Loomio

@loomio show me all the groups I'm part of and highlight which ones have active discussions this week

Based on your Loomio account, you're a member of 7 groups. Three have recent activity: 'Product Roadmap Q1' (12 comments in the last 3 days), 'Marketing Planning' (5 new threads since Monday), and 'All-Hands Coordination' (2 polls currently open). The other four groups—'Archive: 2023 Projects', 'Design System Working Group', 'Sales Enablement', and 'Customer Advisory Board'—show no new posts in the past 7 days. This illustrative example reflects typical group metadata returned by the List Groups tool.

This example demonstrates the MCP's ability to retrieve group membership and surface engagement signals. The AI can synthesize activity patterns, but the underlying data depends on your Loomio API key having read access to all listed groups. Pagination applies if you're in more than 25 groups.

@loomio find the poll titled 'Should we extend the beta deadline?' and tell me the current vote breakdown and any standout comments

The poll 'Should we extend the beta deadline?' in the 'Product Roadmap Q1' group shows 14 votes so far: 9 for 'Yes, extend two weeks', 3 for 'No, ship on time', and 2 abstentions. Notable comment from @sarah_pm: 'We're still waiting on QA sign-off for the payment flow—two weeks gives us breathing room without compromising quality.' The poll closes in 18 hours. This illustrative output reflects the structure returned by the Show Poll tool.

This showcases the MCP's poll-detail retrieval and the AI's ability to summarize voting sentiment. You'll need the exact poll ID or title; the List Polls tool helps discover IDs if you're unsure. Comments are read-only—this MCP cannot cast votes or post replies on your behalf.

@loomio list all open polls across my groups and draft a summary email I can send to the exec team about what decisions are pending

You have 4 open polls: (1) 'Extend beta deadline?' in Product Roadmap Q1—leans toward a two-week extension; (2) 'Approve Q2 marketing budget?' in Marketing Planning—unanimous approval so far; (3) 'Choose new office location' in All-Hands Coordination—split between downtown and suburban options; (4) 'Adopt new design tokens?' in Design System Working Group—awaiting votes from 6 members. Draft email: 'Team, we have four active decisions in Loomio this week. The beta timeline and marketing budget are trending toward consensus, while office location and design tokens need broader input. Please review and vote by Friday.' This example illustrates synthesis across multiple polls.

This example highlights the AI's ability to aggregate poll data and generate a decision-status narrative. The MCP provides read access only—no voting or poll creation. If you're in many groups, the List Polls tool paginates results, so the AI may need multiple calls to capture everything.

When Loomio MCP works for distributed nonprofit governance

A 12-person nonprofit board meets quarterly on Zoom but runs async decisions between meetings. They use Loomio polls for budget approvals and policy votes. The MCP lets their executive director pull poll results into a standup brief without opening Loomio's web UI. With only 4 tools, this MCP is narrow: you can list groups and polls, then fetch details for a specific poll ID. It won't create polls or post comments. If your workflow is read-only reporting—like summarizing last week's votes for a board packet—this is clean. If you need to draft new proposals or reply to threads, you're back in the browser. The API key setup takes two minutes and the tool count means responses stay fast even with 50+ polls.

Using Loomio MCP to aggregate member input at scale

A 200-member housing co-op runs monthly Loomio polls on maintenance priorities and budget line items. The facilities manager wants to pull all active polls into a single digest for the monthly newsletter. The MCP's List Polls tool returns poll IDs and basic metadata, then Show Poll fetches full details including vote counts and comments. This works when you need a snapshot of what's live, not a deep analysis of participation trends over time. The MCP doesn't expose historical analytics or export comment threads in bulk. If your co-op runs 5-10 concurrent polls and you just need current status, this handles it. If you're analyzing 6 months of voting patterns to spot engagement drop-off, you'll hit the tool's ceiling fast.

When Loomio MCP speeds weekly leadership updates

A 30-person startup uses Loomio for async team decisions—hiring votes, feature prioritization, budget sign-offs. The CEO preps Friday all-hands by pulling the week's closed polls into a slide deck. The MCP's List Groups and Show Group tools let her filter by team (engineering, ops, marketing) and grab poll summaries without clicking through Loomio's interface. This saves 15 minutes weekly if you have 3-5 groups and under 20 polls per week. The MCP is read-only, so if a poll needs a follow-up comment or a new round, she's back in the web app. The value is in batch retrieval for reporting, not in managing the decision process itself.