Building Your Own AI Agent for Business Central with Azure AI Foundry
Session Overview: Azure AI Foundry has made it significantly more accessible to build custom AI agents that connect to your own business data — including Business Central. This session is designed for technically capable BC users, IT leads, and implementation professionals who want to move beyond pre-built Copilot features and build something tailored to their organization’s specific workflows. We’ll walk through how to connect AI Foundry to BC’s API layer, how to define the agent’s scope and grounding sources, and what it takes to get reliable, contextually accurate responses from an agent built on your own ERP data. This is not a theoretical session — attendees will see a working agent built on BC data and leave with a clear understanding of the architecture, the configuration choices, and the practical limits of what’s achievable today.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how Azure AI Foundry connects to Business Central data through APIs and standard connectors.
- Build and deploy a basic AI agent that answers operational questions using live Business Central data as its grounding source.
- Apply grounding and retrieval techniques to ensure your AI agent returns accurate, BC-specific responses rather than hallucinated outputs.
Speakers: Mason Whitaker
Recorded at: Community Summit NA 2026
Type: Education Session
Ability Level: 301 – Advanced
Primary Product: Business Central/NAV
Tracks: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Technical (Development), Operations
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