The Intelligent ERP Is Here: How Klipboard AI Is Changing Business Operations
ERP has always been the operational backbone of a business. Now, AI is changing how people interact with the information and workflows at its heart.
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Across Klipboard's software portfolio, we've already delivered 101 specialist AI agents and over 330 capabilities, helping users access information, understand business activity and complete everyday tasks through natural language.
This represents an important shift. Business software is moving beyond simply recording what happens towards helping people find answers, make decisions and take action.
From system of record to system of intelligence
Traditional ERP relies heavily on people knowing where information lives and how to retrieve it. This can mean navigating screens, running reports, searching customer records or bringing information together manually before someone can make a decision.
Embedded AI enhances that relationship.
Instead of asking where do I find this?, users can increasingly ask the question they actually want answered.
- Is this product available across our branches?
- What alternative products could I offer?
- Can you create a sales order for this customer?
- Is this equipment available next Monday?
- Can you show me the latest sales performance information?
Because the intelligence is embedded into the operational system, it can work with the business information already there.
This is an important distinction. Klipboard isn't simply putting a generic AI interface alongside ERP, we're building intelligence into the software itself, connected to the operational data, permissions and workflows that give the AI context.
AI that doesn't stop at the answer
Finding information faster is valuable, but it is only the beginning. The next evolution is actionable AI.
Across Klipboard's software, AI can already support practical actions alongside everyday enquiries.
In distribution, that includes creating sales orders and generating payment links. In rental, AI can support updates to existing hire orders. In automotive, it can help employees retrieve and print invoices.
This is where Agentic AI starts to fundamentally change what business software can do.
Klipboard has already introduced Agentic AI capabilities that move beyond retrieving information to supporting authorised actions within operational workflows, with further development continuing across the portfolio.
The journey becomes much simpler:
Ask → Understand → Act.
Built around the industries we know
Powerful AI also needs the right context.
- A distributor doesn't simply have stock. It has suppliers, branches, lead times, customer-specific pricing, margins, purchasing patterns and backorders.
- A rental business has assets, availability, contracts, servicing requirements, utilisation, transport and future commitments.
- An automotive business has customers, vehicles, parts, bookings, service histories and workshop capacity.
Klipboard has spent decades building software around these environments, and we're now combining that industry knowledge with AI capable of understanding and reasoning across increasingly complex operational information.
This opens up possibilities that go far beyond making existing screens easier to navigate.
Intelligent business software is already here
Klipboard AI is already supporting practical tasks across distribution, rental and automotive operations.
Across ERP One and ERP Go, 37 specialist AI agents and 130 capabilities tracked to support activities ranging from stock enquiries and product alternatives to sales order creation and purchasing.
In OnRent Go, 31 specialist AI agents and 108 capabilities to help rental teams access equipment information, update hire orders and retrieve operational and financial reports.
Autowork and Autowork One boast a further 33 specialist AI agents and 92 capabilities, supporting enquiries and tasks involving tyre stock, invoices and sales performance.
We're continuing to build on this foundation, bringing more intelligence into the workflows our customers use every day.

