Who owes us money, and who should we call first? It's a simple question. In most cannabis businesses, answering it means an invoice export, a download, a CSV pasted into ChatGPT and 30 minutes of cleanup. By the next day the numbers are stale and you do it again.
The new Distru MCP ends that loop. You know your business, and Distru knows the technology. The MCP puts the two together: your questions, your workflows and the AI tools you already use, running on Distru's live data. Here's what it is, what your team can ask it on day one, what it can change, and how to connect it in about four steps.
What is the Distru MCP?
The Distru MCP is a connector that lets Claude, ChatGPT and other AI tools read your live Distru data and, in stages, make changes to it. You ask about orders, inventory, invoices or compliance in plain English, and the answer comes from what's in Distru right now, with no exports.
MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, an open standard for connecting AI assistants to business software. If you want the background, our guide to what an MCP server is covers it in plain terms. Distru, the cannabis ERP built for licensed brands, cultivators, manufacturers and distributors, is the system of record the MCP reads from. The Distru MCP is free at launch.
The export loop it replaces
Most teams already use AI with their Distru data. In our customer survey, 51 of 54 respondents said they use AI at work, 36 of them in Claude and 30 in ChatGPT. The problem is how the data gets there.
- Exports go stale. An answer is only as fresh as the last CSV someone downloaded.
- Joining data means copy and paste. Matching a Distru report to a spreadsheet is still manual work.
- Answers depend on one person. Only the people who know which report to run can get the number.
With the MCP, your AI asks Distru directly. Every answer reflects live data, and executives, reps and ops leads can ask their own questions.
What can your team ask the Distru MCP?
Here are five questions teams are already asking. Copy any of them and swap in your own customers, products and dates.
Who owes us money, and who should I call first?
Ask it to grade every account A to F on how it pays, list open invoices by days past due, and rank who to call first. It reads open invoices, payments and balances, then drafts a follow-up for the accounts at the top. One sales director said the grading alone used to take more than an hour.
Which orders have been sitting more than four days?
Ask for every sales order older than four days, with the customer, status and value. If your AI tool supports scheduled tasks, you can run it on a schedule, so stalled orders show up before the customer calls to ask.
What are my days on hand, and what needs to be scheduled?
Ask for weighted days on hand by brand, product and strain type from the last 90 days of sales, plus every SKU below par. Your planner gets the list without rebuilding the spreadsheet every week.
Pull my month-end close reports and check QuickBooks
Ask for the month's COGS, inventory valuation and invoice history, plus any orders missing COGS and any invoices that failed to sync to QuickBooks. One business owner found seven invoices that never reached QuickBooks this way.
Is this order clear to ship?
Ask it to check a sales order: is the buyer's license active, does every batch have a passing COA, is anything on hold. It answers line by line, so your compliance manager sees the failing line before the order goes out.
What can the Distru MCP change, and what stays in Distru?
Reading is where most teams start. Write tools let the AI do the work in Distru too, and they roll out in stages as each one is tested.
- Products and records: create and update products, batches, companies, contacts and licenses. In one test, 150 strains were created as products in six minutes.
- Finance: create invoices, payments and credits, sync to QuickBooks and email invoice PDFs.
- Operations: create purchase orders and assemblies, move stock and update menus.
Ask your Distru rep which write tools are live for your account before you build a workflow on one.
Your permissions, your AI settings
Each person connects with their own Distru login, so the AI sees and changes only what that person's Distru role allows. Whether it asks before making a change depends on that person's settings in Claude or ChatGPT. For anything that matters, ask it to show you the draft first. Our post on what happens when AI gets access to your ERP goes deeper on scoping access.
Metrc stays with your team
Assemblies created through the MCP are saved as pending. Your team completes them in Distru, which is the step that reports to Metrc. The MCP can't create sales orders. Order entry stays with your team in Distru, or with the AI Order Agent if you use DistruCommerce.
How to connect Claude or ChatGPT to Distru
Setup takes four steps, and you don't need an API key.
- Copy the URL. Open Distru MCP in the Distru sidebar and copy the connection URL.
- Add a custom connector. In Claude, follow Anthropic's guide to custom connectors. In ChatGPT, follow OpenAI's guide to MCP connectors.
- Paste the URL. Drop the Distru URL into the connector.
- Sign in. Log in with your Distru account. The connection runs as you.
Developers who want to build their own agent can start from the Distru developer docs.
How to build your own workflows on Distru
No two cannabis operations run the same way. Your pricing rules, your par levels and your follow-up cadence are what make your business yours. With Distru as the foundation, the MCP lets you turn them into workflows that run the way you work, instead of bending your team around someone else's screens.
- Start with one question. Try "Who owes us money right now?" or "What's on hand for [brand]?"
- Check the answer once. Compare it to the same number in Distru so your team trusts it.
- Save what works. Turn prompts you repeat into saved prompts or skills, and share them by role.
- Add your other tools. Connect your spreadsheets, CRM or Slack so one prompt can join them to Distru.
Build your way, with Distru
The Distru MCP runs on the same live data your team already keeps in Distru, across inventory, orders, invoices and compliance. It's the first step in making your software an expression of how you do business. If you're a Distru customer, talk to your Distru rep to get your team connected. If you're not on Distru yet, book a demo and we'll show you the MCP on a real account.
