Frequently asked questions

ipto.ai is a private-data MCP: agent-first retrieval infrastructure for private, licensed, and proprietary data that agents cannot scrape from the public web. It turns private multimodal data into agent-consumable retrieval units and operates the retrieval, pricing, trust, and audit layer so data owners earn revenue when AI agents use their data.

Web-search MCPs retrieve the public internet. ipto.ai retrieves data behind permission — priced per query, with provenance and audit on every result. It is the private-data counterpart used alongside web search, not a replacement for it. The strongest enterprise agents pair one web-search MCP with ipto.ai for private data.

It is not a web-search engine, a scraper, or a vector database. It is the commercial and compliance layer between data owners and the AI agents that consume their data.

A retrieval unit is a compact, structured data object optimized for agent consumption. It contains facts, entities, dates, obligations, confidence scores, provenance, and pricing metadata — not just raw text. Agents consume units, not blob chunks.

Every ipto.ai result carries provenance: the source document, section, page, a cryptographic hash, and a timestamp. Agents can cite exactly what they used, and data owners can audit every retrieval.

Pricing is usage-based and metered per retrieval, with the per-query price returned inline on every response. No seat licenses. Data owners set their terms and are paid per retrieval; the raw data stays under their control.

Through a REST API (api.ipto.ai) and an MCP server, so any MCP-compatible agent — Claude, Cursor, LangGraph, or a custom agent — can register ipto.ai as a tool.

Access is enforced at the query layer with scoped API keys and dataset allow-lists — agents see only the datasets they are granted. Every retrieval is metered and logged for a full audit trail.

ipto.ai serves financial services, legal, and healthcare use cases where citation-grade accuracy and auditability matter. Access controls, provenance, and audit logs are designed to make proprietary data safe to expose to autonomous systems.

ipto.ai is built by IPTO AI Pte. Ltd., incorporated in Singapore and operating globally.