Show HN: FactIQ – a realtime econ+finance database for AI agents
TL;DR
FactIQ is a newly shown plugin for Claude Code and Codex that gives AI agents direct access to an economy and finance database. According to the repo, the warehouse covers SEC filings, US sources such as BLS, Census and BEA, China, India and Korea data, IMF, World Bank, SingStat and live market data. Agents can discover datasets, run read-only SQL, fetch time series, pull market data, search earnings calls and publish charts or reports.
Nauti's Take
This is the right direction for agents: less browser gymnastics, more structured work on the dataset. The proof is still missing.
A repo, a plugin and a clean pitch do not yet show how coverage, latency, freshness, permissions and edge cases behave in a real investment workflow. The key test is whether FactIQ exposes source changes and methodology breaks clearly.
Otherwise the analysis only looks cleaner than it is.
Briefingshow
For finance and macro analysis, the bottleneck is often not the model but data access: formats, definitions, frequencies and source logic eat time and context. FactIQ tries to abstract that layer through a shared schema of series, data points and dimensions. If it holds up in practice, agents can produce reproducible analysis faster instead of merely stitching together web snippets.
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