Grundheim in Claude

Ask Claude about taxes, affordability and mortgage rates and get computed answers instead of estimates: the same engines as on grundheim.ch, with assumptions, warnings and sources.

What you can ask Claude with Grundheim

Claude knows Switzerland, but not the 2,122 tax multipliers, the banks' affordability rules or this morning's rates. With the Grundheim connection, Claude calls our calculators for such questions and answers with figures, assumptions and a link to the matching page.

Taxes for every municipality

Income and wealth tax for all 2,122 municipalities on the official ESTV tariffs, with marital status, children and pillar 3a. Claude compares several municipalities side by side on request or finds the cheapest ones in a canton.

Affordability by bank rules

The stress test with the imputed interest rate, amortisation and running costs exactly as Swiss banks compute it: you give purchase price, equity and income, Claude returns the ratio, the margin to the limit and the maximum affordable price.

Today's mortgage rates

The daily updated reference rates of 30 Swiss banks for SARON and fixed-rate mortgages from 2 to 15 years, including history. Claude names the cheapest offers and places them on the yield curve.

Planning a mortgage

Monthly costs with a tranche split, fixed or SARON under different rate worlds, prepayment penalties, forward mortgages and direct or indirect amortisation. Every answer includes a link that opens the calculator on grundheim.ch prefilled with your figures.

Rent or buy, pension fund, purchase costs

The rent-versus-buy comparison over your horizon, the pension-fund buy-in with the capital withdrawal tax of every canton, purchase costs and imputed rental value. Claude runs the scenarios without you filling in forms.

Municipalities and market prices

Municipality profiles with tax multiplier, price level and noise, official sale prices, price trends and a verdict on whether an asking price sits above or below the local level. All tools are read-only; nothing is booked or sent.

Setup in four steps

  • 1. Click "Connect to Claude" claude.ai opens the "Add custom connector" dialog with the name Grundheim and the endpoint URL already filled in. If you are signed out, sign in first; the dialog appears afterwards.
  • 2. Review and confirm Check that the URL reads https://agent.grundheim.ch/mcp and confirm. No credentials are needed; the server is anonymous and read-only.
  • 3. Start a new conversation Grundheim appears in your list of connectors and is active in new chats. Claude decides itself when to call a tool; you can also ask it explicitly to use Grundheim.
  • 4. Ask your questions Ask in your language. Claude calls the matching tool and answers with the result, the assumptions and a link to grundheim.ch that opens the calculator with your figures.

Endpoint URL https://agent.grundheim.ch/mcp

https://claude.ai/customize/connectors?modal=add-custom-connector&connectorName=Grundheim&connectorUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fagent.grundheim.ch%2Fmcp

Manually: Settings > Connectors > "Add custom connector", name Grundheim, URL as above.

Whether custom connectors are available on your Claude plan is shown in Anthropic's current plan overview; in Team and Enterprise organisations an administrator can enable them. In Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code the server works regardless.

claude mcp add --transport http grundheim https://agent.grundheim.ch/mcp

Other clients

The server works with any MCP-capable client. Cursor and VS Code install it with one click, Claude Code and the Gemini CLI with one line in the terminal.

  • Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http grundheim https://agent.grundheim.ch/mcp
  • Cursor: cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install?name=grundheim&config=eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL2FnZW50LmdydW5kaGVpbS5jaC9tY3AifQ==
  • VS Code: vscode:mcp/install?%7B%22name%22%3A%22grundheim%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22http%22%2C%22url%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fagent.grundheim.ch%2Fmcp%22%7D
  • Gemini CLI: gemini extensions install https://github.com/ParetoLabsCH/grundheim-mcp

Example prompts to try

  • Can I afford a CHF 1.4 million house in Meilen? We earn 220,000 and have 300,000 in equity.
  • What taxes do I pay in Zug? Married, two children, 180,000 income.
  • What are today's 10-year fixed mortgage rates at Swiss banks?
  • Rent at 2,500 a month or buy at 1.2 million? Income 200,000.
  • Fixed or SARON? Compare tranche structures for a CHF 1 million mortgage over ten years.
  • Is a CHF 2.4 million flat in Meilen above or below the market price?

Privacy

The connection is anonymous: no Grundheim account is needed and we do not learn who is asking. The values you give your assistant are sent to our server for the calculation, processed in memory and not stored. We log only technical metadata (tool name, language, response time, client type). The conversation itself runs on the provider's platform and is subject to its privacy terms.

Support and technical details

The full tool list, every connection path and the endpoint URL are on the technical reference page. We answer questions via the contact details in the imprint.

Frequently asked questions

Does the connection cost anything?

No. The Grundheim server is freely accessible and needs no account. What you need is a Claude plan that allows custom connectors.

Where do the figures come from?

Taxes from the official ESTV tariffs, mortgage rates from the daily read reference rates of 30 banks, municipality data from federal and cantonal statistics, market prices from our own market monitoring. Every answer states its assumptions and the date of the reference rates.

Does Grundheim store my inputs?

No. The values are processed for the calculation only and not stored; we log technical metadata such as the tool name and the response time. Details are in section 12 of the privacy policy.

Is this financial advice?

No. The tools return reference figures under the usual rules of banks and authorities. Whether a bank finances you, and on what terms, is the bank's decision. The server cannot search property listings.

Claude is a trademark of Anthropic PBC, ChatGPT a trademark of OpenAI. Grundheim is not affiliated with or endorsed by either company; the names merely indicate compatibility.

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