What is Palanor Data?

The headless line of Palanor, the Enterprise Intelligence Platform. It serves the same lattice the platform reads, public series, Palanor-built indices and readings, and datasets refined from public filings, to any agent or system over MCP and a REST API, with one key.

What is the difference between Open, Derived and Refined?

Open is public-domain and openly licensed data, cleaned into one schema. Derived is what Palanor computes: Custom Indices, Schema readings, Currents, Discourse scores and Foresight. Refined is structured data Palanor extracts from public filings, such as the Guidance Ledger and Risk Factor Changes, with the filing cited on every row.

How do I know where a number came from?

Every signal in an API or MCP response carries a provenance block naming the source, the publisher, the license class and the attribution owed. Palanor records every upstream in a provenance ledger. A source whose license is unknown is never served.

Why aren’t stock prices in the API?

Equity, ETF, crypto and FX prices come from a licensed market data provider. They are shown inside the platform and never redistributed through the API or MCP.

Can I use Custom Indices in my own product or fund?

Reading them through the API is covered by your key. Using a Custom Index in a product, a fund or a redistribution needs an index license. Request one through the index licensing form.

Are congressional trades in the API?

No. They are published on public pages at palanor.com/congress-trades, with a link to every filing, and as aggregate signals. The record-level API is not offered.

Palanor Data

The lattice, callable.

Palanor Data is the headless line of the Enterprise Intelligence Platform. It serves the signals, indices and refined datasets the platform reads to any agent or system, over MCP and a REST API, and into Python and Excel, with one key. Each value arrives with its source and its license.

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Public signals in the lattice: 4,673
Served through the API and MCP: 2,555
Custom Indices: 40
Sources in the provenance ledger: 129

Three tiers

Public data, cleaned. Palanor’s own readings. Filings, refined.

Open

Public-domain and openly licensed series, cleaned into one schema with full history: U.S. Treasury, BLS, EIA, CFTC, SEC, the World Bank, OECD and more.

Rights

Redistributable with the attribution each license asks for.

Access today

2,555 series served through the API and MCP today.

Examples

Treasury Curve · 2s10s SpreadU.S. Treasury par yield curve
CPI — Child Care and Nursery SchoolBLS
EIA Natural Gas StorageEIA, weekly
COT · S&P 500 Asset Manager Net PositionCFTC
China GDP as % of US (PPP)World Bank
Size of US industriesCensus, BEA and BLS by NAICS code

Derived

Numbers Palanor computes and nobody else sells: 40 Custom Indices with their components and weights, Schema readings, Current belief and momentum, Discourse scores, Foresight projections and the correlation lattice.

Rights

Palanor-owned. Read them through the API; use in a product, fund or redistribution is licensed by agreement.

Access today

Custom Indices, Currents and Discourse scores are in the API and MCP today. Schema readings, Foresight and the correlation lattice are read inside the platform.

Examples

The Palanor IndexCustom Index
The Discourse IndexCustom Index, S&P 500 earnings calls
Leader Confidence (Discourse)Discourse score
ReshoringCurrent: Momentum, Belief, Maturity
Financial Instability HypothesisSchema reading

Refined

Structured datasets Palanor extracts from public filings and records for the S&P 500, each row linked to the filing or record it came from.

Rights

Palanor-refined work over public-domain sources. Every row cites its source.

Access today

Guidance, risk factors, ownership, insiders, executive pay, corporate events, contracts, lobbying and patents are in the API and MCP. Congressional trades are published on public pages only.

Examples

Guidance Ledger17,628 guidance statements from 8-K releases, matched to reported results
Risk Factor Changes20,173 added, removed or rewritten risks across 2,481 10-Ks
Insiders, ownership and executive pay205,250 Form 3/4/5 transactions; 92,266 13F filings
Contracts, lobbying and patents42,816 LDA lobbying filings; 476,603 USPTO patent records
Corporate events ledger7,588 material events from S&P 500 8-K filings, by item code
Congressional stock trades41,085 transactions from House and Senate filings

Provenance

Every number names its source and its license.

