Meridian market data, directly in your AI assistant.
Install Meridian Consensus as an MCP server in Claude, Cursor, Claude Desktop, or any other AI tool that speaks the Model Context Protocol. Ask for a market size or competitive landscape in natural language and get committee-reviewed numbers cited back, with a link to the public preview.
What is the Model Context Protocol?
MCP is an open standard that lets AI assistants — Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, Cody, Continue.dev — connect to external tools and data sources through a uniform interface. Introduced by Anthropic in late 2024, it has become the de-facto way to give an AI model real-time access to a specific dataset without bolting on a custom API per client.
Think of it as USB-C for AI: one connector, many devices. Once a user installs the Meridian MCP server, every market-research query they make in their assistant is automatically routed through our committee-reviewed catalog — and the answer comes back with a citation link, not a hallucinated number.
How it works
A natural-language question becomes a cited answer in four steps. The AI client handles steps 01, 02 and 04; the Meridian MCP server handles step 03.
User asks
A buyer in Claude, Cursor, or ChatGPT types something like “how big is the cardiac stents market in EU by 2028”.
AI selects a tool
The assistant reads our tool descriptions and picks get_market_size with the right arguments.
Meridian responds
The MCP server queries the live preview catalog and returns a structured JSON payload — the figure, geography share, and a source_url.
Install
One server URL — https://www.meridianconsensus.com/api/mcp — works across all MCP clients. Pick yours below.
Claude Code (CLI)
claude mcp add meridian https://www.meridianconsensus.com/api/mcpConfirms the server is reachable, lists the 7 tools.
Cursor
Settings → MCP → + Add new server. Paste:
https://www.meridianconsensus.com/api/mcpAvailable to the agent on every chat after enable.
Claude Desktop
Edit ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows):
{
"mcpServers": {
"meridian": {
"url": "https://www.meridianconsensus.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}Restart Claude Desktop. The Meridian tools appear under the 🔌 plug icon.
Continue.dev · Cody · other MCP clients
Any client that speaks the streamable-HTTP MCP transport works. URL:
https://www.meridianconsensus.com/api/mcpTool reference
Seven read-only tools cover the full preview surface. The AI assistant picks the right one automatically; you do not call them by name.
search_marketsFree-text search across the published Meridian catalog. Returns up to 10 best matches with snippet and source_url.
Inputs
query· string (1–200 chars) · requiredIndustry name, technology, segment, or company.
When the AI calls this
Always called first when the user mentions a market by name ("cardiac stents", "GLP-1 agonists", "industrial robotics").
Example
// Input
{ "query": "cardiac stents" }
// Output (truncated)
{
"query": "cardiac stents",
"matches": [
{
"slug": "cardiovascular-stents",
"title": "Cardiovascular Stents",
"industry": "Medical Devices",
"snippet": "The cardiovascular stents market spans drug-eluting, bare-metal, and bioresorbable platforms…",
"tam_usd_millions": 9420,
"cagr_pct": 5.8,
"source_url": "https://meridianconsensus.com/markets/cardiovascular-stents"
}
]
}Example conversations
Real questions, the tool chain Meridian runs, and what the assistant says back.
You ask
"How big is the cardiovascular stents market in EU by 2028?"
Tool chain
get_market_size(slug='cardiovascular-stents', year=2028, geo='EU')Assistant answers
The EU cardiovascular stents market is projected at ~$3.24 B by 2028 (27.2 % of the global $10.94 B). Source: Meridian Consensus — meridianconsensus.com/markets/cardiovascular-stents.
You ask
"Who are the leading players in industrial robotics?"
Tool chain
search_markets(query='industrial robotics') → get_companies(slug=…)Assistant answers
The top vendors per Meridian are FANUC (18.4 % share), ABB (15.1 %), Yaskawa (13.7 %), KUKA (9.6 %), Mitsubishi Electric (8.2 %). Full top-25 with cap-stack is in the commissioned report. Source: meridianconsensus.com/markets/industrial-robotics.
Privacy, usage, and citation policy
What we log
Tool name and timestamp. Not the conversation, user identity, or IP. Aggregate counts feed our roadmap — which markets to deepen next.
Citation expectation
Every tool returns a source_url. We instruct the AI to present it. Free use requires attribution to Meridian Consensus when figures are surfaced to a third party.
Rate limits
None in v1. We may add per-IP throttling as adoption scales, with generous free quotas. Authenticated tiers (Q3 2026) will lift any caps.
Frequently asked
What is the Model Context Protocol?
MCP is an open standard, created by Anthropic in 2024, that lets AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT connect to external data sources and tools through a uniform interface. Once you install an MCP server, the AI can call its tools to fetch live data — and cite the source — without you having to copy-paste from a browser.
Is it free to use?
Yes. The Meridian MCP server exposes the same data that's already publicly readable on every /markets/[slug] preview page. There are no API keys, no rate limits in v1, and no account required. We may add authenticated tiers later (deeper data, write actions like commissioning a report), but the read endpoints remain free.
What data does it expose?
Headline TAM, CAGR, year-by-year forecast, top-5 companies with share, segment splits, regional shares, drivers, restraints, and scenario overlays for every published market. The full top-25 company list, all 30 chapters of analysis, and the per-claim provenance ledger remain in the commissioned report.
Does the AI always cite Meridian when it uses the data?
We instruct every tool to surface a source_url and ask the model to present it to the user. Compliance depends on the AI client and model — most do cite reliably, but it is not enforceable from our side. If you see a tool result presented without a Meridian citation, that's a behavior of the AI client, not the MCP server.
What do you log?
Tool name, anonymized request signature, and timestamp. We do not log user identity, IP, or AI-client conversation content. Logs are used to understand which markets are being asked about — that informs which markets we deepen next.
Need a market that isn't in the catalog yet?
Commission a fresh 30-chapter intelligence brief on your specific market — same evidence framework, committee-signed, instant delivery. Once published, it also becomes queryable via this MCP server.