Tako

What is Tako?

Tako MCP gives your agent industry-leading live web search plus licensed data that the open web does not have. That includes company financials, macroeconomic indicators, web and app traffic, sports, US government spending, and more.

Tools

Tool	Description
tako_search	Search Tako's knowledge graph and the live web; the top result renders inline as a chart.
tako_answer	Answer a specific data question with grounded, citation-backed prose.
tako_available_data	Discover exactly what proprietary data exists for an entity or metric — free and fast.
tako_contents	Fetch the underlying rows (CSV) or a page's text behind any result URL.

Use cases of Tako

• Financial research agents — revenue, earnings vs. estimates, margins, and valuation for any public company, or two compared head-to-head, as citation-backed charts. tako_search for the chart, tako_answer for a single stated figure. Sources: S&P Global, Fiscal.ai, Xignite, Visible Alpha.
• Macro & markets briefings — CPI/PCE, unemployment, GDP, policy rates, and cross-country comparisons, live from FRED, OECD, and BIS — the latest print the day it publishes.
• Competitive & traffic intelligence — monthly visits, traffic trends, and top-site rankings for any domain (SimilarWeb): share-of-attention analysis a generic web search can't return as data.
• Live-data chat assistants — swap a generic web-search tool for one that returns structured, chartable, cited data. On real-time domain questions Tako beats the next-best web search API by 21% at up to one-tenth the cost and ~8× faster (evals).
• Dashboards & data apps — tako_contents pulls the CSV rows behind any card to compute over.
• Ranking & cohort research — "which of the largest US chipmakers grew revenue fastest since 2020?" — multi-step questions the Answer Agent resolves across many entities (opt-in).
• Beyond finance — the same graph answers sports, weather, elections and prediction markets, demographics, energy, real estate, health, and US federal spending and contracts.