What is an MCP server? A plain-English guide
How Claude and ChatGPT get secure, governed access to your real systems — with a 65-tool analytics connector and a live brokerage account as examples.
Read the guide ↗MCP servers · Azure AI · Compliance
MCP server development,
explained and demonstrated.
How MCP servers and Azure AI pipelines actually get built — real tenant isolation, real RAG, real guardrails — plus practical AI compliance guidance for Irish SMEs.
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Written from the actual architecture of live MCP servers and Azure AI products — what they connect to, how they're secured, and the trade-offs behind each decision.
How we stopped an AI quoting system from hallucinating prices
Why a single AI prompt can't be trusted with pricing, and the 3-stage deterministic pipeline that fixed it for a real Azure OpenAI product.
Read the story ↗How to create an AI systems inventory
Find AI tools and embedded features, record each real use case, and connect personal-data uses to your GDPR records.
Read the guide ↗ChatGPT and GDPR: what Irish businesses need to check
Before staff paste a customer email, CV or meeting note into an AI tool, check the purpose, vendor terms, retention, transfers and safeguards.
Read the guide ↗EU AI Act deadlines: what Irish SMEs need to do now
The dates have changed. See which duties already apply, what began in August 2026 and when the main high-risk rules take effect.
Read the guide ↗What an AI acceptable-use policy should actually say
A practical policy structure covering approved tools, sensitive information, human review, checking outputs and reporting mistakes.
Read the guide ↗How to prepare for an AI audit without creating a paperwork exercise
Build a defensible picture of your AI systems, vendors, data, decisions, controls and evidence before the review begins.
Read the guide ↗The accountancy firm that thought it only used one AI tool
A Cork team believed ChatGPT was its only AI risk. A simple audit found AI inside email, meetings and its CRM—and one member of staff was pasting client data into a free account.
Read the story ↗When “helpful” CV screening became a serious compliance question
A recruiter switched on automated candidate ranking to save time. The problem was not automation itself—it was relying on a score nobody had checked or explained.
Read the story ↗The chatbot that knew more about customers than the owner realised
An online retailer launched a support bot in a weekend. Months later, it held names, order details and complaints—with no clear owner, retention rule or human handover.
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