini CLI to sign in.
Manage access: You can view or revoke connected AI apps at any time under Connected apps on your Account page.

What’s free and what’s paid

No account: Search venues, see where they are and which days they list shows, and plan routes. You get 4 free reveals. A reveal opens everything about one venue for 7 days.
Free account: Adds each venue’s website, social links, room and stage, genres and the bands that played there. You can search by genre and save Favorites, and you get 10 reveals.
All Access: Opens everything for every venue: booking contacts, music nights, show dates and sources. You can also search by performer or contact. It costs $25 for one month or $200 for one year. You pay once and it does not renew. See the terms.

Example search queries and prompts

Once connected, you can ask ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini natural-language booking questions. Here are examples of what you can ask it to do:

Multi-stop tour routing

“Route a 5-stop tour from Portland, OR → Bend, OR → Boise, ID → Missoula, MT → Spokane, WA within 25 miles of the highway. List venues up to 200 capacity in stop-to-stop driving order and give me the link to open the drawn route on the map.”
“Find small music venues along I-5 between Eugene, OR and Bellingham, WA that book original music on Wednesdays or Thursdays, sorted in driving order from south to north.”
“We have a Friday booked in fort-collins-co and a Sunday in salt-lake-city-ut. Find rooms within 20 miles of the route that book Saturday night live music for a 4-piece indie rock band.”

Finding venues by similar bands & genre

“Search No Stairs Please for bands similar to our sound or search for Horse Feathers and TK & The Holy Know-Nothings, and show me which 100-to-300 capacity venues across the country have booked them.”
“Find folk, Americana, and songwriter listening rooms in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming with a capacity under 150, and show their usual music nights.”
“Which breweries and cideries near Bend, OR or Hood River, OR book touring bands and list real show dates on their calendar?”

Drafting & fielding booking emails

“Reveal the top 6 venues from my saved Favorites list, pull their dedicated music-booking email addresses, booker names, and recent acts from No Stairs Please, and draft a concise October tour pitch for each room referencing two bands from their past calendar.”
“I just got an email back from a booker offering us Tuesday, November 12 in Boise, ID. Check our route from Bend, OR to Salt Lake City, UT in No Stairs Please and find 3 venues within 30 miles of the highway for Wednesday, November 13.”
“Check all venues in my No Stairs Please Favorites in Washington and Oregon, list their booking contacts and booking windows, and build a follow-up tracker for our fall run.”

MCP tools available to your AI

When you connect https://nostairsplease.com/mcp, your AI assistant gains live tools that share your website account’s access level, reveals, and saved Favorites:

search_venues: Search and filter venues by text query, state, area, venue type, genre, usual music day, capacity (min_capacity / max_capacity), radius around a town (near), two-town corridor (near + to), or a multi-stop tour route (stops array of 2 to 20 towns/coordinates sorted in stop-to-stop progression order with an interactive map URL).
get_venue: Fetch a venue’s record: description, website, social links, room capacity, stage and sound notes, genres, act format, and sample band names (plus full contacts and show dates if revealed or with All Access).
reveal_venue: Open a venue’s full booking contacts, music nights, show history, quoted facts, and source URLs (uses a 7-day reveal on free accounts, or unlimited with All Access).
find_by_performer: Search show listings across every venue by band or performer name to see where and when they played (All Access).
get_profile: Check your current access level, remaining 7-day reveals, and saved Favorites count.
list_saved_venues: Read the saved Favorites list from your No Stairs Please account.
save_venue / remove_saved_venue: Add or remove a venue from your account’s saved Favorites list directly from ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.