summitflow-mcp

<!-- mcp-name: io.github.RyanKramer/summitflow-mcp -->

# SummitFlow MCP

Grant management tools for AI agents. Plan backward from a funder deadline,
count business days around federal holidays, build a grant budget with indirect
on the correct base, and value volunteer and in-kind contributions.

**No API key. No account. No network calls.** Every tool is a pure function.

Web versions of these tools live at [summitflow.co/tools](https://summitflow.co/tools).

## Install

Claude Desktop — add to `claude_desktop_config.json`:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "summitflow": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["summitflow-mcp"]
    }
  }
}
```

Or `pip install summitflow-mcp`. No environment variables required.

## Tools

| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| `grant_deadline_plan` | Works backward from a deadline to start-drafting, internal-review and packet-complete dates |
| `grant_lead_times` | The lead times behind that plan, with the reasoning for each |
| `business_days_between` | Business days between two dates, skipping weekends and US federal holidays |
| `add_business_days` | Add or subtract business days from a date |
| `federal_holidays` | US federal holidays for a year, with observed dates |
| `grant_budget` | Full budget with fringe and indirect calculated on MTDC or TDC |
| `volunteer_time_value` | Volunteer hours valued at the published national rate |
| `in_kind_value` | Totals donated goods and services at fair market value |
| `summitflow_resources` | Free templates, guides and calculators on the web |

## Why the details matter

**Indirect goes on the right base.** `grant_budget` defaults to Modified Total
Direct Cost, which excludes equipment and the portion of each contract above the
first $25,000. Applying your rate to total direct costs instead is the most
common budget error and it inflates the ask in a way reviewers notice. The tool
reports which base it used and what it excluded.

**Observed holiday dates, not nominal ones.** A federal holiday falling on a
Saturday closes offices the Friday before. For a deadline calculation that is
the difference between submitting on time and submitting late, so all the date
math uses observed dates.

**The volunteer rate is cited, not invented.** `volunteer_time_value` defaults
to Independent Sector's published national value of volunteer time (2025), and
says so in its output, because a match figure you cannot source is a figure you
cannot defend. Skilled volunteers doing professional work should be valued at
the rate for that work instead.

**Deadlines are not plans.** `grant_deadline_plan` returns three earlier dates
because those are the ones that go on a calendar with a person's name attached.
The deadline itself should be uneventful.

## Development

```bash
git clone https://github.com/RyanKramer/summitflow-mcp
cd summitflow-mcp
pip install -e .
summitflow-mcp
```

## About

Built by [SummitFlow](https://summitflow.co) — the grant deadline safety net for
small nonprofits. Free
[templates](https://summitflow.co/templates),
[guides](https://summitflow.co/guides) and
[calculators](https://summitflow.co/tools).

MIT licensed.