ChatGPT + Lofty: The Official App, and Where It Stops
Yes. Lofty publishes an official ChatGPT app, and it is a real one. Install it and ChatGPT reads your leads, your tasks and your transactions from live Lofty data. What it will not do is notice anything by itself. Add Carly to ChatGPT once and Lofty comes with it, in the same chat as your mail and calendar, with something watching the pipeline while you are out at a showing.
Where Lofty sits against ChatGPT’s app list
Most software built for real estate agents is nowhere near ChatGPT’s directory. Lofty is the exception. Lofty’s own developer documentation says the Lofty app is published in the ChatGPT app directory, with no URL to paste, no client ID and no API key: you search for Lofty, install it, and ChatGPT sends you to Lofty once to sign in and authorize. After that it stays connected.
Two things are worth knowing before you lean on it. The app acts as whoever authorized it, so it reads and changes exactly what that Lofty user could touch in the CRM, and nothing more. And this is new. Lofty’s September 2026 changelog lists the MCP server release and the ChatGPT app in the same entry, so you are looking at a few weeks of production use, not a few years. For comparison, Follow Up Boss still has nothing of its own in the directory, and neither does BoldTrail.
Lofty did build an MCP server, and it checks out
The app is the visible half. Underneath it is a public remote MCP server at mcp.lofty.com, which any assistant can reach. An unauthenticated call to it returns a proper authorization challenge, and the discovery document behind that challenge names the resource “Lofty CRM” and points sign-in at lofty.com. It is a shipped server, not a marketing page with the letters MCP on it.
The tools are grouped the way the job is: search leads, the activity timeline across calls, texts, emails and notes, tasks and calendar, transactions, published listings, team config, webhooks. On the write side there are tools to update leads, create tasks, move transactions, and send an SMS or email to a lead as you.
That last one carries a rule worth reading twice. Any write past a risk threshold comes back asking for confirmation, and every message send is in the always-confirm tier, where the prompt has to show the recipient count and the full rendered body before it goes. That is good design. It is also the shape of the whole thing: the chat proposes, you confirm, and you have to be in the chat to do it.
Add Lofty to ChatGPT through Carly
- In Lofty, go to Settings → Integrations → API and create an API key. Then paste it into Carly on the integrations page. Lofty documents this key as user-scoped, so it reaches what your own login reaches.
- Open Carly in ChatGPT’s plugin directory and click Connect. Nothing to paste, no custom plugin to build.
- Ask ChatGPT about Lofty. The Carly plugin answers with your live data.
- Then tell Carly in plain English what should happen when you are not in the chat, and it builds the workflow with you.
What ChatGPT can do with Lofty once Carly is in
- “Which leads came in over the weekend with no call or text logged, and who owns them?”
- “Pull up Emily Carter’s timeline before the four o’clock at 118 Bridgeport Avenue, and tell me what she has saved.”
- “Log the showing with Michael Brennan and set a follow-up task for Thursday morning.”
- “Move the Ridgeway Drive transaction to under contract and tell me what is still outstanding on it.”
With your Gmail or Outlook account connected to ChatGPT beside the Carly plugin, the inquiry sitting in your inbox and the lead record meet in one answer instead of two tabs.
Lofty’s own AI is not a ChatGPT integration
Lofty ships real AI of its own, and it is worth using. The AI Assistant surfaces priority leads from plain-language questions, summarizes calls, and drafts messages for text, email and social. The AI Sales Agent works a pool of leads with its own settings, mute controls and quota, and Lofty’s API exposes call scripts, call summaries and lead analysis as endpoints.
All of that runs inside Lofty. It has no connection to your ChatGPT account, and switching it on does not put your pipeline in your chat. “Lofty has AI” and “Lofty is in ChatGPT” are two separate claims. As of this month both happen to be true, which is unusual, and they still do different jobs.
The Lofty work that happens after the chat closes
An app answers when you ask it. Nothing in ChatGPT is watching Lofty.
Give Claude's Cowork tasks a time and they will run. Give them something that just happened and they will not. ChatGPT goes further, but only as far as Gmail, Slack and GitHub, only on web and mobile, and never alongside a schedule on the same task. A lead moving stage, a form landing, an invoice clearing: none of it starts either one. Carly starts on all of it.
Speed to lead is an event, not a question. The inquiry lands at 8:40 on a Saturday night and the first reply has to go out before that person fills in the next form on the next site. A showing gets booked and the confirmation, the calendar hold and the listing details should follow without anyone typing. A task goes overdue and it needs working, not reporting. Carly watches for those moments, does the work, and writes the result back to the lead record.
Carly connects to thousands of apps, so the same connection that brings Lofty into ChatGPT also reaches Gmail, Outlook, your calendars and your booking pages. Free Zapier-style workflows; AI agents from $35/month. Get started at carlyassistant.com.
ChatGPT alone vs ChatGPT with Carly
| ChatGPT alone | ChatGPT + Carly | |
|---|---|---|
| Look up a lead, task or transaction | Yes, through the Lofty app | Yes |
| Read the full activity timeline | Yes | Yes |
| Starts work when something changes in Lofty | No | Yes |
| Texts a new lead within the minute | No, it waits to be asked | Yes |
| Works overdue tasks unprompted | No | Yes |
| Sends the email itself | One per prompt, each confirmed | Yes, from Gmail or Outlook |
| Monday pipeline summary with nobody asking | No | Yes |
| Reaches your mail, calendar and booking pages too | A separate app per account | One connection |
| Pricing | Paid ChatGPT plan | AI agents from $35/mo |
What people report going wrong with ChatGPT’s apps
Two dated public reports are worth knowing before you put your database behind one. A thread opened on OpenAI’s developer forum on 19 December 2025 describes connectors being invisible inside ChatGPT Projects, and, outside Projects, dying after three to five tool calls with a list_resources returns only {finite: true} error. It ran to 29 posts, and a later reply pointed at OpenAI’s own help page confirming connectors are not supported in Projects at all.
Separately, on 28 April 2026, an engineer whose apps are accepted and published in OpenAI’s directory reported that all of them broke overnight, serving stale widget metadata although nothing had changed on their own servers. Neither problem is Lofty’s fault. Both are reasons to have more than one road into your CRM.
FAQ
Does ChatGPT work with Lofty? Yes. Lofty is published as an app in ChatGPT’s directory, and Lofty’s docs say there is nothing to configure: install it, sign in to Lofty once, authorize, and ChatGPT can read and write whatever your own Lofty login can.
Is there a Lofty MCP server?
Yes, an official one at mcp.lofty.com, released in September 2026. It accepts an OAuth 2.0 sign-in or a Lofty API key, and the ChatGPT app runs on that same server.
Where do I find my Lofty API key? Under Settings → Integrations → API. Lofty’s developer docs describe it as a user-scoped personal access token, and it is the same credential the Lofty CLI reads.
Can ChatGPT answer a new Lofty lead on its own? Not on its own. ChatGPT’s scheduled tasks can start from a Gmail, Slack or GitHub event, and a lead registering in Lofty is none of those. That is the gap Carly fills: it catches the event, sends the first reply, and logs the touch back to Lofty. AI agents from $35/month.
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