Founder. VP of Engineering. One job that works in the chat they already use.
What you actually get
- One paid job in your product, callable from named chat apps (Claude, ChatGPT, optionally Grok) through a small read-only remote MCP surface.
- You keep the repository, the cloud account, the OAuth application, the policies, and the submit button.
- Not a hosted multi-tenant gateway. No listing, ranking, or traffic promise. First jobs do not include book or buy write tools.
- The price buys hoops: paper and a DIY kit, a PR-assisted merge-ready connector, or white-glove work inside your access process.
Why people pay when DIY exists
A sharp intern can generate tools by Thursday. Then the demo dies on OAuth. Tenancy is not fail-closed. Signed evals do not exist. Legal asks who hosts it and who clicks submit.
You did not fail at wrapping an API. You hit the part the generator skips: auth, tenancy, evals, and legal.