OKZest MCP Server

Ask Your AI Assistant to Make Personalized Images: Introducing the OKZest MCP Server

You can now connect AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Copilot directly to your OKZest account. Once connected, you can create personalized images by simply asking for them in plain English:

"Generate a personalized welcome banner for Jane, title CEO."

No code. No API documentation to read. No copying and pasting parameters. Your AI assistant finds the right design, works out what it needs, and hands you a ready-to-use image URL.

This is made possible by something called MCP - and if you have not come across that term yet, you will soon. Here is everything you need to know.

What is MCP (and why should you care)?

MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. It is an open standard, originally created by Anthropic (the makers of Claude), that lets AI assistants connect to external tools and services.

Think of it like this: out of the box, an AI assistant can only talk. It can draft your emails and answer your questions, but it cannot do things in the apps you use. MCP changes that. It is a common language that lets your AI assistant operate other software on your behalf - checking your data, running actions, and bringing back results.

A useful comparison is a universal power adapter. Before MCP, every AI tool needed a custom-built integration for every service it wanted to talk to. With MCP, any compatible AI assistant can plug into any compatible service. Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Codex, and a growing list of AI-powered tools all support it.

OKZest now includes its own MCP server. That means your AI assistant can work directly with your OKZest designs - listing them, inspecting them, personalizing them, and even editing them - all through conversation.

What can the OKZest MCP server do?

When you connect an AI assistant to OKZest, it gains six abilities:

  1. List your designs - browse everything in your account, search by name, or filter by project
  2. List your projects - see how your design library is organized, with design counts and open counts
  3. Inspect a design - discover exactly which personalization parameters a design accepts (like name, title, or company)
  4. Generate a live image URL - create a permanent, reusable URL that renders a personalized image every time it is opened
  5. Inspect editable layers - see every text and image layer in a design, and which properties can be changed
  6. Edit layers and render - change text, colors, fonts, positions, or images on the fly and get back a one-off rendered image

The important part is that your assistant chains these together on its own. Ask it for "a version of my webinar banner with the heading in red" and it will find the design, check the layers, apply the edit, and return the result - a workflow that would otherwise mean opening the editor or writing API calls yourself.

Who is this for?

Email marketers. You are already using OKZest to drop personalized images into campaigns. Now you can ask your AI assistant to generate the image URLs for you while you draft the campaign - in the same conversation. "Create image URLs for my welcome banner using first name and company" is all it takes.

Sales teams doing outreach. Personalized images lift cold email reply rates because they show effort. With MCP, your assistant can generate a unique image URL for each prospect on your list as part of your outreach prep - no switching between tools.

Agencies and freelancers. If you manage designs for multiple clients across multiple projects, the MCP server doubles as a librarian. Ask "which projects have the most designs?" or "find all designs with 'holiday' in the name" and get instant answers - plus open counts, so you can see which designs are actually being used.

Automation builders. If you build workflows in Zapier, Make, or custom scripts, you can use an AI assistant as your co-pilot: it can look up the right design ID, confirm the exact parameter names, and hand you a tested image URL to drop into your workflow. This eliminates the most error-prone step - guessing parameter names.

Developers. The MCP server uses the same API key as the OKZest REST API. Use MCP for exploration and quick tasks in your AI coding tool, and the REST API for production integrations. If you work in Codex, Claude Code, or Copilot CLI, there is also a ready-made skill file that teaches your tool the full OKZest workflow.

Real-world use cases

1. Personalized onboarding images, generated conversationally

You are writing a welcome email sequence for new customers. While drafting in your AI assistant, you ask: "Generate a personalized image URL from my onboarding banner design, using the customer's first name." The assistant checks the design's parameters, builds the URL with a merge tag placeholder, and you paste it straight into your email platform. Every recipient sees their own name rendered in the image.

2. A/B testing image variants in minutes

You want to test whether a red or blue headline performs better. Ask your assistant to render both variants from the same design using layer editing, compare them side by side, and generate the URLs for each test group. What used to be a design task becomes a 30-second conversation.

3. Sales outreach at scale

Before a prospecting session, ask your assistant: "For each company on this list, generate a personalized image URL from my outreach design with the company name and logo." Drop the URLs into your sequences. Each prospect sees an image made for them.

4. Auditing a messy design library

Inherited an account with hundreds of designs? Ask: "List all my OKZest projects with design counts, then show me designs that have never been opened." The MCP server's search, filtering, and pagination make this painless - and the open counts tell you what is safe to archive.

How to connect your AI assistant to OKZest

Setup takes about two minutes:

  1. Get your API key from Settings -> API Keys in your OKZest dashboard
  2. Add the OKZest server to your AI tool's MCP configuration:
{
  "servers": {
    "okzest": {
      "url": "https://api.okzest.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "x-api-key": "YOUR_OKZEST_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}
  1. Start asking. Try: "Using OKZest, list all my projects."

Most MCP-compatible tools - Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Codex, and others - accept this configuration format or something very close to it. Step-by-step instructions for specific tools, including Codex Desktop, are in the MCP server documentation.

One tip: keep your API key private, exactly as you would a password. Store it in an environment variable rather than pasting it into shared files.

A note on permanent vs temporary URLs

There is one distinction worth understanding, because it affects how you use the results.

When your assistant uses generate_image_url, you get a permanent runtime URL. Nothing is stored - the image renders fresh every time someone opens it. This is what you want for emails and web pages, and it is how OKZest's personalization magic works: one URL, a different image for every viewer.

When your assistant uses modify_design_layers (layer editing), you get a temporary URL that expires after 30 seconds. It is designed for one-off renders - download or display the result immediately rather than embedding it somewhere permanent.

Your assistant will normally pick the right one, but knowing the difference helps you ask for what you actually need.

Why this matters more than it might seem

AI assistants are quickly becoming the place where work starts. People draft campaigns, plan outreach, and build automations inside a chat window - then switch to other tools to execute. Every switch costs time and momentum.

MCP removes those switches. Your image personalization tool now lives inside the conversation where the work is already happening. The gap between "I need a personalized image for this" and having the URL in your clipboard is now a single sentence.

OKZest is one of the first image personalization platforms with a native MCP server. If you are already experimenting with AI assistants in your marketing workflow, this is one of those integrations that quietly saves you an hour a week.

Try it today

The OKZest MCP server is available now on all accounts - you just need an API key and any MCP-compatible AI tool.

Already an OKZest user? Grab your API key from Settings -> API Keys, add the config above to your AI assistant, and ask it to list your designs. You will be generating personalized images by conversation within two minutes. Full setup details are in the MCP documentation.

New to OKZest? Create a free account and build your first personalized image design in minutes. Then connect your AI assistant and let it do the busywork - your subscribers get images made just for them, and you never leave the chat window.

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