// USE CASE · DATA & ANALYTICS

Automate public-data pipelines with AI agentsthat validate every pull before it ships.

Census, BLS, and CDC numbers live in five agency portals with five different query languages, and most teams still copy them into a spreadsheet by hand every reporting cycle. Melaya's research_team crew schedules the pull, DataScientist queries the agency APIs directly, and every extraction runs through JSON and CSV validation before it lands in a shared database. MarketAnalyst adds the market read on top, and cross-run memory carries forward what last week's pull found, so the same report never gets rebuilt from scratch.

01
// What breaks today

Manual workflows cost more than the agent does.

Three pains every sales and BD team hits weekly. Each one is what your reps actually complain about, not what a feature page would call them.

  1. 01

    Pulls Census, BLS, and CDC numbers into a spreadsheet by hand every reporting cycle, one agency portal at a time.

  2. 02

    Re-writes the same SoQL, series-ID, or geography query every time a public dataset refreshes.

  3. 03

    Validates messy CSV and JSON exports from government agencies before anything downstream can trust them.

  4. 04

    Cross-references trade, employment, and macro datasets that live in five agencies with five different query languages.

  5. 05

    Builds a one-off chart or export instead of a pipeline that runs the same way next month.

02
// Pipelines you can build

Agent workflows: compose, approve, replay.

Every pipeline below is a shape you wire on the canvas using the crew and tools further down. Not a feature we ship for you, a pattern you configure.

P01

Public economic-indicator pull

DataScientist schedules a pull of Census ACS5 demographics alongside BLS employment and CPI series, and lands the result in a shared database instead of a local download folder. MarketAnalyst adds the market read on top of the same numbers.

P02

Public-health signal monitoring

DataScientist queries CDC's Socrata-backed datasets, such as weekly flu activity or overdose death rates by state, on a schedule, and profiles the output before it reaches a dashboard. No API key is required for CDC; a free Socrata app token just raises the rate limit.

P03

Trade and energy-macro cross-reference

DataScientist blends UN Comtrade trade-flow data with FRED macro series and EIA oil and gas benchmark prices into one cross-agency dataset, instead of three separate exports stitched together by hand.

P04

Validate before it ships

Every extraction runs through JSON and CSV validation and a quick statistical profile before it lands in the database, so a malformed agency export never silently corrupts the report downstream.

P05

Scheduled report, no manual re-run

The same pipeline runs on a cron trigger inside Melaya Agents, MarketAnalyst summarizes what changed since last run, and a human analyst reads the output in Melaya Assistant instead of re-running five separate agency queries by hand. Cross-run memory carries forward what last week's pull found.

03
// The multi-agent crew

Public-data analyst crew

Real personas from the research_team crew. Each ships with a tuned system prompt and a default tool allowlist. Swap models per persona on the canvas.

Data Scientist

DataScientist

Proposes new features with a formula, data source, decay half life, pseudo code, and a statistical test design that an engineer can implement the same day.

Market Analyst

MarketAnalyst

Builds the market structure brief with funding rates, open interest, on-chain flows, and a stated bullish, bearish, or neutral regime call with named risks.

04
// Scoped tools

Tool allowlists: only the actions you grant.

Every tool below is a real shared tool from the Melaya bundle. Allowlist per agent; HITL-gate the writes; revoke any of them in one click.

shared/tools/census_tools/

Pull ACS5 demographics and population estimates. A free Census API key unlocks the full daily quota; anonymous calls cap at 500 a day per IP.

census_acs5census_population_estimates
shared/tools/bls_tools/

Query single or multiple BLS employment and CPI series by series id. Works without a key at reduced limits.

bls_seriesbls_series_multi
shared/tools/cdc_tools/

Search and query CDC's Socrata-backed public-health datasets, like weekly flu activity or overdose death rates by state. No credentials required for standard volume.

cdc_search_datasetscdc_query_datasetcdc_dataset_metadata
shared/tools/comtrade_tools/

Pulls UN Comtrade trade-flow data by partner and product.

comtrade_tradecomtrade_top_partners
shared/tools/fred_tools/

Cross-checks the macro backdrop against FRED series.

fred_series_observations
shared/tools/eia_tools/

Pulls EIA oil and gas benchmark prices.

eia_serieseia_wti_brent_spot
shared/tools/data_utils/

Validate every extraction with JSON and CSV linting and a statistical profile before it lands downstream, so a malformed agency export never silently corrupts a report.

json_validatecsv_lintdf_describe
shared/tools/database/

Land the validated pull in a shared table instead of a local download folder. sql_query and sql_schema are scoped per agent.

sql_querysql_schemasql_export_csv
shared/tools/core/

Run the pipeline on a cron trigger and post the summary to Slack once MarketAnalyst summarizes what changed.

slack_post_text
05
// Three knowledge layers

The crew reads what you give it.

Every pipeline ships with three layers of knowledge access. Mix and match per agent on the canvas. No shared vector space with another tenant, no surprise reads, no opaque retrieval.

L1

Static context

includeContext

Per-pipeline documents appended to specific agents' input on every run. The ICP brief, playbook, pricing sheet, or won-deal email corpus. Whatever needs to be there before the agent thinks. You pick which personas get which docs.

L2

RAG retrieval tool

rag_retrieve

A scoped tool granted per-agent. When the agent decides it needs more depth, it queries the workflow's vector store on demand. Same knowledge base as Static context, accessed only when the model asks for it.

L3

Cross-run memory

pipeline_memory

Pipeline-level state that carries from one run to the next. Yesterday's research is in scope for today's follow-up. The crew remembers what it already prospected, what got approved, what was sent. The audit log is the second-order knowledge base.

07
// FAQ

AI agent questions we get every week.

Is there a dedicated crew for pulling Census, BLS, or CDC data?

Not yet as a named crew. Melaya's research_team crew, specifically the DataScientist and MarketAnalyst personas, drives these pulls today; a dedicated data_team crew is not shipped.

Can agents validate messy CSV or JSON exports from government agencies before I trust them?

Yes. Every pull runs through csv_lint, json_validate, and df_describe before it lands anywhere downstream, so a malformed field gets caught before it corrupts a report.

How current is the Census data Melaya's agents can pull?

The ACS 5-year endpoint defaults to the latest released vintage; 2020/2010 Decennial and annual Population Estimates are also available. A free Census API key unlocks the full daily quota (anonymous calls cap at 500/day per IP).

Can I combine BLS employment data with CDC health data in one report?

Yes. Both are separate tool calls (bls_series, cdc_query_dataset) that a single pipeline can call in sequence and land in one shared table.

Do these public-data pulls need an API key?

It varies by agency. Census works better with a free key (higher quota), BLS works without one at reduced limits, and CDC needs no credentials at all for standard volume.

Can this run on a schedule so I stop re-pulling data manually?

Yes. The pipeline runs on a cron trigger, webhook, or app event inside Melaya Agents, with every run logged and reviewable.

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