What an MCP server is and why accounting vendors are shipping one

It is the plumbing that lets an AI assistant act inside your software - and the permissions are yours to set, not the vendor's.

AI agents need approval gates, just like people do

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Why AI agents need approval gates the same way people do

The control is not the agent - it is the human checkpoint that sits between the agent's work and the general ledger.