Bye bye buttons

April 22, 2026 · Hussein Yahfoufi

I started Eventship because I needed a better way to grow community. It started with a simple site, a spreadsheet, and a ticket tool, then evolved into the community platform you know today.

With AI advancing and changing so rapidly, I've come to realize that when managing my own community and events, I spend quite a bit of time on Claude — and then go to Eventship to click the buttons.

Until today.

Introducing Eventship MCP

I'm stoked (that's San Diegan for excited) to introduce Eventship MCP: a way for Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI assistant that supports MCP to talk to Eventship and do things directly on your behalf.

What that means in practice

When you attend events:

  • "Find me founder meetups in San Diego this month."
  • "Register me for the one on the 15th."
  • "Based on who's going, who should I try to meet there?"

When you host events, you can now just say:

  • "Brainstorm three meetup ideas for my community this month."
  • "Create a happy hour for next Thursday at Modern Times and publish it."
  • "Send a message to tomorrow's mixer guests and remind them parking is in the back."

Your AI already knows you. Now it can know Eventship too — and work inside Eventship for you.

How to try it

You can plug Eventship into your AI of choice in about a minute by adding the following MCP endpoint:

https://mcp.eventship.com/mcp

Step-by-step instructions for Claude and ChatGPT live in our help center. Native ChatGPT and Claude directory listings are on the way — we're waiting on approvals.

Why this matters

Most software was designed for a world where humans drive the keyboard and mouse. The fastest path between "I have a goal" and "the goal is done" used to be a well-designed UI. Increasingly, the fastest path is a sentence to an agent that already knows you.

That's a different design surface. The agent doesn't need a hover state or a confirm modal — it needs structured tools, predictable inputs, and outputs that another piece of software can reason about.

That's what MCP is. It's the protocol that lets AI assistants find your tools, call them safely, and explain themselves back to you. We've made Eventship one of those tools.

What's next

This is v1. Today the MCP covers discovery, registration, event creation, attendee management, and broadcast messaging. We'll keep expanding what agents can do — and tightening the rough edges — based on what you ask for.

If you're building your own MCP or experimenting with no-UI apps, I'd love to see what you're shipping. Send a note.

Thanks for being part of the journey.

— Hussein

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