Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Rocket.Chat 8.8 introduces native MCP server for AI agents

Every AI assistant or automation connected to a messaging platform needs a way to act on your behalf: sending a message, managing a channel, pulling context from a conversation. Rocket.Chat 8.8 gives agents a standard way to do that with a native MCP server, so any MCP-compatible agent can work inside your workspace without your team building and maintaining a custom integration for it. This release also brings tighter security and more reliable calling.

Slack feature drop: where agents are heating up

Summer’s winding down, but the pace inside Slack isn’t. While people are squeezing in one last hurrah, our teams have been shipping – and this month’s drop is one of the biggest yet. The theme running through all of it: AI shouldn’t be something you do alone in a tab. Work is better when the people and the agents helping you are in the same room, with the same context, able to see what’s happening and jump in when it matters.

AI Receptionist vs. Business Phone System: Which Does Your Business Need?

Every missed business call represents an unanswered question, a frustrated customer, or a potential sale that may go elsewhere. Yet answering every call is difficult, especially for small teams. Employees may be helping customers, working on-site, attending meetings, or simply unavailable outside normal business hours. Technology can solve part of this problem, but businesses are often presented with two different categories of solutions: business phone systems and AI receptionists.

What's New in August 2026: Building Project Timelines on Quotes & Automatic Triggers for ELI

August brings something valuable for every Scoro user – whether you manage sales pipelines, project schedules, financial accounting, or optimize your team’s operations. You can now build complete delivery schedules directly on quotes, delegate operational background tasks to ELI through triggers and actions, and bill exact target sums with partial invoicing.