The Key to Connected Finance: Understanding MCP

Most finance teams have tried AI by now and most have hit the same wall: the AI can't actually see their numbers. It lives outside the systems where the real work happens.

MCP (the Model Context Protocol) changes that. It's an open standard, adopted across the major AI providers, that connects AI directly to the tools and data you already use — including Pigment. In this session, Justin Merritt and Colin Sygrove walk through what MCP is, why it matters for FP&A, and what becomes possible when your AI can work against your live financial model. You'll leave understanding what MCP is, how it fits into a modern finance stack, and what a first step looks like.