How Your AI Tool Connects to RentBuddy Next

Via MCP, AI assistants can securely connect to RentBuddy and work with the information and capabilities available within your environment. This allows you to simply ask questions such as “Which projects are scheduled for next month?” , “Which project managers are still available this coming weekend?” , or “How many DiGiCo SD10s do we still have available?” — ​​without having to search through various screens and overviews yourself first.

But MCP goes beyond simply retrieving information. It forms the link between RentBuddy and a new generation of AI applications that can support you with daily tasks, analyses, and ultimately complete workflows. Not by replacing RentBuddy, but by making it much easier to work with your own business information.

We do not want to devise this development behind closed doors. We discover which applications are truly valuable primarily by making MCP available and experiencing, together with you as end users, where it makes a difference in daily practice.

Therefore, RentBuddy MCP is immediately available in the first beta of RentBuddy Next.

A new way to work with RentBuddy therefore does not start with yet another screen or yet another button.

From now on, you can just ask.

ChatGPT and RentBuddy MCP in practice

To demonstrate that this is not theory but actual practice, we show you two examples below of how we have integrated ChatGPT with the RentBuddy MCP and how we are training AI to extract more and more information from the system by asking increasingly more questions. Naturally, the integration looks at the user, and information is not provided if your query does not have access to the requested information. If you, as a planner, ask for employee availability, you are entitled to receive it. If you ask for revenue and costs and do not have access to the financial section, the MCP will block this as well.

That said, you shouldn’t underestimate what you’re doing. After all, you’re linking your business data to AI, and that can also lead to incorrect answers. So always double-check the answers to your questions. Furthermore, the use, responsibility, and interpretation of those results are up to you as the end user. In other words, the AI tool can provide you with incorrect information or misrepresent things. So it’s not a tool you can blindly trust, but it certainly does help you make your processes faster and more efficient. And even better: no matter where you are, you can get immediate answers to important questions remotely by simply asking them—without even having to be logged into RentBuddy to access the information. After all, you just ask ChatGPT the questions.

The most common AI tools right now are Claude and ChatGPT.‍ RentBuddy MCP is therefore compatible with these leading tools. Connecting your RentBuddy Next work environment takes just five minutes, and with the push of a button, you can just as easily disconnect your employees from the RentBuddy MCP server. However, you must have administrator rights to establish the connection.

Clear Questions and Management Reports

Naturally, we are not sitting still. We will also continue to train and improve the MCP. It will soon become clear which questions remain unanswered.

Seeing is believing?

The capabilities of the RentBuddy MCP are really limited by only one thing: the questions you come up with.

By now, we're all familiar with conversations using ChatGPT and Claude. But what if that AI not only had general knowledge but could also work directly with the up-to-date data from your own RentBuddy environment?

Imagine this: I'm standing in the middle of a festival and need some information that I would normally call a colleague about or look up on RentBuddy. Now I just take my phone out of my pocket and ask the AI that question directly.

Let's give that a try.

More complex? That's when it really gets interesting

Questions like “What’s this employee’s phone number?” or “How many wireless microphones do we still have available this weekend?” are, of course, helpful. The RentBuddy MCP retrieves that information directly from RentBuddy.

But that's really just the beginning.

It becomes much more interesting when a single query combines information from different parts of RentBuddy. Think of projects, equipment availability, employees, roles, rates, past assignments, and locations.

Then you won't just be asking for data anymore; you'll be able to ask AI to correlate that data and help you find a suitable solution.

And that's exactly where it gets fun.

Curious to see for yourself how it works? Then visit our booth at Festivak on November 18 and 19, and we’ll introduce you to the many new features and online platform of RentBuddy Next. There are also still a few spots available for the pre-launch event at the Willem II Stadium on October 14, 2026.