MCP connector

Build interactive presentations with your AI assistant

Backrow is a remote MCP server. Connect it once to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or another assistant and ask for a presentation: the assistant designs every slide in your style, adds live polls, Q&A, feedback and sign-ups, checks the slides as pictures, and reads the results after your talk.

Connector address

https://joinbackrow.com/api/mcp

Remote MCP over Streamable HTTP
Sign-in with OAuth 2.1 and your Google account
Hosted in the EU (Belgium)

Set it up

Pick your assistant
ClaudeChatGPTClaude CodeCopilotGemini CLICursor & others
2
Add Backrow to it

https://joinbackrow.com/api/mcp

Paste it in Claude (web, desktop or app): Settings › Connectors › Add custom connector. Name it Backrow and click Add.

https://joinbackrow.com/api/mcp

Paste it in ChatGPT: Settings › Apps & Connectors › Advanced settings, turn on developer mode, then Create a connector with this address.

Not working?
Custom connectors need a ChatGPT plan that allows them. When you create the connector, pick OAuth as the sign-in.

claude mcp add --transport http backrow https://joinbackrow.com/api/mcp

Run it in your terminal, then type /mcp in Claude Code.

https://joinbackrow.com/api/mcp

Paste it in VS Code: Command Palette › MCP: Add Server › HTTP. Then use Copilot Chat in agent mode.

gemini mcp add --transport http backrow https://joinbackrow.com/api/mcp

Run it in your terminal, then type /mcp auth backrow in Gemini CLI.
https://joinbackrow.com/api/mcp

Paste it in Cursor, or in any other assistant, as a remote MCP server.
Not working?
In Cursor you can also put this in ~/.cursor/mcp.json:
```
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "backrow": {
      "url": "https://joinbackrow.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```
A tool without a sign-in window? Make a personal key in Backrow (Organization › AI assistant) and send it as a Bearer token in the Authorization header.
Sign in and ask
Click Connect and sign in with Google. The first time you also type your company name, and your Backrow account is made right away, free to try.

Then open a new chat and ask, for example

Use Backrow to make a 10-minute talk about our new travel policy in our colors, with a poll to open and feedback at the end.

No Backrow account yet? Your first sign-in makes one.

What your assistant can do

`get_design_guide`, `get_house_style`	How Backrow slides are built (HTML on a 1920×1080 canvas, with live bindings for the results), and your organization’s colors, fonts and logo.
`get_examples`, `get_example`	Finished example slides for every kind of interactivity.
`create_presentation`, `import_pdf`, `request_upload`, `check_upload`, `confirm_upload`, `list_presentations`, `get_presentation`, `use_presentation`, `delete_presentation`	Make presentations (also from a PDF, at a link or sent from your computer through a one-time upload link), list, read, choose and remove them.
`put_slide`, `put_slides`, `get_slide`, `edit_slide`, `move_slide`, `delete_slide`	Write and change slides. Every slide is cleaned and checked.
`create_poll`, `update_poll`, `delete_poll`, `create_word_cloud`, `update_word_cloud`, `create_quiz`, `update_quiz`	Polls, word clouds and quizzes, in several languages.
`search_images`, `upload_image`, `list_images`, `delete_image`	Openly licensed images with their credit, and your own images (also your logo and photos from your computer, through the same one-time upload link).
`preview_slide`, `preview_presentation`	Pictures of the slides with sample results, plus anything that sticks out or is cut off.
`get_credits`, `prepare_session`	The credits left and what a presentation costs; a session ready to start, with its code.
`get_results`, `list_sessions`, `get_session_results`	Everything the room did, per session and across sessions.

Everything your assistant needs to know about Backrow, with every tool and its parameters, is on one page written for AI assistants. Point it there if it does not know Backrow yet.

Things to ask

Make a 15-minute talk about our new travel policy in our brand colors, with a poll to open and feedback at the end.
Add a slide after the second poll that says what share of the people who chose A also chose B.
The session is over. Summarize the results, group the open questions by theme and draft a follow-up mail.

How the live results get into your design

Your assistant marks elements on a slide: this box is answer A, this number is its percentage, this bar grows with the votes. During the talk Backrow fills those elements with the room’s answers, so the results take your fonts, colors and layout. Nothing is pasted on top of your slide.

Sign-in and safety

Your assistant only works inside your own organization.
Access tokens last one hour; revoke personal keys at any time in Organization › AI assistant.
Backrow stores only hashes of tokens and keys.
Slides are cleaned before they are saved: no scripts, no outside content.

Questions and answers

Do I need to know how to code?

No. You talk to your assistant; it uses the connector for you.

Can I use a deck I already have?

Yes, in two ways; your assistant asks which you want. Keep your slides exactly as they are: export them to PDF and your assistant gives you a one-time upload link to drop the PDF in (with the .pptx for your speaker notes); you confirm the file in the chat, every page becomes a slide, and the assistant adds polls, word clouds or a quiz between or on the pages. Or let your assistant rebuild them as Backrow slides from the file you attach in the chat: the live results then sit inside the design, in your house style, but the slides are not pixel-identical. You can also upload a PDF or a Claude Slides export in Backrow yourself.

Can I give my assistant my logo and photos?

Yes. When they sit on your computer, your assistant gives you the same kind of one-time upload link, with a section for your logo (and a version for dark slides) and one for up to 20 photos, next to your presentation if it needs that too. You check in the chat what arrived; only after your yes do the images join your organization’s images. Your logo does not become your house logo by itself: your assistant asks for that separately, and only owners and admins can change the house style.

Which assistants work best?

Any assistant with MCP support works. Assistants that can look at pictures use the previews to check their own slides.

Your next talk, with the whole room in it

Make your account in a minute, connect your assistant and ask for your first interactive presentation.

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