Introducing the Ordinal API and MCP

Starting today, everything you do in Ordinal is programmable. We're launching a REST API and an MCP server that lets AI tools interact directly with your workspace.

API: Programmatic access to Ordinal

The Ordinal API gives you programmatic access to your entire workspace:

• Posts - Create, update, schedule, and manage posts
• Analytics - Pull follower growth and post performance data
• Auto-engagements - Configure likes, comments, and reposts that fire when a post goes live
• Approvals - Create approval requests, manage subscribers, organize content with labels
• Team management - Invite users, manage profiles, control workspace settings

MCP: your AI tools can now manage your social

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a standard that lets AI tools connect to external data sources. Think of it as a bridge between your AI assistant and the apps you use every day.

We built an MCP server so tools like Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, Gemini, and Codex can talk directly to Ordinal.

That means you can be working in your editor or chatting with Claude and say:

• "What posts do I have scheduled this week?"
• "Create a LinkedIn post from this doc and schedule it for Monday at 9am"
• "Show me my top performing posts from January"

No switching tabs, no copy-pasting, no breaking your flow.

Where this gets interesting

Content pipelines. Feed a brief into Claude, have it draft a post, schedule it through Ordinal, and set up auto-engagements. All without touching the UI.

Custom reporting. Pull analytics from the API into your own dashboards. Pipe them into Notion, Google Sheets, or your CRM.

Internal tools. Build a Slack bot that creates draft posts from a channel message. Or a script that auto-schedules your team's content for the week.

We've been using the MCP server internally with Claude Code to manage our own social. The feedback loop between "think of something to post" and "it's scheduled" is now shorter than ever.

Getting started

For existing users interested in getting setup, check out the below links:

API: Setup API and API docs

MCP: Setup MCP and MCP docs.

MCP setup takes about a minute for most tools.

If you have a use case in mind that's currently not supported, reach out to us at support@tryordinal.com.