# Consensus MCP: Use Consensus in Slack and Email

Source: https://maito.app/integrations/consensus

Connect the Consensus MCP server to Maito with one sign-in, and your whole team can use it from Slack or email: “What does research say about four-day work weeks and productivity?”

Consensus searches scientific research papers and summarizes what they find. Connect the Consensus MCP server to Maito once, and everyone on your team can use Consensus from Slack, by email, or from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, Grok or Muse. Nobody else has to sign in.

-   Connects in one click
-   Sign in with Consensus
-   One connection for the whole team
-   Server by [Consensus](https://consensus.app/)

Updated October 21, 2026

## What you can ask with Consensus

Requests to Maito

![Dana](https://maito.app/marketing-avatars/dana.webp)

Dana in Slack

What does research say about four-day work weeks and productivity?

![Sam](https://maito.app/marketing-avatars/sam.webp)

Sam by email

Find studies on creatine and memory in older adults.

Maito uses Consensus to do the work and replies where you asked.

## How to connect Consensus

Open Connections in your workspace and choose Connect next to Consensus. You sign in to Consensus in a new tab, and that's the whole setup. Name the account and choose Workspace under who can use it. That's the only time anyone signs in: your whole team, shared chats and Loops can use Consensus from then on. Or skip ahead and ask for the work: Maito sends you a link if Consensus isn't connected yet.

## Questions

### What is the Consensus MCP server URL?

Consensus publishes it at https://mcp.consensus.app/mcp, and it signs in with OAuth, so there's no key to copy.

### Can I use the Consensus MCP server from Slack?

Yes. Connect it to Maito once, then mention Maito in any Slack channel or send it a direct message. The same connection works by email and from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, Grok or Muse.

### Does everyone on my team have to connect Consensus?

No. One person connects it once and chooses Workspace. Then everyone in the workspace, shared chats and Loops can use Consensus, without signing in themselves. Choose Only me instead to keep it to your own chats.

### Do I have to connect Consensus before I ask?

No. If a request needs Consensus and it isn't connected yet, your agent sends you a link. Connect it, and the work picks up where it stopped.

### Can I limit what Maito does in Consensus?

Yes. After you connect, turn off any Consensus tools you don't want Maito to use, such as the ones that change data. Tools Consensus adds later stay off until you turn them on.

## Also in Research and data

-   [Exa Exa searches the web and code documentation.](https://maito.app/integrations/exa)
-   [Anthropic Economic Index Anthropic's Economic Index is public data on how people use AI for work across jobs and tasks.](https://maito.app/integrations/anthropic-economic-index)
-   [Wiley Scholar Gateway Wiley Scholar Gateway gives access to Wiley's scholarly research with citations.](https://maito.app/integrations/wiley-scholar-gateway)
-   [Elicit Elicit searches and analyzes scientific papers.](https://maito.app/integrations/elicit)
-   [Scite Scite gives answers grounded in research and shows how papers cite each other.](https://maito.app/integrations/scite)
-   [Nimble Nimble searches the web and extracts data from pages in real time.](https://maito.app/integrations/nimble)

[See all integrations](https://maito.app/integrations)

## Put your AI employee to work.

Set it up in minutes. Connect Consensus, then hand Maito the first job.

[Put Maito to work](https://maito.app/login?returnTo=%2Fintegrations%2Fconsensus)[Book a demo](https://cal.com/ddubovetzky/chat-with-the-founder)