Sage is expanding its AI and integration strategy on two fronts: the launch of a major new AI developer framework for partners and a deepening of its strategic alignment with Sovos around embedded, intelligent tax compliance. Together, these initiatives signal a coordinated push toward governed, partner-led extensibility across Sage’s finance platforms, with an emphasis on agent-based workflows and secure, open APIs.
Sage’s new AI Developer Solutions mark a significant evolution of the Sage Platform. The program enables partners and independent software vendors to build certified AI agents and workflow automations directly into Sage Copilot. The first phase focuses on Sage Intacct, using the new Sage AI Gateway built on Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and REST APIs. This architecture allows partner-built agents to interact securely with Sage applications, coordinate multi-step tasks, retrieve and synthesize information, and generate insights directly within customer workflows. Sage is also integrating Amazon Bedrock and Bedrock AgentCore, giving partners access to production-ready AI infrastructure that can scale across diverse Sage customer environments.
Sage Active, the company’s AI-first cloud suite in Europe, will serve as the next pillar of this developer strategy. With open APIs and future MCP and agentic capabilities, partners will be able to build vertical solutions that extend intelligent automation across quotes, invoicing, accounting, payroll, and HR, all within a unified, cloud-native suite. Sage positions this evolution as a shift from traditional plug-in integration toward structured co-creation where partners innovate inside a governed ecosystem emphasizing trust, security, compliance, and data protection.
One of the earliest partners in this new model is Sovos, of which work illustrates the depth and ambition of Sage’s strategy. Sovos, known globally for e-invoicing, indirect tax, and regulatory compliance, is building intelligent tax compliance agents through Sage’s program. This collaboration is reinforced by a parallel strategic partnership announced at Sage Future for Partners, which brings Sovos’ e-invoicing and global tax automation directly into Sage business applications.
The Sovos approach goes beyond API connectivity. By combining Sovos’ regulatory expertise with Sage’s new agentic architecture, partners can deliver tax and reporting capabilities that behave like embedded, AI-driven assistants within finance workflows. These agents can validate invoices in real time, automate e-invoicing submissions, ensure country-specific compliance, flag anomalies, and reduce manual data preparation ahead of tax reporting. Sage customers gain a more transparent and auditable compliance experience that improves accuracy, accelerates billing, and supports cross-border scalability without requiring specialized tax knowledge inside the business.
For Sage partners, Sovos’ integration provides immediate value: simplified go-to-market motions, faster onboarding, stronger customer retention through embedded compliance, and new workflow opportunities in payments, cash management, and global trade. Because Sovos’ capabilities are delivered through Sage’s AI Gateway and secure API framework, solution providers can extend these workflows without taking on the risk, upkeep, or regulatory complexity of maintaining tax infrastructure themselves.
What This Means for ERP Insiders
Partner-built AI ecosystems are now a central differentiator in business applications. Sage’s adoption of MCP-based gateways, certified agent pathways, and co-creation models reflects a broader industry transition: the shift from static integration to dynamic, agentic systems where partners build intelligent, domain-specific automation directly inside the ERP. Trust, governance, certification, and platform reliability are quickly becoming as important as the features partners deliver.
AI gateways are emerging as a new integration layer in ERP architecture. Sage’s introduction of an MCP-based gateway that coordinates multi-agent workflows—rather than individual API calls—signals a move toward orchestrated automation capable of handling reasoning, task planning, and data synthesis across systems. This architecture raises the bar for performance, observability, and secure data handling, and it positions Sage as an early adopter of agent-first platform design.
Deep industry expertise from partners is becoming a competitive requirement. The Sovos integration exemplifies the value of embedding specialist domain knowledge—in this case, global tax compliance—into ERP workflows through governed AI pathways. As regulatory environments grow more complex, embedded partner capabilities will play a major role in reducing operational risk and supporting global scalability for small- and mid-sized businesses.
*Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this article incorrectly referenced Sage’s senior-living EHR interoperability announcement, which relates to a different Sage entity.
