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What if ChatGPT and OpenAI solutions could intelligently access your business context?

ChatGPT Chat

Query your live systems (CRM, ERP, data warehouses, analytics platforms) in real time. Instead of generic answers, ChatGPT can reason over your data — whether that’s up-to-this-minute sales, user behavior, inventory status, or support logs — and provide contextually accurate, actionable responses.

Agent Builder

Plug Agent Builder into MCP via Connect AI so agents can act on your real data systems securely: read or update records, trigger workflows, automate multi-step tasks, and respond dynamically to changing data — all inside your ChatGPT environment.

Code Interpreter and ChatKit

MCP-enabled feeds let you pipe your actual datasets into the ChatGPT Code environment. Ask ChatGPT to generate charts, compute custom metrics, run statistical models, or produce automation scripts — without exporting or duplicating your data.

Give AI from OpenAI real-time, semantic-rich access to your enterprise data

Built for MCP, optimized for ChatGPT

Engineered for seamless compatibility with ChatGPT via MCP, Connect AI delivers performance-tested integrations for low latency and high fidelity, so ChatGPT can reason directly over your business data without friction.

Minutes to set up

No code, no complex setup. Authorize your data sources, paste your MCP URL in ChatGPT or other OpenAI solutions, and start asking live questions instantly.

Smarter selective querying

Connect AI uses MCP to fetch only the data ChatGPT needs, when it needs it. That means more relevant answers, less token waste, and faster responses.

Enterprise security and governance built-in

Credentials pass through securely from the source, with full role-based controls, encryption, and audit visibility. Connect AI brings production-ready governance and IT oversight to every OpenAI integration.

Trusted by OpenAI users

“Connect AI changed how we access our ERP data. I pulled live financials mid-meeting and built a dashboard on the spot… access to our business data through simple conversation with AI is game-changing for how we operate.”

— Bhavik Paryani, Growth and Strategy Leader, Paryani Construction

IT & Operations Professionals

Deploy ChatGPT across your team

Stop shadow AI before it starts, enabling ChatGPT to query live enterprise data while your existing security controls enforce existing permissions.

Every AI query enforces the user's existing source system permissions—automatically, at runtime.
OAuth/SAML identity passthrough with user-level access enforcement
No parallel permission mapping or role configuration required
Further manage user permissions with least-privilege controls

Business Users

Take ChatGPT to the next level with connected data

Enable ChatGPT to perform informed analysis across your data, creating interactive dashboards and reports in seconds to answer pressing questions about your work.

Full controls and visibility for IT
Query multiple sources at once
Reduce ChatGPT hallucinations
Instantly deliver leadership-ready insights and reports

Looking for conversation ideas in ChatGPT?

Prompt Library

Explore our AI prompt library for ideas on next-level analysis you can do with AI + connected data.

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SDKs

Build production ready AI agents yourself using Python, the OpenAI Agent SDK, and CData Connect AI

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Try it yourself: Start querying in ChatGPT in minutes

Get started in minutes using sample data in our step-by-step ChatGPT setup guide

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Explore the difference Connect AI makes for OpenAI

Every system, one MCP endpoint

Connect ChatGPT to 350+ enterprise systems through a single managed platform. Advanced query pushdown executes joins, filters, and aggregations at the source—so ChatGPT tokens are spent on reasoning, not data wrangling.

Smarter answers, smaller token footprint

Source-level semantic intelligence teaches ChatGPT the schema, metadata, and business logic behind your data. Create curated, multi-source data collections with custom tools to direct ChatGPT for specific use cases.

Your security model, extended to ChatGPT

Identity-first security with OAuth/SSO passthrough enforces existing source system permissions automatically, at runtime. Least-privilege controls, CRUD restrictions, and comprehensive audit trails satisfy your strictest compliance requirements.

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MCP connectivity that goes beyond the OpenAI ecosystem

Managed MCP with Connect AI

Individual user MCP connections

One governed MCP connection for ChatgPT to 350+ enterprise systems—CRMs, ERPs, databases, analytics, and more—under a single governed layer.

Each data source requires a separate MCP server with its own tools, authentication and policies.

A unified response format model that returns data in a standardized semantic interface ChatGPT can interpret reliably, increasing token efficiency by pushing computation to the query engine instead of LLM

ChatGPT must filter, join, and group datasets logically through code, consuming up to 10X more tokens and ballooning costs in some cases

Universal MCP tools built for ChatGPT — plus the ability to define custom MCP tools for specialized workflows.

Varied based on each individual API, adding to MCP context bloat and overwhelming ChatGPT thinking windows

Centralized governance control plane for IT to monitor usage, enforce permissions, and audit all data access across agents and users.

Connections are configured ad hoc by users, with limited visibility or centralized access governance.

Learn more about connected data for ChatGPT

Why connected data is a game changer for ChatGPT
Why trust CData with your MCP data connectivity
How to build and scale connected data for ChatGPT users

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