Palanor keeps a ledger of every upstream it reads: who publishes it, the license it comes under, the attribution it asks for, and whether it may be passed on. Of the 129 sources in the ledger today, 71 may be redistributed.

The API and the MCP serve a signal only when its source may be redistributed. A source whose license is unknown stays inside the platform until someone has read its terms. Prices from a licensed market data provider are shown in the product and never leave through the API.

Refined rows go one step further: each carries the accession number and link of the filing it was read from.

{
  "data": {
    "slug": "rates.spread_2y10y",
    "shortcode": "RATES.SPREAD.2Y10Y",
    "name": "Treasury Curve · 2s10s Spread",
    "category": "rates",
    "signal_type": "MARKET",
    "source": "US Treasury",
    "description": "10-year minus 2-year Treasury par yield, in percentage points, from the U.S. Treasury's daily par yield curve.",
    "unit": "pp",
    "is_premium": false,
    "latest": {
      "observed_at": "2026-09-25T00:00:00+00:00",
      "value": 0.36
    },
    "history": [
      {
        "observed_at": "2026-09-25T00:00:00+00:00",
        "value": 0.36
      },
      {
        "observed_at": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+00:00",
        "value": 0.31
      },
      {
        "observed_at": "2026-09-23T00:00:00+00:00",
        "value": 0.26
      }
    ],
    "provenance": {
      "source": "us_treasury",
      "publisher": "U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service",
      "license_class": "public_domain",
      "license_name": "Fiscal Data API license (public domain)",
      "license_url": "https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/api-documentation/",
      "attribution": "Source: U.S. Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service",
      "redistributable": true
    }
  }
}

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How it compares

Other data providers, in their own words.

Each company’s cells come from its own public pages, read on 2026-09-25 and numbered below. Where we couldn’t find a first-party statement, the cell reads “—”.

Palanor Data compared with Quartr, Quiver Quantitative, Statista, Trading Economics and Macrobond
	Palanor	Quartr	Quiver Quantitative	Statista	Trading Economics	Macrobond
What it is	The headless line of the Enterprise Intelligence Platform: public series, Palanor-built intelligence and data refined from filings	AI infrastructure for company research: what public companies say and publish^[1]	Alternative stock data, aggregated into a web dashboard and an API^[4]^[5]	A data-as-a-service company: statistics, reports and insights^[11]	Economic indicators with historical data and forecasts^[17]	A macroeconomic data and research platform built on time series^[22]
Coverage	4,673 public signals, 2,555 of them served through the API; filings datasets for the S&P 500	16,000+ companies, 65+ markets, 50M+ first-party documents^[2]	—	Statistics, reports and insights on 80,000+ topics from 50,000+ sources; 1,000+ modeled markets^[11]^[12]	20 million indicators, 196 countries^[17]	290M+ time series from 2,000 sources^[23]
Data type	Macro, rates, labor, energy, climate, geopolitics, positioning; company guidance, risk factors, ownership, insiders, pay, contracts, lobbying, patents	Live and archived call audio and transcripts, slides, filings, reports, event summaries^[2]	Congress trades, insider trades, government contracts, lobbying, patents, executive pay, hedge fund activity and more^[5]	Statistics, surveys, and modeled market data with five-year forecasts^[11]^[12]	Economic indicators, market data, an economic calendar, forecasts and news^[18]	Macro and financial series, including licensed add-ons such as Bloomberg, FactSet and S&P^[24]
Provenance and citation	A provenance block on every API row: source, publisher, license class, attribution. An unknown license is never served	First-party IR material only; “every output traceable to its source”^[2]^[1]	Names the public source behind each dataset (STOCK Act filings, the Lobbying Disclosure Act, USAspending, SEC)^[6]^[7]	Statistics name their source; in Market Insights, “the consolidated source is listed as ‘Statista’”^[13]	Official sources, named on each indicator page^[17]	Source information, notes and revision history on every series^[24]
Derived intelligence	40 Custom Indices, Schema readings, Currents, Discourse scores, Foresight, the correlation lattice	AI event summaries, daily recaps, keyword alerts^[2]	DC Insider Score; backtested strategies^[8]	Modeled market forecasts; Research AI^[13]^[14]	Forecasts from a proprietary global macro model^[19]	One-click calculations, charting, AI answers^[25]^[27]
Agent access	MCP, REST, a Python client and an Excel add-in, same key	API; MCP included with Quartr Pro^[2]	REST API; hosted MCP server^[5]^[9]	REST API and MCP server (Statista Connect)^[15]	REST API, Python, Node.js and R packages; MCP server^[18]^[20]	Web API, Python, R, Excel, data feeds; MCP with an AI Data Feed license^[26]^[27]
Pricing model	Free key, 1,000 requests a month; Pro $200 / mo, 50,000 requests a month; index licensing by agreement	Sales-led: multi-seat and enterprise deals^[3]	API from $30 a month (no commercial use); commercial plans from $250 a month; enterprise on request^[5]^[10]	Free basic account; paid plans from $199 a month billed annually; Professional through sales^[16]	Published plans from $29.99 a month; Enterprise priced on request^[21]	Lite, Pro and Enterprise subscriptions; no published prices^[28]

