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Ground financial research in licensed data
Verified Oct 17, 2026 Review by Apr 15, 2027 3 sources
Short answer
For finance, IR and corporate-development work, connect your AI assistant to licensed data rather than the open web. FactSet's AI-Ready Data MCP offers 24 tools covering fundamentals, estimates, prices, ownership, M&A and transcripts, and lists clients including Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini.
What it is
General AI assistants can sound confident about numbers they’ve half-remembered. Connecting them to a licensed financial data source makes answers traceable to a real record.
How it works
- Check your access: FactSet says the MCP server’s tool availability and packaging depend on your firm type and your AI-Ready data tier.
- Connect the client: the server lives at
mcp.factset.com/content/v1, and FactSet lists more than a dozen supported MCP clients, including Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini (checked 2026-10-17). FactSet’s APIs authenticate with OAuth 2.0 (its recommended option) or an API key. - Ask scoped questions: “Compare consensus revenue estimates for these five companies for the next two fiscal years.”
- Keep the audit trail: FactSet’s changelog (versions 1.16 and 1.17) adds audit links to tool output; cite them in your work.
Benefits
- Answers grounded in licensed, current data.
- Screening, transcripts and supply-chain data in one conversation.
- Less copy-paste between terminals and documents.
Limits and risks
- FactSet doesn’t list prices on its MCP pages; access runs through a FactSet account.
- Licensing terms govern how data can be shared; check your FactSet agreement before publishing outputs.
- Which tools you get depends on your contract, so test the questions you need before relying on them.
- Always verify figures used in decisions or filings.
This page describes a data service as published. It isn’t financial, investment, tax or legal advice.
Checked specs
Snapshot from official sources on Oct 17, 2026.
| FactSet AI-Ready Data MCP (checked 2026-10-17) | Endpoint mcp.factset.com/content/v1; 24 tools; tool availability and packaging reflect firm type and AI-Ready data tier [1] |
| Audit trail | Changelog (v1.16–1.17) adds audit links and tables to tool output [1] |
| Authentication | OAuth 2.0 (recommended) or API key [3] |
| Pricing | Not published on the MCP pages [2] |
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Agent compatibility
| Tool in this entry | How agents connect |
|---|---|
| FactSet | MCPAPI/CLI |
Levels come from each tool's recorded, sourced compatibility. How the levels work.
Related entries
Sources
- FactSet AI-Ready Data MCP · FactSetofficial accessed Oct 17, 2026
- FactSet MCP catalog · FactSetofficial accessed Oct 17, 2026
- Authentication · FactSetofficial accessed Oct 17, 2026
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