Pre-Trip, inside your assistant.

Pre-Trip plugs into the AI assistant you already write in. Ask it to check your copy, and it runs a real, source-cited compliance scan and reads back a clean pass or a fix list, right there in your chat. No new app to learn.

Where it works

Any AI tool that runs local MCP servers:

• Claude Desktop
• Claude Code
• Cursor
• Cline
• Windsurf
• Zed

ChatGPT and Perplexity do not run local servers yet. They will connect through the hosted connector instead, a link you sign in to with nothing to install, and that is in private beta. Ask for early access.

Set it up in 3 steps

1. Get your account and scans

Sign up at scan.kesey.agency. Your free checks work from inside your AI tool too, one per asset type, so you can try it before you buy anything. When those run out, add a token pack or a Bus Pass. Then open API keys and create one; it starts with pt_live_.

Set up your account

2. Paste Pre-Trip into your tool

Drop this into your tool's MCP settings, with your key swapped in. In Claude Desktop that is Settings, Developer, Edit Config; in Cursor it is .cursor/mcp.json.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pretrip": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "pretrip-mcp"],
      "env": { "PRETRIP_API_KEY": "pt_live_your_key_here" }
    }
  }
}

Restart the app and Pre-Trip shows up as a tool. Nothing to download; that npx line pulls it in for you. You just need Node.js installed.

3. Ask it to check your copy

While you draft, just say:

Check this landing page for California compliance
before I publish: [paste your copy]

It runs the scan and reads back the verdict with the cited fixes. Your draft is scanned, not kept.

Good to know

• Each check runs on your account and spends the same allowance the scanner does: a free check first, then a Bus Pass scan or a token.
• It is an assistant, so it checks when you ask. For a hard block that must fail before you publish, use the REST API.
• Your copy is sent to Pre-Trip to run the check and kept nowhere. See Trust and Privacy. A pass is a screen, not legal advice.

Set up your account