Context to your AI
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Palette MCP turns every AI tool your team uses into a context-aware assistant. Instead of pasting background into every prompt, your AI starts with live knowledge of your org, teams, and people. The examples below show what that looks like in practice, grouped by what you're asking about.
Tip
Where you see [insert name] in a prompt, swap in the teammate, project, or account you're asking about. Paste any prompt into your AI tool once Palette MCP is installed.
For you
Your company brain, on tap. Every change and decision, one prompt away, wherever you work with your AI tool.
For individual contributors
Ramp-up & onboarding
New hire lost in Slack. Instead of guessing who owns what and lurking in channels, just ask.
Who do I ping about the APAC reseller program?
What are the team's top priorities this quarter? What should I read first?
Summarize what our retention initiative actually means and why it matters.
Which rituals am I expected to attend, and what's pre-read vs. show-up?
Give me a cheat sheet of every teammate: role, strengths, what they're working on.
Pre-meeting prep
Thirty seconds before a call. Instead of scanning Linear, Notion, and Slack, one prompt.
I have a 1:1 with [insert name] in 5 min. What are they focused on? Any blockers?
Prep me for the [insert name] call: history with them, our last asks, current status.
I'm joining the weekly review. What's moved this week that's worth mentioning?
Draft talking points for the investor call on our retention progress.
Finding the right context, not the right file
Ask the org, not the doc. Decision history and active patterns on demand.
Why did we move from the old pricing model to usage-based?
Is our APAC launch approach consistent with how we ran EMEA?
Is this project I just got assigned aligned with team priorities, or should I flag scope?
Who's been closest to the [insert name] launch recently? I need a sanity-check reviewer.
Drafting comms in the team's voice
Matches tone, format, and conventions your team already uses, without asking three people first.
Draft a Slack status update on what I shipped today for the #team channel.
Write a launch brief matching our team's standard format for the [insert name] rollout.
Draft a customer email about the pricing change, matching how we usually communicate.
For team leads
Monday morning "state of the team"
Replaces 20 tab-switches with one prompt. The flagship team-lead loop.
What's at risk for this week's launch?
Which projects have been stalled for more than a week, and who's blocking?
What's the workload per person? Is anyone overloaded?
What's the delta from last week? What moved from In Progress to Done?
1:1 prep & performance context
Enter every conversation with the context already loaded: what they've moved, where they've struggled, how they work.
Prep my monthly 1:1 with [insert name]: what have they delivered, struggled with, handled async vs. sync?
Where has [insert name] made the biggest difference this month?
Who on the team hasn't had visibility lately in our weekly review?
Cross-team & stakeholder coordination
Partner status and customer context, without the spreadsheet dance.
What's [insert name]'s onboarding status? Any open issues or escalations?
Which design partners are most likely to give feedback on the [insert name] launch?
Draft the weekly partner check-in agenda based on what moved on our side.
Planning & roadmap alignment
Capacity, priorities, and dependencies in one place, before you commit.
We have capacity for one more project this quarter. Which Backlog items best unblock GTM?
Are we double-investing in activation and retention? Is that intentional?
If I move [insert name] to the customer-facing team, what breaks on the retention workstream?
Across teams
Know what's going on around you, across the org: what other teams are focused on, what's shipping, what you're depending on. One prompt instead of Slack-hunting three channels.
What's shipping, and what just shipped
Stay current on what other teams are getting out the door, without scanning releases.
What's the product team shipping this month?
Is the [insert name] launch on track? What's moved this week?
Which features went live last week that customers should know about?
What did we ship recently that I could reference in my next customer call?
Draft the engineering section of the board update: what shipped, why, and what it unblocks.
List what we shipped this week and draft three launch angles that match what actually changed.
What other teams are focused on
Priorities and bets from rooms you're not in.
What is sales focused on this quarter?
What's marketing's top priority right now?
What is the design team working on that touches my roadmap?
What are the three biggest bets across the company this quarter?
Log the decision to pause the mobile rewrite and surface it in Monday's team brief.
What we're depending on, and what's depending on us
Surface blocking work early, not on Friday afternoon.
Status of the pricing work we're waiting on: has it moved this week?
Which of our commitments depend on work another team hasn't started?
Who owns the auth migration right now, and where does it stand?
What are other teams waiting on from us that we haven't delivered?
Flag any open initiative where blocking work from another team hasn't moved in 10 days.
Customer & partner signals from other teams
Hear what sales, support, and success are hearing, without chasing DMs.
Which customers have been asking for the feature I'm about to scope?
What are our design partners saying about the beta this week?
Which accounts is sales closest to closing? Anything that might shift our roadmap?
What are the top three issues support has seen this week?
Handoffs between functions
When work crosses team boundaries, the rationale moves with it.
Brief a new PM on the [insert name] workstream: decisions so far, owners, current blockers, where the team is stuck.
Summarize the design decisions on billing since kickoff, the trade-offs we accepted, and the open questions for engineering.
Setup
Adding Palette MCP takes about a minute. See the setup guides for Claude, ChatGPT, or other MCP-compatible tools.
Why this beats connecting tools directly
Plugging Slack, Linear, or Notion straight into your AI only gives it access to what you can see. Palette aggregates opt-in context across teams, so your AI can answer questions about work happening in channels and projects you're not in. Every team that connects makes every other team's AI smarter.
See how Palette works for the full flow.