Profound AI
Profound AI connects AI models to your IBM i system. Built by Profound Logic, it lets hosted and on-premises large language models work with Db2 for i tables, RPG and COBOL programs, service programs and web services, and it has supported the Model Context Protocol since June 2025.
What Profound AI does
It lets AI models work with your IBM i programs and data. It acts as one layer over many large language models, and its low-code IDE is where you choose what those models can reach.
What it can open up to AI
- Db2 for i tables
- RPG and COBOL programs
- Service programs
- Web services
Which AI models it works with
- Hosted models from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and Meta
- Open models run on premises, such as Llama-3 70B
Built-in safety checks
- Prompt injection detection
- Data access authorization controls
Profound AI timeline
- Late 2023Profound Logic introduces Profound AI.
- 2024Beta testing continues into the year.
- Jun 24, 2024IT Jungle covers it. CEO Alex Roytman says at COMMON POWERUp that general availability will come before July 2024.
- Jun 2025Model Context Protocol support lets ChatGPT and other MCP clients call its resources directly.
Related Terms
IBM i
IBM's operating system for Power servers running traditional AS/400-lineage business applications, with Db2 for i built directly into the OS.
Generative AI
AI systems that generate new content, such as code, text, or explanations, rather than only classifying or scoring existing data.
Large Language Model (LLM)
A machine learning model trained on large volumes of text, used as the underlying technology behind generative AI tools including IBM Bob and general-purpose assistants like ChatGPT and Claude.
Model Context Protocol
An open standard, released by Anthropic on November 25, 2024, that defines a client-server architecture for connecting AI applications to external data sources, tools, and prompts over JSON-RPC 2.0. IBM's IBM i MCP Server is an implementation of it for Db2 for i and other IBM i resources.
Db2 for i
The relational database management system built into every IBM i operating system, tightly integrated with IBM i rather than a separately installed database product.
RPG
Report Program Generator, the primary business application programming language on IBM i and its AS/400 predecessors, still running the majority of production logic in most IBM i shops.
CoderFlow
CoderFlow puts several AI agents to work on the same IBM i coding task, then keeps the result that actually compiles and passes tests. Built by Profound Logic for RPG, COBOL and CL, it writes, compiles, tests and fixes code instead of only suggesting it.