Refero MCP: real product screens and user flows for your AI app

Refero's MCP server searches curated design styles, real product screens and user flows, so your AI app can back a design decision with examples from shipped products. ContextGate connects it to Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor; the design searches your team runs show up in Activity, and any tool you don't use can be switched off.

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Add Refero to your design workflow in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

  1. 1Click Connect Refero free and sign in with your Refero account.
  2. 2Refero's tools are searches, and all of them are on once connected. Keep the ones for the screens, flows and styles your team uses, and switch off the rest.
  3. 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
  4. 4Ask your AI app to find Refero examples of an onboarding flow for a web app, then open Activity to see the search.

Evidence for design decisions

  • Search real product screens for a page you're about to design.
  • Look at complete user flows to see how products handle steps like onboarding or checkout.
  • Browse curated design styles before choosing a direction.
  • Pull references into Cursor while you build the screen, from a collection covering web and iOS.

Refero calls through ContextGate

  • Switch off any Refero tool your team doesn't need; it's hidden and refused if called.
  • Activity shows the searches each AI app ran, so design research is easy to retrace.

What you get with Refero and ContextGate

  • Your AI apps can use ReferoClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach Refero through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
  • You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any Refero tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
  • Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.

ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.

Refero tools

Refero's own MCP server shows its tools once you sign in. When you connect it, they are listed and synced in your workspace.