Live Australian vegetable prices, grow-or-buy numbers, and what-to-plant-now data, fed straight to an AI assistant. One connection, real data, updated every day.
https://mcp.help4bis.comIf you have ever asked an AI assistant a question and got an answer that was out of date, this fixes that for one topic: Australian home gardening and veg prices.
AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude are good at writing and explaining. But they have a weak spot. They do not know today's facts. They cannot tell you what a kilo of tomatoes costs at Coles this week, or whether it is the right week to plant carrots in Brisbane. That information was never in their training, and it changes all the time.
An MCP server fixes that. MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. Think of it as a power point on the wall, but for data. It is a standard shape of plug. Any AI assistant that knows the shape can plug in and pull fresh facts when it needs them.
We built this service, we run it, and we keep the data fresh. You connect your AI assistant to it with a key. The AI does the talking. We do the facts.
Anyone building something with an AI assistant who needs real Australian garden and grocery data inside it.
App and tool builders
You are building a garden app, a meal planner, or a budgeting tool with an AI inside it. You want it to know real prices and planting dates without scraping the data yourself.
AI agent makers
You build AI agents that do tasks for people. A "plan my garden" agent or a "save money on groceries" agent needs live local data to be any good.
Researchers and writers
You need Australian veg price history or planting data, and you would rather ask one clean service than gather it the hard way.
Each tool is one job the AI can ask us to do. The names in green are the exact tool names. The bold line is what it does in plain English.
Today's price for a vegetable.
Gives the average price per kilo across the supermarkets, the price at each one, and how much it has changed in the last 30 days.
Ask: "What does broccoli cost right now?"
The price trend over time.
Gives the daily average price going back up to a year. Good for answering "is this cheaper or dearer than usual?"
Ask: "Are tomatoes a good buy this week, or wait?"
What you can plant this month.
Give it a postcode or climate zone. It lists the vegetables you can plant now, and whether to sow seeds, plant seedlings, or start in trays.
Ask: "What can I plant in postcode 4521 this month?"
Is it worth growing instead of buying?
Takes the live shop price, the amount one plant gives, and the seed cost, then works out the dollar value of growing it yourself.
Ask: "Is it worth growing my own capsicum?"
The best-value things to plant right now.
Crosses "what you can plant this month" with "what is dear at the shops". The top of the list is expensive to buy and plantable today. No other data service does this.
Ask: "What are the smartest things to plant in Brisbane right now?"
Pests on the rise near you.
For a postcode, it lists the pests whose risk is up over the next seven days, worked out from the weather and the forecast.
Ask: "What pests should I watch for at my place?"
Frost and weather for planting calls.
Gives the current weather and the forecast for a postcode, so the AI can warn you before you plant something a frost would kill.
Ask: "Is it safe to plant out my seedlings this week?"
The tools are only as good as the data underneath. Here is what is under the bonnet, and it is real.
One honest note. The pest and frost tools rely on weather and forecast data, and pest coverage is strongest for supported postcodes. Where we do not have the data for a spot, the tool says so plainly instead of guessing. We would rather give you nothing than give you a made-up answer.
If you can use an MCP-ready AI assistant or build with one, connecting takes a few minutes.
https://mcp.help4bis.com. You add it as an MCP server in your AI tool and paste your key in the header.For builders, the key goes in a standard header, like this:
Authorization: Bearer your-key-here POST https://mcp.help4bis.com/mcp
If that line means nothing to you, do not worry. It is for developers. Most people just paste the address and the key into their AI tool's settings and it works.
You pick a plan by how many calls a month you need. One "call" is one question your AI sends to one tool.
| Plan | Calls per month | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| Trial | 100 | Trying it out and testing your setup |
| Casual | 2,000 | A small app or a personal project |
| Standard | 20,000 | A live app with real users |
| Pro | 100,000 | A busy product or a team of agents |
Prices are set per plan. To get a key and the current price for the plan you want, send us a quick message and tell us roughly how you plan to use it. We will set you up.
No, not to use it. If your AI tool supports MCP servers, you paste in the address and your key. Building a whole app around it does take some coding, but using the service does not.
The prices update every day. When your AI asks for a price, it gets the most recent one we have, not an old guess. The planting dates are seasonal and the weather is current.
Yes. The prices are from Australian supermarkets and the planting calendar uses Australian climate zones. It is built for here, on purpose.
The service pauses your key for the rest of the month rather than charging you a surprise bill. You can move up a plan any time.
HELP4BIS, a Brisbane business that has been collecting this data daily and running the systems for years. The same data powers our own gardening website, so it is data we use ourselves, not a side experiment.