Journey Insight MCP

Market intelligence, right where you already work

Connect Journey Insight to the AI tools you already use, like Claude or ChatGPT, and ask your market anything in plain language.

The competitor benchmarks, journey drop-off, and audience shifts you'd brief a research agency for—answered in seconds, grounded in real consumer behavior, without leaving your workflow.

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Works with any MCP-compatible AI.

Platform at a glance

4k+

organizations

90%

of major US brands

23

industries

300+

predefined markets


Millions

of anonymized panel members

Billions

of behavioral signals

Your market moves faster than your research can

The answers are out there—in competitor journeys, audience shifts, and referral patterns. But getting to them means logging into another platform, exporting data, and stitching it together while the moment passes. So the questions that don't quite justify a research project go unasked, and decisions get made on instinct. Journey Insight changes where the intelligence lives: it comes to you, inside the AI tools and systems you already work in.

See it in action

Ask a real question and watch Journey Insight AI answer inside your assistant—grounded in observed behaviour, with the metrics attached.

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In the Journey Insight US Athletic Footwear market, which brands is Nike losing customers to? Where in the journey do they switch?

In the US Athletic Footwear market, Nike's largest customer overlap is with Adidas and New Balance. Roughly one in five Nike visitors also engage with Adidas within 90 days, with the sharpest switching after price-comparison and review pages, before checkout. New Balance draws a smaller but more loyal cross-over audience. Key metrics and the full journey breakdown are attached below.

Your market and competitor intelligence, on demand

Whatever you'd normally open a research project for, you can now just ask. A few starting points—swap the bracketed terms for your own market and brands:

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How does [your brand]'s customer loyalty compare to [competitor] in the [market] market?

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Where do customers drop off in the [market] purchase journey?

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What proportion of [brand] customers cross to a competitor within 90 days of a support interaction?

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Which websites and referral sources drive the highest-quality acquisition journeys for [brand] in [market]?

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How does [brand]'s audience overlap with [competitor]'s, and what sets the loyal segment apart?

What the data covers

Customer lifecycles, campaign and referral journeys, audience overlap, and competitor benchmarking across the United States, Canada, UK and Ireland

Free plans answer broad market-overview questions; paid plans unlock deeper querying across lifecycles, journeys, and competitor benchmarking.

One connection, any agent

MCP—the Model Context Protocol—is an open standard: a universal adapter that lets any AI application reach outside tools through one common interface.

Because Journey Insight speaks it, a single connection makes your market and competitor intelligence available to any MCP-compatible AI.

Built to work wherever you do

However your organization uses AI—off the shelf, self-built, or the tech you take to market—Journey

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In the AI tools you already use

Add Journey Insight to your assistant of choice and ask market and competitor questions in plain language, right inside your daily workflow.

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In the agents you build

Give your in-house agents, copilots, and automations a market intelligence capability they can call. One connection turns Journey Insight into a tool your agent uses like any other.

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In the products you sell

Partners, platforms, and agencies can embed Journey Insight intelligence inside their own product or AI layer, offered under their own experience.

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In the platforms your teams already work in

Wherever your organization brings its AI capabilities together, Journey Insight can sit alongside your own AI features and every other connected tool, ready in the same place your teams already work.

Your AI is only as good as the data underneath it

Journey Insight gives your AI the foundation for success.

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Grounded

Real customer data, not the model's guesswork.

Every answer draws on observed behavior from 20 anonymized panels and 100k to 400k panelists per market. When a question falls outside your plan or the data, Journey Insight AI says so rather than inventing an answer.

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Benchmark-grade

99%+ confidence level; under 1% margin of error.

Directional intelligence, drawn from a representative panel, that you can take into a real decision.

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Secure and compliant

No integrations or PII.

Read-only and gated by your Journey Insight account and plan. ISO 27001:2022 certified. Fully anonymized and excluded from GDPR and CCPA. Your prompts are never used to train AI models.

Connect in three steps

No engineering project, no API key. If you use Claude, ChatGPT, or another MCP-compatible AI, you're minutes away.

Step 1

Add the connector

In your AI tool, add a custom connector using the Journey Insight MCP server URL.

Step 2

Sign in

Authenticate with your Journey Insight account—your markets and plan limits carry over automatically.

Step 3

Ask

Put your market and competitor questions in plain language. Answers come back with the metrics, ready to use.

Read the full setup guide

Frequently asked questions

The Journey Insight MCP is a connector that makes Alterian's market and competitor intelligence available directly inside AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT. Instead of switching to Journey Insight separately, you can ask questions in plain language and get structured insights without leaving the AI tool you're already using.

The connector uses MCP (Model Context Protocol), an open standard that lets AI tools connect to external data sources through a consistent, secure interface. Journey Insight's query capabilities, data, and plan-based access controls all apply when you use Journey Insight MCP—the same data and limits as in the product, available conversationally.

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that lets AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT connect to external data sources through a consistent, secure interface. It enables third-party services—like Journey Insight—to be made available inside AI conversations without requiring a custom-built connection for each tool.

The Journey Insight MCP connector uses this standard to bring Alterian's market intelligence directly into tools like Claude and ChatGPT, so you can ask questions about customer journeys and competitors without leaving the AI workflow you're already using.

You can ask market and competitor questions conversationally and get structured answers drawn from Alterian's behavioral data. The questions available to you depend on your plan tier.

Example prompts:

  • "What are the most common drop-off points in the UK motor insurance purchase journey?"

  • "How does [brand]'s customer lifecycle compare to the market average?"

  • "Which referral sources are driving the highest quality acquisition journeys in US retail banking?"

  • "What journey patterns precede a customer leaving a brand during the retention stage?"

Answers come back as a narrative summary with key metrics. Your plan's daily Journey Insight AI usage limits apply equally when querying through Claude or ChatGPT.

The Journey Insight MCP accesses the same behavioral data and market intelligence available in the Journey Insight platform. This includes customer journey patterns, competitor benchmarking, referral sources, lifecycle stages, and market-level behavioral insights across your active plan's markets.

The connector is read-only—it cannot modify data, create records, or take any actions inside Journey Insight on your behalf. Access is limited to the markets and features included in your plan; if a question falls outside your plan's scope, Journey Insight AI will say so rather than guess. Raw panel-level data is not accessible through the connector.

Alterian sources data from multiple opted in, anonymized behavioral panels and is 100% GDPR/CCPA compliant.

Customer journey data is collected via mobile/desktop apps and browser plugins. The data is double-blind, fully anonymized at source, and further validated before use.

With 20+ sources in the U.S. others worldwide, no single stream contributes more than 20% of the data available. This limits data bias from specific user groups, improving accuracy and reliability.

Yes. The Journey Insight MCP connector requires an active Journey Insight account. Your plan determines which markets and features are accessible through the connector—the same limits that apply in Journey Insight apply when querying through Claude or ChatGPT.

The free plan is available at no cost, so you can connect and begin querying without a paid subscription.

The Journey Insight MCP connector is optimized for conversational queries and structured insight delivery. It cannot access raw panel-level data, generate custom visualizations, or take any actions inside Journey Insight on your behalf—it is read-only.

Daily AI usage limits from your plan apply equally when querying through another tool, like Claude or ChatGPT. If a question is outside the scope of your plan's market coverage, Journey Insight AI will say so rather than guess.

For full market exploration, interactive dashboards, detailed reports, and data exports, the Journey Insight web application is the right tool.

Bring your market intelligence into the conversation

Journey Insight makes the tools you already use smarter—no new platform, no change to how you work. Connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, or any AI that speaks MCP, and start asking.

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