How to Create and Manage Surveys with BlockSurvey MCP

BlockSurvey MCP lets you create and manage BlockSurvey surveys directly through AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude. Instead of manually building your survey question by question, you can simply describe what you want in natural language, and the AI can create or modify your survey for you.

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) allows AI applications to securely interact with external applications and services. With BlockSurvey MCP, you can use conversational instructions to perform common survey-building and management tasks in BlockSurvey.

You can use MCP to:

Before using BlockSurvey MCP, connect your BlockSurvey account to an MCP-compatible AI application.

Once connected, you can describe the survey you want to create instead of building it manually.

For example: “Create a customer satisfaction survey with 5 questions about product quality, customer support, pricing, and overall satisfaction.”

BlockSurvey MCP can work with surveys available in the Team Space connected to your current MCP session.

Ask: “List my surveys.”

Or view the structure of a specific survey: “Show me the structure of my Customer Feedback Survey.”

Add a new question to an existing survey:

“Add a question asking customers how satisfied they are with our customer support.”

You can also specify where it should appear:

“Add the customer support question after question 2.”

Modify an existing question using natural language:

“Change question 3 to ‘How likely are you to recommend our product?’”

You can also update supported settings such as required status, answer choices, rating scales, limits, and formats.

You can add, edit, or remove individual answer choices.

For example: “Add ‘Not sure’ to the choices in question 4.”

Or:

“Rename ‘Good’ to ‘Satisfied’ in question 2.”

Change whether respondents must answer a question.

For example: “Make question 3 required.”

Or:

“Make the email question optional.”

You can change an existing question to another supported question type.

For example: “Change question 4 to a star rating question.”

If changing the question type could affect other survey functionality, you may be asked to confirm the change.

Remove questions from an existing survey:

“Delete the question asking about age.”

Since deleting a question is a destructive action, MCP may ask you to confirm before removing it.

Change the order of top-level questions by simply describing the desired order.

For example: “Move the customer support question to the end.”

Or:

“Move question 5 to the second position.”

For example: “Change the welcome screen to say that the survey takes less than 2 minutes.”

Or:

“Change the thank-you message to ‘Thanks for helping us improve our product!’”

Before sharing your survey, you can ask the AI to preview it:

“Show me a preview of my survey.”

Use the preview to check:

Once everything is ready, you can publish the survey directly through MCP:

“Publish my survey and give me the public link.”

BlockSurvey MCP will return the public survey link after the survey is published.

You can use any of the following question types when creating or adding questions. If you don't specify a question type, Claude/ChatGPT will choose a suitable type based on your request.

BlockSurvey MCP currently focuses on survey creation and basic survey management. Some advanced BlockSurvey features still need to be configured directly through the BlockSurvey survey builder.

The following are not currently exposed through MCP:

MCP cannot create new:

It can, however, detect existing references and warn you when an action such as deleting, reordering, or changing a question type could affect existing logic.

Question groups and A/B test questions also have limitations: their child questions cannot be independently reordered or deleted through MCP, and their question types cannot be changed.