Sources · each read 2026-09-25

[1] Quartr, Homepage. https://quartr.com/ As of 2026-09-25.
[2] Quartr, Quartr MCP. https://quartr.com/mcp As of 2026-09-25.
[3] Quartr, Pricing. https://quartr.com/pricing As of 2026-09-25.
[4] Quiver Quantitative, About us. https://www.quiverquant.com/aboutus/ As of 2026-09-25.
[5] Quiver Quantitative, Quiver API. https://api.quiverquant.com/ As of 2026-09-25.
[6] Quiver Quantitative, Congress trading (sources). https://www.quiverquant.com/congresstrading/ As of 2026-09-25.
[7] Quiver Quantitative, Lobbying (sources). https://www.quiverquant.com/lobbying/ As of 2026-09-25.
[8] Quiver Quantitative, DC Insider Score. https://www.quiverquant.com/scores/dcinsider As of 2026-09-25.
[9] Quiver Quantitative, Quiver MCP. https://api.quiverquant.com/mcp-server/ As of 2026-09-25.
[10] Quiver Quantitative, API pricing. https://api.quiverquant.com/pricing/ As of 2026-09-25.
[11] Statista, About us. https://www.statista.com/aboutus/ As of 2026-09-25.
[12] Statista, Market Insights methodology. https://www.statista.com/outlook/methodology As of 2026-09-25.
[13] Statista, Market Insights methodology (PDF). https://cdn.statcdn.com/static/img/outlook/methodology/methodology-en.pdf As of 2026-09-25.
[14] Statista, Research AI. https://www.statista.com/research-ai/ As of 2026-09-25.
[15] Statista, Statista Connect: MCP. https://www.statista.com/business/connect-mcp As of 2026-09-25.
[16] Statista, Accounts and pricing. https://www.statista.com/accounts/ As of 2026-09-25.
[17] Trading Economics, About. https://tradingeconomics.com/about-te.aspx As of 2026-09-25.
[18] Trading Economics, API. https://tradingeconomics.com/api/ As of 2026-09-25.
[19] Trading Economics, Indicator forecasts. https://docs.tradingeconomics.com/forecasts/indicators/ As of 2026-09-25.
[20] Trading Economics, MCP server. https://docs.tradingeconomics.com/mcp/ As of 2026-09-25.
[21] Trading Economics, API pricing. https://tradingeconomics.com/api/pricing.aspx As of 2026-09-25.
[22] Macrobond, About us. https://www.macrobond.com/company/about-us As of 2026-09-25.
[23] Macrobond, Data. https://www.macrobond.com/platform/data As of 2026-09-25.
[24] Macrobond, Consolidate. https://www.macrobond.com/platform/consolidate As of 2026-09-25.
[25] Macrobond, Analysis. https://www.macrobond.com/platform/analysis As of 2026-09-25.
[26] Macrobond, APIs, feeds and connectors. https://help.macrobond.com/apis-feeds-connectors/ As of 2026-09-25.
[27] Macrobond, AI Data Feed with MCP (press release, 2026-06-10). https://www.macrobond.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/macrobond-launches-ai-data-feed-with-mcp-and-skill-bringing-governed-macroeconomic-intelligence-to-enterprise-ai-workflows As of 2026-09-25.
[28] Macrobond, Offerings. https://www.macrobond.com/offerings As of 2026-09-25.

