How to use Factdock

What you can do

Search scholarly literature across academic databases. Papers are ranked by level of evidence, with translated titles and abstracts and a link to each paper.

How to use it

1. Step 1

   Describe what you want to find out

   Write your topic (voice input works). You can add a figure or photo if it helps.

   
2. Step 2

   Let the AI prepare the search

   The AI detects the field and suggests keywords, a period and filters. Choose the databases to use and adjust the filters if needed.

   
3. Step 3

   Check the preview and run

   Confirm the search preview, then run the search. Results are grouped by evidence level.

   
4. Step 4

   Refine or go deeper

   Load the next set of papers, ask the AI to adjust the search, or rebuild it to test a hypothesis.

   

What you can do

Check a company before you deal with it: basic facts, structure, legal trouble, misconduct and reputation, each with sources, plus an overall risk level and management and shareholder information.

How to use it

1. Step 1

   Identify the company

   Enter the company name and country (region optional), or its official website, and search for candidates.

   
2. Step 2

   Pick the right company

   Choose the correct company from the candidates.

   
3. Step 3

   Run the detailed check

   Choose domestic or global scope and start the detailed check. Management and shareholder information follows automatically.

   

What you can do

Gather official economic and market indicators for one to three countries, from official sources only, with a side-by-side comparison when you pick two or more.

How to use it

1. Step 1

   Choose countries

   Select one to three countries.

   
2. Step 2

   Choose categories and period

   Pick the indicators you need (macro, market, risk, environment) and the period.

   
3. Step 3

   Search official sources

   Run the search. Results show each indicator with its source, and a comparison matrix for several countries.

   
4. Step 4

   Go further

   Analyse more sources, export to CSV or a comparison PDF, or open a source in the reader.

   

What you can do

Find public infrastructure plans, tenders and projects in a country, from government and international-organisation documents, tagged by project phase.

How to use it

1. Step 1

   Choose the country

   Select one country.

   
2. Step 2

   Choose sectors and period

   Pick sectors from the groups or type your own, add an area if you like, and choose the period.

   
3. Step 3

   Search and read

   Run the search. Documents are listed by date with their phase (planning, tender, construction, operation), and can be opened in the reader.

   

What you can do

Find distributors, buyers or trade events in a country for your product, with company summaries and source links.

How to use it

1. Step 1

   Choose the country and target

   Select one country, then choose whether to look for companies or for trade events.

   
2. Step 2

   Describe what you are looking for

   Let the AI set the search or enter it yourself, describe your product, and add words to exclude if needed.

   
3. Step 3

   Search and go further

   Run the search, then show more results, open a page translated in the reader, or export to CSV or PDF.

   

What you can do

Veterinary Intelligence is a set of four reference tools for veterinary professionals: Clinical Analysis (match findings against the literature), Allergy History & Detailed Analysis (compare allergy history with current food and medicines), Drug, Supplement & Food Cross-Check (check one product against ingredients to avoid) and the Epidemic Map (zoonosis risk by area). None of them diagnoses; they help you find and check sources quickly. The final judgement is always the veterinarian's.

Before you start (common to all four tools)

1. Step 1

   Open Veterinary Intelligence from Home

   After logging in, choose "Veterinary Clinical Intelligence" on the Home screen. The four tools are listed there, and you can switch between them from the side menu at any time.

2. Step 2

   Agree to the professional-use terms (first time only)

   The first time you open a tool, the terms for veterinary professionals are shown. Read them and press "Agree and use". The tools are for use under a veterinarian's responsibility.

   
3. Step 3

   Choose the tool that fits your question

   Use the table below to pick a tool. Each tool shows the estimated credits before you run it, and nothing is charged until you press the run button.

Which tool should I use?

Each tool answers a different question. Start with the one that matches what you want to know, and combine them if needed: for example, check candidates with Clinical Analysis and then check the drug you plan to use with Drug, Supplement & Food Cross-Check.

