Computer Connects to 20+ New Licensed Finance Data Sources

Hedge funds, private equity firms, and other finance companies subscribe to 30+ data sets on average to find the intelligence that produces alpha. Turning that data into a memo or diligence pack has often meant toggling between a lot of different tools.

Since we launched Perplexity Computer in February, finance teams have been using the agent platform as one research surface where they can query their data sources in plain language. Today we’re announcing that Computer connects to new licensed data sources, including Dun & Bradstreet, Guidepoint, IBISWorld, and 20+ others.

An analyst can ask Computer a question and get an answer built from the firm's own licensed sources without APIs or separate logins to work through. Every figure traces to the source record it came from. Teams doing high-stakes work know exactly which data set produced which number.

Data that’s already paid for

Using Computer with licensed data connectors helps streamline the research process but also makes Computer’s answers more accurate. Computer reconstructs fewer answers from the open web when it can access more of a firm's licensed and internal context.

Finance customers can connect Computer to licenses they already hold with:

• Dun & Bradstreet: The verified commercial identity foundation covering 650M+ global entities, enabling AI to operate on accurate, validated data. Using the D-U-N-S Number business identifier, the D&B Commercial Graph structures and connects business identity, hierarchies, payment behaviour, and financial stress scores consistently across systems. Look up a private company's credit file, resolve a counterparty to its parent entity, and pull risk scores across a portfolio.
• Guidepoint: The expert network’s compliance-reviewed library holds 120,000+ transcripts of interviews with operators, executives, and channel participants across every sector. Search primary-source expert commentary, pull what practitioners said about a company or market, and pressure-test a thesis against human evidence.
• IBISWorld: The leading provider of industry data and analytics offers benchmarks and trends across thousands of industries. Pull analyst-verified research on market trends, industry performance, competitive landscapes, and key economic drivers to help banks, consulting firms, and corporations make smarter decisions.

The full list of connectors below covers public equities, private markets, portfolio monitoring, and credit research.

Computer in the inbox

Computer is most useful where the work already happens. A lot of finance work happens over email. Investors iterate on models through attachments. General partners send LPs as PDFs.

Last week we announced Computer in Email, which lets users start any Computer task from email and receive the output in the same thread.

A private equity associate can forward a CIM and data room thread to Computer with instructions to build a first-pass LBO model, and gets an Excel file back in reply.

When licensed data is connected, email requests for models, comp sets, and portfolio updates come back with that data incorporated.

Licensed data use cases

Perplexity Computer is used by different types of companies in the finance industry. Here are some examples of what finance teams can do after connecting licensed data to Computer:

• A hedge fund analyst asks Computer to reconcile what Guidepoint experts said about end-market demand against the company's own segment disclosures, and to surface only the points where the two diverge.
• A private equity associate has Computer size a roll-up opportunity by joining IBISWorld industry growth forecasts to D&B records for every independent operator in the target's five metro markets.
• An investor relations lead asks Computer to check a portfolio company's margin claims against IBISWorld cost-structure benchmarks for its NAICS code before the numbers go into an LP update.
• A restructuring team has Computer map a distressed borrower's full corporate hierarchy from D&B, then read Guidepoint interviews with former employees for context on which subsidiaries actually generate cash.
• A growth equity investor asks Computer to build a market map from IBISWorld specialised industry reports and enrich every company on it with D&B firmographics and payment behaviour.

Additional connectors

Perplexity Computer now connects to nearly two dozen licensed data sources. Those include:

