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Many assume AI-generated experiences only belong in chat windows. This talk challenges that assumption. Drawing on financial services workflows, we explore a critical design question: when AI surfaces an interactive application, where should it land? In a chat thread? In the user's workspace? Or back in the original application?
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has rapidly become the universal connector between AI models and enterprise tools and data. MCP-Apps extends this by allowing tools to return interactive HTML interfaces directly in conversations. Google's A2UI introduces a declarative protocol for agents to dynamically generate UIs on the fly. FDC3, FINOS's interoperability standard, defines what apps exist, what they can do, and what context they handle.
We introduce three interaction patterns - Pull to Chat, Push to Workspace, and Navigate to Source - mapped against these frameworks: MCP-Apps for interactive UIs from tool calls, FDC3 for discovering and launching apps, and A2UI for dynamically generating interfaces.
Open source frameworks are defining how AI integrates with financial desktops. We hope to expand thinking beyond the chat window.
Bob Myers is the Chief Product Officer at interop.io, where he leads product vision and strategy across the company’s interoperability platform, including io.Connect and AI integration capabilities. With deep experience building financial technology products, Bob focuses on enabling... Read More →
