New Sage AI Developer Solutions Accelerate Sage Platform Innovation

Sage, the leader in accounting, financial, HR, and payroll technology for small and mid-sized businesses, has announced the launch of its new AI Developer Solutions.

Marking a major milestone in how partners and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) innovate on the Sage Platform, the first phase of the program launches with Sage Intacct, with future expansion across Sage’s product portfolio.

In a first-of-its-kind integration for Sage, the company will integrate certified third-party AI Agents directly into the Sage Copilot experience, enabling partners to build and deploy specialized AI workflows that elevate human work. For customers, this means richer choice, embedded intelligence, and faster innovation within the Sage products they already trust.

“This is the next step in Sage’s Platform journey,” said Aaron Harris, CTO, Sage. “We are giving our partners the ability to build with Sage intelligence at their core. Together we can accelerate innovation for millions of small and mid-sized businesses, bringing AI Agents out of the lab and into the real workflows where they’ll make the biggest impact.”

Empowering SMBs through an open ecosystem

Small and mid-sized businesses increasingly want integrated solutions, not isolated products. They’re looking for connected tools they can trust and offer flexibility, personalization, and choice. This shift reinforces Sage’s commitment to an open ecosystem that enables partners to create AI-powered extensions and workflows tailored to every customer’s needs, driving higher performance and sustained business growth.

The new Sage AI Developer Solutions introduces a curated, secure, and governed ecosystem where trusted partners can create certified advanced AI capabilities and AI Agents that enhance automation, integration, insight, and decision-making for Sage customers. The goal is to accelerate innovation while maintaining the highest standards of trust, quality, compliance, and data protection and meeting the specific business needs of its customers.

 "AI is fundamentally redefining tax compliance for businesses. Sovos is leading this transformation as one of the first partners in Sage’s AI Developer Solutions,” said Kevin Akeroyd, CEO, Sovos. “By combining our deep tax compliance expertise with Sage's trusted AI platform, we're building intelligent agents that integrate seamlessly into finance workflows, helping businesses make faster, smarter decisions while driving measurable improvements in productivity and profitability. We continue to work with Sage and AWS to bring enterprise-grade tax compliance capabilities to growing businesses, unlocking new levels of productivity and profitability." 

Powered by the Sage AI Gateway

At the center of the initiative is the Sage AI Gateway, built on Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs. Together, these components enable the creation of AI extensions that securely interact with and integrate seamlessly into Sage’s core products.

Launching in November with the Intacct AI Gateway, the MCP server will enable intelligent orchestration by allowing multiple agents to coordinate tasks, handle planning, instantly retrieve information and generate useful insights. Built on top of Sage Intacct REST APIs, the MCP server allows third-party built AI solutions to be more effective and provide increased customer value.

Expanding the Developer strategy across the Sage Platform

Sage Active, Sage’s flagship AI-first cloud suite for Europe, represents the next step in this strategy. Built for scale and designed to embed intelligent workflows across every aspect of a customer’s business, its open APIs create a scalable ecosystem where developers can design advanced, tailored solutions. As part of Sage’s unified AI Developer Solutions, Sage Active will progressively evolve to support agentic and Model Context Protocol (MCP) capabilities, enabling partners to build vertical AI Agents and advanced automations as these capabilities roll out. By unifying quotes, invoicing, accounting, payroll, and HR into a single cloud-native suite, it provides partners with a modern go-to-market engine that helps small and mid-sized businesses adopt new capabilities with confidence.

Building the future on a trusted platform

The launch signals a fundamental evolution in how Sage works with its ecosystem, enabling partners to move from integration to true co-creation within Sage’s AI-powered Platform infrastructure.

McKinsey research highlights that ecosystem building is a proven strategy for delivering long-term value and outperforming peers. The firm’s latest analysis suggests that the integrated network economy could represent a $100 trillion value pool by 2030, underlining the growing importance of platforms that connect partners and customers in trusted, data-rich environments. This reinforces why Sage is investing in open yet governed innovation through its global platform strategy.

Sage’s platform strategy brings this vision to life by enabling partners to build within a secure, compliant, and high-performance framework. Partners benefit from Sage’s deep domain expertise and customer trust, reducing the cost, complexity, and risk of innovation while delivering faster value to customers.

For customers, this means a richer choice of AI-enabled tools and workflows, embedded intelligence, and faster innovation, delivered to them through their Sage Copilot interface deeply embedded into the Sage products they already trust.

Scaling trusted AI innovation through collaboration with AWS

To accelerate development and enable global scalability for Sage AI Developer Solutions, Sage is collaborating initially with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build agents with select partners. This capability will soon expand for partners to build agents across additional environments while leveraging the Sage platform and documentation for a seamless Copilot experience.

By utilizing Amazon Bedrock, Sage and its partners gain access to advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) which can be securely connected to Sage MCPs and REST APIs.

The inclusion of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, an agentic platform to build, deploy and operate agents securely at scale using any framework and model, facilitates the construction of production-ready, Sage Certified AI Agents that may be deployed across multiple Sage customers via Sage Copilot.

The collaboration ensures that every AI extension developed through the programme benefits from AWS infrastructure’s reliability, scalability, and resilience, while preserving Sage’s commitment to trust, security and compliance. The approach empowers developers to innovate faster, deploying and commercializing customized AI agents and workflow automation with human-in-the-loop controls, ensuring solutions are both high-performing and responsible.

"This collaboration between AWS and Sage empowers small and mid-sized businesses to harness the full potential of AI without complexity," said Chris Grusz, Managing Director of Technology Partnerships at AWS. "By bringing together Sage's platform expertise with Amazon Bedrock and AgentCore capabilities, we're enabling partners to create trusted AI solutions that solve real customer problems. Our shared vision is to make advanced AI accessible, secure, and immediately valuable for businesses of all sizes."

The Sage AI Developer Solutions signals a new era of collaboration on the Sage Platform, uniting innovation, intelligence, and customer success in one connected ecosystem.

To find out more about Sage AI Developer Solutions and to register your interest in being part of the new era visit: https://developer.sage.com