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How to connect Round's read-only MCP to AI tools

How to connect Round MCP to your AI tools

Written by Help @ Round Treasury
Updated yesterday

Round MCP gives AI tools secure, read-only access to your Round financial context, so you can ask better questions and get faster answers.

You can use Round MCP with Claude and other MCP-compatible tools to explore balances, transactions, invoices, and financial performance in natural language.

The MCP address is:

What is Round MCP?

MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. It allows compatible AI tools to securely connect to Round and retrieve financial context from your workspace.

Round’s MCP is currently read-only. This means your AI tool can access information from Round, but it cannot create, edit, approve, move, or send money.

You can use it to ask questions such as:

  • “What are our current balances across accounts?”

  • “Why did cash outflows spike last week?”

  • “Which invoices are overdue?”

  • “What transactions happened for this company last month?”

  • “Can you explain our latest Profit & Loss position?”

What can the Round MCP access?

Round MCP can help your AI tool understand your workspace and answer questions using the financial data available to your user account.

Workspace context

Round MCP can identify who is signed in and which companies they can access.

This means your AI tool can understand your Round workspace context before answering questions.

Financial accounts

Round MCP can retrieve balances and account data across:

  • Bank accounts

  • PSP accounts

  • Round savings

  • Money market funds

This gives your AI tool a fuller picture of your company’s available cash and treasury position.

Transactions and money movement

Round MCP can fetch company banking activity, allowing your AI tool to investigate:

  • Cash movement

  • Transaction history

  • Unusual activity

  • Inflows and outflows

  • Potential anomalies

This lets you ask transaction-level questions in natural language without exporting data or manually stitching reports together.

Xero operational data

For companies with Xero connected, Round MCP can retrieve Xero data including:

  • Accounts

  • Invoices

  • Bank transactions

This helps your AI tool answer questions using both Round and Xero context.

Financial insights

Round MCP can also access accounting-level financial data, including:

  • Profit & Loss

  • Balance Sheet data

This allows your AI tool to explain financial performance and position in a more useful way.

What can’t the MCP do?

Round MCP is read-only.

It cannot:

  • Move money

  • Create payments

  • Approve payments

  • Edit invoices

  • Update contacts

  • Change settings

  • Make changes in Xero

  • Take any action on your behalf

It is designed to help you understand your financial data, not change it.

How to connect Round MCP in Claude

To connect Round MCP in Claude or another MCP-compatible tool, use the following server address:

The exact setup steps may vary depending on the AI tool you are using, but you will generally need to:

  1. Open the MCP or integrations settings in your AI tool.

  2. Add a new MCP server.

  3. Enter the Round MCP address: https://mcp.roundtreasury.com/mcp

  4. Follow the authentication flow.

  5. Once connected, start asking questions about your Round workspace.

Example questions to ask

Once connected, you can ask questions like:

  • “Show me our current cash position.”

  • “Which accounts have the highest balances?”

  • “Summarise recent transactions for this company.”

  • “Which invoices are unpaid?”

  • “Are there any unusual transactions this month?”

  • “Explain our latest Profit & Loss.”

  • “Compare our current cash position with last month.”

  • “What bank transactions are linked to Xero?”

  • “What changed on our Balance Sheet recently?”

Security and permissions

Round MCP uses your existing Round access permissions.

That means your AI tool can only access the companies and data that your Round user account is allowed to access.

The connection is read-only, so the AI tool can retrieve and explain data, but it cannot take actions or make changes inside Round.

When should I use Round MCP?

Round MCP is useful when you want quick answers without manually searching through dashboards, reports, invoices, and transaction lists.

It is especially useful for:

  • Understanding your cash position

  • Investigating cash movement

  • Reviewing invoices

  • Exploring Xero data

  • Explaining financial performance

  • Preparing for finance meetings

  • Finding anomalies or unusual activity

  • Getting faster answers from your financial data

Need help?

If you have any questions about setting up or using Round MCP, please contact the Round team.

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