AI companion · smart MCP server for Visio
Vizspect™ connects Claude Code, Cowork, Codex, and other MCP-enabled AI assistants to Microsoft Visio — so the assistant you already use can draw and edit USPTO-compliant patent figures and other types of drawings, live on your own machine.
For Windows 11 · Requires Microsoft Visio
A real figure drawn in Visio through Vizspect — no edits, not sped up.
What Vizspect is
Vizspect™ is a smart MCP server — the bridge between the AI assistant you already use and Microsoft Visio, with a patent draftsperson’s rules built in. You talk to your assistant the way you always do; it uses Vizspect to actually draw and edit the figure in your live Visio document.
It doesn’t replace your assistant, and it doesn’t replace Visio — it connects them. Every shape, connector, and reference numeral lands with patent-grade precision, on your machine, in the document you’re already working in.
Built for patent practice — and capable of far more wherever clean, rule-driven Visio diagrams matter.
Claude Code, Cowork, Codex — cloud or local, any MCP client
~50 precise drawing tools, with USPTO house style enforced
Your live document — figures appear and update as you watch
Set up once
Install on Windows 11. A tray app runs the local server and registers it with Claude Code and Codex automatically; other MCP clients connect with a URL.
Open Visio. Vizspect™ attaches to your live session — it never launches a hidden copy or touches anything you didn’t ask it to.
Tell your assistant what to draw. Watch the figure build in Visio, then refine by conversation or by hand — you’re always in control.
Drawn element by element
Describe the figure in plain language and your assistant builds it in Visio through Vizspect™, one element at a time — each one placed, numbered, and styled to USPTO conventions.
Boxes, connectors, and a labeled system extent — placed on a fine grid and wired up with obstacle-aware connectors that route around components, not through them.
Claude — “draw a block diagram of the imaging system — an optical sensor, signal processor, frame buffer, system controller, memory, and output interface — with reference numerals.”
Stadium START/END, decision diamonds, and YES/NO branches that leave from different vertices with collision-aware labels — the conventions a patent flowchart needs, handled for you.
Claude — “make a flowchart: detect an event, check whether it’s valid, then process and store it — otherwise discard it.”
Device frames with labeled screen elements, buttons, and fields — the kind of interface figure that’s fiddly to align by hand, laid out cleanly in seconds.
Claude — “mock up an analysis workstation — a sidebar with Overview, Reports, and Settings, a chart panel, and a Run button.”
Multi-lane process figures built in a single pass — dotted lane headers with underlined foreign element numbers, same-height cross-lane steps, and START/END, all numbered to convention.
Claude — “build a swimlane across Intake, Analysis, Review, and Output: receive data, validate, score the event, then record the result.”
Reads your work, not just writes it
Vizspect™ can read what’s already on the page — every shape, label, and reference numeral — so your assistant can audit and cross-check your figures against the specification, not just draw them.
Claude — “list every reference numeral in the figures and flag any that appear in the spec but not the drawings, or vice versa.”
Claude — “list each labeled element across all figures and what it’s called, so I can assemble the reference-numeral table.”
Claude — “does the flowchart include every step recited in the method claim? Tell me what’s missing.”
Claude — “lint the figures for off-margin shapes, crossed leaders, and numerals that drifted off their element before I export.”
Capable of much more
The same precise toolset handles the rest of the figures a specification needs — and general-purpose Visio diagrams too.
Cross-lane flow with numbered lane headers
Clocked waveforms from a pattern string
Hierarchies with consistent connectors
Nodes, links, and labeled topology
Multi-step processes with clean routing
Layered systems and component stacks
…and most any other clean black-and-white line diagram, just by asking.
Built for patent practice
Vizspect™ knows the USPTO drawing rules and your house style, so every figure your assistant produces comes out consistent — without you policing every line and numeral.
Black-and-white line art, ALL-CAPS Arial text, and 1.0pt strokes — with 37 CFR 1.84 margins enforced on every placement, portrait or landscape.
Numerals and leader lines slide along the target’s edge until nothing overlaps and no line is crossed — or the tool refuses and says exactly what’s blocking it.
A smart MCP server for Claude Code, Cowork, Codex, and other Model Context Protocol clients — cloud or local. Any model with tool-calling support can drive it. (The ChatGPT app isn’t supported yet.)
A read-only check flags out-of-margin shapes, overlaps, text overflow, crossed leaders, and numerals that drifted off a moved element — a pre-render gate before you file.
Work on the same document as your assistant. Every write re-reads the figure first, and destructive edits require explicit assertions — so your hand edits aren’t silently overwritten.
The server runs locally and talks to your own copy of Visio. Your client documents never go to the cloud and never leave your computer.
Beyond the patent bar
Vizspect™ was built to satisfy one of the strictest drawing standards there is — USPTO patent figures. That same precision makes it a fast, exacting drawing companion for anyone who works in Visio.
System, network, and architecture diagrams with exact placement and clean, obstacle-aware routing — not approximate auto-layout.
Consistent, legible figures for manuals, specifications, and standards — generated and updated straight from your AI assistant.
Skip the fiddly drag-and-align. Describe the diagram in plain language and get precise, lint-checked Visio output you can keep editing.
Vizspect™ is in private beta for patent practitioners. Get in touch to join — pricing will be announced at launch.
For Windows 11. Requires Microsoft Visio and a supported AI assistant.