Baselight
Let your agent query Baselight’s public catalog of 70,000+ datasets while you research markets, benchmarks, and feature ideas before committing to build.
Overview
Baselight is an MCP server for the Idea phase that lets agents query a catalog of 70,000+ public datasets for market and domain research.
What is this MCP server?
- Remote MCP at https://api.baselight.app/mcp over Streamable HTTP
- Public catalog of 70,000+ datasets spanning finance, demographics, sports, and more
- x-api-key authentication—keys generated at https://baselight.app account settings
- Purpose-built for agent-driven catalog queries rather than manual portal browsing
- Website: https://baselight.ai
- 70,000+ public datasets in catalog (per server description)
- Remote URL: https://api.baselight.app/mcp
- Server schema version 1.0.0
What problem does it solve?
Builders waste hours hunting trustworthy datasets across siloed sites when they need quick numbers to test a product idea.
Who is it for?
Solo founders doing market sizing, trend checks, or niche comparisons who want agent-native access to a broad public data catalog.
Skip if: Teams that need private warehouse ETL, bespoke scrapers only, or guaranteed real-time proprietary feeds without using Baselight’s catalog scope.
What do I get? / Deliverables
After registering the remote MCP with a Baselight API key, your agent can query the public catalog and return dataset context you can cite in research notes and validation docs.
- Dataset matches from a 70,000+ public catalog
- Research snippets agents can paste into PRDs or validation notes
- Faster grounding for finance, demographic, and sports-oriented questions
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Journey fit
Dataset discovery and factual grounding belong in Idea/Research when solo builders validate assumptions with external finance, demographic, and sports data—not after the stack is locked. Research is the shelf for pulling third-party statistics and series into notebooks, memos, and opportunity scans via MCP tools.
How it compares
Dataset catalog MCP over Streamable HTTP—not a spreadsheet skill or a self-hosted database browser.
Common Questions / FAQ
Who is Baselight for?
Indie builders and analysts using Claude Code or similar MCP clients who need fast, agent-driven access to thousands of public datasets during early research.
When should I use Baselight?
Use it in the idea and validation window when you need finance, demographic, sports, or related public data to stress-test assumptions before building.
How do I add Baselight to my agent?
Create an x-api-key at https://baselight.app under account settings, add remote MCP https://api.baselight.app/mcp in your client, and pass the secret header as required by the server schema.