{"id":131771,"date":"2026-08-06T16:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/131771\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T16:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:17:08","slug":"koozie-group-adds-kai-link-to-suite-of-ai-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/131771\/","title":{"rendered":"Koozie Group Adds Kai Link to Suite of AI Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Key Takeaways<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Counselor Top 40 supplier Koozie Group (asi\/40480) has launched Kai Link, an AI tool that gives distributors access to order, inventory and product data inside its AI assistants.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The connector uses an existing standard to securely connect AI platforms with Koozie Group data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/members.asicentral.com\/news\/awards\/july-2026\/counselor-top-40-suppliers-2026-no-6-koozie-group\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Counselor Top 40 supplier Koozie Group<\/a> (asi\/40480) is doubling down on its investment in AI.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/kailink-616.jpg\" alt=\"Kai Link\" width=\"500\" height=\"174\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The company on Thursday announced the beta launch of Kai Link, which allows distributors to look up information, including orders, product details, pricing and live inventory, inside existing AI assistants.<\/p>\n<p>The tech uses what\u2019s known as a Model Context Protocol to safely and securely connect AI models to external data sources, local files and more. MCP is an open standard, created by Anthropic in 2024, and has been adopted across other major AI platforms.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the newest addition to Koozie Group AI (Kai), the company\u2019s suite of AI tools for the promo industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDistributors win business by being the fastest with an accurate answer,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/members.asicentral.com\/news\/awards\/october-2025\/counselor-power-50-2025-no-20-pierre-montaubin-koozie-group\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pierre Montaubin,<\/a> CEO of Koozie Group and a member of Counselor\u2019s Power 50 list of most influential people in promo. \u201cKai Link puts our catalog, live inventory and every one of their orders at their fingertips, inside the same tools where they already write emails and build presentations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Based on 2025 North American promotional products revenue of $353.1 million, Koozie Group ranks sixth on Counselor\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/members.asicentral.com\/news\/strategy\/july-2026\/counselor-top-40-suppliers-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">most recent list<\/a>\u00a0of the largest suppliers in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    Stay Ahead of the Curve<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-center\">Subscribe to <a href=\"https:\/\/members.asicentral.com\/news\/newsletters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ASI&#8221;s industry-leading newsletters<\/a>.<br \/>All the award-winning content from ASICentral and Print &amp; Promo Marketing, delivered right to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>                &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Key Takeaways \u2022 Counselor Top 40 supplier Koozie Group (asi\/40480) has launched Kai Link, an AI tool&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,65757,65756,8808],"class_list":["post-131771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-kai-link","tag-koozie-group","tag-mcp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}