Valona Intelligence today announced the launch of its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, an open standard that enables AI systems to connect to external data sources. This integration makes Valona's market and competitive intelligence available directly inside Microsoft Copilot, Claude, and other enterprise AI tools and agent frameworks.
AI Advantage Lies in Data Quality
According to McKinsey's 2026 research, nearly nine in ten organizations now use AI, but most deploy similar models to improve productivity. The competitive edge now depends on the quality of data provided to AI systems.
"The competitive advantage does not come from having AI. It comes from what the AI has to work with," said Stuart Reynish, Chief Product Officer at Valona. "Valona’s MCP server gives enterprise AI direct access to the market and competitive analysis it needs, continuously updated and ready to use. Regenerating the same analysis from scratch every time is expensive and inconsistent. The intelligence behind every decision should be validated, current, and ready to act on."
Always-On Intelligence for Strategic Decisions
Strategic decision-making is shifting from periodic research cycles to always-on intelligence. Rather than asking AI agents to reconstruct analysis from raw data each time, Valona's MCP server provides a continuously built, curated, and maintained foundation. The analysis is already available when the agent needs it.
"The intelligence layer is the hardest part to get right. We have spent two decades building it. MCP is how we make it available across the enterprise AI tools our customers are already using, and increasingly, as part of broader AI ecosystems they are actively building," said Eetu Laaksonen, Chief AI Officer at Valona.
"We are seeing this demand move up the priority ladder. We are now in conversations with IT and senior leadership alongside CMI teams, because organization-wide intelligence is becoming a strategic decision. What we are hearing from customers is that they want intelligence that finds them, rather than having to know where to look for it," he added.
A select group of enterprise customers are piloting the Valona MCP server in Copilot and agent-based environments. Valona will demonstrate the capability at its webinar, What Agentic AI Means for Competitive Intelligence, on June 24.
About Valona Intelligence
Valona Intelligence is the number one competitive and market intelligence platform for global enterprises. Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant and Forrester Wave for Competitive and Market Intelligence Platforms, it has been trusted by Fortune 500 companies since 1999. Valona's AI-powered platform monitors global markets across more than 200,000 verified sources, delivering real-time analysis of competitor moves, market trends, and regulatory developments.
