IncentEdge
Free · Read-only · No account needed

Use IncentEdge inside your AI assistant.

Ask Claude, or another AI assistant, about incentives for a building in New York, and it looks them up in IncentEdge while you chat. It covers New York State, New York City, utility and NYSERDA programs, plus the federal tax credits. Every amount comes with a link to its source and the date it was last verified.

  • Nothing to install
  • No IncentEdge account
  • Free to use
Connect to Claude(opens Claude in a new tab)Using another assistant?

The button opens Claude with the name and address already filled in. Check them and click Add. Claude's free plan allows one custom connector.

Claude, step by step

Add it by hand.

The same steps work on Claude on the web and in the Claude desktop app. Use them if the button above does not open the dialog for you.

  1. Open claude.ai in your browser, or the Claude desktop app, and sign in.
  2. Go to Customize, then Connectors.
  3. Click the plus (+) button, then choose Add custom connector.
  4. Type IncentEdge as the name.
  5. Paste the address below as the URL.
  6. If Claude asks how to sign in, choose No sign-in.
  7. Click Add.

On your phone too

Once it is added on the web or in the desktop app, IncentEdge is there the next time you sign in to the Claude app on iPhone or Android.

Switching it on in a chat

Click the + button at the lower left of the chat box, open Connectors, and make sure IncentEdge is on.

One custom connector on the free plan

Claude's free plan allows one custom connector. If you already have one, remove it first or use a paid plan.

What to ask

Four tools. Ask in plain English.

Your assistant picks the right tool on its own. Here is what each one does, with a question that uses it.

Check catalog coverage

Tells your assistant what IncentEdge covers and how recently the data was checked, so it knows which questions it can answer well.

Try asking
What does IncentEdge cover, and how recently was its incentive data verified?

Find incentive programs

Lists incentive programs for a state, and can narrow them by building type, electric utility and technology, such as heat pumps, solar or EV charging. Each program comes with its amount, who runs it, a link to its source and the date it was verified.

Try asking
Find heat pump incentives for a multifamily building in New York City that gets its electricity from Con Edison.

Get program details

Gives the full detail for one program: the exact wording quoted from its source document, the date it was verified and, if it cannot be claimed right now, the reason why.

Try asking
Show me the full details of Con Edison's AMEEP-E program, including the quote from its source document and when it was last verified.

Estimate incentive value

Checks one building against the verified New York rules. It returns the programs that may apply and any conditions they depend on, the ones that need more information, and the ones that do not apply, each with its reason. It never adds them into a combined total.

Try asking
Estimate the incentives for a 60-unit, 55,000 square foot apartment building in the Bronx, built in 1965, with a $4 million heat pump retrofit. The utility is Con Edison and the apartments are market-rate.
Good to know

What it will and will not do.

Estimates, not decisions

Amounts are estimates from published program documents, and many depend on conditions, such as your utility or whether apartments are affordable, which the answer spells out. They are not eligibility determinations, and not tax, legal or financial advice. Confirm with the program and your advisers before you rely on a figure.

No combined total

IncentEdge never adds programs together into one total. Whether two programs can be combined (stacking) has not been checked, so a sum would be a number no source supports.

New York first

Verified coverage is New York State, New York City, utility and NYSERDA programs. The federal credits apply everywhere. For a building in another state you get the federal credits only, and the answer says so.

Ended credits stay ended

Federal credits ended by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, such as Section 45L and Section 179D, are shown as excluded with the reason, never as available.

Fair-use limits

It is free, with limits on how many requests can be made in a short time so it stays quick for everyone. If you see a limit message, wait a minute and try again.

Read-only

IncentEdge only looks things up. It cannot change anything, and it receives only what your assistant puts in each request, never your conversation, files or accounts.

Other assistants

ChatGPT, Perplexity, Mistral and Grok.

These assistants can add a custom connector too. The steps follow each company's own instructions, but IncentEdge has not tested them yet.

ChatGPT

Early access

Who can add it: Plus or Pro, on the web through developer mode. Free and Go plans cannot add a custom connector. On Business, Enterprise and Edu, a workspace admin adds it.

