Claude writes. MediaPilot publishes.
Claude is one of the best places to work on a draft. By Anthropic's own account it makes no photos or illustrations, and it needs a connector to put a post on LinkedIn. MediaPilot is one. Here is how they fit, and when Claude alone is enough.
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Generated with every draft.
Profiles and company pages, at the time you set.
Add MediaPilot as a custom connector.
A writer with tools, but no picture desk
Claude drafts and rewrites as well as any assistant. It remembers context across conversations, keeps projects, and on paid plans runs scheduled tasks in the cloud. Custom connectors work on every plan; the free plan allows one. Two things are missing for a LinkedIn channel. Anthropic's help centre says Claude does not generate photos or illustrations; it builds diagrams and charts as HTML and SVG. And a post reaches LinkedIn only through something else: a connector, such as the Typefully scheduler in Claude's directory, or the Claude in Chrome extension. MediaPilot covers both gaps and the bookkeeping: an image with each draft, a calendar, the official LinkedIn API, analytics per post.
- Claude: drafting, memory, projects, scheduled tasks
- No photos or illustrations, by Anthropic's own account
- MediaPilot: image, calendar, LinkedIn API, analytics
Add MediaPilot as a connector and stay in Claude
MediaPilot has an MCP server — the protocol Anthropic created for connecting assistants to tools. In Claude you add it as a custom connector with one URL, sign in on media-pilot.io and choose what it may do: read, draft, schedule, publish, each separately. From then on Claude works in your workspace: it reads the topic pool, writes a draft that lands in MediaPilot with its image, schedules the post and later reads the analytics back. Anthropic says scheduled tasks can use your connectors too, so a weekly drafting task is possible in principle. It needs MediaPilot Growth or Scale. On Claude's side any plan will do.
- One URL: https://mcp.media-pilot.io/mcp
- Start with read and draft; add publishing later
- Revoke the connection in MediaPilot at any time
MediaPilot and Claude
| MediaPilot | Claude | |
|---|---|---|
| Writes the post | Yes — from a topic or one line | Yes — from your prompt |
| Creates the image | Yes — generated per post | No photos or illustrations; diagrams as HTML or SVG |
| Publishes to LinkedIn | Yes — official LinkedIn API | Through a connector or its Chrome extension |
| Scheduling | Calendar; the post goes out on time | Scheduled tasks in the cloud, on paid plans |
| Connecting the two | MCP server, on Growth and Scale | Custom connectors on every plan; one on Free |
| Entry price | $9.90 / month, 7 free days | Free plan; Pro $20 / month, $17 billed annually |
Claude details from claude.com/pricing and support.claude.com, checked on 5 October 2026. Prices change — check before you decide.
Where Claude is the better choice
Claude handles reports, research, code and long documents in one place. MediaPilot only does LinkedIn posts.
Claude's directory lists schedulers such as Typefully that also cover X and Threads. MediaPilot is LinkedIn only.
A draft from Claude's free plan, pasted into LinkedIn, costs nothing. A subscription pays off once posting is routine.
Three steps
Add a custom connector
https://mcp.media-pilot.io/mcp
Sign in and choose rights
On media-pilot.io: read only, or up to publishing.
Ask Claude for a post
It appears in MediaPilot under Posts.
Good to know
Not a photo or illustration; Anthropic says so. With MediaPilot connected, the image comes with the draft: a scene, a quote card or a framework card.
On Claude's side, yes: Anthropic allows one custom connector on Free. On ours, the MCP connection is part of Growth and Scale, not Starter.
Only with the rights you grant. Read, draft, schedule and publish are separate: with read and draft alone, Claude can prepare posts but not schedule or publish them.
Yes. Every plan starts with 7 free days. Cancel in one click if it is not for you.
Yes. MediaPilot uses the official LinkedIn API and never asks for your password.
Let Claude write. Let MediaPilot publish.
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