AMS · AI assistant (MCP)
People ask the same few questions of an attendance system all week: how long have I worked today, what does my timesheet say, how much leave is left, who is off. Orbiz MCP lets an AI assistant answer those from AMS and handle leave requests in plain words. One thing is deliberately missing: an assistant cannot clock anyone in or out. Attendance records that a person was at work, and that stays an action a person takes. This page covers what the assistant reads, what it changes and where the line is.
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Four of the actions are about the person asking. An assistant can read your attendance for today, your timesheet, your leave balance and the leave requests you have made. So “how long have I worked today?”, “show last week’s timesheet” and “how much annual leave do I have left?” each get a direct answer.
These are reads. Nothing about your recorded hours changes because you asked, and an assistant has no way to edit a timesheet entry: no such action exists.
Leave is where an assistant saves real clicks. You can ask it to request leave for given dates with a reason, and to cancel a request you made. For approvers there are two more actions: see the team’s leave requests, and approve or reject one.
An approver’s week might include “show me the leave requests waiting on me” on Monday morning and “approve Bilal’s request for the 14th” a minute later. The decision is recorded in AMS as the approver’s, because the assistant is acting as them. A member who is not an approver is not offered those actions.
One action returns an attendance summary for a team. It is for the people who already see their team’s attendance in AMS, and it answers the question a lead asks before a stand-up or a client call: who is in, and how the week looks.
It is a summary, not surveillance by another route. Screenshots have no assistant action at all, so an assistant cannot list or open them, for you or for a team.
There is no action for clocking in, clocking out, breaks or the attendance timer. That is a decision, not a gap waiting to be filled. A clock-in says a person started work, and AMS backs it with its own checks, including pausing for inactivity. Letting software clock in on someone’s behalf would undo the point of the record.
Hours against client work are a different matter. Logging time to a project and milestone is a Trackline action, and an assistant can do that: “log three hours on the Acme redesign for yesterday” works. So the split is simple. Attendance stays manual; project hours can be dictated.
Your organisation’s connection address lives in Settings → Connected AI apps inside Orbiz, next to the steps for each assistant. Copy it into Claude or ChatGPT as a custom connector, then approve on the Orbiz page the assistant opens. Tick reading for AMS to ask questions, and changes as well if you want it to request or decide leave. You can disconnect it from the same Settings screen at any time.
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AMS · AI assistant (MCP)
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