• Clinical AnalysisYou want to know which conditions the literature links to the findings, lab values or images in front of you.
• Allergy History & Detailed AnalysisAn animal with known allergies shows symptoms and you want to see whether its current food, supplements or medicines contain the same ingredients.
• Drug, Supplement & Food Cross-CheckBefore giving a specific drug, supplement or food (including therapeutic diets), you want to check interactions with the animal's other medicines, cautions for its conditions and any overlap with its allergy history.
• Epidemic MapYou want to know the infection risk of a zoonosis in a particular country or region, for example before travel or when an animal arrives from abroad.

CLINICAL ANALYSIS

Clinical Analysis

Use it when: You want to know which conditions the literature links to the findings, lab values or images in front of you.

Enter the species and what you have observed: findings, history, lab values, and photos or diagnostic images if they help. We match them against veterinary literature and reported cases worldwide, and list candidates with the number of retrieved documents that support each one, so you can open and check every source.

How to use it

1. 1Choose the species. Breed, age and other details are optional, and fields you leave blank never influence the result.
2. 2Enter lab values and findings as text or by voice, and add lesion photos or diagnostic images if useful.
3. 3Choose fact matching (searches only with what you observed, with no guess of disease names), hypothesis checking (suggests candidate conditions and searches the literature behind them), or both.
4. 4Add search languages if needed, check the estimated credits, and run. Results show candidates by overlap of documents, plus matching pages from trusted veterinary institutions.

How credits are used: Credits are used per run for each mode you choose, with a small addition for each extra search language. Reading photos or images is charged per image. The estimate is shown before you run, and a mode that fails on our side is refunded automatically.

ALLERGY CHECK

Allergy History & Detailed Analysis

Use it when: An animal with known allergies shows symptoms and you want to see whether its current food, supplements or medicines contain the same ingredients.

Compare an animal's past allergy history with what it eats or takes now, at the ingredient level. We extract the ingredients of each product and show which ones overlap with the history, with a risk evaluation, comparison charts and reference notes from the literature. Enter a product name and ingredients are searched from pet foods, treats, supplements and therapeutic diets in 37+ countries; products not found are supplemented by a web search. All information used for the check is shown with its source. For a product whose ingredients could not be found, you can request it be added via “Request this product to be added” (up to 5 per day). History of additives and synthetic ingredients is also checked, down to whether it is the same substance or a relative with reported cross-reactivity.

How to use it

1. 1Choose the species (required) and, if you like, breed, age and sex.
2. 2Add the past allergies, or load past data from a CSV file.
3. 3Add the current food, supplements and medicines: type the product name, or photograph the ingredient label so it is read automatically. The maker's country is detected from the product name and can be changed by hand.
4. 4Run the cross-check. You get a comparison of history and current intake, a risk evaluation, the ingredients found in each product and a timeline of ingredients carried over.

How credits are used: Each cross-check uses credits once. Reading an ingredient label from a photo is charged per photo.

DRUG & SUPPLEMENT CROSS-CHECK

Drug, Supplement & Food Cross-Check

Use it when: Before giving a specific drug, supplement or food (including therapeutic diets), you want to check interactions with the animal's other medicines, cautions for its conditions and any overlap with its allergy history.

Before giving a drug, supplement or food (including therapeutic diets), check it against that animal's details: species, other medicines it is taking, chronic conditions and allergy history (NG list). We extract its ingredients and show interactions with the other medicines, side effects, cautions for the conditions, any overlap with the allergy history, alternatives to compare, and the dosage text from the official package insert with its source. Doses are never calculated automatically. For a product whose ingredients could not be found, you can request it be added via “Request this product to be added”. Allergy history to additives and synthetic ingredients is also covered.

Where the information comes from

First, we search official medicine databases from regulators in Japan, the United States, the EU and other countries, and use the original package insert text (ingredients, dosage, side effects, interactions and contraindications). If your country has no record of that drug, we use another country's official record. Supplements and foods that are not in the database are covered by searching the web. The information used for the check is always shown with its source. Related literature is shown with titles and sources, and a dose is shown only when it has a source. This is a different feature from Medicines & Medical Data Search: it focuses on checking one product against that animal's details (species, other medicines, conditions and allergy history).

