GlobalData

GlobalData Plc is a London-listed data, analytics and insights company (LSE: DATA) whose Intelligence Center platform covers companies, deals, news, filings, patents, job postings, research reports, projects and market data across 20+ industry verticals. Its machine-readable surface is agent-native rather than REST-first: GlobalData operates a first-party Model Context Protocol gateway at mcp.globaldata.com that exposes the estate as callable agent tools, one MCP server endpoint per vertical, behind OAuth 2.1 via GlobalData SSO. The gateway publishes a full developer reference at its host root, RFC 8414 and RFC 9728 OAuth metadata, and an Agentic Resource Discovery (AIR) manifest at /.well-known/ai-catalog.json advertising all 23 vertical endpoints. No OpenAPI, GraphQL SDL, AsyncAPI or SOAP contract is published anywhere.

GlobalData is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Market Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Data, and Analytics.

GlobalData’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, support, signup flow, engineering blog, authentication, and 22 more developer resources.

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23.5/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 23/100 agent aware Front door AI 4/6 moderate Heartbeat 100/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
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AccessSelf serve

1 API 1 MCP Servers 6 Agent Skills

Company Market Intelligence Business Intelligence Data Analytics MCP Agents Company Data Deals News Patents Research Financial Services Energy Mining

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 23.5/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.5 / 17

Access Clarity 7.2 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 5.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.4 / 15

Agent readiness — 23/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document Ask about this →
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author Ask about this →
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented) Ask about this →
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes Ask about this →
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0 Ask about this →
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link Ask about this →

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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Operational Transparency scores 0.0 — up to +13.0 composite points Ask about this →

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Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (templated)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

GlobalData Intelligence Center MCP

A governed Model Context Protocol gateway that turns GlobalData's business intelligence into tools an AI agent can call directly. One MCP server endpoint per industry vertical, ...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

GlobalData Intelligence Center MCP

GlobalData Plc operates a first-party, production Model Context Protocol gateway at mcp.globaldata.com that exposes its business-intelligence estate as callable agent tools. The...

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 6

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

globaldata-company-profile

AGENT SKILL

globaldata-connect-and-orient

AGENT SKILL

globaldata-deal-activity

AGENT SKILL

globaldata-filings-evidence

AGENT SKILL

globaldata-hiring-signal

AGENT SKILL

globaldata-news-sentiment

AGENT SKILL

GlobalData API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

GlobalData Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

GlobalData Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Terms of Service 1

What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.

GlobalData

11 quoted statements, read from GlobalData's own page on 2026-11-09.

TERMS

Privacy & Data 1

Its role, the data it processes, retention and transfers, quoted from its own privacy page.

GlobalData

27 quoted statements, read from GlobalData's own page on 2026-11-09.

PRIVACY

Eligibility 1

Who may sign up and where, quoted from its own terms.

GlobalData

3 quoted statements, read from GlobalData's own page on 2026-11-09.

ELIGIBILITY

AI Preferences 1

Its stance on AI training, inference and agents, quoted from its own pages.

GlobalData

4 quoted statements, read from GlobalData's own page on 2026-11-09.

AI PREFS

Data License 1

How its data and outputs may be reused, quoted from its own terms.

GlobalData

3 quoted statements, read from GlobalData's own page on 2026-11-09.

LICENSE

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

GlobalData Authentication

3 schemes

SECURITY

GlobalData Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

GlobalData Scopes

4 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

AIPreferences

AIPreferences

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

MCPServer

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Conventions

Conventions

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

UsageTerms

DataLicense

Company 3

The organization behind the API

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

DataProcessing

DataProcessing

Eligibility

Eligibility

Source (apis.yml)

