Most "AI features" in SaaS products are thin wrappers around an LLM API. They can answer generic questions and generate text, but they don't understand your data. Nucleus is different — it's built into the platform's data layer, with direct access to every module's context.
When you ask Nucleus "which suppliers have the worst delivery performance this quarter?", it doesn't search the web. It queries your actual purchase orders, delivery receipts, and supplier scorecards. It understands that a supplier who delivered 3 days late on a 60-day lead time is different from one who delivered 3 days late on a 5-day lead time.
The trust-gated action system is what makes Nucleus genuinely useful beyond just answering questions. At Level 1, Nucleus can only read data. At Level 3, it can suggest actions. At Level 5, it can execute them automatically. You control the scope per user, per module — so your warehouse team might let Nucleus auto-generate pick lists, while your finance team keeps it read-only on accounting data.