Updates·October 9, 2026, 19:32

Nectar lets ChatGPT and Claude read a brand's social data

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U.S. company Nectar has launched Nectar MCP, which connects a brand's social media data to AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot. The information comes from Nectar itself.

U.S. company Nectar has launched Nectar MCP. The tool connects a brand's data in Nectar to the AI assistants ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot. Nectar's own site also lists Cursor and custom agents that support the standard as possible clients.

Nectar provides analysis of what people write and say about brands on social media. The launch is dated October 8, 2026 on Nectar's site and October 9 in the press release.

What is MCP?

The solution is built on the Model Context Protocol, or MCP. It is an open standard that AI assistants use to connect to external data. In other words, an employee can ask their AI assistant about the brand's social data instead of digging through a dashboard, an overview page with charts and numbers.

The data includes social mentions and comments, creator insights, competitor tracking and Nectar's own analyses. Nectar cites use cases such as community sentiment, influencer discovery, trending formats, customer service and competitive insights.

According to the press release, Nectar pulls data through official data partnerships with Meta, TikTok, Reddit, YouTube and X.

Access and setup

The service is located at mcp.nectarsocial.com/mcp and is available to existing Nectar customers. According to Nectar, setup takes a few minutes and requires no developer help. Users can only see the Nectar workspaces they have been given access to, and administrators control access for each workspace.

The company and the quotes

Nectar lists e.l.f. Beauty, Sweetgreen, Little Spoon and Liquid Death as customers. The company was founded in 2023 by former Meta executives and is based in Palo Alto, California. According to the press release, it has raised $40.6 million, including a $30 million Series A led by Menlo Ventures.

Cofounder and CEO Misbah Uraizee says social is the most honest gauge a brand gets, but that results and consumer insights have so far been locked in dashboards that no AI could read. Cofounder and CTO Farah Uraizee says: "We want Nectar to be to consumer conversations what Bloomberg is to market data."

Both Nectar's own site and the press release come from the company itself. No independent coverage or testing of the product has been found, so the claims about features, customers and funding are the company's own.