AI client setup
Connect Claude
Claude Desktop is a first-class SpendSignoff client. Add the MCP server, authorize an ad account read-only, and the always-on operator starts drafting changes you approve.
Claude is supported today
Claude Desktop speaks the Model Context Protocol natively, so SpendSignoff plugs in as a remote MCP server over Streamable HTTP with OAuth 2.1. No bridge, no proxy, no local process to babysit.
Once connected, the SpendSignoff tools appear inside Claude. You manage ad accounts by typing in plain English; spend-affecting changes always land as drafts you approve in the SpendSignoff app.
Add the MCP server
Settings → Developer → Edit Config, paste the block, then restart Claude.
claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"spendsignoff": {
"url": "https://mcp.spendsignoff.com/mcp"
}
}
}Three steps to live
Connect the client
Add the SpendSignoff MCP server to your client and finish the OAuth 2.1 handshake. The client requests two scopes only — mcp.read and mcp.draft. There is no mcp.approve scope to grant.
Authorize an ad account, read-only
OAuth into Google Ads or Meta. The first authorization is read-only: SpendSignoff reads spend, structure, and performance so the operator can find money. Reads are ungated on every plan, including Free.
Review and ship your first approval
The operator drafts a change — say, moving budget off a stalled ad set — and shows the before → after diff. You run the two-step Approve and push live → Confirm control in the SpendSignoff app. Only then does it touch the live account, with a signed audit entry and one-click rollback.
The client only ever holds read and draft
mcp.read and mcp.draft alone. It can read your accounts and draft changes. It cannot push a change live — approval happens in the SpendSignoff app, behind a two-step confirm, and is recorded in a KMS-signed append-only audit log.What works today
- Read campaigns, ad sets, budgets, bids, and performance across linked Google Ads and Meta accounts.
- Ask the operator for a plain-English read: pacing, wasted spend, top movers, anomalies.
- Draft budget reallocations, bid changes, and pacing fixes as reviewable diffs via
propose_change. - Approve or reject drafts in the SpendSignoff app — never inside the AI client.
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Concepts
Drafts, the approval queue, the autonomy loop, the 24h envelope, and rollback.