Protection teams don't need another tool to learn. They need the tools they already rely on to work together. That's the idea behind Bring Your Own AI, now available in AdvanceWork: the AI assistant your organization has already approved — Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, or Claude — can connect directly to your protection operation and answer questions straight from your live AdvanceWork data.
No exporting spreadsheets. No copy-pasting between windows. No new login for your detail to memorize. Just ask, in plain language, and get an answer grounded in your own missions, advances, protectee schedules, reports, and threat alerts.
What your team can actually ask
Because the assistant reads from your real operational data, the questions look like the ones your team already asks each other on a busy morning:
- "Summarize last month's after-action reports — what were the recurring lessons learned?"
- "What is Officer Smith assigned to this week, and who hasn't accepted their assignment for Friday's detail yet?"
- "Which advances for the Chicago trip still have unverified security fields?"
- "Any new travel advisories or threat intel near our venues this week?"
- "Read the latest itinerary from the CEO's assistant and create the mission with draft advances for each stop."
The last few go beyond lookup — the assistant can help draft missions, advances, and routes for your review, turning a plain-language request into a structured starting point instead of a blank form. If you're still assembling your operational toolkit, our roundup of the must-have tools for executive protection teams is a good place to start.
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Built on MCP, the open standard
Bring Your Own AI is built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open standard for connecting AI assistants to live data sources. That means it isn't locked to one vendor. Any AI client that supports remote MCP connectors — including Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, and Claude — can connect to AdvanceWork. As your organization's AI strategy evolves, your connection to AdvanceWork comes with it.
Your assistant, your rules
In executive protection, "connect an AI to our data" is a sentence that should trigger hard questions. AdvanceWork was built so the answers are already in place:
- Each user signs in as themselves. Every request uses that person's own AdvanceWork login through OAuth, so the assistant sees exactly what that user is allowed to see — nothing more. Team isolation and role-based permissions apply on every single request.
- Every request is logged. Each AI query is recorded in an audit trail your administrators can review.
- Off until you turn it on. External AI access is disabled by default. Only your organization's owner can enable it — it is something you grant, never a switch you find already flipped.
The most sensitive data never leaves the platform
Some data is too sensitive to expose to any external assistant, no matter how it's secured. AdvanceWork draws that line for you and enforces it automatically:
- Live locations never leave AdvanceWork. Real-time protectee and officer GPS positions are never exposed to any connected AI. Full stop.
- Excluded principals stay invisible. When a protectee is marked for AI exclusion, that principal's data cannot be seen by any connected assistant — everywhere, every time.
- In-app tools stay in-app. AdvanceWork's built-in generative tools remain internal unless your organization explicitly chooses to enable them externally.
- Enterprise-grade by default. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and AdvanceWork maintains SOC 2 compliance.
Why this matters for protection operations
Executive protection runs on information that is scattered across schedules, advances, reports, and intel — usually under real time pressure. The teams that move fastest are the ones that can turn that information into a decision without friction. Understanding the difference between executive security and executive protection is part of that discipline; acting on it faster is where Bring Your Own AI helps. It puts that capability inside the assistant your team already opens every day, without asking them to change how they work or asking your security posture to bend.
It's the AI your company already trusts, connected to the operation you already run.
Frequently asked questions
Which AI assistants work with AdvanceWork?
Any AI client that supports remote MCP connectors, including Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, and Claude. Because it's built on the open Model Context Protocol, support extends to other MCP-compatible assistants as well.
Is external AI access on by default?
No. It is off until enabled, and only your organization's owner can turn it on. Nothing about your existing permissions changes.
Can a connected AI see real-time protectee locations?
No. Live protectee and officer GPS positions never leave AdvanceWork and are never exposed to any connected assistant.
Does the AI bypass our user permissions?
No. Each user authenticates as themselves via OAuth, so the assistant sees only what that user is already permitted to see. Every request is logged to an audit trail.
