Your SAP Business One Just Learned to Speak ChatGPT and Perplexity

SAP Business One has no native way to talk to AI assistants. TEKAI adds one: it connects ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and other AI models to your live SAP Business One data through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — so authorised users ask questions in plain language and get answers grounded in the actual system, not the model’s guesses.

Why your ERP and your AI don’t talk

Every SMB team now uses an AI assistant somewhere. But ask ChatGPT “what were my top overdue customers last month?” and it can only invent an answer — it has no connection to your ERP. Exporting to Excel and pasting into a chat window works once, breaks permissions discipline, and is stale by lunchtime. The gap isn’t the AI’s intelligence; it’s the missing bridge to live data.

What MCP changes

The Model Context Protocol is an open standard for connecting AI models to business systems. TEKAI implements it for SAP Business One: your company database (SQL or HANA) gets a permission-scoped MCP endpoint, and any MCP-capable AI client — Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity — can query it. The model reads the data it’s allowed to read, reasons over it, and answers. Your data grounds the AI; it is never used to train it.

What this looks like in practice

The demo in the video runs real questions against a live demonstration company: receivables aging, item availability, sales by customer — asked conversationally, answered from the system, with the AI following up on its own answers the way an analyst would. The same pattern extends to any query your permissions allow.

Prerequisites

SAP Business One on SQL Server or HANA · a TEKAI subscription (₹5,000 per company per month in India, $150 globally) · your own AI subscription (Claude, ChatGPT or Perplexity — bring your own) · no SAP reimplementation, no data migration.

What it costs and what it doesn’t touch

TEKAI is priced per company, not per user. It doesn’t replace your SAP licence, doesn’t move your database, and doesn’t train any model on your data — the security architecture, including what the AI can and cannot reach, is documented at /tekai/security/.

FAQs

Which AI assistants work with SAP Business One via TEKAI?

Claude, ChatGPT and Perplexity, plus other MCP-capable clients — you bring your own AI subscription.

Is my SAP data used to train the AI?

No. TEKAI grounds the model in your data at question time; nothing is trained on it.

Does this need a new SAP implementation?

No — TEKAI connects to your existing SAP Business One company on SQL or HANA.

Who controls what the AI can see?

You do — access is permission-scoped per authorised user. Details: /tekai/security/.

What does TEKAI cost?

₹5,000 per company per month in India; $150 per company per month globally.

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