NEXA Newsletter
Odoo 20 shipped.
And so did something of ours.
AI in every app. A retail app with your name on it.
The big one
Feature · Odoo 20
AI is in every app now.
It is also metered.
Launched 24 September in Brussels. The shift is from an assistant that answers when asked to agents that carry out steps on their own - inside your workflows, against your records, with every decision written back to the automation chat so you can check it.
Illustrative - Odoo publishes no price list.
What NEXA advises
Budget before you switch it on. Credits burn by activity, not headcount. Start with two jobs where a wrong answer is cheap. Keep agents off the ledger.
Also this month
Your own retail app.
Your name on it.
Plug-and-play, branded as yours, wired to the Odoo you already run. No six-figure build.
Odoo now talks to outside AI
Agents are reachable over MCP, so an assistant outside Odoo can query your data and trigger work inside it. Your ERP stops being an island.
Your agents are only as good as your data
An agent reading half-filled customer records makes confident mistakes faster than a person does. Clean first, automate second.
Illustrative - agent usefulness tracks data quality.
Start with a data audit →Still on Odoo 17?
You are three major versions behind. Every one you skip makes the jump longer and the custom-module rework bigger.
Who is your agent allowed to be?
An agent acts with somebody's permissions. Decide whose before it starts posting, and read the automation chats weekly.
Inside NEXA
We argue with the process before we configure the system.
Fifteen years across manufacturing, retail, construction and services, delivered from Riyadh and Cairo. Odoo is where the answer lands - the work is deciding what the answer should be.
NEXA's take
Most AI will be switched on, admired, and quietly ignored. Value goes to whoever picked two unglamorous jobs and measured them.
NEXA Newsletter
Odoo 20 shipped.
And so did something of ours.
AI in every app. A retail app with your name on it.
The big one
Feature · Odoo 20
AI is in every app now.
It is also metered.
Launched 24 September in Brussels. The shift is from an assistant that answers when asked to agents that carry out steps on their own - inside your workflows, against your records, with every decision written back to the automation chat so you can check it.
Illustrative - Odoo publishes no price list.
What NEXA advises
Budget before you switch it on. Credits burn by activity, not headcount. Start with two jobs where a wrong answer is cheap. Keep agents off the ledger.
Also this month
Your own retail app.
Your name on it.
Plug-and-play, branded as yours, wired to the Odoo you already run. No six-figure build.
Odoo now talks to outside AI
Agents are reachable over MCP, so an assistant outside Odoo can query your data and trigger work inside it. Your ERP stops being an island.
Your agents are only as good as your data
An agent reading half-filled customer records makes confident mistakes faster than a person does. Clean first, automate second.
Illustrative - agent usefulness tracks data quality.
Start with a data audit →Still on Odoo 17?
You are three major versions behind. Every one you skip makes the jump longer and the custom-module rework bigger.
Who is your agent allowed to be?
An agent acts with somebody's permissions. Decide whose before it starts posting, and read the automation chats weekly.
Inside NEXA
We argue with the process before we configure the system.
Fifteen years across manufacturing, retail, construction and services, delivered from Riyadh and Cairo. Odoo is where the answer lands - the work is deciding what the answer should be.
NEXA's take
Most AI will be switched on, admired, and quietly ignored. Value goes to whoever picked two unglamorous jobs and measured them.