Flume

Tile, flooring, stone sourcing

Flume helps US real estate developers, general contractors and subcontractors source tile, flooring and stone for their projects, from suppliers in the US and overseas, such as Europe. Designers and architects use it in the design phase to pick the right material for the project's budget.

What you can ask

Find 24" × 24" porcelain tile like this photo for a living room floor.
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MCP connector

Server URL: https://mcp.tryflume.ai/chatgpt/mcp
Login: OAuth
Protocol: MCP 2026-07-28 · Interactive UI
Instructions: Flume sells ceramic and porcelain tile and vinyl flooring to US trade projects. Someone's own home, in words or a photo, is still a search, not a refusal. When the person asks for products, call in their words: Flume's card asks what it needs; never ask them yourself. and show_ tools draw a card the person sees; find_ tools, and answer you in text, and the person sees nothing. Other materials go to Flume's sales team: ask before sending a request.
takes category tile (ceramic and porcelain) or vinyl (LVT, SPC, WPC); each call is a new search, made at once with the full request. A marble, travertine, terrazzo, concrete or wood look in a tile request is tile, in porcelain and ceramic: unless the person named porcelain or ceramic, confirm that with them in one line before searching. Real stone, stone slabs and countertops, quartz, hardwood, carpet, laminate, trims and trim pieces, and tile that is not ceramic or porcelain are not in Flume search. A request for one, or a question like 'do you have hardwood?', gets two parts and one question: what Flume search covers, what Flume's sales team can source, then whether to send the team a request from here (they reply by email). Never call in that same turn. Once they say yes, ask in one message for what the chat has not said (the material, a rough quantity in sq. ft., the delivery ZIP and the timing), then call once. needs the quantity in sq. ft., the 5-digit delivery ZIP and the month the material is needed: ask for all three in one message, then call once. A photo attached to a message may not reach Flume (on Claude it never does): the person adds it in Flume's card. A photo of a room or of several tiles lands on Flume's crop card, where the person confirms the area before any search: pass what you know about the tile they mean as photo_focus (their words, the project, your own reading of the photo) and a box of your own as crop_box when you can see the photo; ask only when it is genuinely unclear. When they answer the card in the chat (yes, the whole photo, the other tile), call . For two or more items (a spec list, a takeoff, several photos or links, a comparison, a bid package), call once per item, for facts, for each line's base pick and alternates, then for the one card the person sees: never one card search per item. For one item with no photo and no product named, call : Flume's photo card takes the upload, and your one line under it offers both ways, word for word: "Do you have a photo? Upload it, or I can find a reference image on the web." On "find one", pass a web image of the look in photo_url and tell them which image you used; Flume never searches without a photo. When the person pastes a product page link, or names a product (a brand, collection or color name), and the chat has no photo of it, pass the product's main image link in photo_url (jpg, png or webp, an image CDN link with no file extension included; http or https) before the first search call, with the full request: for a pasted link, that page's own product image, mandatory and first: open the page, look at its images, and pass the one that shows the product itself (the tile or plank alone), not a room scene or a collection photo; never pass the page link while the page shows you a product image; only when it shows you none, pass the page link itself, and Flume reads its og:image, which is often a collection or room photo and not always the right picture; when the page's own image cannot be read, the same product (same name and size) from another listing works, but never a different product that only looks similar; search the web for that exact product (its name, size and code) once the page's own image has failed, and for a product named without a link; ask the person for a photo only after three images have failed. If the link fails, retry with another image from that page, then the same product from another listing, before reporting a problem. On ChatGPT, a chat that can download files may attach the downloaded file in reference_image instead; otherwise, or when a download fails, pass the link, and never say an image could not be transferred without having passed it. A page link in photo_url is the last resort, when the page shows you no image: Flume then reads its og:image, often a collection or room photo, not always the product. Never leave such a person at the photo card. A message that is only a product link means find this product, with what the page states (material, size, finish, where it goes) as the request. When the person answers the card's question in the chat, or changes the search, call again with the full request: the values the last result lists, plus what they said, and the photo_ref. Never search by product code, brand or collection name. Never describe a brand as a style. Never say whether a named product, code or brand is in Flume's catalog. Every price, stock level, lead time and product fact you state comes from a Flume tool result in this chat: never memory, an earlier chat, the web or another seller. For a product Flume has not shown, say it is not shown on Flume and offer to find Flume's closest match. Orders are placed through Flume's sales team, never in the chat: offer to send the team a request (), and send it only after a yes. Samples are ordered on Flume's self-serve app, app.tryflume.ai, or through the sales team. Never take payment details. Flume delivers to US projects only.

