Other tools in November: AI reaches the accounts, the agents and the phones

Xero launched a connected app that brings live Xero data into Gemini, built on its JAX platform. People can ask about profit and loss, cash, overdue invoices and bills, and get charts back. It can also issue an invoice or send a payment reminder, after the person confirms. Xero says the data is used only for that session and is not used to train Gemini. Similar connections for ChatGPT and Claude launched in September, and Microsoft 365 is listed as coming soon.

Separately, Xero has overhauled user permissions. Roles have been renamed and admins can now stop standard users seeing bank balances, statement lines and feeds.

Xero launched a hosted MCP server, the standard way AI tools connect to business software, with tools across invoicing, accounting, reporting and payments. It is for apps on Xero’s paid Core developer tier or above, not for individual businesses.

Dates to note: from 14 January 2027 the invoice email endpoint returns a “too many requests” error when an organisation hits its daily limit; Classic Expenses API endpoints switch off in February 2027; and broad API permission scopes retire on 13 September 2027. A read-only Account Data API is in beta.

MYOB Assist, one mobile app for receipts, quotes and invoices, is now available in New Zealand and replaces the Capture and Invoice apps. AI category suggestions in Assist are in beta for early adopters.

MYOB also launched Iris, an AI layer across its products for Australian and New Zealand businesses: help inside tasks like reconciliation, proactive business insights, and an “Ask Iris” chat about your own data. MYOB has not published pricing or New Zealand timing for every part. An Action centre with AI insights is reaching a share of AccountRight customers, including in New Zealand.

The 2026 release wave 2 makes the Payables Agent generally available, with better purchase-order matching, plus a pane that shows all agents and a way to review what they produce. Running data queries through an MCP server is also generally available. Copilot chat and new Expense Agent features are in preview.

Admins can schedule the 29.0 update any time in the window ending February 2027. Agents use pay-per-use Copilot Credits, sold separately from the Business Central licence. Microsoft has also stopped publishing release plans; new features now appear on its AI at Work roadmap.

NetSuite Next is now available in Australia and New Zealand, and Ask Oracle, a chat that answers questions from NetSuite data within your existing permissions, is rolling out to existing accounts. Industry agents and a library of agent “skills” were announced at SuiteWorld, with no New Zealand dates for most.

Bank reconciliation data is now open to outside AI tools through NetSuite’s MCP connection and API, and those tools can accept or reject reconciliation suggestions. AI settings have moved to Setup, Agent management.

Odoo 20’s agents can create and update records, including from an uploaded PDF, and can be triggered by automated or scheduled actions. Odoo can also act as an MCP server, so outside AI tools can read and edit its data.

All AI features now use credits bought through Odoo’s in-app purchase system. Odoo has not published a credit price for New Zealand.

Rovo credits now come as a monthly allowance per user, pooled across your organisation with no rollover: 25 on Standard, 70 on Premium and 150 on Enterprise for Jira and Confluence. Rovo Chat, agents and MCP calls use credits; search, summaries and definitions stay free. Extra use costs US$0.01 a credit, and it is switched on by default.

Jira automation is metered the same way. Every step in a rule counts against a pooled allowance of 400, 750 or 1,000 per user a month on Standard, Premium and Enterprise, with extra steps at US$0.50 per 1,000. If extra usage is off, rules stop when the allowance runs out.

AI can now be limited to a single board or Slack channel, and monday says nothing is reachable by default. Admins can set AI credit limits per user, get alerts before a budget runs out and see where credits go. Agents from other platforms can be managed alongside monday’s own, in beta. An Organization Hub showing AI spend across accounts is due in the first half of 2027.

Agent work uses AI credits. monday’s catalogue shows tasks using different amounts of credits depending on how complex they are.

Asana released more than 30 ready-made AI Teammates for marketing, operations and IT, and Asana Dash, which flags what needs attention. AI Teammates can now act in Google Drive, OneDrive, Gmail, Google Calendar, Outlook, Slack, Teams, Canva and HubSpot, and can connect to MCP servers using each person’s own login. Eligible people can now switch on AI Studio themselves.

AI Teammates and Dash share a pool of AI requests per account; extra requests cost US$0.50 to US$0.60 each, and admins can set a monthly cap.

ClickUp’s pricing page now shows Core at US$9 and Business at US$17 per user a month billed yearly, plus a new MAX plan at US$100, each with ClickUp Brain and a monthly pool of AI credits included. The separate Brain and Everything AI add-ons are gone on the new plans. Super Agents use credits on every plan, and extra credits are sold in packs with auto top-up shown as on.

ClickUp says not every workspace sees the new plans yet, and current plans do not change automatically.

