AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT are widely used for search, proofreading, and coding assistance. But a more interesting application? Using LLMs to understand your own data and content without technical barriers.
I have a client with massive amounts of content and data across two Craft CMS installations. I wanted to help them extract insights and generate summaries and reports from that data without calling a developer every time. The challenge: how do you make years of content and structured data accessible through natural language?
After a few ideas, I started working with MCP, an open protocol for connecting outside data sources to AI tools (in my case, Claude), and Craft CMS.
The more I worked on this integration, the more excited I became. This isn't AI tools solving problems we didn't know we had (or don't really have). This is leveraging AI tech to solve problems we've always had: making sense of large volumes of our own content and data, and empowering content authors to do so.
This new lesson on CraftQuest is a quick look at some of what I've built for this client by connecting Craft CMS content to Claude using MCP. My hope is it sparks ideas for how you can make your own content more accessible.
