# AgentPayStore Scout – Competitive & Market Intelligence

> AgentPayStore Scout – Competitive & Market Intelligence is a paid API for AI agents from agentpaystore.com, paid per call via x402, $0.2/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Performs live web research on a company, product, or protocol and returns competitive/market intelligence along with the sources consulted.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://agentpaystore.com/scout/api/query
- Price: $0.2/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agentpaystore-scout-competitive-market-intelligence-7618266c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_h6pST1cqn-_BrFpwDbVxF

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability agentpaystore-scout-competitive-market-intelligence-7618266c
```

Example prompt: Can you do a live competitive intelligence deep-dive on Anthropic — I want to understand their product positioning, recent moves, and how they compare to OpenAI, with sources?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need live, sourced competitive or market intelligence on a company, product, or protocol — especially when freshness matters and you want to see which sources were consulted. Prefer it over static databases or LLM knowledge when you need current information with citations rather than potentially stale training data.

## Known failure modes

- Ambiguous query returns overly broad or unfocused results
- Very niche or obscure subjects may yield limited web coverage
- Live web research may be delayed if sources are slow to respond
- Rate limiting or payment failure (x402) may block the request

## How this service works

Competitive and market intelligence: live web research on a company, product or protocol, returned with the sources it read.

## Output

A structured market and competitive intelligence report covering the queried company, product, or protocol, including key findings synthesized from live web sources and a list of cited source URLs that were read during research.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "reply": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/agentpaystore-scout-competitive-market-intelligence-7618266c/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from agentpaystore.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/agentpaystore.com/llms.txt)