Pull a comparable-market analysis by NAICS code with research_brief

Size a requirement from past contracts

Once you find a US notice, the next questions are usually what similar work has cost, how many companies bid, and who won it. US contract records are public on USAspending.gov, but collecting the English records by industry code and summarizing them takes work.

Hashike summarizes past US federal contracts performed in Japan by NAICS (industry) code or PSC (product and service) code, as a comparable-market analysis. research_brief returns that analysis over MCP, so an AI assistant such as Claude can call it. With one code in hand, you can have your assistant summarize typical award values, competition and the suppliers involved, and trace each figure back to its population.

What research_brief returns

The result is aggregates. Each figure carries a populationId naming the set of comparable contracts it counted.

• ·populations: how the comparable set was defined, with the code, place of performance, activity window, award types and counts.
• ·awardValue: the award-value distribution, with the median, quartiles, maximum and the share of total value held by the largest tenth of awards.
• ·competition: reported offer counts, including the share of awards that drew a single offer and the recorded extent of competition.
• ·supplierConcentrationByValue and buyerConcentration: how concentrated the suppliers and the buying offices are.
• ·demand and annualTrend: how often comparable awards occur, and the year-by-year pattern.
• ·recurrence and geography: suppliers that win repeatedly, and where suppliers are located.
• ·quality and questions: gaps and skews in the data, and open questions the records cannot answer.

Individual award records come back only when includeSampleAwards is true, and they are then metered as records.

Call the tool

1. Find the NAICS or PSC code for the work. Hashike's notice pages show the codes each notice lists.
2. Add Hashike to your AI assistant as an MCP connector by following the developer page (/developers/mcp). To call it from a script, create an API key instead.
3. Put your code into the request below and give it to your assistant, or send the request in the code block. Either naics or psc is required.
4. If the result is no_precomputed_brief, Hashike has not computed an analysis for that code yet. It does not mean no comparable contracts exist.
5. When you read the assistant's answer, check the populationId and count behind each figure. Every amount is obligated US dollars, not a contract ceiling.

Use the Hashike research_brief tool for NAICS <NAICS code>. Summarize the median award value and the interquartile range, the share of awards that drew a single offer, supplier concentration and how often comparable awards occur. Name the population behind each figure, keep every amount in US dollars, and list the data-quality notes and open questions the brief gives.

curl -X POST https://hashike.io/api/mcp \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"<request id>","method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"research_brief","arguments":{"naics":"<NAICS code>"}}}'

API and MCP access is metered against a plan allowance, and every response states what is left.

What the analysis cannot tell you

• ·Offer counts exist only for the subset of awards whose detail record Hashike fetched, so the competition population is smaller than the full set.
• ·Past patterns do not set the terms or outcome of the next notice. The SAM.gov original holds a notice's binding terms.
• ·Dollar figures cannot be added to or compared with Japanese central-government award values in yen.