For AI-forward procurement & sales teams
Connect Your AI Assistant to Your Supply Chain
Procurement and sales teams already use AI assistants every day — but the assistant can't see the supply chain. Every question means copy-pasting part numbers, quotes, and partner details between a chat window and your tools. Seminode's MCP servers connect Claude and OpenAI assistants directly to your live supply chain, so your AI can search listings, check quotes, and act on your behalf.
Why AI Assistants Fall Short on Supply Chain Work Today
Ask an AI assistant "what quotes are waiting on me?" and it has no idea. The information lives in your procurement platform, your inbox, and your spreadsheets — none of which the assistant can reach. So the workflow becomes manual again: copy the quote into the chat, ask for help drafting a response, copy the response back out, and send it yourself.
That copy-paste loop erases most of the value. The assistant only sees the fragment you pasted, not the full picture — your partner network, your open quotes, your active listings. And it can't take action, so every answer still requires you to switch tools and do the work by hand.
MCP — the Model Context Protocol — is the open standard that fixes this. It gives AI assistants a structured way to connect to real systems. Seminode runs MCP servers for exactly this purpose: plugging your assistant into your electronics supply chain.
Two MCP Servers, One Connected Supply Chain
Seminode provides two MCP servers that work with AI assistants like Claude and OpenAI. One answers questions; the other takes action.
Docs MCP: instant answers about the platform
The Docs MCP server at docs.seminode.com/mcp gives your assistant read-only access to Seminode's full documentation and API reference — no authentication required. Point your AI at the endpoint and ask how to create a node, what an API endpoint expects, or how a workflow is supposed to run.
Platform MCP: your AI acts on your account
The Seminode Platform MCP server at tools.seminode.com/mcp connects to your Seminode account, enabling AI assistants to perform actions on your behalf. It's authenticated — your assistant works against your own Seminode account.
What your assistant can actually do
Through the Platform MCP server, your AI can search parts and materials listings across your network, find companies within your connections, and view all quotes in your inbox. It can send counter offers and accept or reject incoming quotes. It can create and list partners, grant node access permissions, create nodes for organizing data, and manage posting and query connections. "Show me all pending quotes in my inbox" or "create a new partner for ABC Manufacturing" become one-line requests instead of multi-step tasks.
AI built into the platform itself
You don't need to bring your own assistant to get started. The in-app AI Playground offers natural-language access to your Seminode data, the documentation, and AI-powered web search for part information like datasheets, market pricing, and distributor stock levels. An AI Sidebar in the Inbox provides contextual help on the quote thread you're viewing, and a Dashboard Summary highlights open quotes and pending approvals that need attention.
How Procurement and Sales Teams Use It
Sourcing without tab-switching
A buyer working through a shortage asks their assistant to search listings across their network for a part, with results grounded in live data rather than pasted fragments. For alternatives, market pricing, and distributor stock levels, the in-app AI Playground adds AI-powered web search alongside your network data.
Quote handling in plain language
A sales rep starts the morning by asking for pending quotes, reviews the details, and tells the assistant to counter one and accept another. The actions happen in Seminode, against the real quote records — not in a disconnected chat that someone has to transcribe later.
Network setup by conversation
Onboarding a new supplier means creating a partner, granting node permissions, and wiring up posting or query connections. With the Platform MCP server, that's a short exchange with your assistant instead of a sequence of forms.
Copy-Paste AI vs. MCP-Connected AI
| Copy-Pasting Into an AI Chat | AI Connected via Seminode MCP |
|---|---|
| Assistant only sees the fragment you paste | Assistant queries your live listings, quotes, and partners |
| Answers can drift out of date the moment data changes | Every answer is pulled fresh from your account |
| AI drafts a response; you switch tools to send it | AI counters, accepts, or rejects quotes on your behalf |
| Partner and network changes done manually in forms | Create partners, nodes, and permissions by conversation |
| Platform questions mean searching docs yourself | Docs MCP answers platform questions inside the chat |
Get Started
Point your AI assistant at the Docs MCP server to explore what Seminode can do — no account needed. When you're ready to act on real data, configure Claude or OpenAI to connect to the Platform MCP server with your Seminode account credentials.
See how Seminode fits AI-assisted procurement workflows on our features page, or book a demo to walk through a live example.