FactIQ

FactIQ: financial and economic data for AI agents

FactIQ is an MCP server and plugin that gives Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Codex sourced data about companies, markets, and economies. The agent searches the data, runs read-only SQL, does the calculation, and returns an answer with links to the sources, a chart, or a report.

The animation shows one question in Claude Code, the steps that Claude runs, and the answer. The answer uses four kinds of data: an earnings call, a podcast interview, a company filing, and official statistics. It puts each statement by Nvidia next to the figures that check it. It is a rendered animation, not a screen capture. The steps, the quotations, and the figures come from real FactIQ calls, run in November 2026.

One connection covers data that usually needs many separate subscriptions and scrapers:

• [Podcasts, TV interviews, and conference talks](#what-executives-and-investors-said-on-podcasts-tv-and-at-conferences) — what executives, investors, and economists said outside earnings calls, with a link to the moment in the recording.
• [Central-bank speeches, minutes, and press conferences](#what-central-banks-said) — the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the Reserve Bank of India, and others.
• [Earnings calls](#earnings-calls-what-management-said-and-what-analysts-pressed-on) — each management statement as a separate row with its exact quote, plus the questions analysts pressed and whether management answered them.
• [Satellite data](#satellite-data-for-any-country-state-or-map-box) — fires, rainfall, air pollution, crop condition, heat, nighttime lights, and reservoir levels for any country, state, or map box.
• [Shipping](#shipping-through-chokepoints-and-ports) — daily ship counts through 28 chokepoints (Suez, Hormuz, Malacca) and 2,065 ports.
• [Company filings in eight markets](#company-filings-in-eight-markets) — the US, Germany, the UK, France, Switzerland, India, Japan, and South Korea: financial statements, segments, guidance, operating KPIs, IPO prospectuses, and the risk factors a company added or changed.
• [Customs trade data](#trade-from-each-countrys-own-customs-records) — product-level imports and exports from the US, China, India, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the UK, and all 27 EU member states.
• [Official statistics](#official-statistics-and-how-forecasts-changed) — BLS, BEA, Census, the Federal Reserve, the US Treasury, EIA, China NBS, India MOSPI and RBI, ONS, Eurostat, IMF, World Bank, BIS, WHO, and more.
• [Market data, a stock screener, and business news](#market-data-stock-screener-and-business-news).

You need no code and no database of your own, only a free FactIQ account. Go to Install for Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Codex, or connect any MCP client to https://api.factiq.com/mcp.

What you can ask

Each section below names the data, gives questions you can ask in plain English, and links the reference file that the agent reads.

What executives and investors said on podcasts, TV, and at conferences

FactIQ reads podcast episodes, television interviews, and conference talks, and stores each substantive statement as a separate searchable row. The speakers are company executives, investors, fund managers, analysts, economists, and journalists. The statements cover listed companies, unlisted companies such as OpenAI and DeepSeek, central banks, regulators, and whole industries.

You can filter by person, company, podcast show, YouTube channel, kind of appearance, and date. Each result gives the speaker, the publication date, the show or channel, a short paraphrase of the statement, and a link that opens the recording at the moment of the statement. A separate target lists the questions that a speaker declined to answer.

Questions to try:

• "How has Jensen Huang discussed export controls outside earnings calls?"
• "What have podcast guests said about data center power demand this year?"
• "Compare what Nvidia's management said in interviews with what it said on its earnings calls about demand from China."

Tool: search_media_appearances. Reference: media-intelligence.md.

What central banks said

The same tool holds documents published by central banks and monetary authorities: speeches, testimony before legislatures, policy statements, meeting minutes, press-conference transcripts, press releases, interviews, and reports. The publishers are the Federal Reserve Board and the regional Reserve Banks, the European Central Bank and the national central banks of the euro area, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the Reserve Bank of India, the People's Bank of China, the Bank of Korea, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, and Taiwan's central bank. A document in another language gives English paraphrases. Each result carries the institution, the speaker, the meeting or speech date, and a link to the document.

Questions to try:

• "What has Christopher Waller said about rate cuts in his recent speeches?"
• "What has the Bank of Japan said about the inflation outlook at its press conferences?"
• "How did the wording on inflation risk change between the last three FOMC minutes?"

Tool: search_media_appearances with institution or country. Reference: media-intelligence.md and monetary-policy.md.

Earnings calls: what management said and what analysts pressed on

FactIQ does not return a raw transcript. It splits each earnings call into single statements. Each statement has the speaker, the speaker's role, the exact quote, the fiscal quarter, a topic, and, where the statement has a number, the value and unit. This lets the agent search one topic across many companies and many quarters.

A second kind of row records the question-and-answer part of the call: what the analyst asked for, which firm asked, and whether management confirmed, partly answered, deflected, or declined. When management refused to give a number, the row names that number. A company profile lists what the company usually discloses and what it usually holds back.

Coverage includes US-listed companies and companies listed in India and Switzerland. The agent checks the live coverage list before it answers.

Questions to try:

• "What did Micron management say on its latest earnings call?"
• "Which questions about capital expenditure did analysts press Microsoft on, and which did management not answer in full?"
• "Compare what Micron and Nvidia said about capacity over the last four quarters."

Tool: search_earnings_transcripts. Reference: earnings-intelligence.md.

Satellite data for any country, state, or map box

Official statistics arrive weeks or months after the event. Satellite data arrives in one to five days. FactIQ computes each indicator for the region you name: any country, a state or province in 17 countries (India, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Cambodia, Nepal, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and the US), or a box of latitude and longitude.

FactIQ stores every NASA fire detection since 2012, so the agent can compare the same weeks in every year, draw a map grid, or list exact fire locations. For example, this is the number of fire detections in Punjab, India, from 1 October to 9 November of each year, the weeks when farmers burn rice residue:

Source: NASA FIRMS, VIIRS 375 m active fire detections, through the get_geo_data tool. A detection is one satellite pixel at one overpass, not one fire.

Questions to try:

• "Compare crop-fire detections in Punjab in October and November for every year since 2012."
• "Compare Punjab rainfall and fire activity during the 2024 and 2025 monsoon seasons."
• "Map where fires were detected in Indonesia in September."
• "How have nighttime lights changed in Vietnam's provinces since 2019?"

Tool: get_geo_data, plus the satellite and nasa_fires schemas. Reference: satellite.md.

Shipping through chokepoints and ports

FactIQ holds the IMF PortWatch data, which the IMF computes from satellite ship-tracking signals: daily transits and cargo capacity for 28 chokepoints, and daily port calls with import and export volume estimates for 196 countries and 2,065 ports. The data starts in 2019 and is refreshed every week. It separates tankers, container ships, and dry bulk carriers.

Questions to try:

• "How many tankers passed through the Strait of Hormuz each week this year?"
• "How did Suez Canal container traffic change after the Red Sea attacks began?"
• "Which ports had the largest fall in port calls last month?"

Tool: run_sql on the portwatch schema. Reference: schemas.md.

Company filings in eight markets

FactIQ reads company reports from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, 20-F, 40-F, and 6-K) and from the regulators or exchanges of Germany, the UK, France, Switzerland, India, Japan, and South Korea. Every figure carries a link to the filing it came from. The data goes beyond the three financial statements:

• Segment detail: revenue and profit by business, product, and region.
• Operating KPIs that companies define themselves, such as annual recurring revenue, subscribers, and revenue per available room.
• Forward guidance that the company issued formally.
• IPO prospectuses (S-1, F-1, and the final prospectus): the statement figures for the years before the first periodic report, and the offering price, shar