How to Connect Multiple Mindbody Sites to Claude
Carly is how one Claude conversation sees every Mindbody studio you run. Neither Anthropic nor Mindbody publishes a Claude connector, and Mindbody’s API is gated: a developer key that Mindbody approves for live data, plus an activation each studio owner signs off on. Do that once, connect each site to Carly, add Carly to Claude, and Claude can read classes, headcounts, instructors, enrollments, locations and products across every location in the same chat.
1. Add your Mindbody sites to Carly
- Sign in at developers.mindbodyonline.com, request live access, and copy your API key from Account → API credentials.
- In the developer portal, request activation for each studio’s Site ID. Mindbody gives you a link and a code, and the studio’s owner account (not an admin) has to approve it.
- Sign in at carlyassistant.com and open carlyassistant.com/integrations.
- Find Mindbody, click Connect, and paste the API key and the first Site ID. Click Connect again for each other site.
Connect your email, Slack and Instagram while you are there. That is where the schedule usually needs to go.
2. Add Carly to Claude
- Click Get the Carly connector, then Connect, and sign in with your Carly account.
- In the conversation, open + → Connectors and enable Carly.
What one chat can do afterwards
- See today’s and this week’s classes at every studio, with instructors and headcounts.
- Spot which classes are full and which are running quiet.
- List session types and active session times.
- Check enrollments for workshops and courses.
- See staff and locations across sites.
- Look up products and prices.
Ask across all of them:
Across all three studios, which classes this week are under a third full, and who’s teaching them? Draft an Instagram caption to fill the Saturday ones.
Why there is no native route
Getting Mindbody data into Claude directly means building it yourself:
- No connector. Anthropic doesn’t offer one and Mindbody doesn’t publish one.
- Approval-gated API. Mindbody’s getting-started guide has you request live access and wait for approval before linking a business.
- Per-site activation. Each studio is activated separately, and only the owner account can approve it, which matters if a manager runs the setup.
Third-party Mindbody servers exist on MCP marketplaces, but they need the same approved key, and you’d be handing it to a vendor you haven’t vetted.
Three documented apps is not a stack. ChatGPT's event-triggered tasks are documented for Gmail, Slack and GitHub, plus, since September 29, 2026, whichever other plugins support events, a list OpenAI has not published. Claude's scheduled tasks still run on a clock alone. The CRM, the intake form, the billing system and the calendar are where most work actually starts, and none of them is on a published list. Carly is already watching those, and moves the moment something happens.
A studio that reports on itself: Carly workflows
Carly runs workflows in the cloud on a schedule or when something happens:
- Morning schedule report. At 6am, the manager gets today’s classes at every location with headcounts, with the quiet ones flagged.
- Instructors get their week. Every Sunday evening, each instructor gets their classes for the week by text or email.
- Fill the quiet classes. When tomorrow’s class is under a third full, Carly drafts a social post or newsletter blurb to fill it.
- Schedule questions answered. When a member emails asking what’s on Saturday, Carly replies with the live schedule.
- One report for the owner. On Monday, a summary across every studio: classes run, average fill and the time slots that keep coming up empty, logged to a Google Sheet so the trend builds over months.
Claude versus Carly on Mindbody
| Need | Claude | Carly |
|---|---|---|
| Connect Mindbody without building a server | No | Yes, paste key and Site ID |
| See every studio in one answer | No | Yes |
| Send a morning schedule report | No | Yes |
| Send instructors their week | No | Yes |
| Answer schedule emails on its own | No | Yes |
Free Zapier-style workflows; AI agents from $35/month. Start with Carly’s Mindbody integration.
Quick fixes
| Problem | Fix |
|---|---|
| Calls fail for one studio | That site hasn’t been activated. The studio owner has to approve the activation link |
| The owner gets an error on the activation link | They’re signed in as an admin. Sign in with the owner account and try again |
| You only see sandbox data | You connected Site ID -99, Mindbody’s test site. Use your studio’s real Site ID |
| Carly is added but unused | Enable Carly under + → Connectors for the conversation |
Frequently asked questions
Does Claude have a Mindbody integration?
No first-party one. Anthropic and Mindbody don’t publish a connector. Carly connects to Mindbody with your developer key and Site ID, and Claude reaches it through the Carly connector.
Can Claude see several Mindbody locations?
Yes, through Carly. Connect each site and Claude reads all of them in one chat.
Why does Mindbody need a developer key?
Mindbody’s Public API requires a developer account approved for live access, and each business is activated by its owner. It’s a one-time setup per studio.
Can I get a daily Mindbody report?
Yes. A Carly workflow emails or texts the day’s classes and headcounts every morning, across every location you connected.
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