Ottimate, an AI-powered accounts payable automation platform serving invoice-heavy industries including grocery and foodservice, has announced the first Model Context Protocol integration in the market, enabling finance leaders to bring AP data directly into large language models for financial insights. The announcement is part of Ottimate’s 2026 Summer Release, which also includes enhancements to Ottimate Copilot and a new wave of AI capabilities designed to protect profit margins.
CFOs and finance leaders increasingly rely on AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT to ask questions, synthesize data and drive strategy, but AP data has remained siloed, forcing finance teams to spend more than 11 hours a week running reports, according to the company. With the MCP integration, users can now use a simple prompt to get insights on financial health, cash flow exposure and payment trends in seconds—a process that historically took days, weeks or a third-party consultant.
“CFOs shouldn’t have to spend hours pulling together information from different sources,” said Shawn Lane, CEO of Ottimate. “By being first to market with an MCP integration, we’re giving finance leaders the full picture they need to make confident decisions fast.”
Copilot Upgrades, Automation Features Round Out Summer Release
Ottimate Copilot, the company’s conversational AP tool, also receives upgrades in the release, including statement reconciliation support, deeper spend analytics and a redesigned interface that surfaces the metrics customers care about most.
The Summer Release additionally introduces two features targeting repetitive, error-prone tasks in accounts payable. Risk-based spend approvals automatically flag low-risk transactions, allowing approvers to focus on higher-priority items and accelerate reimbursements. Autosuggested general ledger coding for expense submissions cuts manual effort and helps accounting teams close faster with fewer corrections, moving teams closer to touchless operations.
“Every release we ship helps lean teams move quickly, stay focused on high-value work and never become a bottleneck,” said Don Dittmar, chief product officer of Ottimate. “This summer’s release delivers that across the entire platform.”
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