# Futurum for developers and AI builders

> A content API, a ranked search API and a read-only MCP server with sixteen tools. Free to read, quote and cite with attribution.

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- Published: 2026-09-08

Futurum for developers and AI builders
The research is addressable by machine: query it as JSON, mount it as an MCP server, and cite it with provenance.
Query the research programmatically, ground your own product in it, and cite it with provenance.
Sixteen MCP tools, no authentication, including verify_quote for citation provenance

You will know this is you when… An agent you built quotes a Futurum number back to a customer, and you cannot show who wrote it.

The decisions you make
Each one has an instrument that answers it, and an analyst accountable for the answer.
Which dataset do we ground the product on? Futurum Intelligence Platform: Market models, five-year forecasts and decision-maker survey data across 11 practice areas — the whole dataset, not a report about it.
How does an answer prove where it came from? API & MCP: A content API, a ranked search API and a read-only MCP server, with a verify_quote tool so a citation can be checked rather than trusted.
What can we publish without a key, and what needs one? The open corpus: The published corpus is free to read, quote and cite with attribution and the canonical URL. Programmatic access to the subscription data is a conversation.
Who do we ask when the data stops? Practice leads: Inquiry and briefings with the analyst accountable for the category you are grounding on.

What a developer actually buys
The open surfaces need no contract. These are the offerings behind them, where each one is described, priced and bought.

The practice areas this sits in
The analysts below are the ones who actually publish in them.

From the analysts
Published work in these practice areas, newest first.

Where to start
The order a developer usually takes these in. The first step needs no contract and no key at all.
Start here: API & MCP
Then: Futurum AI, Futurum Intelligence Platform
Later: Custom Research