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The MCP Series · Book 1

MCP for Business

What the protocol connecting AI to your tools actually means for your company — in ninety minutes, with no code and no jargon.

Everyone at the conference is suddenly saying "MCP." Your IT team has opinions. Your vendors have slides. This book is the plain-English explanation for the person who approves budgets: the integration tax you're already paying, the USB-C-for-AI analogy you can repeat without notes, the five questions that filter vendor nonsense, and a 90-day playbook that ends in a decision instead of a demo.

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Inside, in about ninety minutes

The integration mess
Why every company already pays a tax on the seams between systems — and what a standard does to it.
USB-C for AI
The one analogy that survives a board meeting. Kitchen supplies and hotel rooms, no math.
Department by department
Sales, support, finance, marketing, HR, leadership — what it looks like when it works.
The 2026 landscape
Who adopted it, what the July 2026 spec change means, why procurement should care.
Security & governance
The five questions that filter vendor nonsense — including where your data goes while the model reasons.
Buy, build, or wait
A decision sequence, not a whitepaper. Plus the money chapter and a pilot design that proves something.
Who it's not for: developers — you want the documentation, not a translation. Honest method note: case studies are labeled composites, and every protocol fact was checked against the official MCP specification and project blog (September 2026). No revolution is promised. It's plumbing. Good plumbing is the point.

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The sample delivers a complete idea — the problem, the analogy, and how it actually works — with no cliffhanger cheating. One email field; the PDF opens immediately. You'll also get new playbooks when they drop, and nothing else.

The other book in this series

MCP for the Homelab is the same protocol pointed at a different reader — the self-hoster whose router has more uptime than their sleep schedule. Where this book says "governance," that one says "yolo, but with a firewall." Ten copy-paste recipes; the companion repo is free either way: github.com/axelverne/mcp-for-homelab-companion.

See the homelab book →