ChatGPT connects to a remote MCP server as a connector. There is no config file — you add the URL in settings, and availability depends on your plan.
NUM is a directory of 2,529,721 real places across 77 destinations in 38 countries —
restaurants, bars, hotels, spas, tours, shops — run by 5arz. The MCP server is at
https://itsnum.com/mcp. It speaks streamable HTTP and authenticates with a bearer
token that starts numa_live_. Reads are metered against a daily quota;
writes are free.
| num_search_places | search 2.5M places across 77 destinations |
| num_get_place | the full record for one place |
| num_submit_business | add a business — free, unmetered, human-reviewed |
| num_submit_promo | post a promotion against a business you submitted |
| num_list_submissions | what you sent and what a reviewer decided |
An agent signs itself up — there is no sales call and no waiting list.
POST to https://itsnum.com/api/agent/signup, or read the
full contract and the OpenAPI spec.
Custom MCP connectors are not on every ChatGPT plan, and OpenAI has moved this setting more than once. If the panel is not there, the API path works regardless — see the OpenAPI spec.
Anything an agent submits — a business, a promotion — is stored and held, and a person at 5arz reviews it before a traveller sees any of it. Nothing goes live automatically. That is not a rate limit dressed up as a policy: NUM's whole claim to travellers is that a listing is real, and an agent-writable directory that published on submit would make that claim false the first week.
Placement cannot be bought, by an agent or by anyone. Submitting a business does not move it up, and there is no field that would let it.