USF · one deployment, one cohort each

Query your
entire semester.

Every deadline, file and — where lectures are recorded — every word said in class, from across your semester, in one place and refreshed all day. Ask it anything using the Claude or ChatGPT subscription you already pay for.

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Cohort only. No API key. Your chats, notes and lessons stay private to you.

485Files indexed
38Lectures transcribed
27Things said in class

One cohort, this semester. Yours starts empty and fills from the Canvas you connect.

Example
What’s due this week, and did anything change in class?
AI

Two things are due today, and one changed in lecture:

  • Databases — Assignment 1, due today
  • Regression — Homework 1, due today
Changed in class. The programming assignment moved from Friday to Sunday midnight. Canvas still shows Friday. Announced to the Tuesday afternoon section.
week-02 / transcript / 41:18
Can you make me a review session? I didn’t follow the lecture.
AI

Built one from week 2’s transcript and slides. Seven sections, then a check and an exam.

HTML0007-joins-and-the-row-you-lost.html7 sections · 6 quizzes · 3 exam blocksOpen →
fileAsk a follow-up, or drop in your own notes…
Claude Sonnet 5 ▾Extended thinking ▾binder connected

Why it exists

Four tabs,
one answer.

Canvas, Panopto, your professors’ repos and the department calendar — whichever of them your class actually uses. Pulled all day, reconciled, and handed to whatever AI you already pay for.

What your professor said out loud

Deadline moved in lecture but never updated on Canvas? Where your classes are recorded, Binder reads the captions and tells you — with the quote, the timestamp, and which section was told. Where they are not, Canvas alone still does most of the work.

Every file, already here

Slides, notebooks, datasets and transcripts from across your semester. Upload your own notes too, and yours always wins.

Your AI, your subscription

Binder is a tool your assistant calls, not a chat we host. Answers run on the Claude plan you already pay for — no API key, no per-message cost.

How you use it

Four steps,
about ten minutes.

Binder runs as an MCP server — a tool your own AI connects to. You point it at Binder once, then ask questions in the app you already open. Binder never calls a model, so there is nothing extra to pay for.

  • ClaudeDesktop or claude.ai
  • ChatGPTWeb, developer mode
  • Claude CodeTerminal
  • CodexTerminal
Coming in v2

A desktop app that connects your Claude or ChatGPT subscription with no setup screen at all. That has to run on your own machine — Anthropic only permits subscription sign-in through a locally installed client, never through a website. v1 is the MCP server; it does the same work.

  1. 1

    Sign in with your USF Google account

    Cohort-only. You land in your class, and only your class — what you see is never another cohort’s material.

  2. 2

    Connect your Canvas and name your subjects

    An access token from your own Canvas settings, then tick which courses are the class and give each the code you use for it. This is what fills your semester — and it is the only step that needs you rather than a schedule. If your lectures are recorded, connect Panopto too; if they are not, skip it.

  3. 3

    Pick your AI and paste one thing

    Choose Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code or Codex on the Connect page and copy what it gives you — a URL for the apps, one command for the terminal. Your token is already in it.

    Claude / ChatGPT    paste a connector URL
Claude Code         curl -fsSL bindrr.tech/install.sh | sh
Codex               codex mcp add binder --url ...
  4. 4

    Ask your semester

    In whichever app you just connected, try “What’s due this week, and did anything change in class?”