Artificial Intelligence, Built into IMPLAN
As the way you work evolves, so does IMPLAN. Now you can get defensible economic answers in plain language through AI integration with IMPLAN Intelligence.
The Same Models & Data, Now Explorable In Plain Language
We’ve brought AI into IMPLAN with IMPLAN Intelligence, a suite built so you can work faster without giving up rigor. It spans three features: AI Connect, which brings IMPLAN’s models into the AI tools you already use; AI Summary, which turns results into an audience-ready narrative in a click; and AI Conversational Analytics, which lets you explore the Data Library in plain language. Whichever you reach for, every result runs through IMPLAN’s structural input-output models and traces back to source, so an AI-drafted answer carries the same authority as one built by hand in IMPLAN Cloud.
Our Four Principles of AI in IMPLAN
Grounded, not generated
Every number comes from IMPLAN’s models and datapoints, never a language model’s guess.
Deterministic results
Answers come from real IMPLAN calculations. Ask twice, get the same defensible number.
Zero credential exposure
Pass-through authentication keeps your credentials and entitlements inside IMPLAN; nothing is copied, stored, or shared externally.
100% opt-in
Every AI feature is clearly labeled and off until you turn it on in your profile.
What Used to Take an Analyst a Week, Takes a Sentence
Government relations, corporate affairs, and strategy teams are asked for defensible economic answers in minutes. IMPLAN’s Intelligence features meet that pace without trading away the rigor your stakeholders expect.
Minutes, not weeks
Go from a plain-language question to board-ready impact numbers without a modeling session. What once took an analyst days now happens while you’re still in the meeting.
Zero code
A one-click connection, no integration project and no engineering ticket. If you can ask a question, you can run an analysis.
Full provenance
Every figure traces back to its model, geography, and data vintage. Nothing is a black box, so your results are audit-ready and defensible the moment someone asks where the data came from.
Explore IMPLAN Intelligence Features
AI Connect
A secure, one-click MCP Server connection that gives your AI tools direct access to IMPLAN’s real models and data with no integration project and no code. Ask economic questions in Claude, (Gemini, ChatGPT, and Copilot coming soon) and get IMPLAN-grade results back in your workflow:
- Map messy business data into IMPLAN-ready analyses, then build and run projects by prompt
- Generate everything from one-pagers to presentations and detailed reports without leaving your AI tool
- All projects and analyses created via LLMs are also accessible in the web application
- Pass-through authentication; credentials never leave IMPLAN
AI Summary
Turn analysis results into an audience-ready narrative in a click. AI Summary reads your project’s key economic indicators and tax results and drafts a custom abstract you can tune and export grounded strictly in your own results, so there’s nothing to fact-check:
- Adjust tone, depth, and focus for a board, a funder, or the public
- Export documents and presentations
- Now supports Green Energy guided projects and International & Canada geographies
- Included with all IMPLAN subscriptions
AI Conversational Analytics
Talk to the Data Library in plain language. Ask a question and get answers back as tables, written summaries, and charts- no dashboard-hunting, no query syntax. A faster way to explore and understand the data behind your analysis.
- Plain-text questions, structured answers
- Available now for Industry data, with more data areas to follow
- Find it under the Conversational Analytics menu in Data Library
Ready to See it in Action?
Bring the gold standard in economic impact analysis into the AI tools your team already works in.