Handl + MCP
Handl works inside your AI tools.
Handl speaks MCP — the Model Context Protocol. So your projects, invoices, clients and reports are tools Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor can use directly. The same agent, opened up to whatever AI you already run. Available on the Team plan ($99/mo) and up.
Why can't I just connect Jira and QuickBooks to Claude and have it do this for me?
You can, and if that's all you need, do it. Point Claude at your Jira and your QuickBooks and it'll turn a closed ticket into a draft invoice for you. We've done it. It works on a Tuesday afternoon when you're sitting there watching it.
What it doesn't do is run when you're not watching. Nobody's prompting Claude at 11pm on the last Friday of the month to check every project, pull the hours from Harvest, work out which client bills on milestones and which on a retainer, apply the right rate to the right person, draft the lot, and hold them until you've looked. That's a system, not a prompt.
And the invoice is the easy bit. The rest of the job is everything around it: your team logging and confirming hours, the quote the client signed that says what you're allowed to bill, the reminder that goes out on day 15, the client portal they pay through, the deliverable you hold until they do, the margin on the project while it's still running, the cash forecast for next month, the contractor pay run on the other side. Claude plus two integrations gives you one of those. Handl is all of them wired together, with your rules, so it happens every time.
Then, if you want to drive it from Claude, you can. Handl speaks MCP. Your projects, invoices, clients and reports are tools Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor can use directly, on the Team plan. So you get the system running underneath and your own AI on top of it. That's the point of it.
The AI-native door
Your AI assistant, now fluent in your agency's money
You've probably already got an AI assistant you trust — Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, something. The question that tool can't answer today is “what's going on with my agency's money?”
Now it can. Handl exposes your whole billing operation over MCP, the open standard for connecting AI assistants to real systems. Point your AI client at Handl and it can query your projects, draft and send invoices, manage clients, and pull the aging report — using the same tools as the dashboard and Slack.
“Most “AI billing” makes you come to their chat box. Handl goes the other way — it makes your billing available to the AI you already use.”
Capabilities
What your AI can do with Handl
Read the state of the business
Query projects, invoices, clients, milestones, payments and time entries; pull aging, cash-flow and revenue reports.
Run the operations
Create and update projects, draft / edit / send invoices, record payments, manage clients and contacts, invite team members.
Search across everything
One query across projects, clients, invoices and milestones.
Hand it documents
Upload a proposal or scope doc and let it become a structured project.
Close the loop
List and approve the agent's proposals without leaving your AI tool.
Money still needs your yes
MCP doesn’t mean “anything goes.” Every tool call runs under your role permissions — an AI acting through MCP can’t do anything you couldn’t. Anything that moves money, sending an invoice or recording a payment, needs a confirm from you in the conversation before it runs. Access is scoped to your agency, Team plan, owners, admins and project managers only.
Three doors, one agent
Three doors. One agent.
The agent isn't trapped in a chat box on your dashboard. It's the same operator, reachable three ways — and it remembers the conversation across all of them.
In the dashboard
The full Handl app with the agent sat in the middle of it. Ask it to set up a project, fix an invoice, or tell you who owes you money — while you watch it work.
In Slack
DM the bot or @mention it in a channel. “Create a project for Acme, 3 milestones, $12k.” “Who's overdue?” “Send the deposit invoice.” Approve its proposals from a button without opening a tab.
More on Handl for Slack→From any AI tool
You’re hereHandl speaks MCP, so you can run your billing straight from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. Your whole operation, as tools an AI can call.
Same agent, same tools, same checks, same memory — whichever door you walk through. That's not three integrations bolted on. It's one operator with three front doors.
Pricing
Who this is for
Agencies who've gone AI-native and want their financial ops in the same place as everything else they automate. If “I run my business from my AI assistant” is starting to sound normal to you — this is the billing layer for it. Connecting outside AI assistants via MCP is on the Team plan ($99/mo) and up.
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Payment Health Check
Nine questions, two minutes. You get a score and the three things hurting your cash flow most. No call, no pitch.
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Reclaim your time
Invoices that build themselves from milestones, hours and retainers.
Invoices built from the work. Books stay in QuickBooks or Xero.
