Derek Rose — Brain MCP | Metawork Studio

What was built

The Brain MCP is the connective layer between Claude and everything Derek Rose runs internally. Instead of switching between Pipedrive, spreadsheets and the reporting stack, the team asks a question in chat and the MCP goes and gets the answer.

The core system is a Model Context Protocol server hosted on the client VPS. It exposes the CRM, ERP and order data as tools Claude can call directly: look up a customer, pull order history, check inventory state by style code, cross reference a stockist against recent activity. Every tool call runs through access checks, so what a person can see in chat matches what they can see in the CRM.

The report builder is the feature the team uses most. Someone describes the report they want in plain language, the MCP resolves it against live data, and Claude returns the finished output. No SQL, no export and reformat cycle. We tested it against real reporting requests from the commercial side before rolling it out.

Alongside the tools sit the playbooks. We consolidated a scattered set of Claude projects into a single Git repository so prompts, skills and company context live in version control rather than in individual chat windows. Push a change to the repo and the server picks it up automatically. That deploy pipeline was the unlock: it turned the brain from something one person maintained by hand into infrastructure the whole team relies on.

The best part: Founder and CEO picked the approach up immediately and extended the functionality himself. We only assisted on right ways to prompt. We provided the core, CEO took it beyond our imagination and created both MCP tools and web UI for his team to access.

We also hardened the surrounding setup: secrets moved into encrypted storage, and we designed and shipped a backup strategy that pushes the VPS databases to remote storage on a schedule. The brain holds real business data, so it gets treated like production infrastructure.