MCP, for "Model Context Protocol": so here is the new acronym that business travel stakeholders will have to familiarise themselves with. This type of connector, based on an open protocol, now serves as a link between business tools and the "wonderful world" of agentive AI. And it's the turn of Perk to join the fray by launching its MCP connector today.
Aware that it is still a matter of educating the market, Perk's management intends to be didactic. "Specifically: finance teams, travel managers and employees can now query their data in natural language from ChatGPT, Claude and other AI assistants: without changing tools," it specifies in its press release. It continues with a truly concrete example: "A CFO can ask 'which Q2 invoices are still unpaid?' or 'show the flight details for our cost centre in Lyon'." An event manager can check registrations for their next seminar. All from their assistant."
Other business travel players had already crossed this threshold in recent weeks, notably CDS and BCD TravelBut TMC, formerly known by the name TravelPerk assures being on the front line. Perk's management thus claims to be "the first all-in-one travel and expense platform to give finance teams access to travel invoices via MCP, with line-item detail and on-demand PDF download". It should be noted that Perk had already attacked last year Enhance your MICE offering with artificial intelligence.
Perk's 12,000 customers can benefit from this launch for the management of the four pillars: travel, expenses, invoicing, and events. Writing actions (booking, submitting expense claims, validation) should arrive as early as this summer. Perk will thus extend its features to allow for travel booking, expense claim submission, receipt uploading, event logistics, travel modifications, and approval workflows.
" Every team in a company touches travel and expense data, but most still spend their time digging through reports and switching platforms to find simple answers. ", observes Nikita Miller, Chief Product Officer at Perk. " It is this invisible work that this MCP connector removes, by meeting teams in the tools they already use. ".
Jean-Christophe Taunay-Bucalo, President and Chief Operating Officer of Perk, analysed the market's evolution as follows: “ AI must empower employees to do what they love most – their calling, their mission. Perk's MCP connector is another way to achieve this. If you remove the work that was never the real job, there's room for growth and for the people who truly matter. ".