aid: globaldata
name: GlobalData
description: 'GlobalData Plc is a London-listed data, analytics and insights company (LSE: DATA) whose Intelligence Center
  platform covers companies, deals, news, filings, patents, job postings, research reports, projects and market data across
  20+ industry verticals. Its machine-readable surface is agent-native rather than REST-first: GlobalData operates a first-party
  Model Context Protocol gateway at mcp.globaldata.com that exposes the estate as callable agent tools, one MCP server endpoint
  per vertical, behind OAuth 2.1 via GlobalData SSO. The gateway publishes a full developer reference at its host root, RFC
  8414 and RFC 9728 OAuth metadata, and an Agentic Resource Discovery (AIR) manifest at /.well-known/ai-catalog.json advertising
  all 23 vertical endpoints. No OpenAPI, GraphQL SDL, AsyncAPI or SOAP contract is published anywhere.'
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://www.globaldata.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/cropped-cropped-gd_icon-192x192.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/globaldata/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:absent-parent
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-13'
modified: '2026-10-06'
tags:
- Company
- Market Intelligence
- Business Intelligence
- Data
- Analytics
- MCP
- Agents
- Company Data
- Deals
- News
- Patents
- Research
- Financial Services
- Energy
- Mining
tags_raw:
- Company
- Market Intelligence
- Business Intelligence
- Data
- Analytics
- Model Context Protocol
- Agents
- Company Data
- Deals
- News
- Patents
- Research
- Financial Services
- Energy
- Mining
- Financial-Services
apis:
- name: GlobalData Intelligence Center MCP
  description: A governed Model Context Protocol gateway that turns GlobalData's business intelligence into tools an AI agent
    can call directly. One MCP server endpoint per industry vertical, all sharing a single tool interface over Streamable
    HTTP with JSON-RPC 2.0. Seven gateway tools are always on (list_domains, search, resolve_entities, discover_capabilities,
    reveal_advanced, get_capabilities, tool_search); domain tools for companies, deals, news, filings, patents, jobs, reports,
    projects, contacts, market data and vertical-specific databases are revealed progressively and filtered by subscription
    entitlement. Authentication is OAuth 2.1 via GlobalData SSO at login.globaldata.com. The anonymous tools/list probe returns
    HTTP 401, so the live input schemas require an authenticated session.
  image: https://www.globaldata.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/cropped-cropped-gd_icon-192x192.png
  humanURL: https://mcp.globaldata.com/
  baseURL: https://mcp.globaldata.com/{site}/mcp
  tags:
  - MCP
  - Agents
  - Market Intelligence
  - Business Intelligence
  tags_raw:
  - Model Context Protocol
  - Agents
  - Market Intelligence
  - Business Intelligence
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/globaldata-mcp.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://mcp.globaldata.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://mcp.globaldata.com/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/globaldata-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/globaldata-scopes.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/globaldata-conventions.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/globaldata-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/globaldata-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/_index.yml
common:
- url: https://www.globaldata.com/feed/
  type: BlogRSS
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://mcp.globaldata.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://mcp.globaldata.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://mcp.globaldata.com/
- type: Website
  url: https://www.globaldata.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.globaldata.com/contact-us/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://login.globaldata.com/login/index
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.globaldata.com/terms-conditions/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.globaldata.com/privacy-policy/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.globaldata.com/data-insights/
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/globaldata-well-known.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/globaldata-mcp.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/globaldata-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/globaldata-scopes.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/globaldata-conformance.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/globaldata-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/globaldata-lifecycle.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/globaldata-packages.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/globaldata-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/globaldata-rate-limits.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/globaldata-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/globaldata-domain-security.yml
- type: UsageTerms
  url: terms/globaldata-terms-of-service.yml
- type: DataProcessing
  url: privacy/globaldata-privacy-policy.yml
- type: Eligibility
  url: eligibility/globaldata-eligibility.yml
- type: AIPreferences
  url: ai-preferences/globaldata-ai-preferences.yml
- type: DataLicense
  url: data-license/globaldata-data-license.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-13'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 22
  pass: local-v3

GlobalData API — frequently asked questions

Does GlobalData have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from GlobalData, including GlobalData Intelligence Center MCP.

How do I authenticate with the GlobalData API?

GlobalData documents its authentication (3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as GlobalData Authentication.

Does GlobalData have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for GlobalData: GlobalData Plc operates a first-party, production Model Context Protocol gateway at mcp.globaldata.com that exposes its business-intelligence estate as callable agent tools. The gateway is documented

Is the GlobalData API ready for AI agents?

GlobalData has a Kin Score of 23.5 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 23.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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