Wait, you can just ask Claude for economic stats now? The Economic Index connector arrives!

Hi everyone, it's me, and I'm so excited today! I get to tell you about being able to ask Claude directly for economic data — this is exactly the kind of news that gets me pumped. Let's dive in!

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What was announced?

According to Anthropic's News, a new connector called the Anthropic Economic Index connector is now available on claude.ai. It gives Claude direct access to data from the Anthropic Economic Index — data on how AI is actually being used across different jobs and industries. The big idea here is to take data that researchers, journalists, and policymakers have relied on, and make it easy for anyone to ask about through claude.ai.

The story so far

The Anthropic Economic Index datasets themselves have already been freely available on Anthropic's website. But getting an answer out of them meant digging through the data and interpreting it yourself. Researchers, journalists, and policymakers could put in that time, but for everyone else, that was a real barrier.

What changes

You can enable the connector from claude.ai's connector menu — no installation needed — and it works across every Claude model. From there, you can just ask natural questions grounded in Index data, like "How much is AI used in this occupation?" or "How is Claude used in this region?" Claude answers based on the Index data and can show you the underlying dataset behind its answer.

Dive Deep

Here's the kind of thing you can ask the connector about.

• How frequently AI is used within a given occupation
• Regional Claude usage patterns, such as in Colorado
• Task-specific applications for a given profession, like teachers
• Automation trends and year-over-year changes

One thing to keep in mind: this data reflects Claude usage patterns specifically, not the broader labor market. Claude gives you context about that limitation as you explore the data. The full datasets remain freely available on Anthropic's website too, so you can use both together.

Wrap-up

Here's a recap.

• The Anthropic Economic Index connector is now available on claude.ai
• No installation needed — just enable it from the connector menu
• You can ask natural-language questions about occupational AI usage and regional patterns
• Answers are grounded in Index data, and you can see the underlying dataset
• It reflects Claude usage patterns specifically, not the whole labor market, so keep that in mind

If you've been curious about how AI is actually being used across different jobs, go enable the connector and start asking your own questions!