O’Reilly Expert Intelligence
The expertise layer embedded in your AI stack
Named experts
Get insights from credentialed authors and instructors.
Precise citations
See the exact supporting passage in one click.
Agent skills
Plug in expert-backed skills to perform specific jobs.
Easy setup
Connect with any MCP-compatible tool.
Expert Intelligence is an organization-wide grounding layer that connects your AI stack to O’Reilly’s repository of practitioner knowledge and provides the skills framework to apply it effectively within your business context.
Expert MCP
Pull context directly from our expert knowledge repository to ground AI tools in vetted information.
Agent skills
Equip your tools with job-specific expertise to perform real-world work reliably.
“18 months ago, it was all about how to get engineers to be more productive, but now it’s about how to get organizations to make better decisions. The engineering tasks are moving away from coding output to planning.”
Decisions grounded in real-world expertise from the start
From the engineer making a call today to the leader standardizing a workflow for the entire organization, your teams can integrate Expert Intelligence with your specific business context to investigate trade-offs, solve problems, identify new opportunities, and make processes more efficient.
Give your favorite AI tool a description of the task you’re trying to complete or the goal you want to achieve, then call on the O’Reilly Expert MCP to get specific guidance and recommendations based on standard frameworks and practitioner insight. Here are just a few ways your teams might use Expert Intelligence.
De-risk a decision
Create a decision brief
Turn a “Should we?” into a memo-ready recommendation grounded in expert consensus.
Forecast project delivery
Surface realistic timelines and delivery risks.
Assess team structure
Diagnose team design issues using expert frameworks.
Defend a design
Compare implementation approaches
Weigh cited trade-offs and see code examples.
Review architecture decisions
Evaluate a system design using expert guidance.
Review a technical proposal
Find gaps in an RFC and generate review questions.
Evaluate security risk
Build a STRIDE threat model and flag overlooked risks.
Ship with confidence
Plan production-ready AI
Get an ML deployment strategy for your team’s needs.
Plan service reliability
Draft SLOs and an error budget policy.
Grow the team
Plan a domain ramp-up
Build a 30-60-90-day plan for a new domain.
Create a learning plan
Set up a learning path for a new role or career move.
Solutions authenticated by citations from named expert practitioners
An answer about a topic isn’t the same as a strategy you can defend to stakeholders or leadership. A general LLM blends everything it’s ever read into one confident voice, with no author, no date, and no way to verify whether the information is accurate. Expert Intelligence returns the specific passage from the expert who said it, with a direct link to the source, contextualized to the work you’re doing.
Expert Intelligence versus generalist AI tools
O’Reilly benchmark · 60 questions from production traffic · Feb 20261
100% of O’Reilly sources name the expert behind them.
Only about a third of sources cited by generalist AI tools name an author at all.
All O’Reilly sources include a confirmed date of publication.
About half of sources cited by generalist AI tools have no date, making the timeliness of content difficult to judge.
Expert Intelligence responses are fully traceable.
1 in 5 claims made by leading AI tools are unsupported by a cited source.
Built to clear security review
The Expert Intelligence connector is a read-only endpoint into O’Reilly’s content, so your code, prompts, and proprietary data stay in your environment. It has no write access to your systems and pulls nothing from them unless your agent explicitly includes it in a prompt. We only get the context we need to respond, and the connector only ever retrieves content from the O’Reilly platform.
A single read-only endpoint is a contained security review. Bring your team the data-handling summary up front and keep the evaluation moving.
Keep your existing SSO and governance
SSO and SAML apply exactly as in your platform agreement. Configure once at the org level; access maps to the identity controls your security team already approved.
Join as a founding member
Flat fee
for 12 months
Uncapped
usage across your whole organization
Access
for every employee, per-seat licensing
As a founding member, you’ll get early access to Expert Intelligence and a direct line to the O’Reilly team. You’ll see it run on your own decisions first, and your real-world use and feedback will shape the product, roadmap, and what comes next.
Will it actually get used? Expert Intelligence lives inside the AI tools your engineers already work in, so there’s no new platform to adopt. And the flat price means no one gets locked out: Every employee has access from day one. Setup and adoption support is included to get your teams to value fast.
