Square makes its Squaremates AI agent available to all US sellers and adds MCP and CLI access

Square, the seller platform of Block, has made Squaremates, its AI agent, available to all US sellers at no extra cost and made it the front door to the Square Dashboard, according to a company announcement. Squaremates grows out of Managerbot, which entered open beta six months ago.

With its own cloud compute, Squaremates can take on longer multi-step jobs: spotting lapsed customers and building a campaign to bring them back, making bulk changes to prices and descriptions across a catalog, or weighing labour costs against sales to propose a cheaper staffing schedule. It returns finished outputs such as sales charts and designed email campaigns. A beta feature prepares restocking orders directly on a supplier's website, and the seller always decides what goes ahead.

Square also improved its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, so sellers can connect their account to third-party AI assistants, and launched a command-line interface for scripting against Square's APIs. "A lot of sellers already have an AI tool they like working in," said Willem Avé, Square's global head of intelligence.