Kate's take, in a sentence or two

Kate explained that a helpful trick for connecting Claude (Cowork or claude.ai) to more tools than the built-in connectors offer is using Zapier's MCP, which gives access to around 8,000 additional connectors—she's used it for things like QuickBooks and Google Search Console. She noted you need a paid Zapier plan, but since she already had one, it hasn't cost her extra, though there is a usage limit on the MCP itself. She also mentioned that even for tools already natively connected, like Gmail, the Zapier MCP sometimes offers more functionality than Claude's direct native connection.