What is Combined? Business data for the AI agents you already use
How Combined connects SaaS data, keeps it queryable, and gives external AI agents scoped access through SQL, MCP and SDKs.
THE COMBINED FIELD GUIDE
Give your agents
better data.
Practical tutorials, working examples and decisions worth getting right before your agent answers a business question.
Connect Claude Code to business data with Combined MCP
A practical setup guide: connect a source, grant access, add the MCP server, discover schemas and verify a real query receipt.
Connect HubSpot to your AI agent and ask about pipeline
Turn HubSpot deals into answers in your AI workflow. Follow the connection steps, copy a pipeline-analysis prompt and check it against a simple worked example.
Direct SaaS MCP servers vs. a managed data layer for AI agents
Choose the right path to business context: direct application tools for actions, or Combined for SQL over synced, permissioned business records.
A Fivetran alternative for AI agents: ingestion, storage, and MCP
Evaluate Combined for the whole path from business apps to agent answers: managed ingestion, storage, scoped MCP access, and $5 per million MAR after the trial.
Choosing managed data ingestion for AI agents
Compare direct APIs, replication and managed agent data platforms. Use a practical checklist to evaluate source readiness, permissions, freshness and cost.
SQL or vector search for AI agents? Start with the question
Use SQL for exact calculations over structured records and semantic retrieval for meaning in text. Work through a reproducible business-data example.
How to check data freshness before an AI agent answers
Define acceptable data age, distinguish a successful sync from complete coverage, and make agents disclose stale or missing sources.
DuckDB, DuckLake and the data work around an AI agent
Understand the query engine, table format and operational responsibilities behind a managed business-data layer for agents.
What is an FDE?
The role of forward deployed engineers in bringing AI systems into production.