The Redan MCP

Connect Redan to Claude and ChatGPT

Ask a compliance question in Claude or ChatGPT and get an answer out of Redan's SEC knowledge base, with the rule cited.

Asked in Claude

Does a standing letter of authorization trip custody?

Answered from Redan’s knowledge base

Yes. The SEC staff’s no-action letter to the Investment Adviser Association (February 21, 2017) says so. A standing letter of authorization lets the adviser tell the custodian to move client money, and that is custody under Rule 206(4)-2(d)(2)(ii). The staff will not recommend enforcement for skipping the surprise exam if seven conditions hold, among them: the client signs the instruction naming the payee, the adviser cannot change the payee, and the custodian verifies each transfer and notifies the client.

SourceSEC Division of Investment ManagementNo-action letter2017-02-21sec.gov

The install

Three steps, in Claude or ChatGPT.

  1. 1

    In Claude, open Customize, then Connectors.

    It is in the left sidebar. Connectors is the second tab.

    The claude.ai sidebar with Customize selected, and the Connectors tab open with an Add button at the right.

  2. 2

    Click Add, name it Redan, and paste your link.

    The link goes in the server URL field. Then click Continue.

    The Add custom connector dialog with the name Redan and a Redan link in the server URL field, and a Continue button.

  3. 3

    Under Authentication, choose None, then click Add.

    Claude checks the server and usually selects None for you. Nothing else on that screen needs touching.

    The Authentication choice on the second screen of the dialog, with None selected and marked Detected.

Claude already has a connector

Claude’s free plan allows one custom connector at a time. If something else is attached, remove it before you add Redan. Paid plans have no such limit.

Anthropic’s own documentation

Your client takes a config file

Some clients want a file instead of a dialog. The same link goes in as an HTTP server URL.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "redan": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://redancompliance.com/api/mcp/k/your-link"
    }
  }
}

The same install, in ChatGPT

  1. 1

    In ChatGPT, open Plugins, then click + for a New Plugin.

    Developer mode has to be on first, under Settings, Security and login. It is available on ChatGPT’s paid plans.

    The empty New Plugin dialog in ChatGPT, with fields for name, description, server URL and authentication.

  2. 2

    Name it Redan, paste your link in as the Server URL, and set Authentication to No Auth.

    Then check the box and click Create.

    The New Plugin dialog filled in with the name Redan, a Redan link in the Server URL field, and Authentication set to No Auth.

  3. 3

    Type + in any chat and choose Redan to use it.

    It shows up in the plugin list like anything else you have connected.

    The plugin picker open in a ChatGPT chat, with Redan listed at the top.

That is the whole install, either way.

For your technology team

What the free MCP can reach.

For whoever approves new software at your firm. Forward them this page.

Installation

Nothing.

The link goes into a settings field in Claude or ChatGPT. No software runs on your devices or your network.

Data access

Redan’s knowledge base.

Nothing else. It has no route to your email, files, drives or calendars, and a free link cannot open any firm’s records, yours included.

Permissions

Read-only.

No tool can create, change or delete anything.

Outside providers

The SEC-rule search only.

It sends the question, with the public rule text it matched, to an approved outside provider. If the question quotes something, the quote goes too.

Hosting

The United States.

Redan stores its data there, encrypted in transit and at rest.

Question record

Not kept.

Redan records which tool ran, how long it took and whether it failed, never the question or the answer.

Expiry

180 days.

The email that carries the link gives the date. Redan stores only a one-way hash of it, so nobody at Redan can read a link back.

Switching off

On request.

Write to us and we switch the link off. Nothing was installed, so there is nothing to remove.

Then ask it something

The expert in the room.

Ask what you would ask someone who had read the rules, the orders and the staff letters.

Redan answers from its own knowledge base and names the record the answer came from.

  • Has a CCO been charged individually?
  • We used a deck once, at one meeting. Do we have to keep a copy of it?
  • We describe ourselves as conflict-free.
  • Fund wholesalers keep taking our analysts to dinner. Where is the line?
  • Do we ask whether they train models on our data?
  • What training covers texting clients on WhatsApp?
  • Do we have to show the losing years?

What the SEC and its staff have said

  • SEC rules

    “A client wants to record a short video saying how happy she is with us. What has to be said alongside it?”

    The rule text itself, cited to the subsection, with its effective date, its adopting release and the rules it cross-references.

  • Staff guidance

    “What is actually on the exam list for this year?”

    No-action letters, risk alerts, exam priorities, staff FAQs and adopting releases, each with its date and a link to the source.

  • Enforcement

    “Has the SEC charged firms over off-channel communications?”

    Actions against advisers and their compliance officers, with the charge, the penalty, the release number and the order itself.

  • Worked examples

    “What is a compliant way to show gross and net?”

    Advertising language the SEC treated as deficient: the phrase, why it is a problem, and what it should have said.

Where the rulebook stops

  • Best practice and industry standards

    What a well-run program does above the legal floor: what gets flagged in a deck, what to ask a vendor, which training a firm runs and how often.

  • Redan’s own positions

    Where the rule says nothing, what Redan advises and what that view rests on. Always labeled as Redan’s, never as what the SEC requires.

  • A first stop for anyone at your firm

    A junior analyst can check a question against a trusted source before taking it to compliance, and the answer shows where it came from.

Ask where any document came from and it shows the source and the date Redan read it. When Redan does not hold something, it says so rather than guessing.

For your firm

Then add your firm’s own documents.

Everything above is free, and it answers from Redan’s knowledge base.

Give Redan your policy manuals and fund documents, and it answers from what your firm has said as well.

One question, answered from both

Fund wholesalers keep taking our analysts to dinner. Where is the line?

Redan’s knowledge base

Everything the free MCP reads

What the SEC and its staff have said, and what lies past the rulebook, so the rule comes with your policy where one applies.

What your firm has said

  • Your policy manuals

    Searched section by section, and quoted with the section’s number.

  • Your fund documents

    Searched and quoted the same way.

  • Your public record

    Form ADV, your brochure and your other filings, each dated and linked to its source.

What your people get

  • Your policy, as written

    The answer quotes the section word for word, so what your people read is what your firm adopted.

  • Never “you’re clear”

    When no section fits, it names the closest one as the closest and sends the person to compliance.

  • Every quote dated

    Each answer carries the date Redan read the document, so anyone can see which version it answered from.

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Where to start

Start free. Add your firm when you’re ready.

The free MCP takes an email address and three steps.Adding your firm’s own documents starts with a demo.

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