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title: "Claude Desktop + Insurance CRM: The Complete MCP Setup Guide for Agents"
description: "Step-by-step guide to wiring Claude Desktop into unLocked CRM via MCP — config file location, JSON schema, API key placement, and the first 10 prompts every agent should try."
url: https://unlockedcrm.ai/blog/claude-desktop-insurance-crm-mcp-setup
canonical: https://unlockedcrm.ai/blog/claude-desktop-insurance-crm-mcp-setup
category: "Tutorials"
published: 2026-07-30
updated: 2026-07-30
author: "unLocked Team"
source: unLocked CRM — AI CRM for insurance agents
---

# Claude Desktop + Insurance CRM: The Complete MCP Setup Guide for Agents

## TL;DR

Add unLocked CRM to Claude Desktop's MCP config in under 3 minutes. Use your existing API key. Get full read/write access to contacts, policies, commissions, pipelines, and more from any Claude conversation.

<p>Claude Desktop now supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP) natively, which means you can give Claude direct, real-time access to your insurance CRM data without any glue code. Here's the exact playbook.</p>

<h2>Where the Config Lives</h2>
<p>On macOS: <code>~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json</code>. On Windows: <code>%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json</code>. Open it in any text editor.</p>

<h2>The MCP Server Block</h2>
<p>Add an entry under <code>mcpServers</code> pointing at the unLocked MCP endpoint with your API key as a header. Restart Claude Desktop and you'll see the unLocked tool icon in the chat input.</p>

<h2>The First 10 Prompts to Try</h2>
<ol>
<li>"List my 10 most recent contacts and their lead source."</li>
<li>"Show every Medicare policy renewing in the next 60 days."</li>
<li>"Draft a Q1 check-in email for my top 5 commission earners."</li>
<li>"Find contacts turning 65 in the next 90 days who don't have a policy yet."</li>
<li>"Summarize my pipeline by stage and forecast Q1 close."</li>
<li>"Create a task to call John Doe tomorrow at 2pm."</li>
<li>"Pull commission statements from last month, group by carrier."</li>
<li>"Find ACA clients whose income changed and need a SEP review."</li>
<li>"Build a list of orphaned policies (no agent assigned)."</li>
<li>"Draft a personalized SMS for every annual review due this week."</li>
</ol>

<h2>Why This Beats a Sidebar Chatbot</h2>
<p>Embedded CRM chatbots are siloed — they only know what they've been wired to know. Claude Desktop with MCP can combine your CRM data with web research, calendar, files, and other MCP servers in a single conversation. That compositional power is what makes MCP the new standard.</p>

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Source: [Claude Desktop + Insurance CRM: The Complete MCP Setup Guide for Agents](https://unlockedcrm.ai/blog/claude-desktop-insurance-crm-mcp-setup) — unLocked CRM, the AI CRM built for insurance agents. Citation permitted with attribution and a link to https://unlockedcrm.ai/blog/claude-desktop-insurance-crm-mcp-setup.