🧰 Tools Reference

The IBISWorld MCP Server exposes 8 tools that give agentic workflows and LLM platforms structured access to IBISWorld's industry intelligence. The client's model selects the right tool(s) based on the user's prompt, so there's nothing to call directly.

📋 Available Tools

Tool	Description
`fetch_metadata`	🗂️ First step when working with IBISWorld data. Retrieves available sections and structure before fetching full content.
`fetch_sections`	📄 Used after `fetch_metadata` to retrieve full content of specific sections from an IBISWorld title.
`search_industry`	📊 Market size, growth, drivers, trends, competitive landscape, key players, and outlook by industry.
`search_industry_region`	🗺️ Industry questions scoped to a specific state or region.
`search_company`	🏢 Company-level performance, operations, market position, financials, and strategic activity.
`search_business_environment`	🌐 Macro-level external factors: economic conditions, demographics, regulation, technology trends.
`search_procurement`	🔄 Procurement, sourcing, and supply chain: pricing, supplier landscape, buying strategies.
`search_segment_benchmark`	📐 Operator size segment data, comparing performance across small, medium, and large operators.

💡 Common Use Cases

Typical use cases include:

📊 Summarizing industry outlook and growth drivers for a specific market

🏢 Researching a company's financials and competitive position ahead of a call

🔄 Assessing supplier and procurement risk for a product category

📐 Benchmarking a client's performance against operator size segments

🌐 Grounding investment or credit memos in macro-level business environment data

🔧 Parameters

fetch_metadata

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`title`	string	✅	Primary identifier of the IBISWorld content to retrieve metadata for.

fetch_sections

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`title`	string	✅	Primary key of the source to retrieve sections from.
`sections`	array	✅	List of section identifiers to fetch.

search_industry

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`industryDescription`	string	✅	Industry name (e.g. Meat Processing). Do not include country or region.
`country`	string	✅	ISO 3166 country code (e.g. US, AU, GB).
`language`	string	✅	ISO 639 language code (e.g. en).
`dataQuestion`	string	—	Specific question or data point being sought.

search_industry_region

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`industryDescription`	string	✅	Industry name, without country or region.
`country`	string	✅	ISO 3166 country code.
`region`	string	✅	Region or state code to scope the report geographically.
`language`	string	✅	ISO 639 language code.
`dataQuestion`	string	—	Specific question or data point being sought.

search_company

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`companyName`	string	✅	Company name (e.g. Apple Inc, BHP Group).
`country`	string	✅	ISO 3166 country code for the company's primary market.
`language`	string	✅	ISO 639 language code.
`dataQuestion`	string	—	Specific question or data point being sought.

search_business_environment

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`topic`	string	✅	Macro-level topic or external factor (e.g. interest rates, aging population).
`country`	string	✅	ISO 3166 country code.
`language`	string	✅	ISO 639 language code.
`dataQuestion`	string	—	Specific question or data point being sought.

search_procurement

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`productDescription`	string	✅	Product or service category being sourced (e.g. Steel, Cloud Computing Services).
`country`	string	✅	ISO 3166 country code.
`language`	string	✅	ISO 639 language code.
`dataQuestion`	string	—	Specific procurement or sourcing question.

search_segment_benchmark

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`industryDescription`	string	✅	Industry to benchmark operator segments within.
`country`	string	✅	ISO 3166 country code.
`language`	string	✅	ISO 639 language code.
`dataQuestion`	string	—	Specific benchmarking question or metric being sought.

Tools References

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🔧 Parameters#

fetch_metadata#

fetch_sections#

search_industry#

search_industry_region#

search_company#

search_business_environment#

search_procurement#

search_segment_benchmark#