Build Agents in Relevance AI with Access to Live Odoo Data via CData Connect AI
Relevance AI is an AI automation and agent-building platform that enables organizations to create autonomous workflows powered by natural language reasoning. Users can visually design agents that interact with APIs, databases, and third-party systems to complete everyday business tasks or data operations.
By integrating Relevance AI with CData Connect AI through the built-in MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server, your agents can query, summarize, and act on live Odoo data in real time. This connection bridges Relevance AI intelligent workflow engine with the governed enterprise connectivity of CData Connect AI ensuring every query runs securely against authorized sources without manual data export.
This article outlines the steps to configure Odoo connectivity in Connect AI, register the CData MCP Server in Relevance AI, and build an agent that interacts with live Odoo data.
About Odoo Data Integration
Accessing and integrating live data from Odoo has never been easier with CData. Customers rely on CData connectivity to:
- Access live data from both Odoo API 8.0+ and Odoo.sh Cloud ERP.
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Extend the native Odoo features with intelligent handling of many-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many data properties. CData's connectivity solutions also intelligently handle complex data properties within Odoo. In addition to columns with simple values like text and dates, there are also columns that contain multiple values on each row. The driver decodes these kinds of values differently, depending upon the type of column the value comes from:
- Many-to-one columns are references to a single row within another model. Within CData solutions, many-to-one columns are represented as integers, whose value is the ID to which they refer in the other model.
- Many-to-many columns are references to many rows within another model. Within CData solutions, many-to-many columns are represented as text containing a comma-separated list of integers. Each value in that list is the ID of a row that is being referenced.
- One-to-many columns are references to many rows within another model - they are similar to many-to-many columns (comma-separated lists of integers), except that each row in the referenced model must belong to only one in the main model.
- Use SQL stored procedures to call server-side RFCs within Odoo.
Users frequently integrate Odoo with analytics tools such as Power BI and Qlik Sense, and leverage our tools to replicate Odoo data to databases or data warehouses.
Getting Started
Step 1: Configure Odoo Connectivity for Relevance AI
Connectivity to Odoo from Relevance AI is made possible through CData Connect AI's Remote MCP Server. To interact with Odoo data from Relevance AI, we start by creating and configuring a Odoo connection in CData Connect AI.
- Log into Connect AI, click Sources, and then click Add Connection
- Select Odoo from the Add Connection panel
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Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Odoo.
To connect, set the Url to a valid Odoo site, User and Password to the connection details of the user you are connecting with, and Database to the Odoo database.
- Click Save & Test
- Navigate to the Permissions tab and update user-based permissions
Add a Personal Access Token
A Personal Access Token (PAT) is used to authenticate the connection to Connect AI from Relevance AI. It is best practice to create a separate PAT for each integration to maintain granular access control.
- Click the gear icon () at the top right of the Connect AI app to open Settings
- On the Settings page, go to the Access Tokens section and click Create PAT
- Give the PAT a descriptive name and click Create
- Copy the token when displayed and store it securely. It will not be shown again
With the Odoo connection configured and a PAT generated, Relevance AI can now connect to Odoo data through the CData MCP Server.
Step 2: Configure Connectivity in Relevance AI
The CData Connect AI MCP endpoint and authorization details are registered within Relevance AI so that agents can call live data from Connect AI.
- Sign in to Relevance AI and create an account if you do not already have one
- From the sidebar, navigate to Agents and then click on New Agent
- Select Build from scratch and name the agent (eg; CData MCP Server)
- Inside the agent editor, select Advanced and then switch to the MCP Server tab
- Click + Add Remote MCP Tools
- In the dialog that appears, fill out the fields as follows:
- URL: https://mcp.cloud.cdata.com/mcp
- Label: Any custom label (eg; cdata_mcp_server)
- Authentication: Select Custom headers
- Add header key:value pair. Combine your email and PAT as email:PAT and encode that string in Base64 and then prefix with the word Basic
- Key: Authorization
- Value: Basic base64(email:PAT)
Click Connect to establish the connection. Relevance AI will verify your credentials and register the CData Connect AI MCP Server for use in agents.
Step 3: Build and Run a Relevance AI Agent with Live Odoo Data
- Switch to the Run tab for your agent
- Enter a task for example, "List the five most recent incidents from ServiceNow"
- The agent will query Connect AI via the MCP endpoint and display live results from Odoo data
With the connection complete, Relevance AI agents can now issue queries, retrieve records, and perform AI-driven tasks over live Odoo data through CData Connect AI MCP Server.
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