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Conductor is Now Connectable

A faster path from question to answer. Conductor now connects directly with Claude.
Written by
Jonathan Gandolf
Published on
May 5, 2026

Conductor is now connectable.

Ask any venue operator what gets in the way of a good week, and somewhere in the top three answers is this one: "I spend too much time digging for information I already have."

Reports get run, then go stale. Questions that should take thirty seconds: what's our hold list for next month? how did Friday's show actually pan out?

They all take a tab-hopping twenty-minute hunt. And when the answer finally shows up, the moment you needed it for has already passed.

We built Conductor to fix that. Today, it takes another step forward.

Conductor is now connectable. Opendate customers can now securely link Conductor to Claude (Anthropic's AI assistant) and ask plain-language questions about their venue data without leaving the tools they already use.

[Want to learn more about AI's impact on live entertainment. Join our upcoming webinar, Ready or Not: AI Is Already Changing the Live Events Business]

A faster path from question to answer

Once connected, you can ask things like:

  • "What shows are on hold for the next 30 days?"
  • "Summarize last Saturday's event — attendance, gross, comps."
  • "Which artists haven't confirmed their holds?"
  • "Draft a settlement recap for the Friday show."
  • "How are my weekly sell-through numbers trending?"

Claude answers using live Conductor data and hands you back a clean answer, a summary, or a draft you can edit. No exports. No report windows. No tab gymnastics.

Built on open standards. Because your data is yours

We made a deliberate choice about how to do this. Instead of rolling a proprietary bridge that locks you into one platform, Conductor now speaks MCP — the Model Context Protocol, an open standard for connecting AI tools to data sources.

That matters for two reasons:

1. You're in control. Every connection is OAuth-authenticated through a secure Opendate sign-in page. You approve each connection. You can revoke it in one click. Claude only sees what your user is allowed to see — team-scoped, permission-respecting, no surprises.

2. You're not locked in. We're starting with Claude because it's where a lot of operators are already working. But MCP is open, and we'll support more tools as the ecosystem grows. The connection you build today isn't a dead end.

We don't train models on your data. We don't sell it. We don't move it anywhere it doesn't belong. Your data stays yours.

What's under the hood

For the curious (and for any technical team members reading this over an operator's shoulder): Conductor's MCP server exposes the full Conductor tool layer. It's the same ~20+ tools your Conductor chat already uses through the open MCP protocol. Authentication runs through a proper OAuth 2.0 authorization flow backed by our existing Devise + Doorkeeper setup. Every tool call is scoped to the authenticated user's team context. Every call is observable and logged.

Translation: we didn't bolt this on. It's built on the same foundation the rest of Opendate runs on.

What's next

This is the first of many connections. MCP is the foundation and Claude is only the first chapter. We're already looking at the next set of tools our customers are asking for. If there's an AI or workflow tool you want Conductor to plug into next, we want to hear it.

The fastest venues run on faster answers. Now you have one.

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