It's worth saying out loud: clariBI is betting that the Model Context Protocol becomes the way AI tools talk to the rest of business software for the next decade. That's why our integration roadmap is now a catalog, not a wishlist.
Why we made the bet
Integration breadth has always been the silent killer for BI tools. Tableau supports everything because Tableau has been around for 20 years and has built (or bought) connectors to everything. New tools — even good ones — start with five connectors and either spend the next decade catching up or quietly stay in a niche.
We don't have a decade. Neither do you.
MCP changes the unit economics. Adding a vendor isn't "write and maintain a client for the next five years" — it's "add a row in the catalog and verify the read scopes". A small team can credibly support hundreds of vendors. Not eventually. Now.
Where we're going next
Three directions:
- Catalog depth. We started with 30 vendors — the obvious ones from our existing customer base. The next wave is verticals: more healthcare-adjacent (electronic medical record systems, scheduling tools), more retail (point-of-sale, inventory), more education (LMS, SIS). Whenever a vertical's tools become MCP-capable, we'll add them as a block.
- Deeper per-vendor primitives. Today, each vendor's MCP tools are mostly "list this", "search that", "fetch one". As vendors add richer tools — aggregations, joins, time-windowed queries — we'll surface those automatically. The catalog is just a list of tool schemas; better tools mean better answers without a clariBI release.
- Custom MCP endpoints. If you run your own internal MCP server (we know some teams are starting to), you'll soon be able to point clariBI at it via a "Custom MCP" entry. Same auth model, same security guarantees, but the catalog stops at your firewall.
What stays the same
The principles in our security model aren't going to budge. Read-only, encrypted at rest, per-organization isolated, disconnect-means-deleted. Those aren't features we'll trade off for catalog breadth.
And the user experience won't get more complicated. Two clicks to connect, plain-English questions to query. That's the surface, and it's where it'll stay.
How to come along for the ride
Start a free 14-day trial and connect a vendor you actually use. If your daily-driver tool isn't in the catalog yet, tell us which one. The roadmap is genuinely shaped by what real customers ask for — that's how Stripe, Linear and Notion got prioritized in the first wave, and it's how the next wave gets prioritized too.