Your AI hub, with JD Edwards as an intelligent application spoke. The hub is the frontier AI chat or agent the customer has chosen; MCP is the conduit; every application joins as a spoke. JD Edwards maturity: connected (AIS and orchestrations over MCP), identity (F0092L, JDE security), meaning (JDE-IQ), rules and evidence, verified and observable (writes re-read). The connector is table stakes, about a fifth of a mature spoke; the rest decides whether an answer is right, allowed and provable. The hub extracts value through the signature moves: design decides where intelligence lives, the agent factory works at the hub composing agents across spokes, each on the AI register, and the AOC operates hub and spokes with one trace. A mature spoke makes the whole hub smarter.