About me.

Hey, Dmitry Katson on the line

Microsoft MVP, Contribution Hero, creator of CentralQ.ai, and an architect of AI Agents for Business Central.

For over 20 years, I’ve been helping partners, developers, and companies transform their Business Central experience through simple, AI-powered solutions.

How it all started

I graduated from St. Petersburg Polytechnic University in 2007, studying Physics and Mathematics.
During my second year, I joined one of the largest Gold Partners and was introduced to Navision. That moment — almost 20 years ago — shaped my entire career. My passion for Business Central has only grown since.

Journey to AI

I co-founded NavDesign, where we built ISV solutions used by thousands of Business Central users.
We grew from a small operation to a team of 25 in just a few years.

Seeing how much potential AI had for Business Central, I founded Katson.com with a single mission: help partners create simple, powerful AI-driven extensions for Business Central.

Pioneering AI with CentralQ

In 2023, I created CentralQ.ai, the first AI-powered search engine that uses the collective knowledge of the global Business Central community.
It quickly became a must-have tool for professionals looking for fast, reliable answers.

In early 2024, I launched CentralQ Chat, the first personalized AI assistant for Dynamics 365 Business Central.
It pioneered in-product AI agent experiences ahead of Microsoft’s own Copilot Chat.

Achievements and Awards

In 2018, I became a Microsoft MVP — something I never planned for, but it opened the door to a completely new chapter. Since then, I’ve been lucky to speak at the biggest Business Central events around the world: Directions ASIA, EMEA, North America, BC TechDays and many others. I even helped organize the first AI Bootcamp, long before “AI” became the word of the decade.

In 2020, I moved to Koh Samui, Thailand. The island gave me space to rethink everything, and that’s where my focus naturally shifted toward AI-powered ideas and building tools that actually help people.

In 2024, I was awarded the AI MVP title and the Contribution Hero Award, which felt like a sign that this path — AI, agents, and simple solutions — is the right one.

One thing hasn’t changed through all these years: I love exploring new ideas and turning them into something real.

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2024
CentralQ Chat | AI MVP

  • The first personalized AI assistant for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central was launched, marking a significant milestone in AI-powered business solutions.

  • Received the Microsoft AI MVP and Contribution Hero awards.

2023
CentralQ.ai

Launched the first AI-powered search engine driven by the collective knowledge of the Business Central community, quickly becoming a core resource for the ecosystem.

2020
Relocation to Samui, Thailand

Covid-19 made a thing – my family moved to beautiful Thailand and stayed here. I started completely online business: trainings, conferences and outsource Business Central development.

2019
Top Conferences Speaker

I traveled around the world, even from Bangkok to Las Vegas in 1 week. Had an honor to be a Speaker at NAVTech Days, Directions ASIA, EMEA, North America, Days of Knowledge.

2018
MVP award

One of the important achievements in BC life is to become a part of very limited MVP family of amazing people. First time speaker at NAVTech Days, Directions EMEA.  Run my own AL development courses. Organized first-ever AI Bootcamp in Russia

2017
Katson.com

Business Central App development and implementation services worldwide was born. My cloud-first, app-first and AI-first vision brought me to the point of starting my new company under the personal brand. Spreading the vision among the community started.

2016
Consyst Business Group

Director of Cloud & AI department. Created the department from scratch: goals, strategy, and team. Published ever-first AI Maintenance Predictive App, Cross-ERP Documents Exchange App.

2013
NavDesign

Owner and CEO. We raised up to 17 people. Fully automated support department been solving 1K issues monthly. ISV department created Business Central applications, used by thousands of users every day.

2010
NavDesign

Co-owner, Head of NAV Development. I started my ever-first company. What a journey it was…wow. Learned a lot from finding the right team to finding money to run the company. We started with international implementation services and created first ISV products for project management and budgeting.

2007
Transas

Support engineer, developer. First customer-side work. First international travels. First upgrade projects.

2005
Awara IT Solutions

Trainer, developer. Alexander Ermakov, who is now MVP, speaker and very well known in Business Central world, just started a new company. I trained his team and helped him with Navision implementations. Now, they are big international Gold partner, were many of my friends work.

2004
Korus Consulting

Navision developer. Start of my Navision career happened at this wonderful company – the biggest Gold partner at those period. People I worked with are still among my best friends.

2001
St. Peterburg Polytechnical university​

I relocated to St. Peterburg from small city Vitebsk, Belarus – the home of many well-known artists - Mark Chagal and Kazimir Malevich. The University learned me how to team with people, think coherent, search for information quickly and raise questions.

Let's connect.

If you’d like to talk about a project you want help with or need an advice about AI powered Business Central Apps, just drop me a message.

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