
Model Context Protocol (MCP): What It Is and How It Works in 2026
Enterprise AI sits behind a wall most teams keep building higher. Large language models reason well, write well, and write code well, yet they cannot reach the systems where work happens, your CRM, your data warehouse, your ticketing tool, your SharePoint folder. Teams paper over this with custom function-calling code, brittle plugins, and one-off integrations that break when models change.


