Summary
This article explains how Costpoint now supports Model Context Protocol (MCP), so Dela can reach approved outside tools and the AI tools your teams already use can work with Costpoint. It shows how that cuts the time spent switching between systems, with administrators deciding which connections exist.
Why It Matters: Pulling one answer together often means opening three systems and retyping what you find. Connecting AI tools to Costpoint puts the answer where your team already works, with your administrators in charge of what connects.
Key Takeaways:
- One conversation, not three logins: Dela can connect to approved outside business tools, so a project question can pull in customer context and shared notes without switching systems.
- Costpoint meets your AI tools: AI tools your teams already use can connect to Costpoint and work with selected Costpoint capabilities.
- Administrators stay in charge: Your administrators decide which connections exist, in keeping with how Costpoint is built around security and compliance.
It's late afternoon, and the program review is first thing tomorrow. You need to know where the project stands, so you open Costpoint. Then you need context on the customer, so you open another system. Then a third for the notes someone shared last week. Three logins, three screens, and a lot of copying and pasting before you can answer one question.
Then comes the part nobody plans for: making it all line up. The status in one system doesn't match the update in another, so you check, correct, and retype until the story holds together. By the time it does, the evening is gone and you still haven't prepared for the meeting itself.
Most of us in GovCon know that feeling. The information exists. It just lives in too many places, and pulling it together takes longer than using it.
What's New
Costpoint now supports Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard for connecting AI tools and business systems. Dela, Costpoint's AI orchestrator, works with MCP in both directions. This add-on capability is available now to Costpoint customers in the Deltek Cloud.
Dela reaching out. Ask Dela can connect to approved outside business tools. You stay in one conversation, and Dela works out which connected tool can help. Sometimes it uses more than one in a single request. Back to that program review: the program manager asks Ask Dela where the project stands, then asks for the customer context and last week's shared notes in the same conversation. No second and third login, and far less copying and pasting.
AI tools reaching Costpoint. AI tools your teams already use can connect to Costpoint and work with selected Costpoint capabilities, so you can ask a Costpoint question from where you already work. The program manager who lives in their favorite AI tool asks where the project stands and gets the answer from Costpoint without opening it.
What This Means for Your Team
Costpoint has been meeting people where they work for a while. It started with Microsoft Teams and Outlook, so people could handle time and expense entry and approvals without logging in to another application. MCP takes the same idea to the AI tools your teams are adopting now.
Think of MCP as a common connector. Instead of building a custom integration for every pair of systems, tools that speak the same open standard can work together. For your team, Costpoint becomes part of the conversation instead of one more place to go find an answer.
Back to that program review: one question, one conversation, and more time walking into the room prepared.
You Decide What Connects
Costpoint already meets your team in Microsoft Teams and Outlook, and Ask Dela can answer questions, complete tasks, and pull up project information inside Costpoint. MCP extends that reach in both directions.
We know that data security and compliance are crucial in what you do. As always, compliance is just part of how we build Costpoint, so with MCP, your administrators decide which connections exist. As AI shows up in more of your team's daily work, you stay in charge of what Costpoint works with.
Keep the Conversation Going at Elevate
We'll be continuing this conversation with customers at Deltek Elevate, our user conference, taking place March 8 to 10, 2027, in Nashville, Tennessee. Elevate was formerly known as ProjectCon, and it's a great place to see these capabilities in action, hear from our product team, and trade ideas with other Costpoint users working through the same challenges. Registration is now open.
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