Perk is claiming to be the first platform to offer travel, spend, invoicing and events through a single AI integration after its Perk MCP (Model Context Protocol) connector went live this week.
MCP is an open standard that lets AI assistants connect directly to workplace software. The connector is available to Perk’s 12,000 customers.
Perk MCP gives finance teams, travel managers and employees the ability to link Perk to Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP-compatible assistants. It means data can be accessed through natural language.
A Perk survey of 428 companies, held in June, revealed what its customers wanted from AI. The list includes less manual admin, faster answers and the ability to manage travel and spend without switching tools.
The new solution means Perk users can get answers to their travel and spend-related questions while using the AI tools that they are already familiar with. That includes checking trip status, bookings, pending expenses and card transactions.
Finance teams can search expenses, download structured spend reports and view corporate card spend.
Travel managers can monitor pending approvals, query travel policy rules and audit users by role, cost centre or approval process.
“Every team in a business touches travel and spend data, but most of them are still digging through reports and switching platforms to find simple answers. That’s the shadow work this MCP connector removes, meeting teams inside the tools they already use,” explains Nikita Miller, Chief Product Officer at Perk.
“The customers we speak to who are building AI workflows are telling us the same thing: they want it to handle travel, guided by their policies, calendar and preferences. We’re excited to be leading the industry with this first release, and we can’t wait for our customers to also be able to book work travel, submit expenses and manage approval flows using AI,” she continued.
Perk’s President and Chief Operating Officer, Jean-Christophe Taunay-Bucalo, added: “AI should give back the power to employees to do what they love the most, their vocation, their purpose. The Perk MCP connector is one more way we’re making that happen.”
Perk plans to expand functionality over the summer of 2026 to enable travel booking, expense submission, receipt upload, event logistics, trip modifications and approval flows.
