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Alchemist is a research database that continuously ingests primary financial documents — FOMC minutes, USDA WASDE reports, earnings calls, 10-Ks, economic data releases — extracts structured insights from each one, and makes them searchable via a semantic API. Every result includes the verbatim source excerpt it was extracted from, the originating document, and the publication date. Your agent cites the primary source, not a summary of a summary.

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Core concepts

Insights

A single extracted finding from a document: a claim, a data point, or a directional statement. Each insight carries the exact quote it was derived from.

Documents

The primary source — FOMC minutes, WASDE, 10-K, CPI release, etc. Each document has many insights. You can retrieve a document and all its insights in one call.

Sources

The publishing organization — Federal Reserve, USDA, BLS, a company, a sell-side desk. Use source filters to scope searches to a specific institution.

Semantic search

Insights are indexed with HyDE embeddings. Queries work best as focused questions or 3–8-word keyword phrases, not keyword soup or conversational sentences.

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Two ways to connect

MethodBest for
MCPAI agents and coding assistants (Claude, Cursor, Cline, Hermes). Zero boilerplate — the agent calls tools directly.
REST APIProduction integrations, data pipelines, custom agents, non-MCP clients.

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What gets searched

Alchemist covers macro policy documents (Fed, ECB, BLS, BEA), agricultural reports (USDA), energy data (EIA), corporate filings (SEC EDGAR), and curated news from specialized sources. Use GET /api/documents/filters to see what’s in the database at any moment.