Here we present a new interface for conducting DFT simulations-the computational catalysis interface (CCI). CCI focuses on simplifying DFT studies and enabling multi-step and high-throughput studies with varying degrees of automation. CCI sets up calculations using descriptive language, allowing users with a wide range of backgrounds to rapidly begin studies. Multi-step calculations gradually increase accuracy, resulting in gains in cpu-efficiency by up to an order of magnitude over single-step calculations. CCI is designed to operate from a centralized data server connected to all compute servers you have access to with automated file management between machines. Structure manipulation tools allow one to add/remove adsorbates from catalysts, modify chemical fragments, catalyst composition, and the location of reactions on catalyst surfaces. Specific tools have been made for modeling metal surfaces and clusters as well as a suite of tools for tackling the configurational complexity of reactions occurring within zeolite micropores. These structure manipulation tools allow one to generate structures from previously converged calculations by programmatically altering the catalyst, reactant, and/or environment (i.e., adding solvent or altering adsorbate coverages). Calculations are monitored, with emails sent when they begin to diverge, fail, or finish. Emails are customized, contain relevant information, and link to a web-based GUI that provides 3-D visualization of structures and movies for convergence trajectories, reaction pathways, and vibrational modes. This web-GUI also allows users to directly start calculations using contextspecific commands. This web-GUI facilitates dissemination and interfaces with the POV-Ray utility to generate high-resolution publication and presentation-quality visualizations. These tools are described here, at a high level, to describe how CCI interacts with VASP to enable computational catalysis studies on a range of reactions and catalysts.