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Getting Started with AI for Rapid Software Development for Business Central

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.

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Marcel Chabot · 2026-08-14 · 4,545 words · about 21 min

"AI Assisted Software Development promises faster, more accurate, and more feature rich software at fewer hours of labor."
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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.