Spanish company Axos Soluciones, which specializes in business management software, has fully acquired cumarAI to develop AI agents that strengthen management processes on its Axos Visual ERP. As expected, artificial intelligence keeps expanding into various areas of work, helping automate daily tasks and data collection, and becoming a valuable tool for ERP systems. Against that backdrop, Axos Soluciones — which co-founded cumarAI in 2023 — has acquired 100% of the AI company with the goal of integrating the technology into its enterprise management ecosystem. The deal aims to speed up the development of AI-powered tools to apply directly to ERPs for distribution companies. According to Axos Soluciones’ official press release, the decision to build AI into its ERP is meant to create a solution that goes beyond a passing trend. To do that, it plans to combine cumarAI’s expertise with the experience Axos has built up over years managing business processes.
The move fits a wider pattern of Spanish tech and services companies folding AI specialists into their core business, similar to Accenture’s acquisition of Keepler to strengthen its AI and data business in Spain.
AI Built Specifically for Business Distribution
For years, Axos Soluciones, based in Rivas-Vaciamadrid (Madrid), has developed technology solutions for distribution companies, addressing these organizations’ day-to-day needs across tasks that are closely interconnected and demand close attention to detail. cumarAI emerged out of that need, through a collaboration between Axos Soluciones and a team specializing in artificial intelligence. The project set out to bring advances from new AI models and large language models into the business environment. With full ownership of cumarAI, the company hopes to speed up the development of AI solutions tailored specifically to this sector, where the variables generated can be analyzed together to support decision-making.
The Goal: AI That Understands the Business
For businesses, the biggest challenge in bringing AI into their processes isn’t picking the most advanced model, but getting that model to understand the context each organization operates in and to interpret a question against the real workings of the business, using the information it has access to. That’s how Axos Soluciones CEO Pelayo Rayón explains it. From that standpoint, the cumarAI acquisition aims to make these tools capable of using ERP data to interpret company information and take part in its day-to-day processes. That represents a shift in how AI is used. The technology moves from being an assistant that needs external information pulled from different systems, to being built directly into the work environment with access across multiple functions.
The New Solution: AI Agents
AI agents have become the centerpiece of this new stage in Axos Soluciones’ technology roadmap. These are systems designed to carry out specific functions within a distribution company’s internal processes. To get there, the company is working on different agents aimed at different business areas, such as data analysis and sales activity, among others. Each of these capabilities will be rolled out progressively across its ecosystem of solutions. That integration opens the door to a new way of handling certain tasks, thanks to these systems’ ability to locate data, interpret it, and help put it to use in specific actions. Axos says its goal is to cut down on manual work, make information easier to access, and help users analyze and interpret data faster and more securely. Another advantage of adding AI agents to ERPs is how people can interact with available information — including through natural language — within a single system, in record time.
Security and Control Will Be a Vital Part of This Shift
It’s natural for AI adoption to raise questions about security, especially given the amount of sensitive information it handles and the number of people who have access to it, which makes setting clear boundaries essential. That’s why Axos says this AI must meet, and will maintain, security, permission, and control criteria similar to those applied to the ERP itself, meaning a user can work with the information relevant to their role without access to other areas of the organization. Each company will be responsible for limiting access to its own data and setting the rules under which each user operates the system, from which actions they can take to which information they can see. In short, Axos’s push to build AI into its enterprise ERP paves the way for ERPs to become advanced platforms that assist employees in running internal processes, rather than just recording and looking up data.
