GCC Index Plans — Intelligence for GCC Teams

A signal is any GCC-related announcement — a new India entity being set up, an expansion of an existing GCC, or a significant hiring initiative. Each signal goes through automated extraction, LLM enrichment, a confidence scoring pass, and manual review before it appears in the index. We only count events we can verify with a source.

The event feed is updated daily. New articles are processed through the pipeline and validated events are reflected in city scores within 24 hours. AI insights are generated weekly (Sunday batch). A monthly intelligence report — covering city leaders, sector trends, intent signals, and top deals — is published on the 1st of each month.

We currently track GCC activity across 5 major hubs: Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai, and Mumbai. Sign up for Starter (free) to unlock full deep-dives across all 5 cities. We plan to expand city coverage in 2026.

CMI stands for GCC Capability Momentum Index — our proprietary city scoring formula. It weights each validated event by event type (new GCC, expansion), headcount announced, confidence in the source, sector, strategic intent, and recency decay. Higher scores mean more active, higher-quality GCC momentum in that city. The formula is designed to reflect business significance, not just event volume.

Yes. Starter access requires only a work email — no credit card, no trial period. We offer it free because we believe the depth of the data creates its own value, and the people who get the most out of it will eventually want Pro features (cross-city event intelligence, city comparison, API). That's the monetisation model.

The API is available to Pro users via an API key provisioned after account upgrade. It supports querying validated events, city rankings, sector breakdowns, monthly trend data, and AI insights. Rate limit is 60 requests/minute. Documentation is available at /api after you're onboarded.

Pipeline Intelligence tracks companies before they confirm a GCC — MoUs signed, intent announced, companies in talks, and leadership appointments. These are early signals that don't yet affect the City Index but give strategy teams and consultants a view of what's coming. When a speculative signal gets independently confirmed, it automatically graduates into the main validated event feed. Pipeline Intelligence is available exclusively on Pro.

Ask the Index is a natural-language Q&A interface available to Pro users. You can ask questions like "Which city had the most BFSI GCC expansion in 2025?" or "Compare Hyderabad and Chennai for a FinTech GCC setup" and get plain-English answers grounded in our verified event database — not the open web. Answers draw exclusively from validated GCC events and AI-generated insights indexed by GCC Index, so you can trust the output without worrying about hallucination. You can also filter by city or sector to narrow the context.

Starter users can reference and cite GCC Index data in reports with attribution. Pro users can pull data programmatically via the REST API for custom integrations and workflows. If you need white-label or custom data packaging, contact us.