Travel and spend management company Perk, formerly TravelPerk, has launched its model context protocol (MCP) connector to link artificial intelligence (AI) assistants with its workplace software.
With Perk MCP, companies can connect Perk to Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP-compatible assistants and access data using natural language, the company said.
"Every team in a business touches travel and spend data, but most of them are still digging through reports and switching platforms to find simple answers. That’s the shadow work this MCP connector removes, meeting teams inside the tools they already use,” Nikita Miller, chief product officer at Perk, said in a press release.
“The customers we speak to who are building AI workflows are telling us the same thing: They want it to handle travel, guided by their policies, calendar and preferences. We’re excited to be leading the industry with this first release, and we can’t wait for our customers to also be able to book work travel, submit expenses and manage approval flows using AI.”
In addition to giving travelers access to trip and expense details within their AI tools, Perk MCP allows finance teams to access travel invoices and travel managers to oversee pending approvals, travel policy rules and audit users by role, cost center or approval process. Event managers can also ask about upcoming sessions, locations, attendees and RSVP status through the MCP, Perk said.
During an interview in the PhocusWire studio at Phocuswright Europe last month, Miller highlighted the company’s efforts to “eliminate shadow work every time an employee is spending money on behalf of the company.”
“That’s from the individual user all the way through the CFO who, at month’s end, needs to look at what’s happening and be able to project based off of that,” Miller said.
“There’s so much in there that hasn’t been automated, and we use automation and AI differently, but the foundation is [that] there’s so much automation opportunity, and AI enables us to do that better and faster.”
In its recent press release, Perk said it plans to expand the connector this summer to support travel booking, expense submissions, receipt uploads, event logistics, trip modifications and approval flows.
Watch the full interview with PhocusWire's Linda Fox below.
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