Copilot Cowork can now view, create and update Planner plans, buckets, goals and tasks from plain-language requests, and writes progress back once the person approves it. The Planner Agent also lost its 30-task limit when building plans, can assign owners, and is available inside Outlook and Teams channels.

xAI, which now trades as SpaceX Super Intelligence, launched the X Subscription: Free, Plus (US$8), Premium (US$30), Super (US$100) and Ultra (US$200) a month, with Grok usage shared across Grok, X and the Cursor coding tool. Teams get the same per-seat prices plus single sign-on, admin controls and usage analytics. Grok Business is still listed at US$30 per user a month, with no training on your data and custom retention. How Teams and Business relate is not yet clear.

xAI’s enterprise terms, last updated 27 October, say customers should only send personal information through its zero data retention API, and that business content is not used to train models.

On sales-assisted Enterprise plans, admins can now limit each connector to everyone, admins only or chosen roles, and new connectors start switched off. Computer, Perplexity’s agent, can run tasks on a schedule or when something happens in a connected app, and can pause for review before acting.

A new Ultrafast setting for some models uses more credits than the normal settings.

Business and Enterprise seats now include 1,500 Standard credits and 500 Select credits a month. Choosing a premium model or running Custom Agents uses Select credits, and admins can buy more. Notion lists extra Custom Agent credits at US$10 per 1,000. From 1 December, AI Meeting Notes also start using the Standard allowance.

Notion 3.8 lets admins see which outside AI tools are connected through MCP and by whom, revoke access, limit connections to verified or approved tools, and control which database fields each person or agent can see.

Admins can now decide whether people may let Slackbot manage calendar events and draft and send emails for them, once they connect Google or Outlook. Slack does not say whether these start on or off. Workflows that send AI-generated content to other apps now pause for human review by default.

Canva Craft is Canva’s first in-house image model, trained on its own templates, and available to all users in Dream Lab. Faster versions and MCP access are coming, with no pricing yet. Canva also announced a restructure in early November; no plan or price changes came with it.

Some Power Apps, Power Automate and Dynamics 365 licences used to come with a monthly allowance of AI Builder credits. That ended on 1 November. AI Builder features, such as reading documents and running prompts, now need Copilot Studio capacity, paid as you go or in advance.

Separately, agents built for Copilot Chat gained scripted topics, connected agents, evaluations, usage monitoring and separate test and production versions, generally available from 26 October.

Admins can now set pay-as-you-go limits above quota by tier, and from 22 October set quota limits for individual users. Claude Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 are available in the Gemini Enterprise app, off by default, billed per use, and only processed in global, US and EU locations. Workflow Builder, formerly Agent Designer, added Teams, Notion, Salesforce, Confluence and Jira connectors.

n8n 3.0 removes several older nodes, including Function, Item Lists, Cron, Interval and the old OpenAI node. The default Code node timeout drops from five minutes to one, self-hosting needs Docker, and you cannot roll back after upgrading.

Version 1 support ends on 31 December 2026, and there is no direct jump from 1 to 3. Version 2 keeps security fixes for a year after 3.0 is stable.

Make’s Waves ’26 release added audit logs covering agents and MCP, custom roles, private spaces, sub-agents, and memory for its Maia assistant. Agent evaluations and AI spend tracking are coming. No pricing changes were announced.

Spend controls are on by default, with an account limit of up to 50% above your monthly credits. You can also set limits per feature or action, swap seats for credits, and choose credit packs or pay as you go.

Several AI models behind ElevenLabs agents are retiring. The OpenAI gpt-5 family is being phased out ahead of OpenAI’s 11 December shutdown, with traffic moving across from 11 November. Claude Sonnet 4.5 is retired on 30 November, and Gemini 2.5 Flash models stop the same day.

Billing also changed: calls stop billing when the call ends, a voice surcharge is shown separately, and guardrails are generally available.

On Vapi, calls that combine the new GPT-Live voice with a recording-consent plan are now rejected, because GPT-Live does not support consent plans. On Retell, Conversation Memory keeps a summary of each caller by phone number, updated after calls and texts, at US$0.005 per update, and follows your storage and redaction settings.

Otter’s Work Mode prepares briefs before meetings and handles follow-ups after, including CRM updates and drafted emails. Live Assist shows private coaching prompts during Zoom, Teams and Meet calls, rolling out to paid plans over the coming weeks.

Zoom announced Centralized AI Management and deepfake detection for December 2026, a My Notes mobile app and “Follow Meeting” auto-start note-taking for December, and AI guardrails for early 2027. Superhuman has bought Fathom, with no changes to pricing or data handling announced yet.