# AnswerPool Director Interlocks

> AnswerPool Director Interlocks is a paid API for AI agents from answerpool.io, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns a board and officer interlock map for any public company, linking insiders from SEC Forms 3/4/5 to every other issuer they file for with roles on both sides.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://answerpool.io/v1/graph/interlocks
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/answerpool-director-interlocks-83c4db29
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Ra66uEfelqhjgfcIIbrV7

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 answerpool-director-interlocks-83c4db29
```

Example prompt: Show me the director and officer interlock map for Apple — ticker AAPL — looking back over the last 365 days, and return up to 25 linked companies with the shared insiders and their roles on each side.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to resolve cross-company board and officer relationships using SEC ownership filings (Forms 3/4/5) in a single call, replacing manual entity resolution across EDGAR. It is ideal for due diligence, conflict-of-interest screening, corporate network mapping, and investigative research on public companies. Prefer it over general EDGAR full-text search when you specifically need structured interlock data with roles on both sides of the relationship.

## Known failure modes

- Missing both ticker and CIK returns a validation error
- Unknown ticker or CIK not found in SEC data returns empty interlocks array
- Days parameter outside 7–3650 range returns a 422 validation error
- Limit exceeding 100 returns a 422 validation error
- Heuristic entity resolution may miss name variants or produce false positives across similarly-named individuals
- Payment required (402) if x402 micropayment header is not included

## How this service works

AnswerPool turns SEC EDGAR, the Federal Register, USAspending, NIH, BLS and OpenAlex into structured JSON answers that AI agents and developers fetch in one call. 69 endpoints free, no account; derived analyses $0.02–$0.05 per call by card credits or USDC (x402). MCP server, full provenance.

## Output

Returns a structured interlock graph as of a given date, including the target company name and CIK, total count of linked issuers, and an array of linked companies each with their CIK, ticker, company name, and a list of shared persons. Each shared person includes their name, roles at both the source and linked company, and filing metadata derived from SEC Forms 3, 4, and 5.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "title": "InterlocksIn",
     "properties": {
      "cik": {
       "anyOf": [
        {
         "type": "string",
         "pattern": "^\\d{1,10}$",
         "maxLength": 10
        },
        {
         "type": "null"
        }
       ],
       "title": "Cik",
       "default": null,
       "description": "SEC CIK of the target company, 1-10 digits, zero padding optional (e.g. 320193). Provide exactly one of cik or ticker."
      },
      "days": {
       "type": "integer",
       "title": "Days",
       "default": 365,
       "maximum": 3650,
       "minimum": 7,
       "description": "Length in days of the Form 3/4/5 filing-date window ending today; an insider counts as shared only if both companies filed inside it. Default 365."
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "title": "Limit",
       "default": 25,
       "maximum": 100,
       "minimum": 1,
       "description": "Maximum linked companies returned, ordered by count of shared insiders descending then CIK. Default 25."
      },
      "ticker": {
       "anyOf": [
        {
         "type": "string",
         "maxLength": 12
        },
        {
         "type": "null"
        }
       ],
       "title": "Ticker",
       "default": null,
       "description": "US exchange ticker, case-insensitive (e.g. AAPL); resolved through the EDGAR ticker map, and an unknown ticker is an error. Provide exactly one of ticker or cik."
      }
     },
     "additionalProperties": false
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "cik": "0000096223",
  "as_of": "2026-09-02T22:00:00Z",
  "count": 1,
  "company": "JEFFERIES FINANCIAL GROUP INC.",
  "interlocks": [
   {
    "cik": "0001745431",
    "ticker": null,
    "company": "Vitesse Energy Inc.",
    "shared_people": [
     {
      "name": "FRIEDMAN BRIAN P",
      "last_seen": "2026-08-29T20:11:03",
      "owner_cik": "0001211677",
      "role_at_other": "director",
      "role_at_target": "director"
     }
    ]
   }
  ],
  "index_started": "2026-08-27T00:00:00",
  "insiders_seen": 14
 }
}
```

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