BCC library first
Human-authored BCC reports are the foundation underneath every AskAI Plus answer.
BCC Research AskAI Plus
Ask any market research question. Get a cited answer in about a minute.
AskAI Plus combines the BCC Research library with 31 vetted external and government sources, with ongoing expansion of databases in process. Every answer is cited and the links are live.
BCC analyst-authored research
31 vetted sources
Live citations
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Example question
What public data supports this market outlook?
Cited answer
About a minute
BCC Research
World Bank
U.S. Census Bureau
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The problem
You already have the research. Getting to the answer is the slow part.
Research teams often have hundreds of pages available to them, but still have to hunt and peck through reports one at a time to answer a single question.
The challenge is not access to data. It is the time it takes to find, connect, and verify the right information across a growing body of research.
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Open report after report
Search through long documents and separate sources.
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Pull out the relevant numbers
Compare definitions, dates, and supporting evidence.
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Build the answer manually
Then track the sources again so the result can be validated.
What AskAI Plus is
Built on BCC Research. Expanded with vetted public data.
Every BCC report is written by a real analyst with deep field experience. Those human-authored reports remain the foundation for the answers.
31 vetted external sources
AskAI Plus adds selected external and government data so you can bring public evidence behind the number into the same answer.
Live citations
Ask a question and get a sourced answer in about a minute, with live links to every report and dataset used.
What it does not do
AskAI Plus answers from the BCC library and the 31 vetted sources—nothing else. It does not pull from the open web, and if a report does not exist in the library, it will not make one up.
The 31 sources
Public data selected to make answers more useful and easier to validate.
The source set spans economic, scientific, regulatory, environmental, trade, transport, technology, safety, and education data.
Economy
10World Bank, U.S. Census Bureau, BLS, BEA, OECD, Eurostat, IMF, Census IDB, UN Data, Our World in Data. GDP, jobs, population, spending, and prices—the backbone for sizing a market or checking a growth rate.
Life Sciences
4ClinicalTrials.gov, WHO GHO, CDC, openFDA. Trial activity, disease burden, drug and device records to support healthcare numbers with clinical and regulatory data.
Energy
2EIA, IRENA. Production, consumption, and renewables capacity to ground energy answers in actual supply figures.
Environmental
4EPA AQS, NOAA NCEI, USGS Earthquakes, USGS Water. Air quality, climate, water, and seismic data for environmental risk or resource exposure.
Agriculture
3USDA NASS, USDA AMS, EU AgriFood. Crop, livestock, and food pricing across the U.S. and EU to bring commodity data into agriculture and food answers.
Trade
2UN Comtrade, USITC. Import and export flows and tariffs to show how goods move across borders behind a supply-chain question.
Transportation
2BTS, AFDC. Freight, travel, and alternative-fuel infrastructure to support logistics or mobility answers with federal data.
Technology
1EPO Patents. European patent filings to check who is filing what before making a technology bet.
Public Safety
1FBI Crime Data. U.S. crime statistics for markets tied to security, insurance, or public policy.
Education
2Education Data (Urban Institute), UNESCO UIS. Enrollment, spending, and outcomes across the U.S. and globally to size education or workforce markets with the public record.
More sources are being added on an ongoing basis.
Where it fits
One library. Three doors.
Choose how you want to work with the same BCC Research foundation.
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AskAI
For a quick cited answer while you are working inside the BCC Research library.
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AskAI Plus
Still in the library, but for when you need additional vetted public data behind the question.
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MCP connector
Use the BCC library inside your own Claude, ChatGPT, or Copilot workflow.
Same reports underneath all three. AskAI Plus only widens the supporting information from vetted sources.
Best for
When the answer needs research and the public data behind it.
Validate a market size
Check a market size before it goes into a deck, a pitch, or an important internal decision.
Pull the public data behind a BCC number
Bring supporting public information into the same answer without leaving the research workflow.
Build a stronger brief
Combine BCC research and live government data in one place when a brief needs both.
See it live
Book a Demo
See AskAI Plus run on one of your own questions.
Book a 30-minute demo and we will show you a sourced answer live, then take AskAI Plus for a complimentary trial.