Use your own Claude or ChatGPT plan with your AI employees
For business owners and admins
Connect your company's own Claude account for all your AI employees, or ChatGPT for the AI employee you choose. It takes a link, a sign-in and a code, on your phone or computer.
Why it matters
If your company already pays for Claude or ChatGPT, your AI employees can work on that plan. Those answers do not count as VEP usage, and connecting works from a phone with no technical setup.
- Before
- Connecting your own Claude account needed a computer: you ran a sign-in command there and copied a credentials file into VEP, so a phone was not enough.
- Now
- You open a link on your phone or computer, sign in to Claude and paste the code into a page that names the AI employee or company you connect.
What you get
- Phone or computer: open the link in Safari or Chrome, sign in to Claude, approve and paste the code back into VEP. If the link opens inside another app, the page asks you to continue in Safari or Chrome.
- The right AI employee: the page names the AI employee, or the whole company, that the link connects, so the account goes where you meant it to.
- Your own AI employee or the whole company: connect a personal account for your own AI employee or, as a company admin, one account for the whole company.
- ChatGPT from the chat: connect your ChatGPT account from the chat with an AI employee, and that AI employee answers with ChatGPT as soon as the chat confirms it.
- Outside VEP usage: answers that run on your own Claude or ChatGPT plan do not count as VEP usage.
- A warning before it ends: a Claude connection lasts up to about a month. The person who connected it is told 3 days before it needs a fresh sign-in, and also if it stops working.
How to use it
You need your own Claude Max or paid ChatGPT plan. To connect it for the whole company, you need to be a company admin.
Ask for a connect link
In the chat with your AI employee, type
/connect claude. A company admin gets a link for the whole company, and in the chat with your own AI employee you get a link for it alone.Open it in Safari or Chrome
Open the link on your phone or computer. If it opens inside another app, tap Copy link and continue in Safari or Chrome, or tap Open in Chrome on an iPhone.
Sign in to Claude
Tap Sign in with Claude. Claude opens in a new tab: sign in to the account you want to connect if it asks, then tap Authorize.
Paste the code
Claude shows a code. Copy it, switch back to the VEP page, paste it and tap Connect. If the page reloaded in the meantime, just paste the code again.
Check the confirmation
The page tells you when the account is connected, and you also get a note in your chat. Your AI employee then answers on your own Claude plan.
Good to know
- To use ChatGPT, type
/connect codex, VEP's command for ChatGPT, in the chat with the AI employee that should use it. Open the link on any device, sign in to ChatGPT and enter the one-time code. The chat confirms when that AI employee answers with ChatGPT. - If a code is refused, your link keeps working: tap Sign in with Claude again and paste the new code.
- Warnings about a Claude connection reach the person who connected it as a message from VEP Support, with a link to connect it again.
Updates to this feature
Connect ChatGPT in the chat and your AI employee answers with it
The AI employee whose chat you connected from switches to ChatGPT, and the chat confirms it and asks you to send your message again.
Answers on your own Claude or ChatGPT plan do not count as VEP usage
Only answers that VEP pays for count as VEP usage, and the usage panel shows exactly that number.