Show HN: FactIQ – a realtime econ+finance database for AI agents
TL;DR
FactIQ is a plugin for Claude Code and Codex that gives AI agents access to an econ and finance database: SEC filings, official macro data, live market data and earnings-call intelligence. Its core is a normalized data model with three tables: series, data_points and dimensions. Agents can discover datasets, run read-only SQL and publish results as charts, reports or local HTML visualizations.
Nauti's Take
The strong part: FactIQ treats agents less like better browsers and more like analysts with database access, SQL and publishable outputs. That is where real workflows start to matter.
The catch is reliability: finance and macro data do not forgive wrong units, broken series or silent schema assumptions. For AInauten, this is worth testing with explicit counter-checks, not something to blindly delegate investment research to.
Briefingshow
For AI agents, data prep is often the bottleneck: they burn context on finding, cleaning and reconciling terms instead of testing hypotheses. FactIQ targets that layer by turning scattered economic sources into queryable agent infrastructure. If it works reliably, investment research moves closer to a reproducible data workflow and away from chat-only analysis.
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