# IKAG: tools and data for your AI, pay per call > IKAG (I Know A Guy) is building one connection that gives the AI apps and agents people already use paid tools and data they can’t reach on their own, such as lead data, AI video and web data, paid per call instead of a subscription to each service. IKAG is opening to early users and data partners first. Its first tool covers company legal identity from official registries. - URL: https://ikag.dev/ - Status: IKAG is opening to early users and data partners first. - Updated: 2026-10-18 ## Now your AI knows a guy. IKAG gives the AI you already use the tools and data it can’t reach on its own. Leads, AI video, web data and more. Pay per call. No subscriptions. Made for the AI you already use: ChatGPT, Grok Bot, Muse, Claude, Cursor, Codex and more. ## How it works - Your AI can already do a lot. - But it can only use what you’ve paid for. - So you pay monthly for tools you barely use. - Unless your AI knows a guy. - Now it calls the tools it needs. - And you pay per call. Not per month. What your AI already does on its own: write, browse, book, email, code, plan, shop, research, summarise, translate. What it can’t reach without a plan for each: lead data, AI video, social media, company records, local businesses, web data. With IKAG, each of those is paid per call instead. ## Ask for the hard stuff. The things your AI could never get before. Plain words in, real work out. Your AI calls the tool a request needs, and you pay for that call. - **Find leads** (lead data, for founders and sales). Businesses and decision makers in your niche, with their work contact details. For example: “Find 40 dentists in Bristol, with their work contact details.” - **Make AI video in bulk** (AI video, for marketers and creators). Twenty takes on one ad, without a subscription to an AI video app. For example: “Turn this product page into 20 vertical 15-second ads, each with a different hook.” - **Hear what people are saying** (social media, for brands and founders). This week’s posts and comments about you, your rivals or a trend. For example: “What are people saying about us on TikTok, X and Reddit since Monday?” - **Check any company** (company records, for finance, sales and anyone careful). Official registry records, so your AI doesn’t guess who a company is. For example: “Is Apple Inc. still an active company? Check the official records.” - **List local businesses** (local businesses, for agencies and local sellers). Every business of a kind in a town, with ratings, reviews and websites, in a sheet. For example: “Every independent gym in Manchester rated under 4.2, with their website and review count, in a sheet.” - **Pull data from the web** (web data, for research and operations). Pages from across the web, read and turned into a table. For example: “Read my 12 competitors’ pricing pages and put their plans in a table.” ## Stop paying monthly for tools you use twice. Lead data, AI video, a web scraper: each is its own subscription, and most months you use a fraction of each. The newest agents, like ChatGPT Dots, Grok Bot and Meta Muse, bring no paid data of their own, so they lean on the plans you already pay for. IKAG is designed so your AI pays per call instead. Your AI this month (illustrative): Lead data, 1 call; AI video, 1 call; Web data, 2 calls; monthly plans: none. A direction, not final terms. No prices have been set. 36% of the software licences companies pay for go unused, on average. Source: [Zylo, 2026 SaaS Management Index](https://zylo.com/news/2026-saas-management-index). Like a payphone: you pay for the call, not the contract. - **Quoted first.** See what a call would cost before it runs, and set a limit it can’t pass. - **Itemised.** Each call is listed on your receipt, with the tool it used. - **Your own key, your own plan.** Connect your own provider account and that provider’s plan and charges still apply. IKAG may charge separately for its part. No prices or terms have been set; they’ll be published before IKAG charges anyone. ## Building an agent? It can know a guy too. IKAG is built to work as an MCP server or over HTTP. Your agent finds the tool a task needs, gets a quote, runs the call and gets back what it cost and where the data came from. - **Five MCP tools.** Discover, quote, execute, run and read a run. The same five in every client. - **Quoted first.** Every paid call is quoted before it runs, against a limit you set. - **Receipts with sources.** Each call returns what it cost and where its data came from. An illustrative session. The company values are real, from IKAG’s first tool run offline against public records. [Read the builder’s guide](https://ikag.dev/agents) ## Got an API or a dataset? Let AI agents call it. For data partners. We’re talking with data and API providers now about early pilots. Through IKAG, AI agents would call your API, metered per call, on terms we agree together. - New customers, through the AI apps they already use - Free distribution: no fee to be listed - One integration, built and maintained by IKAG [Start a conversation](https://ikag.dev/partners) · [Why partner with IKAG](https://ikag.dev/partners) ## Straight answers. ### What is IKAG? IKAG (I Know A Guy) is building one connection that gives the AI apps and agents people already use paid tools and data they can’t reach on their own, such as lead data, AI video and web data, paid per call instead of a subscription to each service. It is not an AI model or an assistant: the AI you already use calls it. IKAG is opening to early users and data partners first. ### Can I use IKAG now? IKAG is opening to early users and data partners first. Its first tool, company records from official registries, already runs inside IKAG. Join the early-access list and we’ll email you when your place opens. ### Who is IKAG for? People who get a lot done with AI: AI power users, vibe coders and anyone building apps, automations or agents, whether or not they write code. Developers will also be able to use it through an API. ### Why would I need IKAG if I already use ChatGPT or Claude? Your assistant is smart, but many useful tools sit behind separate accounts, API keys and subscriptions: lead databases, video models, scrapers and data services. IKAG is being built so your AI can use them through one connection and pay per call. It is being built to work alongside your assistant, not to replace it. ### What will my AI be able to do with it? First, check a company’s legal identity from official registries: the GLEIF LEI register and SEC EDGAR, with Wikidata as supporting evidence. Next: lead and work contact data, web pages and search, maps and local business listings, social media data, jobs, and image, video and voice models. No provider is named until one is agreed. ### Do I need to know how to code? You shouldn’t need to. You connect IKAG once to the AI app you use, then ask for what you need in plain words. Developers will also get an API and SDKs. ### Will IKAG work with ChatGPT, Claude or other assistants? Yes, that’s what it’s built for. IKAG connects through MCP, an open standard that ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Cursor and many other apps support, and through an API for developers. What each app allows depends on its plan and settings. ### How will it work? Once IKAG is connected, you ask your AI for something in plain words. When it needs a tool, it asks IKAG. IKAG picks a provider that can do the job and whose terms allow the use, checks the price, makes the call and returns the result with what it cost and where the data came from. ### How will pricing work? Pay per call. For the tools IKAG manages, you would see a quote before a call runs and pay only for the calls your AI makes, with no subscription to each service. If you connect your own provider account, that provider’s plan and charges still apply, and IKAG may charge separately for its part. Whether calls to public sources will carry an IKAG charge is not decided. No prices have been set; they will be published before IKAG charges anyone. ### Does IKAG make AI answers correct? No. Tools and sources can be wrong or out of date. IKAG returns where each result came from and, when the source says, when it was last updated, so you or your AI can check. When sources disagree or do not settle a question, it says so instead of guessing. ### Can data providers work with IKAG? We are exploring early pilots with data and API providers. Terms, rights and test access are agreed before any integration. The partners page explains what a pilot involves. Send an enquiry from the partners page. ### What does IKAG stand for? I Know A Guy. When you need something done, it helps to know someone who knows who to ask. IKAG wants to be that someone, for your AI: it knows a guy for leads, a guy for video, a guy for the web, and more. IKAG at ikag.dev is not connected with other businesses that use the same name. ## Introduce your AI to a guy. IKAG is opening to early users and data partners first. Join the early-access list and we’ll email you when your place opens. Join at https://ikag.dev/#early-access.