What is the TorlyAI Claude connector?

It is a connector you add to Claude.ai (web or desktop) that gives you six UK Innovator Founder Visa specialists — McGonagall, Dumbledore, Harry, Hermione, Kingsley and Dobby — exposed as around 22 tools. Your own Claude does the writing and reasoning; TorlyAI provides the visa-specific structure, the deterministic 4F Innovation Matrix scoring, financial modelling, and the endorsing-body knowledge.

How much does the TorlyAI connector cost?

£24 per month, cancel anytime. It is billed separately from the TorlyAI Desktop app and requires your own active Claude.ai or Claude Desktop subscription, because the connector uses your Claude to do the reasoning and writing.

Is the connector the same as the TorlyAI Desktop app?

No. The desktop app is a full local application that stays 100% on your machine with AES-256 storage. The connector brings the same visa toolkit into Claude.ai instead. They are independent purchases — you can hold either or both — and the desktop app is unchanged.

Is my data private when I use the connector?

Yes. The connector is stateless by default — it only remembers your project across sessions if you turn on encrypted cloud sync. When sync is on, your data is encrypted before it is stored and only you can read it.

TorlyAI is now in Claude: your visa specialists, inside Claude.ai

There is a long-standing problem with using a general-purpose AI to prepare a UK Innovator Founder Visa application: the model is fluent but it is not accountable to the rubric your endorsing body actually scores against. It will write a confident business plan that never mentions the three dimensions an endorsement panel assesses, invent a market size it cannot defend, and reassure you about an idea that an experienced assessor would send straight back. The writing is the easy part. The structure, the scoring, and the endorsing-body knowledge are the hard part — and that is exactly the part a generic chatbot does not have.

Today we are closing that gap from the other direction. TorlyAI's six visa specialists are now available as a connector you add to Claude.ai — web or desktop — in about a minute. You keep the Claude you already use; we supply the visa-specific structure, the deterministic scoring, and the endorsing-body knowledge that turns a fluent draft into an endorsement-ready one.

What the connector actually is

A connector is a small server that Claude can call when it needs a specialist tool. Ours is deliberately a thin server: your Claude does all the reasoning and writing, and TorlyAI provides the things a general model cannot — the visa-specific structure, the deterministic computation, the entitlement gating, and the endorsing-body knowledge. We never run the inference. That is a feature, not a limitation: you keep your own Claude, your own context, and your own conversation, and you simply gain a team of UK visa experts inside it.

Concretely, the connector exposes six specialist personas as mounted toolsets — around 22 tools in total — mapped to the same six-phase journey our desktop users already know: Plan → Ideate → Draft → Model → Prove → Submit.

Specialist	What they do	Phase
McGonagall	Orchestrates the journey and runs the quality gate	Plan / any
Dumbledore	Strategy and fit — including the full 4F Innovation Matrix	Ideate
Harry	Drafting — business-plan sections and pitch deck	Draft
Hermione	Financial and team modelling	Model
Kingsley	Compliance, caseworker readiness, endorsement navigation	Prove
Dobby	Evidence assembly, document checklist, interview coaching	Submit

Two of those tools return deterministic computed results rather than free-form text, which is what makes them defensible:

The 4F Innovation Matrix — PMF × FMF × BMF, plus Fortune — produces a composite score, a verdict (pursue, refine, or reconsider), a gap analysis, and an endorsement-readiness percentage. The maths is identical to the desktop engine, so the number you get inside Claude is the number an assessor's logic would reach.
Financial modelling — 3-to-5-year projections, sensitivity analysis, funding gap, and break-even month. Computed, not guessed.

Everything else returns structured guidance — the right questions, the rubric, the evidence requirements — that your Claude then writes the prose from.

Why this matters for your application

Endorsing bodies do not score your prose. They score your idea against a rubric, your numbers against a runway test, and your evidence against a checklist. We have written at length about why generic AI fails visa business plans and about how the 4F Innovation Matrix actually scores an idea. The connector puts those frameworks where you already work.

Your own Claude does the writing. TorlyAI does the scoring, the structure, and the visa knowledge — so the draft is built to the rubric, not just to read well.

— The TorlyAI connector, in one line

A short example of what that looks like in practice — you ask, a specialist answers with a real computed result:

You: Score my idea on the 4F matrix.

Dumbledore ▸ PMF 0.72  FMF 0.65  BMF 0.58  → REFINE
            Gap: business-model fit is your weakest dimension.
            Endorsement readiness: 61%.

That REFINE verdict and that 61% are not flattery — they come from the same deterministic engine our desktop app uses. You then keep talking to Claude to fix the weakest dimension, and re-score until you are in pursue territory.

Who it is for

The connector is for anyone preparing a UK Innovator Founder Visa application who already lives in Claude.ai and would rather bring the specialists to their workflow than switch tools. If you are at the very start, McGonagall and Dumbledore help you pressure-test the idea before you invest months in it. If you have a draft, Harry and Hermione give it structure and a defensible financial model. If you are close to submission, Kingsley and Dobby check caseworker readiness, help you match the right endorsing body, and coach you through the interview.

It is complementary to, not a replacement for, the TorlyAI Desktop app. The desktop app stays 100% local with AES-256 storage and is completely unchanged by this launch. The connector is a different surface for people who prefer Claude.ai. Your TorlyAI account spans both — same identity, separate £24/month subscription for the connector.

A note on privacy

TorlyAI Desktop stays 100% local. This connector is stateless by default — it only remembers your project across sessions if you turn on encrypted cloud sync. Your data is encrypted before it's stored and only you can read it. There is no trial and no promo codes in this first version; it is a straightforward £24/month, cancel anytime.

How to add it

Adding the connector takes about a minute:

The full walkthrough, including the optional encrypted cloud-sync toggle, lives in the Claude connector documentation. Pricing — and how the £24/month connector differs from the £24/week Desktop Premium plan — is on the pricing page.

Bring your visa specialists into the Claude you already use.

Add the TorlyAI connector to Claude.ai in about a minute. Six specialists, real 4F scoring, £24/month — cancel anytime.

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What this does not change

We are not replacing the desktop app, we are not changing its price, and we are not moving anyone's data. We are adding a second front door — into the Claude you already use — for the same six specialists and the same defensible scoring that have always been the point of TorlyAI. The writing was never the hard part. The rubric is. Now the rubric travels with you.