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Deal Desk for developers

Your team already writes proposals with Claude, Cursor and Copilot. Connect them to Deal Desk and they draft from what your company actually knows, with citations, while your library stays in Deal Desk. Deal Desk does the parts that have to be right: the pricing, the document and the signature.

There are three ways in, all with the same API key:

Way inWhat it is
Remote MCP serverhttps://app.dealdesk.studio/mcp, for Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code / GitHub Copilot, Claude Desktop and any MCP client.
REST APIhttps://app.dealdesk.studio/api/v1, described by an OpenAPI document.
Command line tooldealdesk, for your terminal and your scripts.

Quick start​

  1. Create an API key. In Deal Desk, open the account menu and choose Developer, then Create key. You need to be an account owner or admin, on the Starter plan or above. The key is shown once: copy it then.

  2. Connect your agent. For Claude Code it is one command (other clients are in MCP server):

    claude mcp add --transport http dealdesk https://app.dealdesk.studio/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer ddk_live_..."

  3. Ask. "Search our Deal Desk library for our ISO certifications", "Draft a proposal from these call notes", or "Upload this RFP to Deal Desk and draft every answer".

Prefer a terminal? dealdesk login signs the command line tool in through your browser without pasting a key.

Your first call​

The same key works over plain HTTPS. This returns the account, plan and features the key acts for:

curl https://app.dealdesk.studio/api/v1/account -H "Authorization: Bearer $DEALDESK_API_KEY"

What it costs​

Developer access is included on Starter, Pro and Team. On Free, the Developer section is visible but keys cannot be created, and existing keys answer 402.

  • Drafting is free, through the API exactly as in the app: drafting a proposal, drafting answers, searching the library.
  • Sending is metered exactly as in the app: a proposal sent for signature counts as one sent deal on your plan, once, however many times it is re-sent.
  • The company library and facts are included on every paid plan, from Starter. RFP responses need the RFP responder add-on, as in the app; without it those calls answer 402 with "required_addon": "rfp".

See Pricing for the plans, and Deal Desk for your AI agent for what this looks like from the agent's side.