SMM · Shanghai Metals Market · Since 1999
SMM AI Stackfor the metals complex
From copper to lithium — your AI edge, grounded in the price data this market already trades on.
Metrix — your AI analyst on SMM data
Grounded in SMM data, not the open web
Sample questions · across the complex
MCP Data-Feed — plug SMM into your AI
Open standard · no lock-in
One MCP endpoint. Your copilot, bot or agent calls live SMM prices, inventories, margins and news — every answer cited back to the SMM series it came from.
Deep Reports — written by the SMM AI stack
Fast · deep · broad — the whole complex
Copper Value Chain — Outlook to 2030
Negative treatment charges, a green-demand engine and multi-year-low stocks — how copper reprices at record highs.
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Cobalt & the Battery‑Metal Value Chain — Outlook to 2030
DRC’s export quota versus soft near-term demand — how policy, not fundamentals, sets the cobalt floor.
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Tungsten & the Hard‑Metal Value Chain — Outlook to 2030
A quota-locked supply ceiling, scrap as the only elastic tonne and AI/PV demand — the narrow, high, hard-to-fall structure.
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Aluminium & the Light‑Metal Value Chain — Outlook to 2030
The policy capacity ceiling, the alumina cost round-trip and CBAM — how the light-metal chain reprices.
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Lithium & the Battery Value Chain — Outlook to 2030
From spodumene to cells — supply waves, the cost curve and where the battery chain clears.
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Iron Ore & the Ferrous Value Chain — Outlook to 2030
Simandou supply, China’s steel peak and the India–ASEAN pivot — chain economics and scenarios.
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Each report is researched, charted and written end-to-end by the SMM AI stack on SMM data. Custom commodities, geographies and formats on request.
Solutions — deploy, advise, research
SMM’s AI, working inside your business
Deploy a Metrix-like assistant — or a bespoke deep industry-intelligence system — inside your enterprise.
- Runs in your private cloud — your data stays with you
- API & MCP integration with your existing stack
- Custom-trained on your data — branded as your AI
SMM's consulting experts work alongside you, harnessing AI to uncover industry insights together.
- Market sizing by region & chain
- Competitor & asset mapping across the chain
- Deal due-diligence & cost-curve scenarios
Custom research — supply-chain security, decarbonisation & CBAM exposure, demand forecasting — by SMM analysts.
- Custom research on any chain or geography
- Survey-based primary data collection
- Long-term partnership frameworks — weekly, monthly & quarterly delivery
Put the SMM AI Stack to work
A 30-minute call is enough to scope a Metrix rollout, an MCP pilot or a custom report programme for your desk.