Why Claude
The AI that reads your own database
Anthropic's AI assistant, on your own computer, reading your own MYOB figures. It turns a synchronised copy of your data into something you can simply talk to.
Why this, and not a chatbot on a website
The difference is where your data is when the question is answered.
It runs on your machine
Fast, and your data stays where it is.
Claude sits on your PC beside your database and reads it there — answers come back in seconds because the data is already in the room.
The file stays yours. It is read straight from your own disk, behind your own firewall, and DataWise sees none of it. Lock the file with a password if you want to.
It reads the real thing
Every invoice, every line, every ledger transaction.
It queries your actual synchronised tables, so it can go down to the transactions behind a figure and tell you what moved and why.
It does the work
It has hands, not just answers.
Draw the graph — the thing everyone wants and nobody has time to build. Five years of sales as a chart, from one sentence.
Write the Word document, build the spreadsheet, post an invoice back to MYOB through the Connector.
How the connection is made
The pieces find each other — there is nothing to configure.
The Connector syncs your data
MYOB → a database on your PC, on your schedule.
Our MCP server attaches Claude to it
MCP is the standard way an AI assistant is given access to a data source. Ours ships inside the Connector's installer and points Claude at your companies — it finds them by itself.
You start a conversation
Ask in plain English. Claude reads the data dictionary first, so it knows which column really holds the balance owing before it answers.
Why the dictionary matters. Accounting tables are full of columns that look like the one you want and are not. The Connector ships a written dictionary of your data — what each field means, which one holds the balance, how the tables join — and the AI reads that first. That is the difference between an answer that is right and one that merely looks reasonable.
Getting Claude
Start free. A free account answers questions from your own figures, and you move up only when the allowance starts getting in your way.
1. Start with a free account
Sign up at claude.ai. A free account is enough to start — it answers from your own figures and builds Word documents, Excel workbooks and PDFs. It carries a usage allowance, generous enough for a good look around.
2. Install Claude Desktop on your PC
Anthropic's installer, on the same PC as the Connector. Install it and sign in before the Connector — everything else checks for it. Then use the Connect Claude to your data shortcut the Connector puts in your Start menu, and it is wired up.
What a paid plan adds
- Room to keep going — a bigger allowance, so a long job runs to the end. On most days this is the whole reason to pay.
- Claude Code, a paid-plan feature. The same assistant working in your own folders rather than in a chat window.
- Reports written straight into your business folders, and a script left behind that produces the same report again next month.
- Running things as well as reading them — setting up the Excel ODBC connection, batches, scheduled jobs.
- DataWise HQ, whose assistant is Claude Code, so a paid plan brings it to life.
You can decide later. Start free, ask it a few questions, and move up when the allowance starts getting in your way. You sign in to the same app — everything stays where it is.
One price, one company file, unlimited users
New Zealand — NZ$115 incl GST, per month.
Australia — AUD$100 per month, zero-rated as an import.
However many people use it, on however many computers. The ProActive UI screens are free with it — yours to use, copy and modify to suit your own business — and every question is included.
Free for 14 days, no credit card required.
Install it and be looking at your own data within the hour.
Start the free 14-day trial