I wrote an article for The Mag recently, ‘Has the game gone’, in which I posed the question whether modern football is losing its emotional working class soul to a clinical technocratic elite who prioritise over-complicated VAR checks and cold spreadsheets over the raw, imperfect joy of the stadium

Knowledge management startup Stravito AB today introduced a Model Context Protocol server that lets people access the company’s consumer and market research from AI tools such as OpenAI Group PBC’s ChatGPT, Anthropic PBC’s Claude and Microsoft Corp.’s Copilot. The Stockholm-based company said the server gives those tools access to research already stored in Stravito, including reports, presentations, spreadsheets, audio and video. It targets marketing and research teams that want to use proprietary data to plan campaigns, test ideas and make other commercial decisions. MCP is an open standard for connecting AI applications to external data and tools. Stravito’s server provides a single connection to research that customers previously accessed mainly through its website or application programming interfaces. “The breakthrough is that we can now sit alongside your [customer relationship management], [business intelligence] and social listening data in the same AI conversation,” said Thor Olof Philogène, Stravito’s founder and chief executive. For example, an employee could ask an AI assistant a question that draws on consumer studies alongside information from a CRM database and business intelligence dashboard. Stravito said its server can interpret findings embedded in charts and graphs, as well as text. Philogène said the underlying technology for reading visuals...

Month-End Close Automation in Business Central: How AI Agents and Enhanced Reporting Cut Finance Overhead Every CFO knows the pattern. Three weeks before month-end, the finance team begins the countdown. Spreadsheets multiply. Manual invoice matching. Bank reconciliation discrepancies. Accrual journal entries. The same tasks, every month, consuming days that could be spent on actual financial analysis. By the time the close completes, your team has moved on to the next cycle, and the chance to understand what the numbers actually mean has already passed.

A Corpay survey of 300 UK CFOs found 86% of finance teams spend six or more hours weekly on manual administration tasks.

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