  1. On chatgpt.com, open Settings, then Security and login, and turn on Developer mode.
  2. Open Plugins and click the plus (+) button to add an app.
  3. Name it IncentEdge and paste the address https://www.incentedge.com/api/mcp
  4. For authentication, choose No Authentication, then save.

Developer mode is on the web only, not the ChatGPT mobile app, and ChatGPT shows a warning when you turn it on. If your menus look different, older versions put this under Settings, Apps, Advanced.

Early access: Not yet tested by IncentEdge. Tell us at info@incentedge.com if it does not connect.

Perplexity

Early access

Who can add it: Pro, Max or Enterprise. On Enterprise, an admin has to allow members to add connectors first.

  1. Open Account settings, then Connectors.
  2. Click + Custom connector and choose Remote.
  3. Name it IncentEdge and paste the address https://www.incentedge.com/api/mcp
  4. Set authentication to None and transport to Streamable HTTP, then save.

Early access: Not yet tested by IncentEdge. Tell us at info@incentedge.com if it does not connect.

Mistral Vibe (formerly Le Chat)

Early access

Who can add it: Pro, Team or Enterprise.

  1. Open Connectors and click + Add Connector.
  2. Choose Custom MCP Connector.
  3. Name it IncentEdge and paste the address https://www.incentedge.com/api/mcp
  4. Click Connect. Mistral detects that no sign-in is needed.

Early access: Not yet tested by IncentEdge. Tell us at info@incentedge.com if it does not connect.

Grok

Early access

Who can add it: xAI says connectors are available to all Grok users, but does not say which plans can add a custom one.

  1. Go to grok.com/connectors and click New Connector.
  2. Choose Custom.
  3. Paste the address https://www.incentedge.com/api/mcp and save.

Early access: Not yet tested by IncentEdge. Tell us at info@incentedge.com if it does not connect.

Not available yet

Where it does not work today.

  • The Gemini app

    Its custom apps appear to accept only servers that use a sign-in (OAuth), and IncentEdge has none. We have not been able to test this yet.

  • The Microsoft Copilot app

    The consumer Copilot app only connects to a fixed set of built-in services.

  • Microsoft 365 Copilot and Gemini Enterprise

    These go through your organization. Your IT admin can add IncentEdge as an MCP server with no authentication, using the address on this page.

For developers

Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code.

A stateless Streamable HTTP server: no key, no headers and no sign-in. Any MCP client that speaks Streamable HTTP can use the same address.

Claude Code

Run in a terminal.

claude mcp add --transport http incentedge https://www.incentedge.com/api/mcp

Cursor

mcp.json: .cursor/mcp.json in a project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json for every project.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "incentedge": {
      "url": "https://www.incentedge.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json in your workspace.

{
  "servers": {
    "incentedge": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.incentedge.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

The Cursor and VS Code snippets follow each editor's published format. IncentEdge has tested Claude and Claude Code; tell us at info@incentedge.com if either editor does not connect.

Troubleshooting

If something goes wrong.

It will not connect
Check the address is exactly https://www.incentedge.com/api/mcp, with www. The address without www redirects to it, and Claude will not follow a redirect to a different host.
Claude says you have reached your connector limit
Claude's free plan allows one custom connector. Remove the one you have under Customize, then Connectors, or use a paid plan.
ChatGPT has nowhere to add it
Custom connectors in ChatGPT need developer mode, on the web. On Plus and Pro, turn it on under Settings, then Security and login. On Business, Enterprise and Edu, a workspace admin adds it.
You see a rate limit or server busy message
IncentEdge has fair-use limits, and it briefly turns requests away when it is very busy. Wait a minute and ask again.
The assistant answers without using IncentEdge
In Claude, click the + button at the lower left of the chat box, open Connectors and check IncentEdge is switched on. In any assistant, you can also ask directly: "Use IncentEdge to find..."
Still stuck
Email info@incentedge.com with the assistant you use and the message you see.

Support

Questions, or an assistant that will not connect? Email us at info@incentedge.com.

Privacy

What IncentEdge receives from your assistant, what it logs, and what it never sees: the MCP section of our privacy policy.

Terms

Free and read-only, within fair-use limits. The details are in our terms of service.

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