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Business data, AI and MCP: practical guides.
How to connect Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot to the systems your teams run, from construction ERPs to ad platforms, how to keep it safe and which questions to ask. Sources are linked.
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How-toConnect Claude to Vista, Sage 300 CRE, Foundation and other construction systems in minutes (about an hour for on-premise systems). The steps, how to check the first answers, and how to keep it safe.
24 October 2026 · 4 min read
- Guide
A copy-and-paste cheat sheet of job cost, billing, payables, project and capital-program questions for contractors and owners, with notes on what a good answer looks like.
24 October 2026 · 4 min read
- Security
Before an MCP server touches your accounting or project data, ask these twelve questions, drawn from the MCP specification, the OWASP guidance on AI agents, and Anthropic's own connector warnings.
24 October 2026 · 5 min read
- How-to
Overbilling and underbilling explained with a worked example: how earned revenue is calculated, what each result means for cash and margin, and the questions to put to your accounting data.
24 October 2026 · 4 min read
- How-to
Older construction accounting systems run inside your network with no cloud API. Three ways to let an AI assistant query them, why an outbound-only agent is the safest, and a checklist for your IT team.
24 October 2026 · 3 min read
- How-to
An AI assistant answers best from clean data. Seven steps to check job numbers, cost types, vendors, change orders and permissions before you connect your AI to your accounting system.
24 October 2026 · 3 min read
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