Integration · Marketing
Connect Claude & ChatGPT to Placid
Ask your AI to make a social post image from your Placid template, turn a template into a PDF with new details, or render a short video. It lists your templates with their layer names, fills in text, images and video per layer, and generates the file. Creative variations come out of a chat instead of editing each template by hand.
Free plan, no credit card. Takes about a minute.
Try asking
“Which Placid templates do I have, and what layers can I change?”
The AI lists your templates with their UUIDs and layer names.
“Make an Instagram image from the Quote template with the text: Open late on Fridays.”
It generates an image from the template with that text in the headline layer.
“Create three versions of the Product template, one for each of these products and prices.”
It generates one image per product, changing the name, price and photo layers each time.
What your AI can do
Templates
List your Placid templates with their UUIDs and layer names, so the AI knows which text, image and video layers it can change.
Images and PDFs
Generate images and PDFs from a template, replacing the content of each layer with your own text or images.
Videos
Start a video from a template with new layer content, then check its status and get the download link.
“Generate a PDF certificate from the Certificate template for Anna Holm.”
It fills in her name on the template and generates the PDF.
“Render the Event Promo video with the date 12 October and our venue photo.”
It starts the video from the template with the new text and image and gives you the video ID.
“Is the Event Promo video ready yet?”
It checks the video's status and returns the download link when it is done.
5 tools for Placid
These tools are switched on when you connect. You can switch any of them off, or require your approval before it runs.
create_imageChanges dataGenerate an image from a template by `template_uuid`, replacing layer content via `layer_modifications` (layer name, property text/image/video, value).create_pdfChanges dataGenerate a PDF from a template by `template_uuid`, replacing layer content via `layer_modifications`.create_videoChanges dataStart generating a video from a template by `template_uuid`, replacing layer content via `layer_modifications`. Check progress with get_video.get_videoGet a generated video's status and download link by `video_id`.list_templatesList your Placid templates with their UUIDs and layer names. Use this before generating an image, PDF or video.
Set up in three steps
- 1
Pick the app
Create a free PipMCP account and choose Placid from the app list.
- 2
Paste your key
Paste a Placid project API token. Sign in at placid.app, open the Projects overview, select your project and click API Tokens in the left sidebar. Copy the token. Each project has its own.
- 3
Add the link to your AI
You get a personal MCP link. Add it to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor:
- Click your name, then Settings › Connectors › Add custom connector.
- Paste your link as the Remote MCP server URL.
- Switch it on from the + menu in a chat.
Questions
What can the AI do in Placid?
The AI can list your templates with their layer names and generate images, PDFs and videos from them, replacing the text, image or video in each layer. For videos it can also check the status and get the download link, if you switch those tools on.
Does the AI see my Placid API token?
No. Your Placid API token is encrypted at rest and never shown to the AI. After you save it, it is not shown again, not even to you. The AI only sees the results of the tools it calls.
Can I control what the AI is allowed to do?
Yes. You choose which tools are switched on, for example listing templates and generating images but not videos. Any tool can require your approval before it runs, and every tool call is logged.
Does it work with ChatGPT?
Yes. In ChatGPT go to Settings › Apps & Connectors › Advanced and turn on Developer mode, then add your PipMCP link. Developer mode needs a paid ChatGPT plan: Plus, Pro, Business or Enterprise. The same link also works in Claude (Settings › Connectors › Add custom connector), Cursor and other MCP clients.
What does it cost?
PipMCP has a free plan with no credit card required. Paid plans bill per completed task. You also need your own Placid account.
Which templates can the AI use?
Placid API tokens belong to one project, so the AI works with the templates in the project whose token you paste. It can only change the layers you have set up in each template. To use templates from another project, connect that project's token as well.
Let your AI work in Placid today.
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