Ontora API - Ontora

Ontora is a qualitative research platform that runs voice and chat interviews at scale and synthesizes the results into structured insights — process maps, opportunity roadmaps, and personas. This documentation covers everything you need to integrate Ontora with your own systems.

What you can build

Programmatic campaigns

Spin up interview campaigns from code or YAML. Bulk-import contacts, start, pause, and monitor progress.

GraphRAG over transcripts

Ask grounded questions across all transcripts in a campaign. Get answers, patterns, and divergences with citations.

MCP for AI agents

Connect Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-aware client directly to your campaigns and transcripts.

Webhooks

Subscribe to lifecycle events — interview.completed, synthesis.completed, and more.

Three ways to integrate

REST API
MCP server
CLI

Call https://api.ontora.com with a workspace API key. Full OpenAPI spec available — see the API reference.

Point any MCP client at https://api.ontora.com/mcp/. Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf all work out of the box.

pip install ontora-cli. Auth once, then drive everything from your terminal or CI. See the CLI guide.

Get started

Create an API key

From the dashboard, go to Settings → API keys and create a workspace key with the scopes you need.

Make your first call

Follow the quickstart to launch a campaign and pull a transcript in under five minutes.

Wire up webhooks

Subscribe to synthesis.completed to get notified when a campaign finishes synthesizing.

Quickstart

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​What you can build