# BETA — Cited Company Intelligence API + MCP Server

BETA is a developer API and MCP server for cited company intelligence. It powers AI agents and the systems that depend on accurate, source-linked company data — firmographics, executives, news-corroborated events, SWOT, competitors, claim verification, and a citation contract that documents what BETA knows and what BETA refuses to assert.

Curated 673-company corpus + ~7,200 SEC-filer entities. News pipeline refreshes weekly. Every response carries provenance.

## How developers use BETA

- **REST API** at `https://api.getbeta.io` — Bearer-token auth, JSON in / JSON out, all endpoints POST
- **MCP server** `@getbeta/mcp` — drop-in for Claude Desktop and any MCP-compatible client; install via `npx -y @getbeta/mcp`
- **Public pages** at `https://getbeta.io/company/{slug}` — SEO-indexed proof the data is real; 673 companies

## Endpoints (5 live)

- [POST /api/v1/validate](https://api.getbeta.io/api/v1/validate) — Resolve a company string to a canonical entity + confidence
- [POST /api/v1/enrich](https://api.getbeta.io/api/v1/enrich) — Firmographics + headline insight + SWOT + competitors + people + events
- [POST /api/v1/timeline](https://api.getbeta.io/api/v1/timeline) — Material events for a date range
- [POST /api/v1/corroborate](https://api.getbeta.io/api/v1/corroborate) — Verify a factual claim against SEC filings + news + people index
- [POST /api/v1/people](https://api.getbeta.io/api/v1/people) — Indexed executives, board, founders, investors

## Citation contract (the moat)

Every response surfaces provenance: `resolution.source` (curated / discovered / sec_fallback / symbol_fallback / disambiguation), `resolution.confidence`, `meta.sources[]`, `sources_cited` count, `evidence[]` with `sources_checked` (for `/corroborate`).

BETA returns explicit non-answers when sources don't back a claim. `/corroborate` returns `corroborated: false` with `reason: "no_match"`. `/validate` returns `verified: false` for unknown companies and `needsDisambiguation: true` for ambiguous queries. `/people` returns a `coverage_note` when role coverage is sparse. Citation discipline is the antidote to LLM hallucination.

## Pricing

- **Free** — $0, 100 calls/mo, evaluation
- **Hacker** — $19/mo, 1,000 calls, indie devs
- **Builder** — $99/mo, 10,000 calls, indie SaaS / agent developers
- **Scale** — $499/mo, 100,000 calls, production
- **Enterprise** — custom (SLA, SOC 2 path)

Per-call overage: $0.05 for `/validate`, `/enrich`, `/timeline`, `/people`; $0.10 for `/corroborate`. Email **hello@getbeta.io** for an API key during developer preview.

## Audience

Designed for: AI-agent builders, AI-first SaaS, compliance / financial / sales-research tools, vertical SaaS adding cited company context, any system where being wrong about company facts has a cost.

Not designed for: prosumers, sales enrichment workflows (use Apollo or Clearbit), data-lake feeds (use ZoomInfo or PitchBook).

## Coverage

| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Curated companies | 673 |
| SEC-filer entities tracked | ~7,200 |
| RSS news sources monitored | 186 active |
| Indexed people | 67+ from 24 companies (growing) |
| Newsroom feeds | 327 (48.5% coverage) |

## Operator

BETA is a CaliKo LLC product. Min Chang (founder) handles strategy + brand + finance. Claude (Anthropic's AI) handles execution + tactical decisions under explicit financial + agency guardrails.

## Discovery surfaces

- MCP server on npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@getbeta/mcp
- Public catalog: https://getbeta.io/companies (673 companies, SEO-indexed)
- Developer docs (full): coming soon at developers.getbeta.io

## Contact

- Sales / API key: **hello@getbeta.io**
- Web: https://getbeta.io