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Ask your auction data anything.
The Auction Experts AI Connector links your own AI assistant to your own auction data. Open Claude, ChatGPT or whatever you already use, connect it once, and ask questions in plain language — no exports, no spreadsheets, no waiting on a report. Keep the answers you will need again as reports, and let it do the work: catalogue the lots you just took in, map a consignor’s spreadsheet into your next sale, re-offer everything that went unsold.
- “How did our last auction do?”
- “Which lots in the May sale didn’t sell, and were there bids on them?”
- “Who were our top ten buyers in the past twelve months?”
- “What did we invoice last month, and how much of it was buyer’s premium?”
- “Which e-mails are still missing a German subject line?”
You get the answer in seconds, from your own back office, in the language you asked in.
What is MCP?
MCP — the Model Context Protocol — is an open standard that lets AI assistants securely use data and tools outside themselves. Claude, ChatGPT and a growing list of assistants support it.
The Auction Experts AI Connector is a standard remote MCP server. As far as we know, Auction Experts is the first auction platform to offer one. Your auction house gets its own connection, your assistant talks to it, and nothing else about the way you work changes.
You are not buying an AI from us. You bring the assistant you already trust; we supply the connection to your data. If you switch assistants next year, the connector still works.
What you can ask about
The connector gives your assistant a curated, documented view of your back office:
| Subject | What’s there |
|---|---|
| Auctions | Dates, status, number of lots, lots sold, hammer total, invoiced total |
| Lots | Title, category, estimates, reserve, current or final price, the consignor, and what happened to the lot: sold, invoiced, awaiting the consignor’s decision, reserve not met, bought back, no bids |
| Bids | Every bid: who, when, how much, from where, and whether a standing proxy answered it |
| Bidders and members | Company details, country, roles, approval status and registration date. Personal contact details are masked |
| Buyer activity | What each member bid on, per auction and over their lifetime |
| Categories | Your category tree, with lots and results per category |
| Lot properties | Brand, year, condition, distillery — whatever fields your lot types use |
| Bid steps | Your bid increment ladders |
| Commissions and costs | Buyer’s premium, seller commission and extra costs as configured, and where each applies |
| Invoices | Buyer invoices, credit notes and consignor settlements, with their lines: hammer, premium, VAT and other costs |
| Sent e-mails | Every mail the platform sent, and the mail itself or its PDF when you ask for one |
| E-mail templates | Every mail the platform sends, per language, and which are missing |
| Website and Manager texts | All interface translations, and what is still untranslated |
| Settings | Your auction house’s configuration, without anything secret |
Your assistant also receives a written guide to your data — what each figure means, which rules apply, and where the traps are. It knows that a proxy maximum is not revenue, that a combi lot is invoiced once, that hammer sold and hammer invoiced are two different figures, and that “sold” follows your auctioneer’s decision rather than a formula. That guide is the difference between an assistant that answers and an assistant that answers correctly.
It is also told which years it can see. If your older auctions are archived, your assistant says so, instead of presenting half a year as a whole one.
Reports that stay
Ask a question once, then keep the answer as a report. “Hammer total per category, per month, for this year.” Your assistant works it out, you check it, and you save it — and from then on anyone in your auction house can run it on current figures and export it to Excel.
You decide per question: an answer you needed once, or a report your whole auction house keeps.
Beyond reading
It can also do the work
With your permission, and a preview every time, your assistant catalogues the lots you have just taken in — reading the photos as well as the words — maps a consignor’s spreadsheet onto your lot type and imports it, creates auctions and puts them online, re-offers what went unsold, and writes your translations and e-mail templates.
Bids, invoices and members are deliberately left alone. A bid is binding and an invoice is a legal document: those stay where they belong, with a person, in the back office.
How it is contained
Built for auction houses, not for demos.
Your data only
Every connection is tied to a signed-in Auction Experts user and their auction house. There is no route to another house’s data.
Nothing changes without a preview
Every change is shown before it is made, and a change made in bulk can be undone in bulk. Write access is a separate permission, granted per user.
Personal data stays protected
E-mail addresses and phone numbers are masked, and there is no address, date of birth, ID number or IP address in what your assistant sees.
Not full access
Your assistant reaches a defined set of auction information, and we maintain what that set contains. It is not open access to your system.
Honest answers
The guide tells your assistant what it does not have — payments, live-auction sessions, newsletters — so it says “not available” instead of guessing. An assistant that invents a number is worse than no assistant.
Everything is logged
Every question, every query and every change is recorded for your auction house.
Works with the assistant you already use
The connector is a standard remote MCP server, so it is not tied to one vendor. Connect it from:
- Claude — desktop, web and Claude Code
- ChatGPT — with connectors enabled
- Any other assistant, agent or internal tool that speaks MCP
Sign in with your Auction Experts account. That is the setup — there is nothing to install and no developer required.
Frequently asked questions
Is my data used to train AI models?
No. Your assistant reads your data to answer your question; Auction Experts does not send your data to any model provider itself. Which provider your assistant uses is your choice, under your own agreement with them.
Can the AI change my auctions?
It can, if you let it. Your assistant can create and update lots and auctions, re-offer unsold lots, and write translations, e-mail templates and settings — each time after showing you a preview, and only for users with write permission. Bids, invoices and members cannot be changed through the connector.
Can other auction houses see my data?
No. A connection belongs to one signed-in user of one auction house.
What can it not answer yet?
Payments and reconciliation, live-auction sessions, newsletter statistics and watch lists. The connector tells your assistant this, so it will not invent an answer.
Do I need a developer?
No. Sign in from your assistant and start asking.