Claude IBISWorld connectorWhat Claude can do in your IBISWorld account.
The Claude IBISWorld connector exposes 8 tools: 7 read, 0 write, 1 left undocumented. Claude queries IBISWorld's industry research for you: market size, growth, key players, regional data, company profiles, procurement insight and the wider economic backdrop.
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What changes when Claude reads IBISWorld research
Instead of hunting for the right report, opening it and scrolling to the section you need, you ask Claude a market question in plain English. It picks the right search, pulls the figure from the IBISWorld content your subscription covers and answers with it. You do need an active IBISWorld subscription with connector access switched on.
Size a market before a client meeting. A strategy consultant preparing a workshop on meat processing runs search_industry for market size, growth, drivers, key players and outlook in the chosen country.
Set a region against the national picture. A commercial banker reviewing a loan in one US state uses search_industry_region for local data, then search_segment_benchmark to compare small, medium and large operators.
Walk into a negotiation prepared. A buyer renewing a cloud services contract asks search_procurement about pricing, supplier landscape and buying strategies.
What it will not do: by default, its sheet exposes only read tools. No tool writes to IBISWorld, and one tool on the sheet, fetch_chapters, is described nowhere. Nothing runs on its own either: Claude only searches while it is answering, and no alert fires when a report is refreshed. To compare with other connectors, browse the Integrations hub.
Five terms before you connect
The vocabulary of this connector in one minute.
- Connector
- The link you set up once between Claude and an account you already own, so Claude can work on it while it answers you.
- Tool
- One named search a connector hands to Claude. Claude picks which ones to call by itself, and the directory lists them by name.
- Authorization
- The service's own screen where you grant Claude access: at IBISWorld, your usual login followed by an Allow button.
- Approval
- The confirmation Claude waits for before changing an account, shown in the conversation at the moment it matters.
- MCP
- The shared standard connectors run on: it is what lets an assistant like Claude talk to an outside service such as IBISWorld.
Connect IBISWorld to Claude in three steps
- 01
Find IBISWorld
Open Claude's settings, go to Customize, then Connectors, and search for IBISWorld. On a Team or Enterprise workspace, an Owner or Primary Owner has to switch it on for the organization first.
- 02
Sign in to IBISWorld
Click Connect, and the IBISWorld login page opens. Enter the username and password you already use for IBISWorld. Should the link break one day, Disconnect and a fresh connection will repair it.
- 03
Grant access
IBISWorld then shows a page asking you to allow its tools. Click Allow, and you land back in Claude with the connection in place. Keep in mind that this screen, not Claude, decides what the access covers.
The 8 tools of the IBISWorld connector
IBISWorld gives Claude 8 tools: 7 that read your account, 0 that change something in it, and 1 no official source describes.
IBISWorld's documentation describes seven of these tools; one is not described anywhere. Names stay exactly as Claude shows them.
- 7 read
- 1 not documented
What Claude reads (7)
7 toolsSeven searches across IBISWorld content. None of them changes anything.
fetch_metadata
Before going deeper, Claude pulls the structure of an IBISWorld title: which sections exist and how they are organized. The publisher calls it the first step for any work on its data.
search_company
Answers questions about one named company: performance, operations, market position, financials and strategic activity.
search_industry
Digs into an industry report for market size, growth rate, drivers, trends, competitive landscape, key players or outlook.
search_industry_region
Scopes the same industry questions down to a state or region: local market size, regional trends, and how performance differs from one area to another.
search_procurement
Covers sourcing and supply chain questions for a product or service category: price levels, the supplier landscape and recommended buying strategies.
search_business_environment
Sheds light on the outside forces that shape industries: economic conditions, demographics, regulation and technology shifts.
search_segment_benchmark
Sets small, medium and large operators side by side on performance metrics within one industry, so a business can be measured against peers of its own size.
Undocumented (1)
1 toolThe directory publishes this name and nothing more. No official text says what it does, and we will not guess it from the name.
fetch_chapters
This name sits in the directory's tool list and that is all we know. IBISWorld's documentation never mentions it, nor does any Claude page, so this page says nothing more about it.
What Claude asks before it acts
By default, Claude stops and asks for your go-ahead before each action it takes on an account for someone. With IBISWorld, the seven documented tools are searches.
No source says whether Claude asks before running an IBISWorld search, so the default rule is the reference, the undocumented tool included. On a Team or Enterprise workspace, owners decide whether a member may let some actions through without confirming each time. They can also cap what a connector does for the whole organization, with no way around it. Claude works with your IBISWorld rights and never more.
Which Claude plans include IBISWorld
None of the 819 sheets in the official directory shows availability by plan. Connector by connector, that information is not published anywhere.
The general rule is sourced: remote connectors are open to all users on Claude, Cowork, Claude Desktop and mobile. On Team and Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner enables the connector before members can sign in to it. For IBISWorld's current state, check its sheet in the official directory, the only place that shows it for your own account.
Where the IBISWorld connector stops
A connector is not an automation. Claude calls these tools while it answers you, so nothing pings you when IBISWorld updates a report.
By default, its sheet exposes only read tools, and that is an observed floor, not a promise: an admin can open up actions that no public sheet lists. Only the publisher, IBISWorld, documents this connector; Anthropic has no page of its own on it. The directory badge is not a security audit, and Anthropic does not guarantee tools behave as described, so only connect tools whose publisher you know and trust.
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