--- id: post/aardvarklabs-blog/3060 type: post title: Getting Started with AI for Rapid Software Development for Business Central summary: Shows a simple AI-assisted workflow for Business Central projects. Copilot Chat pulls functional requirements out of a sample meeting transcript for a fictional space travel agency that needs usage-based asset depreciation and launch costing. A second prompt then turns those requirements into a Business Central functional design document that identifies the extension development needed. tier: community language: en tags: - ai-assisted development - copilot chat - functional requirements - functional design - business central integration - asset depreciation - usage-based amortization - approval workflows system: finance review: state: reviewed by: opus at: "2026-10-07T23:47:26.755Z" flags: [] generated: at: "2026-10-07T22:42:12.892Z" pipeline: 0.2.0 prompts: extract-post: 1 input_hash: 420eaff6ff2b8e3446143e5feb591e25f74b70ca1662bb5d6039ff22817217d0 evidence: - kind: blog url: https://aardvarklabs.blog/2026/08/14/getting-started-with-ai-for-rapid-software-development-for-business-central/ title: Getting Started with AI for Rapid Software Development for Business Central date: "2026-08-14" commit: null t: null quote: null - kind: blog url: https://aardvarklabs.blog/2026/08/14/getting-started-with-ai-for-rapid-software-development-for-business-central/ title: Getting Started with AI for Rapid Software Development for Business Central date: "2026-08-14" commit: null t: null quote: AI Assisted Software Development promises faster, more accurate, and more feature rich software at fewer hours of labor. - kind: blog url: https://aardvarklabs.blog/2026/08/14/getting-started-with-ai-for-rapid-software-development-for-business-central/ title: Getting Started with AI for Rapid Software Development for Business Central date: "2026-08-14" commit: null t: null quote: "We'll design a bi‑directional sync: asset master and depreciation schedules flow to BC, and vendor invoices/payments flow back." links: learn: [] objects: [] features: [] topics: [] localizations: [] videos: [] posts: [] guidelines: [] post_id: "3060" source_id: aardvarklabs-blog source_name: Aardvark Labs url: https://aardvarklabs.blog/2026/08/14/getting-started-with-ai-for-rapid-software-development-for-business-central/ published_at: "2026-08-14T12:00:00.000Z" author: Marcel Chabot full_text: false words: 4545 quotes: - text: AI Assisted Software Development promises faster, more accurate, and more feature rich software at fewer hours of labor. why_it_matters: Sets expectation for using AI to accelerate both requirements extraction and functional design phases of software projects - text: "We'll design a bi‑directional sync: asset master and depreciation schedules flow to BC, and vendor invoices/payments flow back." why_it_matters: Shows how a specialized asset accounting system integrates with Business Central as the GL and invoicing source of truth code_objects_mentioned: - other LaunchEvent - other AssetInstance - other UsageEvent - other RefurbishmentRecord - other LaunchCostLine - other AssetComponent - other DepreciationSchedule systems: - finance - development - integration versions_mentioned: [] preview: embeddable: true frame_url: https://aardvarklabs.blog/2026/08/14/getting-started-with-ai-for-rapid-software-development-for-business-central/embed/ image: https://i0.wp.com/aardvarklabs.blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/copilot_20260126_114443.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1 image_alt: null image_w: 1200 image_h: 800 site_name: Aardvark Labs favicon: https://aardvarklabs.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/design-1.png?w=32 probed_at: "2026-10-07T11:50:15.410Z" --- # Getting Started with AI for Rapid Software Development for Business Central [Read the post](https://aardvarklabs.blog/2026/08/14/getting-started-with-ai-for-rapid-software-development-for-business-central/) · Aardvark Labs (Marcel Chabot) · 2026-08-14 · 4545 words · tier community · reviewed (checked by Opus) > Shows a simple AI-assisted workflow for Business Central projects. Copilot Chat pulls functional requirements out of a sample meeting transcript for a fictional space travel agency that needs usage-based asset depreciation and launch costing. A second prompt then turns those requirements into a Business Central functional design document that identifies the extension development needed. ## Key points - Functional requirements describe what the system must do, not how, and should be testable as yes or no statements; Copilot Chat is well suited to extracting them from transcripts or emails. - The example system groups reusable assets into LaunchEvents, depreciates them by time and by usage, handles refurbishment capitalisation and allocates mission costs. - Business Central serves as the GL and invoicing system, with batched journal posting, a two-way sync and full audit traceability back to telemetry and approvals. - The functional design prompt adds product specifics, and the AL Development Collection extension supplies helpful boilerplate. ## Quotes - "AI Assisted Software Development promises faster, more accurate, and more feature rich software at fewer hours of labor." (Sets expectation for using AI to accelerate both requirements extraction and functional design phases of software projects) - "We'll design a bi‑directional sync: asset master and depreciation schedules flow to BC, and vendor invoices/payments flow back." (Shows how a specialized asset accounting system integrates with Business Central as the GL and invoicing source of truth) ## AL objects mentioned As named in the post. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named. - other "LaunchEvent" - other "AssetInstance" - other "UsageEvent" - other "RefurbishmentRecord" - other "LaunchCostLine" - other "AssetComponent" - other "DepreciationSchedule" ## Context - Features: telemetry ingestion API, usage-based amortization engine, time-based depreciation methods, hybrid depreciation rules, refurbishment capitalisation workflow, cost allocation by key, accounting preview and posting, audit pack generation, GL posting with traceability, RBAC and approval matrix Source: Aardvark Labs, community blog. Summary, key points and quotes are derived (CONTENT-NOTICE.md); read the original for the full text.