Lots of AI tools give you ways to take action in other apps, and I've tried a handful of them. The problem is they're almost always locked to one ecosystem, or they connect to just one app at a time, which defeats the purpose. I'd get something working, then hit a wall the moment I needed it to reach into a different corner of my stack.
Zapier MCP is different. One connection gives ChatGPT (or any MCP-compatible client) governed access to more than 9,000 apps in Zapier's directory and over 30,000 actions. That means ChatGPT can create records, update rows, and send messages across your stack without you ever leaving the chat window. Below, I'm sharing four workflows with templates to help you get started quickly.
Pro tip: Not sure which ChatGPT model to use for your workflows? Our guide to AI models on Zapier covers every model available from Anthropic, OpenAI, and other providers.
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How to connect ChatGPT to Zapier MCP
Before you try these workflows, you'll need to install Zapier MCP into ChatGPT if you haven't already. If you can click, type, and copy-paste, you can set this up in minutes. Just follow these steps:
1. Head to the Zapier MCP dashboard.
2. Click +New MCP Server and choose ChatGPT as the client.
3. Now set up your first action. Click +Add tool.
4. Search for the app you want to connect to, then click its corresponding tile.
5. Select whichever action events you want to connect, then click Connect.
6. Connect your app accounts as needed.
7. In the dashboard, configure each action according to your needs by clicking the kebab menu (â‹®) and then Configure and adjusting values as needed. Hover over the tooltip icons next to any field for more details. When you're done, click Save.
8. Finally, click Connect at the top of the MCP dashboard and follow the instructions to add this server to your ChatGPT account.
Now you're ready to try the workflows below in ChatGPT.
Draft and save long-form content to Google Docs
You're a content marketer or writer who needs to produce first drafts fast—and you don't want to spend the next twenty minutes reformatting text and moving it into a doc. With ChatGPT connected to Google Docs via Zapier, the draft lands where it belongs.
Read a content brief, write a blog post draft, and save it to Google Docs automatically
Research a prospect and update their HubSpot record
You're in sales or RevOps, and you want ChatGPT to do the pre-call research you never have time for—and actually write the findings back to HubSpot so they're there when you need them.
Search for recent company news and add a research summary to their HubSpot record before your call
Summarize a meeting and send follow-up tasks in Asana
You're a project manager or team lead who wants ChatGPT to turn raw meeting notes into a clean summary and assigned tasks—so nothing gets lost after the call ends.
Turn meeting notes into a summary and assigned tasks in Asana automatically
Pull data from a Google Sheet and write a report to Notion
You're an analyst or ops lead who tracks metrics in a spreadsheet and wants a narrative summary written and filed automatically.
Analyze spreadsheet metrics, write an executive summary, and save it to Notion automatically
These four workflows are just a starting point. Once ChatGPT has live access to your tools, you can string together almost any sequence of research, decision, and action—without leaving the conversation or writing a line of code. Don't use ChatGPT? You can connect Zapier MCP to any AI client that supports the Model Context Protocol, including Claude, Microsoft Copilot Studio, and Cursor.
If you want to go deeper, the Zapier MCP feature guide walks you through connecting your apps to ChatGPT step by step, with more detail on configuration, permissions, and what to try next.
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This article was originally published in March 2026. It was most recently updated in May 2026.
