One picture. Two windows.
Essence Live is built for your eyes. Connect gives Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot and your own systems the same assessed picture — not another summary, but the structure behind it.
El Obeid is surrounded by the RSF, putting its 500,000 residents — including 105,000 displaced persons — in acute danger (Source: aljazeera.com).
- 27 drone strikes in June — highest month since the conflict began (bbc.co.uk)
- 11,000+ fled in the last two weeks
19 independent origins · 71% Tier A/B
Your AI does not receive another summary. It receives the structure behind the assessment.
Your AI can retrieve information.
That is not the same as understanding a situation.
A search result shows what has been published. It does not automatically distinguish original reporting from repetition, observation from inference, or likely developments from dangerous ones.
Essence adds the missing structure — source independence, evidence status, actor intent and capability, trajectories and indicators, confidence and intelligence gaps. Connect makes that structure available to your systems.
Not a second product. A second window.
Essence Live and Essence Connect do not produce two different answers. They read from the same assessed picture.
Different interfaces. One assessed picture.
What your AI receives.
Transparent tiers and track records — including habits and blind spots.
Twenty copied articles do not become twenty confirmations.
Every claim carries its label.
Conflicting claims stay visible instead of being averaged away.
The system says what it cannot answer yet.
Brief like an analyst.
Essence selects the appropriate tools and depth on its own. The result stays structured, sourced and explicit about uncertainty.
Connected in minutes.
Add a custom connector and sign in with your Essence account. OAuth — no key required.
https://api.get-essence.com/api/partner/v1/mcp
Same MCP endpoint with an API key. Free account at
app.get-essence.com/signup —
every account starts with 1,200 free credits.
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MCP for agent workflows — or plain REST (docs) for direct application integration.
Pay for depth, not tokens.
A quick orientation costs one credit. A decision-grade judgment costs ten. Deep analyses cost more because they activate deeper analytical workflows. 1 credit = €0.01 · no subscription · credits don’t expire.
Event search & cards, country briefings, escalation series, actor networks, source trust, coverage.
One situation question → one assembled, current briefing.
Auditable judgment: labeled evidence, contradictions, 30-day indicators, decision rules, computed confidence.
Full source matrix · causal trajectories & scenarios · multi-agent claim verification against current public reporting and the Essence evidence corpus.
More depth only when the question requires it.
Top-ups, not tariffs — buy credits when you need depth.
- For analysts
- Visual exploration
- Subscription access
- For systems
- MCP & REST
- Credit-based access
Institutional access (teams, invoicing, data-processing agreements): [email protected]
Let your system see what the analyst sees.
Start with the live picture. Then connect the same assessed intelligence to the systems where decisions already happen.
Current situation. Structured evidence. Explicit uncertainty.