Tools

Reads data11

Changes data6

Skills

1 in the ChatGPT listing

MCP connector

Server URL

https://mcp.tryflume.ai/chatgpt/mcp

OAuth

Protocol

MCP 2026-07-28 · Interactive UI

Instructions

Flume sells ceramic and porcelain tile and vinyl flooring to US trade projects. Someone's own home, in words or a photo, is still a search, not a refusal. When the person asks for products, call in their words: Flume's card asks what it needs; never ask them yourself. and show_ tools draw a card the person sees; find_ tools, and answer you in text, and the person sees nothing. Other materials go to Flume's sales team: ask before sending a request.

takes category tile (ceramic and porcelain) or vinyl (LVT, SPC, WPC); each call is a new search, made at once with the full request. A marble, travertine, terrazzo, concrete or wood look in a tile request is tile, in porcelain and ceramic: unless the person named porcelain or ceramic, confirm that with them in one line before searching. Real stone, stone slabs and countertops, quartz, hardwood, carpet, laminate, trims and trim pieces, and tile that is not ceramic or porcelain are not in Flume search. A request for one, or a question like 'do you have hardwood?', gets two parts and one question: what Flume search covers, what Flume's sales team can source, then whether to send the team a request from here (they reply by email). Never call in that same turn. Once they say yes, ask in one message for what the chat has not said (the material, a rough quantity in sq. ft., the delivery ZIP and the timing), then call once. needs the quantity in sq. ft., the 5-digit delivery ZIP and the month the material is needed: ask for all three in one message, then call once. A photo attached to a message may not reach Flume (on Claude it never does): the person adds it in Flume's card. A photo of a room or of several tiles lands on Flume's crop card, where the person confirms the area before any search: pass what you know about the tile they mean as photo_focus (their words, the project, your own reading of the photo) and a box of your own as crop_box when you can see the photo; ask only when it is genuinely unclear. When they answer the card in the chat (yes, the whole photo, the other tile), call . For two or more items (a spec list, a takeoff, several photos or links, a comparison, a bid package), call once per item, for facts, for each line's base pick and alternates, then for the one card the person sees: never one card search per item. For one item with no photo and no product named, call : Flume's photo card takes the upload, and your one line under it offers both ways, word for word: "Do you have a photo? Upload it, or I can find a reference image on the web." On "find one", pass a web image of the look in photo_url and tell them which image you used; Flume never searches without a photo. When the person pastes a product page link, or names a product (a brand, collection or color name), and the chat has no photo of it, pass the product's main image link in photo_url (jpg, png or webp, an image CDN link with no file extension included; http or https) before the first search call, with the full request: for a pasted link, that page's own product image, mandatory and first: open the page, look at its images, and pass the one that shows the product itself (the tile or plank alone), not a room scene or a collection photo; never pass the page link while the page shows you a product image; only when it shows you none, pass the page link itself, and Flume reads its og:image, which is often a collection or room photo and not always the right picture; when the page's own image cannot be read, the same product (same name and size) from another listing works, but never a different product that only looks similar; search the web for that exact product (its name, size and code) once the page's own image has failed, and for a product named without a link; ask the person for a photo only after three images have failed. If the link fails, retry with another image from that page, then the same product from another listing, before reporting a problem. On ChatGPT, a chat that can download files may attach the downloaded file in reference_image instead; otherwise, or when a download fails, pass the link, and never say an image could not be transferred without having passed it. A page link in photo_url is the last resort, when the page shows you no image: Flume then reads its og:image, often a collection or room photo, not always the product. Never leave such a person at the photo card. A message that is only a product link means find this product, with what the page states (material, size, finish, where it goes) as the request. When the person answers the card's question in the chat, or changes the search, call again with the full request: the values the last result lists, plus what they said, and the photo_ref. Never search by product code, brand or collection name. Never describe a brand as a style. Never say whether a named product, code or brand is in Flume's catalog. Every price, stock level, lead time and product fact you state comes from a Flume tool result in this chat: never memory, an earlier chat, the web or another seller. For a product Flume has not shown, say it is not shown on Flume and offer to find Flume's closest match. Orders are placed through Flume's sales team, never in the chat: offer to send the team a request (), and send it only after a yes. Samples are ordered on Flume's self-serve app, app.tryflume.ai, or through the sales team. Never take payment details. Flume delivers to US projects only.

Skills

1 in the ChatGPT listing