How to use it

1. 1Choose drug, supplement or food (including therapeutic diets) and enter the product name. You do not need to choose a country: the official databases of each country are prioritised automatically.
2. 2Enter the patient details: species is required; breed, age and spay/neuter status are optional.
3. 3Add any other medicines the animal is taking and its chronic conditions (heart, kidney or liver disease, etc.), and enter the allergy history (NG list) by hand, by voice or from a CSV file.
4. 4Agree to the disclaimer and start the cross-check. Results show the risk level, interactions, side effects, cautions for the conditions, alternatives and the dosage text with its source, and can be downloaded as a PDF.

How credits are used: Each cross-check uses credits once. Results are not stored on our servers, so keep them by downloading the PDF.

EPIDEMIC MAP

Epidemic Map

Use it when: You want to know the infection risk of a zoonosis in a particular country or region, for example before travel or when an animal arrives from abroad.

Choose a disease and a country or region to see infection risk on a map. We overlay where host animals and carriers such as ticks and mosquitoes are found with weather conditions and, where available, reported cases. Even where confirmed-outbreak data is missing, the risk can still be judged from these core layers, with the source of each figure shown.

Diseases currently covered

• Rabies
• Leptospirosis
• Echinococcosis
• SFTS (severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome)

How to use it

1. 1Select a disease.
2. 2Select a country, and a region or city if you want a closer look. Without a region, the whole country is shown.
3. 3Run the analysis to see the integrated view: the risk level, the layers on the map and how the score was derived, explained in your language.
4. 4Export the data if you need it.

How credits are used: Each analysis uses credits once. Choosing the disease and area, moving around the map and exporting data use no credits.

Also useful: Medicines & Medical Data Search

MEDICINES & MEDICAL DATA

Medicines & Medical Data Search

Use it when: You want the official package insert of a drug, the number of adverse-event reports, or medical papers.

A separate search, available to all members, that looks directly in official regulators' databases rather than the web: medicines for humans, veterinary medicines, adverse-event report counts and the medical literature. You can type the search term in any language, and results are shown in your language.

How to use it

1. 1Open "Medicines & Medical Data" from Home and confirm the notes on use.
2. 2Choose the database: human medicines, veterinary medicines, adverse-event report counts or medical literature.
3. 3Enter the drug or ingredient name in any language, and narrow down by species or years if needed.
4. 4Run the search. You can open the full package insert of a result or save the list as CSV.

How credits are used: Each search uses credits once, including translation into your language. Loading more results and opening a full package insert are charged separately. Report counts are not causation or incidence rates.

What the Business API is

A separate contract for companies and developers. You call it over HTTPS (REST) or register it as an MCP server, using a dedicated business API key. Unlike the personal API, you may build it into your own products and services.

• Data: approved human and veterinary medicines, adverse-event report counts, official announcements and regulatory news (Insights), and scientific literature. Every record comes with its source URL and licence.
• Prepaid API credits, separate from the credits of an app plan. No monthly fee.
• Responses are JSON. Titles and summaries can be returned in the language you specify.

Getting started

1. Step 1

   Create an account

   Sign up with your work email address.

2. Step 2

   Choose “For businesses & developers”

   On the first screen after sign-up, choose the business option instead of a personal plan.

3. Step 3

   Enter company details and accept the API Terms

   Company name, purpose of use and agreement to the API Terms of Use. Your first API key is shown once at this point — copy and store it safely.

4. Step 4

   Buy an API credit pack

   Your registration is complete with the first purchase. The pack you buy also sets your speed (calls per minute).

5. Step 5

   Issue and manage keys on the developer page

   You can issue up to 10 active keys (for example one per environment) and stop any key at any time. A key is shown only once.

6. Step 6

   Confirm the medicines-data notice (only if you use it)

   Before calling medicines or adverse-event data, confirm once on the developer page that results are reference information and that final decisions are made by a qualified professional. Until then those calls are refused without using credits.

Authentication

Send your key in the Authorization header as a Bearer token on every request. Keep keys on the server side — never put them in browser or mobile app code. If a key may have leaked, stop it on the developer page and issue a new one.

Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY

REST endpoints

All endpoints are GET requests under the base URL below. Parameters are passed as a query string.

https://data.fact-dock.com

GET /v1/search

Search primary sources across fields (q, domain, country, lang, since, limit up to 50, offset).

GET /v1/insights

Newest Insights items (category, country, lang, since, limit, offset).

GET /v1/drugs/search

Search medicines by product name, generic name or active ingredient in any language (q, country, species, target = human or animal, limit up to 20, offset).

GET /v1/drugs/{id}

One medicine record by the id from the search: indications, dosage, contraindications, precautions and other label sections.

GET /v1/adverse-events

Aggregated adverse-event report counts for an active ingredient (ingredient, species, source, year_from, year_to, limit up to 50).

GET /v1/insights/search

Search Insights by keyword (q, country, category, since, lang, limit, offset).

GET /v1/literature

Search scientific literature (q, year_from, year_to, species_hint, limit, offset).

lang takes a language code such as en, ja or zh-TW. Only titles and summaries are translated (by machine translation, marked as such); the original text and the source URL are always included.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \n  "https://data.fact-dock.com/v1/drugs/search?q=carprofen"

Search engines (the same as the app)

Besides the data endpoints above, the API runs the same search engines as the Factdock app: web, academic, patent, company, sourcing, finance, government and infrastructure, real estate, trade compliance, legal, medical database, veterinary clinical tools and the epidemic map. Each operation uses API credits at the business price shown on the developer page.

• GET /v1/engines lists the tools and their input schemas (free). POST /v1/engines/{tool} runs one, with the arguments as a JSON body. Over MCP, the same tools appear in tools/list next to the data tools.
• How many engine calls can run at the same time depends on the pack you purchased most recently (shown on the pricing and developer pages), and one call can take up to about 3 minutes. Results are in the language you pass in lang.
• API credits are reserved before each call and only the amount actually used is charged; the rest is returned at once. Failures on our side are refunded automatically.
• Rabies data and data for China are not available through the API. The medical database, veterinary clinical tools and epidemic map need the confirmation on the developer page.

curl -X POST "https://data.fact-dock.com/v1/engines/web_search" \n  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \n  -d '{"query": "carprofen dog adverse events", "lang": "en"}'

Connecting an AI agent over MCP

For in-house AI agents and MCP-compatible clients. The MCP server provides the same data as REST, as tools: search_drugs, get_drug, adverse_event_counts, search_insights and search_literature.

1. Step 1

   Add the server to your client's settings

   Register the MCP address with the type “http” and the Authorization header, as in the example below. The exact place to paste it depends on your client.

2. Step 2

   Restart the client and check the tools

   After restarting, the Factdock tools appear in the tool list. Connecting and listing tools use no credits.

3. Step 3

   Ask your agent

   For example: “Search the adverse-event counts for carprofen in dogs and show the sources.” Each tool call uses credits like a REST call.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "factdock": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://data.fact-dock.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Error codes

401

Missing, invalid, stopped or expired key.

402

Not enough API credits — buy a pack.

403

Not allowed for this key: the medicines-data confirmation has not been recorded yet, or a trial key called something other than Insights.

404

No record (for example an unknown id). This means “not covered”, never “safe”.

422

Invalid parameters. Credits are refunded.

429

Too fast, repeated identical call, or daily cap reached. Wait for Retry-After before trying again.

Points to note

• Reselling or redistributing the data as it is, or offering it as a competing service, is not permitted.
• Results are reference information, not medical, veterinary, legal or investment advice. An empty result does not mean low risk or safe.
• Machine-translated fields may contain errors. Check names, doses and contraindications in the original text.

If it doesn't work

I get 401.

Check that the header is exactly “Authorization: Bearer” followed by the full key, with no extra spaces, and that the key has not been stopped. A trial key expires after its trial period.

Medicines endpoints return 403.

Record the medicines-data confirmation on the developer page once. Other endpoints work without it.

I get 429 even though I call slowly.

You may be repeating the same call with the same parameters, or you may have reached the daily cap. Cache results, and check your current speed on the developer page — it follows your most recent pack.

The MCP tools do not appear.

Restart the client after editing its settings, and check that the address and the Authorization header were pasted exactly as in the example.