# Connecting ChatGPT > From FilmScorecard Help: https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/connecting-chatgpt Connect ChatGPT on the web to your FilmScorecard account through its developer mode, then ask it about your festivals in plain words. Once it is connected, ChatGPT can look through what your own screens show you (submissions, judges, scorecards, awards, judge pay and settings) and answer questions about it. It acts as you, so it reaches exactly what you reach and nothing more, and **it can change only three things**: a film's status, your own flag, and Priority. Everything a connected app can do is in [Connecting an AI app](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/connecting-an-ai-app.md#what-a-connected-app-can-do). ## Before you start - **Your organization needs AI access.** FilmScorecard switches it on one organization at a time. To check, open **Your profile** in the menu behind your name and choose the **Connections** tab: if ChatGPT's row offers **How to connect**, you have it. If the **AI apps** card says "AI access isn't on for *your organization* yet", press **Request AI access**: it opens our contact form with the request already written. See [Connections](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-account-settings.md#connections). - **ChatGPT on the web, on a plan that offers developer mode.** ChatGPT adds apps of your own only in developer mode. If a workspace manages your ChatGPT, its administrator may have to allow it. - **The address.** Every app needs the same one. ChatGPT's steps on the Connections tab show it with a **Copy** button beside it: ``` https://www.filmscorecard.com/api/mcp ``` **There is no key, token or password to copy anywhere.** ChatGPT never sees your sign-in code: FilmScorecard gives it a pass of its own when you allow it, and you can take that back at any time. **ChatGPT may warn you that developer mode lets an app change things.** That is true of developer mode in general. FilmScorecard's app can change only the three things above, and nothing else, whatever ChatGPT asks of it. ## Connecting ChatGPT 1. **Turn on developer mode.** Open **Settings**, then **Apps**, then **Advanced settings**, and turn on **Developer mode**. 2. **Create the app.** Back in **Apps**, choose **Create**. Name it FilmScorecard, paste the address as the **MCP server URL**, and set **Authentication** to **OAuth**. A description is optional. 3. **Confirm and create.** Confirm that you trust the app, and create it. Your browser opens on FilmScorecard. 4. **Sign in, if FilmScorecard asks.** If you are not signed in to FilmScorecard in that browser, you get the log-in screen first. Sign in with your emailed code as usual (see [Logging in](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/logging-in.md)), and you come straight back. 5. **Check the request.** The connection page asks whether to let the app in. It shows the app's name, with "wants to connect to your account." under it; **Will act as**, which is the address you sign in with; and **It can**, which reads "read and update festival data you already have access to". **Make sure it names ChatGPT, the app you just added.** If you did not just start connecting an app, press **Deny**, and nothing is connected. 6. **Press Allow.** Your browser goes back to ChatGPT, and the app is connected. **ChatGPT moves its menus from time to time.** If yours do not match these steps, look for developer mode first, then for creating an app or connector from an MCP server URL. **To check it worked**, open the **Connections** tab on your account screen: ChatGPT reads **Connected**, with the date you allowed it. ## Using it Start a new chat, make sure the FilmScorecard app is switched on for it, and ask about your festivals the way you would ask a colleague. For example: - "Which festivals and seasons can you see in FilmScorecard?" - "Give me an overview of this season's submissions and judging." - "List the films in this season that are still In Consideration." - "Mark these three films as Priority." **ChatGPT starts by finding your festivals**, because every other question names an organization, a festival or a season. If you belong to more than one, say which one you mean. **It changes only three things, and a status move is always previewed first.** Before any film moves between In Consideration, Selected and Not Selected, FilmScorecard shows ChatGPT exactly which films would move, and nothing changes until ChatGPT asks again to confirm. Each tool that changes something is marked as doing so, and ChatGPT can use that mark to ask you first. See [Moving films between statuses](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/connecting-an-ai-app.md#moving-films-between-statuses). **A change ChatGPT makes is the same change you would make on the Submissions screen**, made as you. Your colleagues see it on their own screens when their list next refreshes. **For more to ask, and habits that get better answers**, see [Using an AI app](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/using-an-ai-app.md). ## If something goes wrong | What you see | What to do | | --- | --- | | There is no **Developer mode** in ChatGPT's settings | Your plan may not offer it, or your workspace administrator has not allowed it. | | There is no way to create an app, or no **OAuth** choice for authentication | Developer mode is off, or ChatGPT has moved the setting. Turn developer mode on, then look again under **Apps**. | | "AI access isn't enabled for your organization.", with **Deny** and no **Allow** | None of your organizations has AI access, or you are signed in on an account that belongs to no organization, such as a judge's. Press **Deny** so ChatGPT stops waiting, then press **Request AI access** on your Connections tab. | | "This connection request has expired or was already answered. Start again from your AI app." | A request does not last long and can be answered once. Connect the app in ChatGPT again. | | "This connection request is incomplete. Start again from your AI app." | The page was opened from a bookmark or typed by hand. Connect the app in ChatGPT again. | | "That didn't go through. Try again." | Your answer did not reach FilmScorecard. Press **Allow** again. If it keeps happening, start again from ChatGPT. | | ChatGPT says it was told "Too many calls in the last minute. Wait a moment and try again." | Each person can make 120 calls a minute across every app they have connected. Wait a moment. See [120 calls a minute](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/connecting-an-ai-app.md#120-calls-a-minute). | | ChatGPT says it was told "AI access isn't enabled for this organization." | AI access for that organization has been switched off since you connected. See [When AI access is switched off](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/connecting-an-ai-app.md#when-ai-access-is-switched-off). | | ChatGPT says it was told "That needs … and your role doesn't include it." | Your role does not reach that screen, so ChatGPT cannot either. See [When the app is refused](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/connecting-an-ai-app.md#when-the-app-is-refused). | ## Disconnecting ChatGPT 1. Open **Your profile** in the menu behind your name, and choose the **Connections** tab. 2. On **ChatGPT**'s row, press the amber **Disconnect** beside the connection. 3. Press the amber **Disconnect** in the dialog. **ChatGPT is refused from its next request.** To use it again, connect the app in ChatGPT again, and FilmScorecard asks you again. **Deleting the app in ChatGPT's own settings takes it out of ChatGPT, but FilmScorecard keeps listing the connection** until you disconnect it on the Connections tab. To tidy up completely, do both. ## Related guides - [Using an AI app](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/using-an-ai-app.md): what to ask it, and how to get good answers. - [Connecting an AI app](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/connecting-an-ai-app.md): everything a connected app can do, the 34 tools, what it is never given, and every sentence it is told when it is refused. - [Your account settings](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-account-settings.md#connections): the Connections tab. - [Connecting Claude](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/connecting-claude.md), [Connecting Claude Code](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/connecting-claude-code.md), [Connecting Cursor](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/connecting-cursor.md) and [Connecting another AI app](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/connecting-another-ai-app.md).