MAIA for ChatGPT: Plugin, Example Prompts & Reviews

Example prompts

3 from the official listing

MAIA Find industrial-zoned parcels over 1 acre in San Francisco
MAIA List schools within 1 mile of Mission District properties, with contacts
MAIA Who owns the vacant lots in SoMa, San Francisco?

Mention MAIA by name in your message, as the official examples do.

How to use MAIA in ChatGPT

Open MAIA in ChatGPT’s plugin directory

Open MAIA’s page on chatgpt.com. Sign in to ChatGPT if you are not already.
Install it from that page

Choose Install plugin there. It adds the MAIA app to ChatGPT. Since it is listed with Read and Write access, it may ask you to connect the account it works with.
Mention MAIA in a chat

Start a new chat and name it in your request, for example: “MAIA, find industrial-zoned parcels over 1 acre in San Francisco”

Availability can depend on your ChatGPT plan, your region and, on work accounts, your admin’s settings.

What MAIA does

MAIA is the geospatial research engine for questions about places in the United States, in any field. Ask in plain language and MAIA's agent researches it and builds the answer as a project with a map and a table: which places or properties match your criteria, who owns them, what is near them, how many there are in an area, or a list of them with contacts or other details MAIA researches for each row. Data can include parcels, owners, zoning, buildings, contacts, businesses and points of interest, schools, roads and land use, and MAIA's agent can find and add suitable public map layers. Through this plugin you can start a project for a county, send follow-up requests, answer MAIA's questions and approve larger steps during a run, check progress, review your projects' layers and views, and save notes and reusable skills that MAIA uses in later projects. Each answer links to the full map and table in MAIA.

From the official listing, written by MAIA Analytics.

What MAIA can access

Reads your data: MAIA can look up information, for example from an account you connect, and bring it into the chat. Listed as Read.
Makes changes for you: MAIA can create or change things outside the chat on your behalf, not only read them. Listed as Write.
Where it connects: ChatGPT reaches MAIA through a remote MCP server on api.maia-analytics.com, named in the official listing.

Before you connect it

OpenAI’s plugin pages note that a connected plugin may receive relevant parts of your chats to answer a request, and that MAIA Analytics’s own terms and privacy policy then cover that data. You can disconnect a plugin later in ChatGPT’s settings. Read the privacy policy (maia-analytics.com) and terms (maia-analytics.com).

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MAIA in ChatGPT: questions and answers

What does MAIA do in ChatGPT?

MAIA is the geospatial research engine for questions about places in the United States, in any field.

What can I ask MAIA in ChatGPT?

The official listing suggests prompts like: “Find industrial-zoned parcels over 1 acre in San Francisco”; “List schools within 1 mile of Mission District properties, with contacts”; “Who owns the vacant lots in SoMa, San Francisco?”.

How do I use MAIA in ChatGPT?

Open MAIA’s page in ChatGPT’s plugin directory on chatgpt.com and install it there. Then mention MAIA in a chat, for example: “Find industrial-zoned parcels over 1 acre in San Francisco”.

Who makes the MAIA plugin?

MAIA Analytics, currently at version 1.0.2. Best GPT Apps is an independent directory and is not affiliated with OpenAI or MAIA Analytics.

Can MAIA change my data?

Yes. Its listing states Write access as well as Read, so it can create or change things on your behalf, not only read them.

Is MAIA one of the old ChatGPT plugins from 2023?

No. The 2023 ChatGPT plugins were a separate beta that OpenAI has since retired. Today’s ChatGPT plugins are the apps directory under a new name: since July 2026 a plugin can bundle apps, skills and MCP servers.