Release 001: Outlook Integration & MCP AI Tools
Introducing Outlook email integration and Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools to enhance collaboration and intelligence in materials procurement and sales.
Release Highlights
- Outlook Integration: Connect a shared mailbox (e.g.,
quotes@company.com) via Microsoft Graph to automatically pull quote emails and replies into Seminode to keep full context and move from inbox to insights instantly. - AI Model Context Protocol (MCP) Safely let AI work with your Seminode workspace to analyze quoting threads, draft responses, look up market pricing, and trigger actions across your procurement and sales workflow.
Outlook Integration
The Outlook integration centralizes email threads with partners so your team never loses context or time. Connect a shared or user mailbox and Seminode will ingest relevant conversations, link them to the right partners and parts, and make them actionable in one place.
- Secure Microsoft Entra ID authentication with Microsoft Graph
- Supports shared and user mailboxes (e.g., quotes@company.com)
- App permissions scoped to Mail.Read and Mail.Send
- Automatic capture of RFQs and quote replies
- One workspace to triage, resolve conflicts, tag, and act (review quotes, respond to quotes, execute orders)
The result: no missed messages, faster cycle times, and a clean handoff from email to execution without copy/paste or context switching.
AI Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Seminode now supports MCP so AI can work with your data and tools—securely and in context—to accelerate procurement decisions.
MCP Tools & Capabilities
- Inbox & Responses: View quotes, summarize threads, draft and send replies
- Node & Permissions: Create nodes to post supply or demand and manage access
- Network Actions: Add posting and querying connections to access your customers or suppliers nodes
- List Management: Search and manage BOMs, excess inventory, purchase requisitions, and other item lists across your connections
- Partner Management: Look up partner records and add or update details
- Documentation Access: Ask questions against live docs from docs.seminode.com
- Web Search: Enrich decisions with market and web pricing searches
Connecting Customers and Suppliers LLMs with Seminode MCP
Seminode introduces a bold new way for customers and suppliers to communicate with intelligence and speed. By linking AI chatboxes that support MCP to Seminode, we turn familiar chat interfaces into secure, structured data exchanges. This novel approach enables context-aware AI, effortless access to relevant data, and smarter, more autonomous collaboration across the supply network.
This release is a major step in our mission to transform materials procurement through better connectivity and AI-powered decision making, while shifting power back to the supply chain itself and ensuring both customers and suppliers share in the value created.