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Alternative Asset & Luxury Market Intelligence, now in Claude

Ask Claude about verified auction and private-sale prices across luxury watches, jewelry, handbags, fine art, classic cars, wine, and more. This guide walks you through how it works, how to connect, and what to ask.

See it in Claude
You Using ALT/FNDATA, show the ten highest prices for Patek Philippe watches sold in 2024, with the auction house and date.
Claude calls query_table(table: "watches", filters: sold & designer = Patek Philippe & 2024, sort: usd_price_decimal desc, limit: 10)
**10 results** from `watches` 1. Patek Philippe, Ref. 1518 perpetual calendar chronograph vendor: Christie's sale_date: 2024-11-05 usd_price_decimal: 3,860,000 2. Patek Philippe, Ref. 2499 second series vendor: Sotheby's sale_date: 2024-05-13 usd_price_decimal: 3,200,000 ... eight more, sorted by price

Illustrative shape. Claude reads the schema, runs one read-only query, and answers from real sold-lot rows.

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Server URL for Claude: https://mcp.altfndata.com/mcp

10 Ways to Use ALT/FNDATA in Claude

For appraisers

A basis of value that survives an audit.

Pull documented, cleared comparables for any item, straight from Claude, with the vendor and date behind every line.

  • Real sold lots, not asking prices
  • A citable line for every comp
  • Comp sets that match the piece
  • A read on predictability
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Use cases

What people use ALT/FNDATA in Claude for

Family office

Size and monitor a collection at the market level, and see how liquid each category is.

Hedge-fund analyst

Read auction demand as an alternative signal on a listed brand, tied to its parent ticker.

Wealth advisor

Put a defensible, sourced market range next to a client's passion asset.

Brand strategist

Benchmark a house's resale strength against rivals and spot where demand is rotating.

Appraiser

Pull a clean, dated, sourced comp set into a valuation file in minutes.

Financial journalist

Stand up or knock down a market-trend claim with sold-lot evidence.

Dealer and trader

Price a specific reference and time when to hold or move a segment.

Insurance and risk

Set scheduled values and test claimed values against recent comparable sales.

Go deeper

Overview

How It Works

What MCP is, the three-step flow from question to answer, and why answers are grounded and auditable.

See how it works → Quickstart

Connect in Three Steps

Get a key, add the connector in Claude web, Desktop, or Claude Code, and run your first query.

Open the quickstart → Technical Docs

Full Developer Docs

The connector exactly as it ships: tool parameters, return shapes, auth, plan limits, and error codes.

Read the docs → Use-Case Playbook

More Prompts by Persona

Eight roles and more than twenty copy-paste recipes, each with its output shape and the caveat it carries.

Explore the playbook → Coverage & Methodology

How to Trust an Answer

What the data covers, how fresh it is, USD normalization, and the recency caveat, in full.

Read the methodology →