The world’s leading agrifood intelligence. Now built into your AI.
With Expana IQ Connect, AI answers are built on independently audited, trusted commodity intelligence. So, you’ll always know your answer is backed by reliable data.
The opportunity with Expana IQ Connect
No more spreadsheets
Expana data connects straight into your AI. No copying, no pasting, no manual uploads. Your AI works from what’s happening in the market right now, not whatever was last pasted into a spreadsheet.
Prices with intelligence
Prices come with expert commentary from Expana analysts explaining what’s driving them, plus a hedging indicator wherever a forecast exists. So you walk into a negotiation with the reasoning behind the number, not just the number.
Automated and fact-checkable
Stop rebuilding reports every time the market moves. Your AI keeps pace automatically. Whether it’s a weekly report or a one-off negotiation pack, every answer traces back to an Expana number.
Your data, your AI, rapid outcomes
Your files, your systems, and the Expana data you license all connect in one place, and it stays yours. Expana MCP feeds your AI clean, structured data (the exact price, series, date and source), not a wall of text to figure out. That’s what makes it trustworthy enough to automate. So reports, briefings and answers build themselves. No manual work, no extra steps.
What you can build with Expana IQ Connect
Expert negotiation packs, built to your specs
Whether it’s White Leg Shrimp or Ethiopian Arabica Coffee, ask for the grade, origin and specification of the exact commodity you need and your agent will return the Expana benchmarks you’re used to, packaged and ready for negotiation. Stop paying the average price when your commodity is specific.
Daily market reports, ready and waiting for you
Your agents work from live prices, news and insights, so a market update can explain what’s driving a move, not just restate the number. No more time spent digging and researching. Your report – built by your AI tool – is ready and waiting.
Price modeling that protects margins
Model a sourcing decision against the fundamentals behind a price, with forecasts running up to three years and a hedging indicator attached, so you can find opportunities in volatility or seek to get ahead of costly price increases.
The Expana Advantage
Precise answers, faster
Expana IQ Connect runs on the same AI-powered search behind the Expana platform, surfacing what’s actually relevant to a query rather than matching keywords. Your AI spends its effort synthesizing the right information into an answer, instead of burning tokens hunting for it.
A real MCP, built on trusted data
A direct, standards-based connection into the tools you already use, joined to your own data. One source of truth, no manual exports, clean for IT. Every answer is grounded in independently audited, IOSCO-accredited benchmarks, not an unfiltered pull from a generic chatbot.
Outputs you can defend
Every number traces back to an Expana series or article, sourcing and methodology published for review, not a black box. Backed by 100+ market analysts, and goes beyond price: forecasts up to three years, target summaries, and hedging indicators, so your AI sees trends, not just history.
Built for IT and security
Access and authentication
- OAuth sign-in. Your password is never shared with your AI client.
- Enterprise grade governance. Entitlement scoped so each person’s AI sees only what their Expana subscription covers.
Data handling
- Cloud-to-cloud. Nothing installed, no VPN.
- Works with the AI workspace you already use: ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini or any MCP-ready AI tool.
- SOC 2 compliant. Externally certified, not self-assessed, data protection.
Ground your AI in real market data
See how Expana IQ Connect plugs into the AI tools you already use.
Expana IQ Connect FAQs
What is Expana IQ Connect?
Expana IQ Connect is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that lets you connect AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Microsoft Copilot, directly to Expana’s leading agrifood market intelligence. MCP is an open standard that lets AI tools securely access external data and services.
How does Expana IQ Connect work?
Expana IQ Connect provides a standardized way to connect AI tools, such as Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Microsoft Copilot, to eligible Expana data and content. Once your AI tool is connected, it can draw on that Expana data and content whenever you ask it a relevant question.
Expana IQ Connect ensures that finding and surfacing relevant Expana intelligence is fast and efficient by using the same AI search capabilities that power the Expana platform.
For example, if you were to ask about chicken price trends, your AI tool would be able to query Expana IQ Connect to retrieve relevant historical data, forecasts and commentary, to provide its answer.
How do I access Expana IQ Connect?
To access Expana IQ Connect, an administrator of your organization’s AI tool first needs to set up the connection.
You can then toggle on the connection within your AI tool and authenticate it by signing in with your Expana credentials.
What Expana data and content does Expana IQ Connect have access to?
Expana IQ Connect provides access to:
– Historical data
– Forecasts
– News, analysis, commentary, updates, insights and fundamentals content (where the source is Expana)
Data and content availability will depend on your subscription permissions. License restrictions may apply on certain data and content.