• Allium: The blockchain data platform indexes 150+ chains down to the block level, covering stablecoin flows, tokenised fund issuance, 24/7 perpetuals markets, and on-chain trading activity, so a user can reconcile a digital asset position to any historical block, monitor fund flows in real time, or trace a wallet's full transaction history, all in a single query.
• AlphaCreek: The regulatory filing brings citation-grade SEC filing intelligence to Perplexity, turning public-company filings into fast, accurate, source-verifiable answers and helping users discover the companies and disclosures behind their questions.
• AngelList: The private markets platform behind $200B+ in assets across 25k+ funds and SPVs, GPs on the platform can pull capital call status, LP commitments, and positions across every vehicle, with the source documents behind each number.
• Base by Coinbase: Base MCP provides the agent with an onchain wallet. Base is Coinbase's own Ethereum layer-2 network, covering DeFi, trades, and payments across Base's roughly 2-second blocks, letting a team give their agent a wallet or perform robust on-chain financial analysis.
• Canary Data: The investment research platform’s proprietary datasets span accounting disclosure analysis, fraud detection, 13F holdings, and shareholder activism, letting a team screen a stock for accounting red flags or pull its ownership changes.
• Chronograph: The portfolio monitoring system of record tracks more than $5.9 trillion in invested capital across 15,000 funds and 258,000 portfolio companies, letting users query trusted portfolio data, analyse investments, search for entities, and retrieve performance metrics.
• Coinbase: The institutional-grade crypto platform combines trading crypto equities and derivatives, NYDFS-qualified custody, and exchange data and analytics, letting a team manage portfolio trade's settlement history.
• Crunchbase: The private market intelligence platform powered by 39 billion live private market signals and 30M+ verified data updates annually combines trusted company data with contributor and expert input to create AI-powered predictions that help teams understand what happened and identify what may happen next.
• Flanks: The wealth data aggregator standardises portfolios, accounts, and liabilities from 700+ banks and custodians into one data model, letting a team pull a client's full multi-custodian portfolio.
• Grata (Datasite): The private market intelligence platform covers 22M+ private and public companies with verified financials and 1M+ recorded M&A transactions, letting a team build a target list by business description or pull comps on a bootstrapped competitor.
• Interactive Brokers (IBKR): The global online broker provides real-time and historical market data, portfolio information, risk analytics, scenario modelling, and benchmarking tools from a firm's IBKR accounts, letting teams incorporate trading and portfolio intelligence directly into their research workflows and conversations.
• MT Newswires: A leading global financial news provider offers real-time, comprehensive coverage of company news, earnings, macroeconomic commentary, sector analysis, and significant developments spanning capital markets and economies throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. With 2,000+ original stories published each day, users gain direct access to market-moving intelligence.
• Octus: The essential credit intelligence, data and workflow provider for the world’s leading buy-side firms, investment banks, law firms and advisory firms. Octus was founded in 2013, surrounding deep human expertise with proven technology, data and AI tools to unlock powerful truths that fuel decisive action across financial markets.
• OpenSea: The NFT and digital asset marketplace data source covers on-chain collections, floor prices, and trading activity across supported blockchains, letting a team pull token trading data, a collection's trading volume or track wallet-level NFT holdings.
• Papermark: The document sharing and data room platform for modern deal makers offers advanced tracking per-visitor analytics, granular permissions, and custom branding.
• Public.com: The brokerage API covers stocks, options, crypto, corporate and treasury bonds, allowing retail investors to trade all asset classes.
• Quartr: The first-party data layer for institutional finance covers live audio and real-time transcripts, historical audio and transcripts, filings, and slide presentations across all corporate events (earnings calls, CMDs, AGMs, and more) from 16,000+ public companies, letting teams surface exactly what management said word-for-word.
• Stocktwits: The financial trader community that's spent 17 years building the front page of the markets, where 10M members talk stocks and crypto all day and tag posts with real-time bullish or bearish sentiment, letting a team pull the sentiment shift on a ticker over the last 24 hours.
• Wisesheets: The fundamentals database sourced directly from SEC EDGAR XBRL filings within minutes of publication covers 10,412+ US stocks with statement-level financials traceable to the source, letting a team verify a number against its SEC filing.
• Zacks Research: The independent research house behind the Zacks Rank offers filings-level financials, fund holdings, and estimates plus analyst-written reports on 1,300 major companies and quantitative research across 4,000+ equities since 1978, letting a team back a call with the data behind it.

Getting started

Customers authenticate their own connectors with D&B, Guidepoint, IBISWorld and other connectors. There’s no separate data contract with Perplexity.

Licensed data connectors are available to all Perplexity Pro, Max, and Enterprise users with an eligible partner license.

Try connecting to a licensed data partner.