Where the data overlaps

Where the data overlaps, and what Palanor adds.

Earnings calls and filings

Also covered by Quartr

Palanor doesn’t serve transcripts. It serves what they measure: tone and confidence scored across the S&P 500 as index-grade series (The Discourse Index, The Hesitation Index), guidance checked against the results later filed (Guidance Ledger), and year-over-year diffs of every 10-K risk section (Risk Factor Changes).

Congressional trades, lobbying, contracts, insiders, patents

Also covered by Quiver Quantitative

Read from the public records themselves (House and Senate reports, LDA filings, USAspending, SEC Forms 3, 4 and 5, USPTO), with a link back to the source on every row, and rolled up into S&P 500 series that sit in the same lattice as macro and market data.

Macro and economic series

Also covered by Trading Economics, Macrobond

Each series carries its license and attribution in the response, is checked for freshness every day, and feeds Custom Indices, Schemas and Currents in the same schema and under the same key.

Market and industry numbers

Also covered by Statista

Palanor doesn’t model market sizes. Where it publishes a company number, it is the number the company filed, with a link to the filing.

All of it sits in one lattice: a single schema, one search, one weight system and one key across macro, markets, the physical world, geopolitics and company filings.

Where we’re not the answer

Built to sit alongside them.

Live earnings calls and the depth of global investor-relations materialQuartr
Fine-grained political and insider trade detail, member by memberQuiver Quantitative
Global consumer market sizing and forecastsStatista
The breadth of licensed macro and financial databasesMacrobond or Haver Analytics

Access

Three ways to build: MCP · REST · Python/Excel

MCP and REST

The same key works for the Palanor MCP server and the REST API at api.palanor.com/v1. Add the MCP server to Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT or your own agent.

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Python and Excel

A typed Python client that returns DataFrames, and an Excel add-in with =PALANOR.LATEST and =PALANOR.SERIES. Both keep the source and license of every value.

Python and Excel →

API tiers

Free: $0, 1,000 requests a month, values included, no card. Signals · Indices · Currents · Almanac.Pro: $200 / mo, 50,000 requests a month. Everything in Free + the Wire.Enterprise volume and the full matrix are on the developers page.

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Index licensing

To use a Custom Index in a product, a fund or a redistribution, request a license. It is agreed directly, not metered.

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Questions

What is Palanor Data?: The headless line of Palanor, the Enterprise Intelligence Platform. It serves the same lattice the platform reads, public series, Palanor-built indices and readings, and datasets refined from public filings, to any agent or system over MCP and a REST API, with one key.
What is the difference between Open, Derived and Refined?: Open is public-domain and openly licensed data, cleaned into one schema. Derived is what Palanor computes: Custom Indices, Schema readings, Currents, Discourse scores and Foresight. Refined is structured data Palanor extracts from public filings, such as the Guidance Ledger and Risk Factor Changes, with the filing cited on every row.
How do I know where a number came from?: Every signal in an API or MCP response carries a provenance block naming the source, the publisher, the license class and the attribution owed. Palanor records every upstream in a provenance ledger. A source whose license is unknown is never served.
Why aren’t stock prices in the API?: Equity, ETF, crypto and FX prices come from a licensed market data provider. They are shown inside the platform and never redistributed through the API or MCP.
Can I use Custom Indices in my own product or fund?: Reading them through the API is covered by your key. Using a Custom Index in a product, a fund or a redistribution needs an index license. Request one through the index licensing form.
Are congressional trades in the API?: No. They are published on public pages at palanor.com/congress-trades, with a link to every filing, and as aggregate signals. The record-level API is not offered.