What’s the difference between Expana IQ Connect and the Expana API?
Both give you access to Expana data and content, but they’re designed for different purposes and need different levels of setup.
Expana IQ Connect is an MCP server, built and maintained by Expana, that plugs straight into AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Microsoft Copilot, with no development work needed. Once connected, you can access and use eligible Expana data and content in conversations with your AI tool and in the AI agents you build.
The Expana API requires your engineering team to build and maintain a data feed, typically into a data lakehouse or warehouse. The raw data and content can then be exported to spreadsheets, integrated with your own systems or explored in data visualisation platforms.
In short, Expana IQ Connect is best for equipping AI tools and agents with on-demand Expana intelligence, while the Expana API is best for bulk, automated data feeds into your own systems.
How does Expana IQ Connect enable agentic procurement workflows?
Agentic procurement workflows are only as good as the market data behind them. If the data doesn’t hold up, neither does the answer. Expana IQ Connect gives your AI agents direct access to Expana’s up-to-date data and content, so their outputs can draw on an independent, transparent source.
For example, say a supplier proposes an 8% price increase, citing rising ingredient costs. You ask your AI agent whether it’s justified. Left to search the web, it might rely on a months-old article or unverified sources and give you an answer you can’t check. With Expana IQ Connect, it can use Expana’s current prices for those ingredients, so you can check for yourself whether the increase is justified and negotiate with confidence.
How much does Expana IQ Connect cost?
Pricing depends on several factors, including which Expana data and content you’d like to access through your AI tool. For more details, contact us to discuss your AI use cases and commodity intelligence needs.
How accurate are outputs generated using Expana IQ Connect and can they be trusted?
When your AI tool is connected to Expana IQ Connect, your AI tool requests specific information from Expana IQ Connect, to enable it to carry out your request. Expana IQ Connect then provides your AI tool with the requested information and your AI tool then uses this information to generate the output you requested.
AI tools can sometimes behave in ways that are inaccurate, incomplete, or unreliable. For example, the responses that you receive may not accurately reflect the information they are based on, or they may generate content that sounds reasonable but is incomplete.
Outputs produced by an AI tool (including one that is connected to Expana IQ Connect) should therefore not be used as a definitive authority. We encourage you to think about the situations when you use AI tools and review the quality of the outputs you receive from them.
In some cases, information returned by Expana IQ Connect to your AI tool may itself be AI generated. As with all AI tools, Expana IQ Connect can hallucinate or make mistakes. Whilst we take great care in creating the best products that we can, users are responsible for checking that the outputs from Expana IQ Connect are correct.
What information is shared with Expana when using Expana IQ Connect and how does Expana use this data?
When using Expana IQ Connect via your own AI tool, your chat transcripts are not shared with Expana. However, the inputs to all Expana IQ Connect tool calls (together with information identifying you as the user) are shared with Expana to enable Expana IQ Connect to provide you with the requested information (e.g. user X’s AI tool searched for UK chicken prices, user Y’s AI tool requested forecast information for series code 522, user Z’s AI tool searched for news and insights related to the Strait of Hormuz, etc).
Expana also processes this data, together with other personal data (such as your IP address, the AI tool you’re using, etc) and any feedback you choose to provide about Expana IQ Connect, for security purposes, to enable us to investigate bugs or issues, and to enable us to learn from how users interact with Expana IQ Connect.
We take the privacy and security of your personal data seriously. Any personal data shared with Expana (including Expana IQ Connect tool inputs):
– Is not available to other customers and is only used to serve your experience and carry out the activities outlined above.
– Is not sent to any LLM outside of Expana’s private cloud infrastructure on Azure and is therefore not accessible by any external third-party LLM provider.
– Is not used to train any LLMs.
Expana’s use of personal data is governed by Expana’s Privacy Policy and the Data Protection terms between Expana and the subscribing customer.
Is Expana IQ Connect secure?
Expana IQ Connect follows Expana’s established security policies and controls. All customer data is treated as confidential and is encrypted in transit (TLS 1.2 or higher) and at rest (AES-256 or equivalent). Access is restricted to authorised personnel in line with Expana’s access control policies.
Further details on Expana’s security framework and policies are available via our Trust Center.
For information purposes only. See our disclaimer for more information.
NB: Expana IQ Connect requires private, enterprise-grade AI tools. No free models are permitted. Contact your account rep for more information. Access via Expana IQ Connect is limited to your licensed Expana data, subject to applicable third-party restrictions.