--- title: "How to Get a Community Membership Budget Approved | ELC" description: "Connect the ELC Membership Builder to your own Claude or ChatGPT. It prices a company membership from the published catalog, plans your 12 months, and sends an itemized offer at 16% off. Wizard and a human call if you prefer." url: "https://www.engineeringleaders.io/toolkit/partnership-builder/" lang: "en" image: "https://www.engineeringleaders.io/gallery/survival-kit/og-survival-kit.webp" --- ![](https://www.engineeringleaders.io/_astro/wash_purple.DOe5d6HA_Z1d79Pj.webp) The AI channel · 16 minutes · 16 percent # Get a membership budget approved without writing the _proposal_ . Plug ELC into the Claude or ChatGPT you already use. It prices a company membership from the published catalog, plans your twelve months, and mails you an itemized offer at 16 percent under list. Your job is to forward it. [Plug it into your AI](#install)[No AI tooling? Start here](#other-doors) ![Holographic glass fader panel on a dark reflective floor, the build-your-package object from the ELC membership art series](https://www.engineeringleaders.io/_astro/partnership-builder.CHzRmLlF_2pP9uw.webp) ![](https://www.engineeringleaders.io/_astro/wash_magenta.DZelLVuh_Z1qyMAY.webp) 16% off the composed total, because you built it through AI 16 min ceiling, from your first question to a formal itemized offer Ends 30 September 2026 ## Why the AI door is the cheaper one The discount is applied server-side the moment the inquiry is sent, and only when that inquiry came through the chat or the MCP server. The configurator on the website carries none. It comes off the full twelve-month total. Pilot Meetup keeps its own 100 percent go-bigger credit instead, and the two do not stack. Prices are public either way. Eight packages from Free to Story sit on [the membership page](https://www.engineeringleaders.io/partner/membership/), and the builder quotes from that same catalog rather than inventing a number for you. ## Simple to use: Add to your AI toolset Free · no key · no signup · about 2 minutes Copy one address, paste it into your AI's settings, the same way you save a new number into your phone. From then on, the Claude or ChatGPT you already talk to knows the ELC catalog, prices your package, and mails you the offer. No tech skills needed, and if settings menus are not your thing, the same builder [runs as a chat on our site](https://www.engineeringleaders.io/partner/chat/). Claude claude.ai in the browser, or the Claude desktop app 1. Open claude.ai and sign in. 2. Click your initials in the bottom left corner, then Settings. 3. Click Connectors, then Add custom connector. 4. Name it ELC Membership Builder. Into the URL field, paste `https://www.engineeringleaders.io/mcp/partnership`. Click Add. 5. Start a new chat. Click the sliders icon by the message box and check ELC Membership Builder is switched on. 6. Ask it something. Try: Should my company partner with ELC? Connectors need a paid Claude plan. On a company Team or Enterprise account the Add button is often admin-only. Send your admin this page, it takes them two minutes. ChatGPT chatgpt.com, on a paid plan 1. Open chatgpt.com and sign in. 2. Click your name in the bottom left corner, then Settings, then Connectors. 3. Under Advanced, switch on Developer mode. 4. Click Create. Name it ELC Membership Builder, paste `https://www.engineeringleaders.io/mcp/partnership` as the MCP server URL, set Authentication to None, and save. 5. Start a new chat, open the plus menu in the message box, and pick the builder under Developer mode. 6. Ask it something. Try: We have 15K for developing our engineering managers. What does that buy? On a company Business or Enterprise account your admin has to allow connectors first. Microsoft 365 Copilot Copilot Studio, on your work account 1. Open Copilot Studio and sign in with your Microsoft work account. 2. Open your agent, or create a new one. 3. Click Tools, then Add a tool, then New tool. 4. Pick Model Context Protocol. Paste `https://www.engineeringleaders.io/mcp/partnership` as the Server URL, set Authentication to None, and click Add to agent. 5. Open the agent and ask it something. Try: Should my company partner with ELC? Needs Copilot Studio maker access, which is standard in most corporate Microsoft 365 tenants. If you cannot find Copilot Studio, ask your IT admin to turn it on. Perplexity perplexity.ai, on a Pro or Enterprise plan 1. Open perplexity.ai and sign in. 2. Click your profile picture, then All settings, then Connectors. 3. Click Custom connector, then Remote. 4. Paste `https://www.engineeringleaders.io/mcp/partnership` as the MCP Server URL, set the transport to Streamable HTTP and Authentication to None, and save. 5. Start a new thread and ask it something. Try: We have 15K for developing our engineering managers. What does that buy? Needs a Perplexity Pro or Enterprise plan. Cursor a code editor, for whoever on your team already has it open 1. Open your project in Cursor. 2. In the project root, create a file named .cursor/mcp.json if one does not already exist. 3. Paste this inside it: `{ "mcpServers": { "elc-partnership": { "url": "https://www.engineeringleaders.io/mcp/partnership" } } }` 4. Save the file and restart Cursor. 5. Open a new chat and ask it something. Try: Should my company partner with ELC? This one means opening a file in an editor, not clicking through Settings. If that is not you, Claude or ChatGPT above (or the chat on our site) are the simpler door. The address, if you'd rather copy it once `https://www.engineeringleaders.io/mcp/partnership`Copy One more, if you script things Claude Code One command in the terminal. `claude mcp add -t http elc-partnership https://www.engineeringleaders.io/mcp/partnership`Copy Same five clients again, in one place, on [the AI channel guide](https://www.engineeringleaders.io/partner/ai/). The server is open source, speaks streamable HTTP, and also answers over a read-only [REST API](https://www.engineeringleaders.io/mcp/partnership). ![](https://www.engineeringleaders.io/_astro/wash_purple.DOe5d6HA_Z1d79Pj.webp) Be vocal > “I planned a year of company membership with AI over a lunch break, and took 16 percent off it.” Two proofs in one forwarded email: you saved the company money, and you used AI to do it, with an itemized offer to show for it. Your manager reads real catalog prices with the discount already applied. [Take the 16 percent](#install) ## Things worth asking it - Should my company partner with ELC? We cannot reach senior engineers. - We have 15K for developing our engineering managers. What does that buy? - What happens month by month if we sign in October? - Can we be the only vendor in our category? ## Never installed an MCP server? Most people have not. Three other ways in. The same catalog sits behind all of them. [![Holographic glass robot head on a dark reflective floor](https://www.engineeringleaders.io/_astro/door-ai.CsAUb9MK_Zpo89D.webp) ### Talk to it in your browser The same builder, running as a chat on our site. Same 16 percent, nothing to install. Open the chat ](https://www.engineeringleaders.io/partner/chat/)[![Engineering leaders working on laptops during an ELC session](https://www.engineeringleaders.io/_astro/door-build-photo.qSGNnCJw_ZMbjnb.webp) ### The one-minute version Two dropdowns, the reach math for your goal, and a line you can paste into Slack. It stops short of prices. Jump to the wizard ](#wizard)[![Marian Kamenistak on an ELC stage, arm out towards the audience](https://www.engineeringleaders.io/_astro/door-call-photo.BcxUtQok_edoGv.webp) ### Do it with Marian Fifteen minutes, live, on your own numbers. You leave with the package priced and the year mapped. Book 15 minutes ](https://app.reclaim.ai/m/meet-marian/now) ## The one-minute version Pick the goal. You get the reach math for it and a sentence you can forward today. In practice this is the thing to open Slack with, before anyone has agreed to look at prices. 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