Show HN: FactIQ – a realtime econ+finance database for AI agents
TL;DR
FactIQ is a public defog-ai plugin repo for Claude Code and Codex. It aims to give AI agents direct access to economic and financial data. Its MCP server can discover series, run read-only SQL, fetch time series, pull market data, search earnings and publish shareable charts or reports. The README lists SEC filings, US macro data, China, India, South Korea, IMF, World Bank, live market data and earnings-call intelligence as coverage.
Nauti's Take
The interesting part is not another data connector for agents, but the standardization underneath it. Many agent demos look strong until they need to compare the same metric across countries, periods or definitions without silently mixing apples and spreadsheets.
FactIQ is selling process hygiene: find the data, add counter-checks, then visualize. Dry, but that is exactly where finance agents either become useful workflows or stay demos.
Briefingshow
Financial analysis with agents often fails before the model gets to reason: messy sources, shifting definitions and incompatible formats eat the context window. FactIQ targets that prep layer with a normalized warehouse, MCP access and repeatable analysis workflows. If it works reliably, the agent becomes less of a chatbot and more of a data analyst with tools.
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