New to MCP? Start with Getting Started with Affinity MCP. For end-to-end, task-complete walkthroughs (with troubleshooting), see the Affinity Recipes — e.g. list setup, pipeline reports, and deal intelligence with Claude. This page is the copy-paste prompt menu. Prefer to stay inside Affinity? See Prompts for Affinity AI Chat.
Prep & research
- “Brief me on my meeting with [Firm] tomorrow — last three interactions, any open notes, and their relationship strength with our team.”
- “Summarize our full relationship history with [Company] — interactions, notes, and key moments over the past three years.” (value scales with how long you’ve used Affinity)
- “What were the key discussion points and action items from my last call with [Company]?”
- “Who on our team has the strongest connections at [Company]? Rank them.”
- “Pull the transcript from our meeting with [Company] last week and give me the highlights.”
- “Here’s the attendee list for [conference] — cross-reference against Affinity and rank by relationship strength and pipeline status.” (for lists over ~100 companies, ask it to work in batches)
Search & find
- “Find family offices in [City] on our [List] we haven’t contacted in 90 days.” (include the list name — accuracy drops without it)
- “Search [List] for companies with a status of ‘Active’, sorted by date added.”
- “Find companies working on [thesis] in our network.”
- “Give me a full list of every [stage] company we’re tracking, with their [field].” · “How many companies are in our CRM?”
- “Who is our warmest path to [Person]? Show it as a graph.”
- “Show me how the Stage field on [Company]‘s pipeline entry has changed over time.” (field-value history — not available in AI Chat)
- “Search our notes for any mention of ‘[topic]’ across our deals.” · “Search our files for [Company]‘s latest pitch deck.”
CRM updates
- Move a stage / update fields — “Move [Company] to ‘Due Diligence’ and log a note that we received their materials today.” · “On [Company]‘s entry in [List], set Stage to ‘Diligence’ and Deal Lead to [Name].”
- Log a note — “Log a note on [Company]: discussed Series B timeline, lead investor hesitant on valuation, follow up in two weeks.” · “Attach a note to my meeting with [Company] recapping the action items.”
- Create records — “Create an Affinity company for [Company] (domain [x]), add [Person] as a contact, and create an opportunity for them on our [Pipeline] list.”
- Pitch deck / document → record — “Parse this pitch deck and create a new Affinity record with the relevant company fields populated.” (review the auto-filled fields before saving)
- Update across a list — “For every company we met at [conference] this week, set Follow-up Status to ‘Reviewed’.” (the model works entry-by-entry; for very large lists, do it in batches)
- Define structure — “Add a ‘Lead Source’ text field on companies.” · “Add a ‘Not Relevant’ option to the Status field on our [List].”
- Log an interaction — “Log the call I had with [Person] this morning about pricing.”
- Set reminders — “Set a reminder to request year-end financials from [Company] on January 1.” · “Recurring reminder to check in with [Person], assigned to me.”
Reports & multi-step
- Pipeline reports on demand — “Give me a pipeline summary — deals by stage, total value at risk, and which opportunities have gone cold this month.” (great for ad-hoc; not a replacement for a persistent dashboard yet)
- Outreach sequencing — “Pull my [segment] contacts with their relationship strength and last-contact date, and draft a personalized follow-up for each.” (drafts only — you review and send)
- Write scores back — “Here are this week’s [model] scores by company — write each into the [field] on the matching Affinity record.”
- Transcript → fields — “Extract the funding details from this meeting transcript and update the relevant fields on our pipeline entry.”
- Duplicate cleanup — “Surface likely duplicate company records so we can merge them.”
- Combine with your other tools — “Cross-reference [Company] against our notes in Notion and Affinity’s relationship data, and tell me who to loop in.”
The five MCP skills
Prepackaged capabilities you trigger by name, wherever you work — see Affinity MCP Skills for details.- Meeting prep (
affinity-meeting-prep) — “Use Affinity to build my brief for today’s external meetings.” - Warm intro (
affinity-warm-intro) — “Find intro paths to [target] and draft the outreach.” - Market map (
affinity-market-map) — “Build a market map for [thesis], score by fit, and shortlist the top companies.” - Data migration (
affinity-data-migration) — “Migrate this CSV from [prior system] into Affinity.” - Event setup (
affinity-event-setup) — “Set up tracking for [event].”
Good to know
- Plan: MCP is on Scale, Advanced, and Enterprise. Everything runs with your own permissions — MCP can only see and change what you can.
- Feature-gated tools: note/file search need Deal Assist; meeting tools need unified events onboarding.
- Known edges: very large lists (~100+) can hit your AI tool’s context limit — batch them. File write-back (pushing files into Affinity) and reading email bodies aren’t supported — pair with that tool’s own MCP. Location/geographic filtering isn’t native yet.
Affinity AI can make mistakes. Review what the model creates or changes before you rely on it.